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Ed Pawlowski

On 1/11/2017 9:47 PM, wrote:

Yes, hindsight is always 20/20. And it would be just as accurate to say Radio Shack should be exactly where Best Buy and Dell combined are today. In the 1970s and 1980s Radio Shack was the computer store. Everything electronic was at Radio Shack. Radio Shack was in every mall back then so they had presence everywhere in the country. All the new computer buyers of the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s should have bought from Radio Shack. But the Shack is now about gone. Why didn't the people at Radio Shack predict the prevalence of computers and online everything that came 30 years later? Probably the same reason Sears did not see everyone ordering everything in the mail (FedEx and UPS are a big part) fifty years later.

Radio Shack did predict it and figured they would be selling computers
to the world. They thought they could sell them at full retail price
while others were selling them for 30% less.

RS was a good place if you need a diode or resistor, but not for equipment.