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| From | "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | aus.computers, aus.electronics |
| Subject | Re: Dick Smith |
| Date | 2016-01-08 17:47 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <df94coFg03lU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <n6fu0d$dt$1@gioia.aioe.org> <df1i2kFhoojU1@mid.individual.net> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> wrote in message news:df1i2kFhoojU1@mid.individual.net... > On 5/01/2016 7:16 PM, Max wrote: >> It's so sad to see this store go. It was a niche store where you knew >> you could pick some items that the big electrical stores didn't have. >> >> What's the bet some small privately owned electronics stores will start >> opening up? > It deserved to fail. I popped in just before Christmas to pick up four > small items. None were in stock. Yeah, I've had the same problem a number of times. > I walked around to the nearest Big Ben computer store and managed to get 3 > out of 4 items. I sometimes got what I wanted at the Music Factory just up the road, but it went bust a month before Dick Smith did and there was plenty of stuff he didn’t have either, very common stuff like basic switch mode plug packs. Nothing even remotely like the range Dick Smith has. > The Big Ben store is around 30 sq Metres and the DSE store is closer to > 300 sq Metres. Ours were similar sized, but radically different stock levels. > DSE has been owned and run by idiots for the last few years. And for years before that too, when owned by Woolys. There's a reason the most recent clowns only had to pay $20M for it.
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Re: Dick Smith "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 17:47 +1100
Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-05 23:44 +1100
Re: Dick Smith "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 17:51 +1100
Re: Dick Smith Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2016-01-05 22:54 +0800
Re: Dick Smith "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2016-01-06 09:14 +0800
Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-06 12:48 +1100
Re: Dick Smith jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:12 -0800
Re: Dick Smith Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-06 22:03 +1100
Re: Dick Smith "Andy Wood" <woodag@trap.ozemail.com.au> - 2016-01-07 15:15 +1100
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