[Coco] [OT} Shack: was Re: Coco keyboard trouble

[Steve Bjork]

The Great Radio Shack you known decades ago is a  shadow of a once great 
Tandy company.

First of all, the Tandy Company is known as Radio Shack because they 
sold everything else off.  Any Tandy technology is mostly owned by 
Samsung now.

Most of the money the Stores make is from Cell Phones.
The only reason they carries anything is to get you in the door so they 
can sell you a phone.

I once worked for Radio Shack when they first released the TRS-80 to 
help out a Store Manager.  During the time, I got to know Tandy and how 
it works.  They knew how everything in the store work to keep people 
coming back for more.  Oh they may not make money on T.V. tubes, but 
having them made for great custom traffic.

A few years back, I took another job at a Radio Shack store to help with 
the Xmas rush.  Those short weeks were an eye opener.  The store was all 
about what they can get out of the custom on that visit because they may 
never come back.   (And nothing was done to make that customer a 
repeat-customer.)  In my opinion, I can't see how they will it another 
decade.

On 1/16/2012 2:37 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> On 17/01/2012 2:51 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>
>> I think Radio Shack also sells them.
>
> I recently visited Radio Shack (in Honolulu) - the first time I have 
> ever set foot in a Radio Shack in the US (that I can recall).
>
> In Australia the stores have degenerated into generic electronic goods 
> retailers, selling computers, TVs and DVD players and phones. You'd be 
> SOL trying to buy a resistor or 555 - but there's still a selection of 
> (pre-packaged) cables, adapters and even a few soldering irons, 
> meters, etc.
>
> I was shocked, however, to see the Honolulu store was almost 
> *exclusively* mobile phones! Phones, SIM cards, batteries and the 
> obligatory thousand different face-plates and carry cases. Barely 
> anything that wasn't phone-related!
>
> Funny thing is, I've been jokingly describing Radio Shack as a 'mobile 
> phone store' for years now. I didn't realise how true that was until I 
> walked into this store. Are all the stores in the US like that? Or is 
> Honolulu the exception rather than the rule?
>
> Regards,
>