[Coco] Today I learned Pier 1 was owned by Tandy

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jun 23, 2025, at 7:13 AM, John Guin via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> From "the more you know" department:
> 
> I never knew this but it came up in the AbortRetryFail blog The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 - by Bradford Morgan White<https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-1>  I found this a little hard to follow - like any broad overview, some of the details are glossed over and there are a lot of naming/people/companies in play.  Still, informative.
> 
> Apparently, when Tandy was growing the 1960s, Pier 1 got started as a new company.
> 
> And here are some more details: Pier 1 Imports - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_1_Imports>
> 
> Cheers,
> John

Wait, really? I know the brand Pier 1 got bought by some entity that also bought the Radio Shack brand, at some point — but had not heard of any connection before then.

		— A