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(63,224 posts)zerosumgame0005
(207 posts)back in the 89's, and I gotta tell you that they live for Christmas, they sell out of all the toys and gadgets and make their "nut" then, other then that selling a few resistors or IC chips is thin living on commission...
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Right now
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)That is true 6 years on.
How anyone can go into a modern Radio Shack and pay retail for anything is beyond me. You can't even get solder there any more.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Their markup is really high on a lot of stuff but much of it is things you can't get any other retail store, like solder for instance.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)onethatcares
(16,184 posts)I tried to ask some questions at the last Radio Shack I was in concerning changing a battery pack on an old transistor radio from a mega size 9 volt to the new standard size. Sales person couldn't quite grasp the idea of a 9 volt battery being 8 inches long x 2 inches square.
He was more interested selling cell phones.
When the hell did we get all up about selling phones and data plans????
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)couldn't remember it. Thanks...
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)It would be convenient to be able to make a call when I'm on the go. I hope these become popular.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)They were bought out by Radio Quack around 1970. Prior to that though, they actually sold some very high quality high end gear from companies such as McIntosh, Fisher, JBL, AR, Thorens, Marantz, Dynaco, and others. I use to drool over the stuff in the Allied Radio catalogues back when I was a teenager and later college student in the 1960s. Another large chain of stores back then was Lafayette Radio.