On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:59:31 -0600, Markem
wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 03:43:02 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 6:07:00 AM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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.

We have a small, independent electronics store in our area. Picture your old
neighborhood hardware store, but for electronic components, CCTV, soldering
irons, etc. As far from fancy as you can get.

The Radio Shacks are closing down, but that store seems to be doing fine.

Radio Shack is now Sprint store here, they still carry electronic
components. But any electronic components I need I will get online
cheaper, but if I need it fast.
We lost the "shack" stores in Canada LONG ago - ended up as "the
source" with no components. Basically a cell phone and R/C toy store
with a bit of radio and electronics equipment thrown in.