Posted on 02/17/2006 12:06:55 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
They have excellent training. I learned everything I could about cabelling. When the cable installer tried talking down to me when my cable modem wasn't working, I ran rings around him and got straight answers.
Wow...you're seriously kidding yourself.
RadioShack: "You've got questions, we've got dumb looks."
or:
"You've got questions, we just want your zip code."
"Could it be that everything I ever purchased at Radio Shack broke after 3 or 4 days of use."
YOU ARE SO RIGHT!
If a manufacturer makes a component and it doesn't meet their specs they won't put their name on it --- they sell it nameless to radio shack.
I think Heathkit is available.
Maybe they should choose something simple, like Tandy.
The basic problem with Radio Shack is that they OVERCHARGE for almost everything. Cell phone battery car chargers that you can buy for $5 or $10 elsewhere will run you around $30 at Radio Shack.
I'm only surprised it's taken this long. My wife and I never even bother looking at them because their prices are so much higher than other outlets. Don't know why, but it's been consistently true for some time now.
No, overall, there was less sold this season, at more than just RS. Walmart got a lot of business though. RS fell about 20% below its daily sales expactations.
And you can't sell stuff at four times the price your competitiors do and expect to stay in business either. I avoid Radio Shack like the plague personally. About the only thing I even darken the doors for are those pesky cordless phone batteries, which RS seems to be the only retailer to stock.
"I think Heathkit is available."
You mean the name Heathkit is available, the last Heathkit product I bought was 20 years ago.
We've got a whole generation of kids who know nothing about electronic inerds.
BrandsMart has the BEST electronics prices. The day after Thanksgiving I bought a brand new Colby CD player for just 15 bucks.
"They actually do still carry a good variety of electronic components."
Yeah, I used to buy some components there when I was in school. To get a good multi-meter and a breadboard, I had to go elsewhere, though.
Not a big segment of the population bying individual electronic components.
All of my mess of S-Video cables and such come from RadioShack (or, "The Source", at it's now called in Canada).
Anybody who thinks Radio Shack's reduction in sales was from not having pictures of Jesus Christ or "Merry Christmas!" in red letters hanging from the ceiling, or not having employees in Red Santa hats, is in some surreal alternate universe.
I am. Then again, maybe that explains why I have so much time to surf the Internet during the day. LOL.
I quit going in Radio Shack years ago, cause even just to make a simple purchase required that you give them your entire life history.
I always say '90210' in response to that question. If they give me a nasty look, I follow it up with: You don't recognize me?
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