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Ralph Mowery
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Goodbye Radio Shack
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On 5/23/2017 1:29 PM,
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This is a sad day..... Radio Shack is the last of the old
electronics stores
Radio Shack was NEVER an old time radio store.
Except maybe back in the '50s before Tandy Leather bought
them.
They sold predominately cheap import stuff.
Middle management was draconian at best. Always grinding
on the store managers to meet constantly changing quotas.
No amount of mismanagement or corporate greed could save
them.
Most of the components seemed to be low quality.
The manager of the local store 40 years ago had a major complaint with
the company. Whatever was on sale, the company would ship him many of
the items. He had an alotment of so many dollars. He may wind up with
half of that in antennas that he could not sell, but could not order
many of the items he could sell.
Even back in the 1970's I almost never bought anything from them in the
parts line. They did sell a few nice large items. Bought one of the
Model 3 TRS 80 computers from them, and a nice police scanner.
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