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After 94 years, RadioShack may be about to pull the plug
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Posted on 02/02/2015 5:14:28 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
Can’t WAIT for this to happen to Worst Buy..!
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:16:22 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Red in Blue PA
Well, that’s too bad, but they have changed over the years and they are not the electronics/hobbyist store that they once were. Perhaps there was no market in that any longer.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:17:03 PM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
Poor service didn’t help.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:17:59 PM PST
by
Mears
(there wasn't much conversation about it.)
To: gaijin
“Cant WAIT for this to happen to Worst Buy..!”
What do you have against Best Buy?
To: Red in Blue PA
This started to RS when they got rid of their nerds who knew electronics.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:18:56 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: Red in Blue PA
They’ve been around for 94 years? Did they even have radios 94 years ago? Just kidding.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:19:49 PM PST
by
VerySadAmerican
(Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
To: Star Traveler
I agree, they changed and not for the better.
There is a massive market for maker stuff and they could have gone back to their roots and catered to that market with 3d printing and built on that.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:20:36 PM PST
by
DarthFuzball
("Life is full of little surprises." - Pandora)
To: Star Traveler
my hearing aid has as many components within chips as an old radio shack store.
the fact is radio shack is obsolete
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:21:01 PM PST
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: Red in Blue PA
lol Their “plug” was pulled a LONG damn time ago!
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:22:49 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Mears
....Or anything else they did. lol
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:23:35 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: bert; Star Traveler
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Radio Shack is dead.
They don’t even restock their parts cabinets anymore.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:23:42 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Star Traveler
They are no longer what they were. It is nothing more than a toy store. I gave up on them and do all of my electronics shopping at Digi-Key and Mouser.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:24:54 PM PST
by
mazda77
To: editor-surveyor
The only reason i EVER went there was for the parts cabinet.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:26:12 PM PST
by
T-Bone Texan
(The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
To: TexasGator
Best Buy sucks almost as bad as Radio Shack. They only have more stuff, bigger retail space, and more people that know shit about absolutely nothing. Their employees usually just get in my way when I might RARELY go there to actually buy something. lol
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:28:51 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Star Traveler
There’s a great and growing market, but it’s being served my new companies run by millennials. Meanwhile RS was competing vs. the phone company.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:29:40 PM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Red in Blue PA
Sad to see an icon go away, but it’s been coming for years. I’m amazed they’ve lasted as long as they have, to be honest.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:30:01 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(A Repo Man is always intense!)
To: Red in Blue PA
I remember those Forrest Mims electronics books they sold.
To: Red in Blue PA
KICK_EM_WHILE_THEYRE_DOWN_PING!
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:32:10 PM PST
by
The Duke
To: Dalberg-Acton
instead of selling cell phones, they should have tried to compete with Gamestop, although in a few years it will probably go the way of Blockbuster video too
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:32:13 PM PST
by
GeronL
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