KICK_EM_WHILE_THEYRE_DOWN_PING!
After my experience last week, I say they deserve to die. A RS store near me is discounting stuff before closing. I bought a bunch of stuff, then thought twice about a couple items and decided to return them to another store that wasn't closing. The first store said I could return them to any RS store. The two items were perfectly good unopened packages of high quality flat Ethernet cabling with gold-plated contacts, strain relief and boots. I mentioned flat, not round, so easier to hide on walls and under carpets. Oh, Cat6. Second store says no problem on a refund, and gives me the refund.
I mentioned I thought it better to return to a RS store staying open so they can restock them. Then the clerk tells me they go straight to the trash. Huh? Says their policy is to dump returned items into the trash as used items. I said the package was never opened, it's high quality stuff worth more than $50! "Sorry, that's our policy." If it was a store run by Chinese they would put it back on the shelf and keep discounting it until it sold, even for 10 cents! Radio Shacks' policies are stupid!