[Coco] More poor news for Radio Shack

[Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker]

In my last vacation to San Francisco I went to a Radio Shack that had no
electronics components! Only cellphones and accessories! That's an absurd!

They will loose their only diferencial from the other players.

IMHOP their problem is: to pay for a store in a fancy street is expensive
(it was near Market Street), so they need to charge much more for an
arduino kit than you can grab online.

They can't go after BestBuy. It's a different model. BB has "few" huge
stores, and they many have small ones. They are following BestBuy Mobile.
But in this case they will be just another cellphone reseller.

I think they should go after repair/DIY market. They will need to lower the
prices of the comodities to be competitive. But they can add services, like
rent 3D printers. Repair/fix electronics, and other "nerdy" stuff. It will
be tough, but there is no opponent in this market.

Maybe even they can sell a RS branded computer some day ... (ok, it's just
a dream :-))


On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's a possibility that a location that has been open since CoCo days
> may have stuff buried away in the back.  However, most of the RadioShacks I
> frequented back in the day closed along with the dead malls they were in.
> Open shacks now probably aren't old enough!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/12/2014 5:00 PM, Brian Goers wrote:
> >
> >  Well the writing is on the wall. Clearance sale 20% to 50% off.
> >> They have posters up in the store in Chicago Heights, IL.
> >> Someone in the store was even packing some shelves into a box.
> >>
> >>
> > I wonder if they have CoCo's on discount?  :)
> >
> > Do any the salespeople even know what a CoCo is?   :)
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
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