News Radio Shack is dead. - Page 6

02-07-2015, 08:42 AM	Topic Starter
displacedinMN It was not a fair catch Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Correcting papers Casino cash: $2812630	Radio Shack is dead. Coming back to life!!!! RS filed for bankrupcy. Years of mismanagement, high prices and online competition killed a great company. Let's hear those RS stories. I like to use spoilers to keep the OP short My time working as RS Spoiler! I worked for RS part time. Just to pick up a few extra bucks before I found a teaching job. It was going down hill then. The district manager was not happy when I told him many of our products could be found some where else cheaper. That did not make him happy. This was before the big depression. Hey, price first. six bucks cheaper at wal-mart than RS. Printer ink at Office depot across the street was CHEAPER than I could get it WITH MY EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT! We would have Saturdays where no one would be in for over an hour. Hey, Its Minnesota. Most are at their cabins on the weekend and RS is not a first stop store. Lesser named electronics, low inventory, did not focus on the electronic geek or do it yourself person. Terrible management the last 10 years. Every customer was supposed to be asked about phones and Directv. RS employees were always informed, but price sells. Have not been back into my old store much since I left. Amazon has more and cheaper. Old man Tandy is rolling over in his grave. Modify message From the Onion Spoiler! Electronics retailer RadioShack filed for bankruptcy after 94 years in business, ultimately unable to keep up with consumers’ shift to the wireless and digital technologies of the internet age. Here is a timeline of RadioShack’s decline: 1962: Retailer establishes a 40-year period of peace and prosperity among electronics retailers known as the Pax Radioica 1980: As a joke, RadioShack employee asks customer buying game-TV switchbox for name and address. Practice lasts company-wide for another 22 years. 1995: Poor microcassette harvest devastates first-quarter sales 1996-2005: Company coasts by on purchase of single VGA cord from Fort Myers, FL location 1999: RadioShack CEO assures Americans that products will break down regardless of Y2K 2001: Company introduces cordless Howie Long 2005: Corporation celebrates one-millionth customer walking in, scoffing at cost, and walking out empty-handed 2007: Email leaks reveal RadioShack in serious talks to buy pack of AA batteries from Duracell 2008: Company loses lucrative Defense Department contract 2010: Executives hold press conference to address issue of what exactly is going on with that one aisle of just copper wire and cable splitters 2015: RadioShack management forced to euthanize millions of thumb drives they can no longer support Old Radioshack Magazines online. Open, don't download anything (so I have been warned) http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/ Last edited by displacedinMN; 11-19-2020 at 10:32 AM..
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