[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Sad News For Canadians

[John Guin]

Aren't there (weren't there) three Radio Shack stores in WEM?

On a related note, by wife used to work for Muzak, who had the Radio Shack
account for quite a while.  They made videotapes for RS to play in their
stores, and the literature I snagged had Tandy claiming to be within 10
miles of 90% of the US population, and 95% of the population made at least
one purchase at RS in a year.  No idea if these numbers are accurate, but
that's what my brochure from 1996 says.  Same store sales went up 11% in the
stores which played the Muzak created video.  And no, the video was not
elevator music:  it was a sales pitch for various RS goods/services.

John

WEM== West Edmonton Mall.  The world's largest, and you really need to see
it to believe it.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Glen VanDenBiggelaar
Sent: Lunes, Abril de 25 de 2005 01:26 p.m.
To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Sad News For Canadian's



We never had a Circut City here in Edmonton, but you are right, it just 
looks like another Future Shop/Best Buy store. But it is still sad to see 
them go, they were an institution when I was growing up. How many times my 
Mom was shopping at Safeway, and we (me and my brother) ditched her to go 
see what was new at the Shack.


( in Canada or here in Alberta, there was always a Radio Shack within 200 
yards of a Safeway. I think it was law that all Shopping malls were set up 
this way) :)
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>On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Dave wrote:
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> > I haven't been able to buy decent parts and other hobbyist items at
> > the Shack for awhile.....
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> > Circuit City turned the stores into another Future Shop / Best Buy
> > type of store....
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>Yeah, you just can't buy their overpriced components anymore. Some shops
>still have some inventory, but once that's gone, no more. All the decent
>component shops in my city are out in car-only areas, nowhere near the
>downtown core. If you don't drive, you can't get there conveniently. Since
>the island is so small, you'd think they'd figure some way to make it
>easier to get around, to reduce the number of cars on the island...
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> > My 3 cents (1 cent US)
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>The exchange rate is MUCH better than that right now. :) Something like 80
>cents US to the Canadian dollar.
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>James
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