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Re: Radio Shack to close 1,100 stores

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:37:45 -0500
> 2phar <none@example.com> wrote:
> 
>>  From the you've-got-questions-we've-got-blank-stares dept.
> :)
> 
> Love the tag line.  I used to find RadioShack full of interesting and
> amazing things, any of which could drag you into a new world of
> learning - projects, heathkit stuff (they did sell heathkit, didn't
> they? Or am I conflating memories?), radio, tv, walkie-talkies,
> shortwave, etc.

Not Heath, maybe Knight-Kits after they absorbed Allied. Heath had
their own retail stores.

> 
> These days it's a glorified ipad accessory and cellphone plan store.
> Boring!  I actually have bought two shortwave radios in the past ten
> years and have on both occasions given Radio Shack first bite at the
> apple.  In both occasions, even though the store had a shortwave radio
> for sale, the salesperson had no idea what I was talking about, or if
> they had anything like that to sell me.  Ridiculous.
> 
> 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.

In one of the local malls there's a kiosk that repairs Icrap.
Interestingly it's almost across from Ripoff Shack.

> 
> Meanwhile, good riddance, "Shack."  Your time has come and gone.

Cell Phone Shack?

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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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