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What a horse’s butt to make those comments.
RFLMAO!!!! That is so true. There’s a RadioShack next to the grocery store I go to all the time and everytime I pass it I wonder how that whole corporation stays in business! There’s just so many batteries and cheap dvd players you can sell!
I shop at Radio Shack because I became interested in science (I am an engineer) from getting one of those 200-in-1 science kits at about age 8 or so.
Made a radio, like-sensitive alarm to keep the sisters out, morse code, ran telephone wires all over the house.
The instictual knowledge of basic electricity and circitry I gained served me well througout my life.
Indeed, I was sitting on a top drive drilling rig in NIGERIA with nary an electrician on site when the drive engine went dead, but the diesels were still running.
We would have been down for days, except I (a drilling engineer and geologist, not EE) could read the wiring diagram, figured out where the problem was a re-routed the power through a piece of idle equipment that could step-up the power.
Didn’t learn it at school. Learned in on Sunday afternoons, playing with my Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronics kits.
good grief, they let this guy run them? I happen to like Radio Shack.
they are closer, they know what they are doing and are good for the replacement, secondary/accesory market. i haven’t bought a bigticket item there but when i do buy one, I usually have to visit a Radio Shack to pick up what I need to support an original purchase.
As for CC, I bought a lot from them 10-15 years ago. They were fine then, don’t knw what happened.
good grief, they let this guy run them? I happen to like Radio Shack.
they are closer, they know what they are doing and are good for the replacement, secondary/accesory market. i haven’t bought a bigticket item there but when i do buy one, I usually have to visit a Radio Shack to pick up what I need to support an original purchase.
As for CC, I bought a lot from them 10-15 years ago. They were fine then, don’t knw what happened.
I love the Onion. That article capture Radio Shack exactly. I visit there maybe once every 2 or 3 years and I have a technical background. I don't know how they stay in business either. Who do they sell that stuff to??
Radio Shack found the other end of the spectrum. Their outlets tend to be smaller than Best Buy, but local. When I need something like a DSL filter or oddball battery, they have it and I don’t have to drive ten miles to get it.
Wherever they compete with Best Buy, they seem to have fewer choices and higher prices. Some people, usually older folks, go there for electronics because they don’t want to walk half a mile across a mall parking lot to buy a telephone receiver or a TV.
I wonder myself.....how does Radio Shack stay open?
I would never pay their ridiculous mark-ups.
The most I do is go through their mall stores just to gawk and see if I need to buy something at Best Buy or Wal-Mart.
The thing i remember most of RadioShack as a kid were those old tube tester machines they used to have in the stores.
It was always fun to play with all them knobs and dials!