Posted on 11/10/2014 10:44:58 AM PST by Bettyprob
For the first time, the company will open the majority of its stores at 8 a.m. Thursday, and they will remain open until midnight. Last year, most of its doors were closed on Thanksgiving.The company joins the likes of Toys R Us and J.C. Penney, which will open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, while Sears, Kohl's, Macy's, Belk and Staples will open at 6 p.m. "Given the customer demand for store hours on Thanksgiving last year, we made the decision to open on Thanksgiving," RadioShack spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said. "It gives us the opportunity to stay competitive." "Given the customer demand for store hours on Thanksgiving last year, we made the decision to open on Thanksgiving," RadioShack spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said. "It gives us the opportunity to stay competitive."
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I worked at a movie theater during my high school days. Thanksgiving and Christmas were usually our busiest of the year.
Never could understand, since I’d have preferred to be elsewhere visiting relatives I rarely got to see.
Anyone out shopping Thanksgiving Day is missing the point of the holidays.
*sigh*
I’m a capitalist. I just wish people didn’t sacrifice these once sacred days just to make a cheap buck.
Soon Thanksgiving will be completely eradicated because there wont be a point. Might as well just go to work like it was a normal day.
So what’s the big deal? So the store will be empty on thanksgiving just like it is every other day of the year.. I really don’t know how this chain isn’t gone.
They used to be the geek store, if you needed something that’s where you went and they carried a surprising amount of stuff in stock.
Now? Who the hell is their target market? The electronic parts that used to be the draw are rarely in stock... so folks just order online now... who the hell goes to a radio shack anymore?
Good. Please tell me they still need my address for a pack of batteries.
So people can buy a cell phone on Thanksgiving day?
“The internet killed the need for brick and mortar electronic parts business.”
When I can by 1000 LEDs for 10.00 and get 30 “555 timers” for free on the internet, Radio Shack is just a waste of gas.
I cannot figure out how Radioshack has stayed in business. I’ve worked with electrical/electronics for 30 years. That place is useless.
I know when I think of Thanksgiving, I think of rushing out and spending my hard earned cash on electrical componentry with 865% profit margins.
If you're Jewish the traditional way to celebrate Christmas is by going to see a movie and then going out to a Chinese restaurant.
You’ve got questions, we’ve got cell phones!
I haven’t been to Radio Shack in 10 years, that’s not about to change.
Well thank you Radio Shack. I was beginning to think you had lost your minds since you no longer sell radios or the parts to make them.
For those who have just GOT to get that pirate radio station on the air on Thanksgiving Day.
Everybody’s got different ways of going through the world, and different parts of the world to go through. Not being particularly fond of either of our families the wife and I for a few years went to see the least family friendly movie available on Christmas (saw Jackie Brown and the Beavis and Butthead movie that way). Thanksgiving for me is really all about the beer and the football, though these days we do tend to hit a restaurant too.
Leni
no store will see my money on thanksgiving or any other holiday.
I am compiling a list of stores I will boycott this year if they are open on Thanksgiving Day.
People like you used to drive me crazy.
Ya see, back in the 80's, I used to manage a Radio Shack. Back then Radio Shack's prices were VERY competitive. One of the reasons was that they only spent 5% of revenues on advertising. That advertising was, primarily, monthly mailers. They would often contain such awesome deals that I would arrive at my store first thing in the morning and there would be a line waiting to get in to take advantage of the sale. This advertising was great in a couple of ways:
1. It directly featured and described the products on sale.
2. It gave the customers something tangible that they could bring into the store and say "I want this!"
3. Finally, and most importantly, it was only targeted at existing customers.
Yep, they made us collect those address so they could mail you their flier once a month.
They were so serious about this program that if an employee didn't have verifiable, correct addresses on over 95% of his tickets, they would get one warning and then with a second occurrence, employment termination. They would also fire you for writing down fake addresses, or putting a real address that wasn't the customer's on a ticket.
Yes, this was draconian and annoying, but it worked. When they finally installed computerized checkout terminals, you would only get asked for your last name and zip code, unless this was your first time in a Radio Shack and they didn't have you in the system already, then they would ask for your full address.
The mailers were killed off by increasing printing and mailing costs. It got to the point where it was so expensive, that they might as well run TV commercials like everyone else. Oh yay!
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