[Coco] Another Radio Shack Article

[Frank Pittel]

Radio Shack was always more expensive they made up for it with the higher quality of the Realistic brand. The battery card also helped get people in the door.

The Other Frank



On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 02:55:07PM -0800, Mark J. Blair wrote:
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> On Jan 4, 2014, at 14:17 , Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Maybe Radio Shack needs to look at the Apple Store. All their prices are retail and way higher than Amazon, etc. yet those stores have people lined up.
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> It's pretty hard to duplicate the Apple Reality Distortion Field (and I say that as a happy Apple customer). Look at every attempt Microsoft has made to be more like Apple, such as the Zune, their own line of stores, etc. Every time, they fall flat on their face and show their legendary ability to just not get it, and to be the least cool kid in the school. It would be fantastic if Radio Shack could pull off some sort of Apple-Store-like presence, but I don't see that happening. If they tried, it would be something like rapping grannies singing about how the cool kids say "no" to drugs.
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