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Re: Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores

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On 3/5/2014 7:41 AM, RS Wood wrote:
>
> In a way, this is more the demise of a market and a culture than just a
> store.  This isn't fun anymore, people don't do it, and the stuff is
> manufactured in a way you couldn't repair it even if you wanted to.  If
> your ipad's wireless stops working because your son dropped it one day,
> guess what your recourse is?  Buy a new ipad.  The only tool you "need"
> anymore is an extended warranty plan.  That's good or bad news for the
> consumer depending on how you look at it, but it certainly doesn't bode
> well for a consumer society more than marginally aware of how their
> technology works.
>
> Meanwhile, good riddance, "Shack."  Your time has come and gone.
>

Yup.. it's a problem with almost all stores based on skills/expertise 
(if they actually had experts) - people will come in to ask questions, 
then go to some big-box / online to buy the stuff.

We're a tiny minority that realize the staggering engineering complexity 
and power within a smartphone. For most people, it's just disposable 
magic. What NASA could have done in the 1960s with that 
last-years-smartphone toddlers amuse themselves with in the playpen 
today, eh?

Some Radio Shacks are independent franchises though.. there's one in the 
city of Orlando, FL that is wonderful. Owner operated.. a guy who knows 
his stuff, and a much more interesting stock. I picked up a TV antenna 
there - I wonder how many of the typical franchise rat shack teenagers 
would know the location and bands of all the local TV transmitters off 
the top of their heads like this guy did.

Even the idea of the average 'consumer' putting up a TV antenna is being 
marketed away as advanced. You just need to know how much the monthly 
bill is for your cable provider, right?

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Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-04 14:37 -0500
  Re: Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-04 21:48 +0200
    Re: Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-04 14:52 -0500
  Re: Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-05 12:41 +0000
    Re: Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-05 10:06 -0500
    Re: Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-03-05 21:24 +0000
  Re: Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-03-06 16:59 -0800

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