Cash is still King.....
“People are looking at Radio Shack now and they are gonna vilify Radio Shack,” said consumer expert Paul Viollis. “But at the end of the day, Radio Shack isn’t doing anything all other major corporations haven’t been doing for many years.”
Except that RS has explicitly stated it has a policy against doing that. Kind of a difference there, don’t you think?
This is one of the reasons I always hated going to RS, btw. You don’t need my name and phone number when I’m just there to buy flashlight batteries.
OPERATION CHOKE POINT: Tipton Questions FDIC Cutting Off Bank Accounts Gun Stores, Small Businesses
ColoradoPeakPolitics ^ | March 24, 2015
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3271911/posts
The head of the FDIC faced tough grilling today from members of a House Financial Services subcommittee including U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton on a rogue policy that essentially directed banks not to deal with businesses the Obama administration found objectionable.
Dubbed “Operation Choke Point,” the Justice Department essentially directed the nation’s top financial regulator to intimidate banks into cutting off accounts or doing any business at all with a list of 30 different types small business owners.
The list included gun shops, ammunition dealers...
Ammunition Sales
Cable Box De-scramblers
Coin Dealers
Credit Card Schemes
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Debt Consolidation Scams
Drug Paraphernalia
Escort Services
Firearms Sales
Fireworks Sales
Get Rich Products
Government Grants
Home-Based Charities
Life-Time Guarantees
Life-Time Memberships
Lottery Sales
Mailing Lists/Personal Info
Money Transfer Networks
On-line Gambling
Payday Loans
Pharmaceutical Sales
Ponzi Schemes
Pornography
Pyramid-Type Sales
Racist Materials
Surveillance Equipment
Telemarketing
Tobacco Sales
Travel Clubs
They have my phone number from when I was 12 and bought batteries!
Whenever an outlet asks me for personal data, I give them the local zoo info. I always laugh as I walk out of their door.
I wonder what they will get for Hurcumer Slodbocker’s phone number?
it’s wrong, but...everybody’s doing it...so...its okay, right?
no. it’s flat wrong and there will be consequences for all involved in the wrongdoing. didn’t your momma ever tell you two (or a hundred) wrongs don’t make a right.
The clerks at RS always wanted to squeeze as much personal information as possible out of customers, even for the smallest of purchases.
Amazing...this my thanks for being a loyal customer for 25 years.
If they are in bankruptcy, they are no longer really Radio Shack. The customer files are an asset that can be sold to pay the creditors( or the lawyers)
Classy til the end. I’m so glad I never shopped there.