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1 posted on 03/04/2014 6:37:03 AM PST by John W
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To: John W

The 1980s called: they want their store back.


2 posted on 03/04/2014 6:38:18 AM PST by PaulCruz2016
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To: John W

The stockholders called — they want their cash back.


3 posted on 03/04/2014 6:40:36 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: John W

Radio Shack is toast.

Just the thought of stepping into a Radio Shack is depressing!


5 posted on 03/04/2014 6:43:25 AM PST by Bobalu (Happiness is a fast ISR)
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To: John W

RS screwed themselves when they switched from being an electronics store to another average cellphone centered store.


6 posted on 03/04/2014 6:43:57 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: John W

I decided I didn’t need to shop at Radio Shack anymore when I went into a store and asked for a capacitor and the kid working there looked at me like I had three heads.


8 posted on 03/04/2014 6:44:25 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: John W

Voted one of the worse places to work.
Last time I was in one the people seemed like they worked in a Soviet era store.
Never went back.


10 posted on 03/04/2014 6:45:30 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: John W

I like RS. I have a couple of them nearby. Sorry some of you hate them. Oh well. Times are a changing for the worse. :(


16 posted on 03/04/2014 6:54:37 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: John W
Sales at stores open at least a year fell 19 percent in the fourth quarter on weak customer traffic.

What do they sell that I would want that I could not get cheaper somewhere else?

Maybe the execs at that Company should ask themselves that question. I'm betting that the execs at Radio Shack themselves haven't bought anything in the last 10 years that Radio Shack sells.

21 posted on 03/04/2014 6:56:13 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: John W

Cellphone Shack. They stopped being a goto (pun intended)electronics and radio store years ago.


26 posted on 03/04/2014 7:01:06 AM PST by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: John W

I haven’t been in a Radio Shack in at least 8 years. The employees at that time were useless and it was easier to get what I needed (not a cell phone contract) online.


27 posted on 03/04/2014 7:01:07 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Revolting cat!
No more free batteries?


31 posted on 03/04/2014 7:09:13 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: John W

They still exist?


34 posted on 03/04/2014 7:16:00 AM PST by hecht (america 9/11, Israel 24/7)
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To: John W

I go into our local store when I need some odd electronic connector or component. I’d never buy a regular “consumer” product in there and much of their stuff is way over priced.

Pre-ebay and easy internet ordering they had a purpose. I get far more now from Jameco, Digikey, Mouser and ebay than I ever will from “The Shack.”


35 posted on 03/04/2014 7:17:37 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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honestly, I am shocked they have lasted this long. They carry nothing but overpriced junk.

The only thing I really ever need from them is a small spare part every few years


36 posted on 03/04/2014 7:19:01 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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RadioShack is going the way Heath Kit did because most people are to stupid to build anything electronic they rather play with a cell phone.


42 posted on 03/04/2014 8:42:39 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: ADemocratNoMore; advertising guy; aft_lizard; AJMaXx; Alice in Wonderland; american colleen; ...

Pinging the list, (as a FYI).


43 posted on 03/04/2014 9:33:18 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave (The democRATic party preys on the ignorant..!)
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To: John W

We have a wonderful local Radio Shack that also sells old reconditioned stereo equipment and records. Love them


51 posted on 03/04/2014 2:49:40 PM PST by Chickensoup (leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: John W
hrc.org doesn't seem to like them either.
53 posted on 03/04/2014 4:46:35 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: John W

I’ll give you Radio Slack’s problem in a one-liner: $17.00 for a USB charger cable when I can get one at the gas station for $8.00 or $3.00 on Amazon.


55 posted on 03/05/2014 10:21:58 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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