Hi All,
Following on from NCIX Bankruptcy with you, it looks like Maplin Electronics and Toy'R'us in the UK are both going under.
FYI Maplin started off as a Electronics component catalogue company. They then opened stores, and in the 2000's changed business model to sell consumer electronics, though still selling electronics components.
I think long term they couldn't compete with Amazon on the Consumer electronics front, or more recently the electronics component front.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43223175
Regards.
Craig Thomas, Cambridge UK