[Coco] [OT} Shack: was Re: Coco keyboard trouble

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Steve, for at least ten years now I've wondered how my former employers ('80-'86) could last another year.  I think I've entered stores maybe half a dozen times in that decade.  It's pathetic.  Aside from RC toys at Xmas, I can't think of anything they carry I can't get cheaper _and_ better somewhere else.
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Bjork" <6809er at srbsoftware.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 8:29:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [OT} Shack: was Re: Coco keyboard trouble
> The Great Radio Shack you known decades ago is a shadow of a once
> great
> Tandy company.
> 
> First of all, the Tandy Company is known as Radio Shack because they
> sold everything else off. Any Tandy technology is mostly owned by
> Samsung now.
> 
> Most of the money the Stores make is from Cell Phones.
> The only reason they carries anything is to get you in the door so
> they
> can sell you a phone.
> 
> I once worked for Radio Shack when they first released the TRS-80 to
> help out a Store Manager. During the time, I got to know Tandy and how
> it works. They knew how everything in the store work to keep people
> coming back for more. Oh they may not make money on T.V. tubes, but
> having them made for great custom traffic.
> 
> A few years back, I took another job at a Radio Shack store to help
> with
> the Xmas rush. Those short weeks were an eye opener. The store was all
> about what they can get out of the custom on that visit because they
> may
> never come back. (And nothing was done to make that customer a
> repeat-customer.) In my opinion, I can't see how they will it another
> decade.