[Coco] More poor news for Radio Shack

[Brett Gordon]

With R.S.'s horrible reputation,I don't often admit that I worked
there as a kid.  The motto when I worked there was "Tomorrow's
Technology Today."   Us employees used to goof and say: "Yesterday's
Technology Tomorrow!".   They would lower their comission rate during
Christmas time, and returns after Christmas were charged back to us at
regular rate... yup really.

1. Mathematically impossible sales commisions
2. Horribly out of date products. (Realistic)
3. Cell Phones.
4. Abandonment of the high profit margin product: pieces-parts.
5. Dingy stores.
6. Mistreatment of Employees
7. Junk Warranties
8. Horribly low-end cabling.

>From what I understand RS hasn't made a real profit since I left in
the 90's.  They are just living on the 6500 retail store assets.  The
two CEO's when I was there were drunks, too.


On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  If I go in asking for a capacitor I
>> should not get a blank stare.
>
> Like anywhere else, it's hit and miss. Try asking someone at Best Buy about a TV or computer. You may find someone "in" to it that knows stuff, or be talking to a rock. Same complaints about RS with tech in the 80s when I worked there.
>
> I have found some incredibly good RS employees, and many whom I thought would be better fit at Wal Mart or Best Buy.
>
> I don't know what they can do about it. The tech/nerds aren't usually good with people skills.
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