[Coco] RadioShack closing 1100 stores

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

I don't even bother taking anything to show them.  Most of the managers are younger than the 5000MC (Tandy's last original computer, IIRC).  Most of them have no idea about the the name Tandy, they work for Radio Shack Corp and corporate memory is as fleeting as that of a girl (or boy) in middle school.  Which most of the staff weren't competent to pass from, but there's that "No Child Left Behind" and "Common Core" crap to make sure the smart kids don't learn too much to outclass the (politically and socially incorrect term)s.

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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net

<home.comcast.net/~wdg3rd>

God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who _smiles all the time_.
    -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 10:12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] RadioShack closing 1100 stores
> On Tue, Mar 4 2014, Ward Griffiths wrote:
> 

> 
> These days just for kicks I will take my pocket computers and Models
> 100/200 to the stores whenever the time comes to buy batteries for
> them,
> just for the oooohhhs and aaahhhs the things get from most of the
> employees
> :-)