Posted on 02/03/2015 8:41:08 AM PST by bigbob
Sprint may not be the only company intersted in Radio Shack's soon to be vacant retail stores.
According to a report from Bloomberg, Amazon has expressed intersted in the brick-and-mortar locations.
Amazon is reportedly intersted in using the stores as a showroom for its hardware, as well as place for customers pick up and drop off merchandise. Amazon currently sells a line of tablets, its Fire smartphone, as well as its new Echo bluetooh speaker and personal assistant.
Radio Shack has about 4,000 retail locations in the United States. Reports have surfaced that the company is looking to sell some of the stores and shutter the rest. Bloomberg notes that Sprint may be interested in purchasing between 1,300 and 2,000 of the locations.
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I have NEVER gotten a mailed ad from Amazon. Ever.
As long as i dont have to fill out all my info to buy a nine volt battery okdokey
Will Amazon still honor the free batteries offer?
If you have drone service in your community from Amazon, then they already have a presence there.
oh sure..and they will DRONE deliver them to your door..../
You’re right. Amazon’s data resources dwarf anything RS could have, frankly.
RS’s problems result from having to satisfy the Electronic Hobbyist with the casual Christmas shopper looking for cool toys for their loved ones.
Their more recent endeavors at trying to go more widespread with phones, etc. and having the store capability to pay phone bills in-store were okay and perhaps viable. But this all ended with ObamaPhones and NO BILL AT ALL to their transient potential clients.
My best guess is that RS probably had a clientele they didn’t need. Muslim Terrorists. (My personal opinion, BTW).
That's a great point. The lack of sales tax, the free shipping to the house, and the wide selection are Amazon's chief differentiators. Starting up a brick-and-mortar shop threatens two of the three. Why ship to the store and be forced to pay local sales tax? Sounds like Amazon wants to start a modern update of this:
Like I need a cheap Chinese battery to leak acid all over my electronic thingy. :0)
I used to just tell them my name is “Cash McCall” No phone number.
There wouldn’t be much profit to that in a virtual environment.
A physical environment would make sense to publicize in a geographic area.
Email yes. Dead tree media nah...
It happens far more than you realize. I know it. Probably 25-30% of what I buy is from Amazon affiliated retailers. Especially from firearms parts retailers.
Nor have I, and I’m a regular purchaser. I can probably count on my ten fingers the number of emailed advertisements I’ve gotten from them. They have always been for something like the Echo that Amazon considers to be some revolutionary new device.
I still have the REALISTIC DX-150A, world receiver, with about 10 hours of total playing time. Bought it way back in 1971 and left it in its original box for years.
I’m a Prime Customer and I absolutely love the services they offer. They have never crossed me on any purchase and they largely deliver when they say they will. They save me gas, they save me time and they save me trouble finding what I need and want.
The one or two times I’ve had to return, question or the like, I’ve always been satisfied. When they can’t I get email updates promptly telling me so. I only wish my Federal Government ran so seamlessly.
Drone service?
“Pull!”
So many times it comes down to impulse buys, and with .com you have to wait for shipping which for a lot of people causes them to not commit.
Putting in their fingers with a cash and carry option while having a row of computers the sales staff could brows for people to show them other options quickly for that “exact perfect want” will boost sales big time. Also just returning the items easily will be great for many people too.
Any brick and mortar presence, including a warehouse or call center, means charging sales tax. Stores won’t change that math.
“I have NEVER gotten a mailed ad from Amazon. Ever.”
and you never will.
Wonder how it would have turned out of RS had kept their focus on electronic-erelated hobbyists after TTL and Tandy?
Like microcontroller projects, robot projects, LEGO Mindstorm products, test equipment, PC-based test/control apps, home automation, auto electronics/sound/lighting, etc.
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