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On 02-January-2016 5:51 PM, Trevor wrote:
> On 2/01/2016 4:13 PM, felix wrote:
>> On 2/01/2016 3:51 PM, j@invalid.lan wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:40:06 +1100, Trevor <trevor@home.net> wrote:
>>>> On 2/01/2016 9:46 AM, Clocky wrote:
>>>>> Reminds me of the time I went to Dick Smith to buy some stuff 
>>>>> including
>>>>> components (yeah, that long ago) and the sales pleb put through the
>>>>> regular stuff and then started looking in the catalogue before
>>>>> declaring
>>>>> that "I can't be arsed looking them up, you can have them".
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought he was joking, but he wasn't. He had given away $20-$30 
>>>>> worth
>>>>> of P section stuff.
>>>> Yep, idiot sales staff was probably the reason they gave up on
>>>> components, they would never hire sales people who actually knew what
>>>> they were.
>>> Up until the late 80's, at least a couple of the staff in each store
>>> knew their stuff, and most of those also had their amateur ticket as
>>> well. It's hard to believe how different DSE is now.
>>
>> It's because Woolies bought it. they said they were going out of
>> component sales into more traditional retail
>
> Sure, but they still sold components for quite a while after Woolies 
> bought it, and if the just wanted to sell TV's, why buy DS rather than 
> simply opening a "Woolies Electrical".? In fact Big W already sell the 
> same stuff as DSE anyway. And it's not like they were buying out a 
> competitor at the time, the only major competitor for the old Dick 
> Smith was Jaycar.

no, there's also Radio Parts, at least in Melbourne, and another who's 
name I can't think of who were Latrobe or Lonsdale street. and then 
there's the online suppliers too, of course

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> Trevor.
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