[Coco] From the "not only is the horse out of the barn, but the barn has collapsed dept"

[David Gettle]

You almost quoted what I told the board of directors in the three page
letter I sent them back in the early 1990's in your email to me. Though I
also sighted that cancelling development of the Color computer series, that
at the time was out-selling IBM PC's was a contributing factor to the end
of Tandy Computers.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:29 PM rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree with you. I always felt that RS offered there best products when
> the R & D‎ was done in house.   This allowed radio shack to sell a superior
> product at a competitive price.   This in house R &. D afforded the company
> to flood that market with there own brand multiplying the profits
> exponentially.   When RS sourced out third party hardware they needed to
> purchase the product in bulk to secure a price that would allow a similar
> profit ratio as before. The changing pace of technology meant that they
> moreover found themselves sitting on obsolete technology that couldn't be
> turned over in time to allow profitability to be sustainable
>
> Anyway that is just my opinion
>
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>   Original Message
> From: David Gettle
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:58 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] From the "not only is the horse out of the barn, but
> the barn has collapsed dept"
>
>
> I could go into the RadioShack bankruptcy in depth myself, as I predicted
> it 20 years in advance of it happening (I was off by a week as to when it
> would occur, but I was dead on as to who would rescue Radioshack from
> extinction and the second bankruptcy that occurred) and even told the
> RadioShack board of directors how to avoid it. But, in short, the author of
> the article above may have stumbled onto a contributing factor, but he
> missed the root cause that started the whole thing. The Board of directors
> caved to the demand of investors to sell off their manufacturing (which
> started with the computer division, instead of selling their products to
> their competition. If RadioShack had continued to manufacture product and
> sold their brand of products to other companies, the companies buying
> RadioShack brand products would have kept the company afloat financially
> for an indefinite time.
>
> I was a store manager, and stock holder for them when they made this stupid
> decision. In college my Business Management term paper was a study of
> RadioShack from founding until 1991 when I wrote the paper. As an
> employee-stock holder I had access to information the general public and
> non-employee stock holders didn't, and in some cases had access to
> information before other stock holders and the public. Which is why
> employees were restricted from selling their stock at certain times of the
> year, because RadioShack would release information to employee-stock
> holders before the general stock holders.
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:09 PM John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This writer contends that the CDi (remember that thing?) is the real
> > reason Radio Shack got out of the computer business entirely.
> >
> > https://tedium.co/2019/04/09/windows-3.1-obscurities
> > Estimated reading time: 14 minutes
> >
> > I don't follow the logic myself but it seems like it might be an
> > interesting read for this crowd.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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