Radio Shack

[Jacob Ritorto]

Babylon system is the vampire for the empire
Sucking the children day by day.
Building church and university
Deceiving the people continually.


On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

>
> On 2015-Feb-05, at 3:43 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>
> > On 05/02/2015 22:33, Fred Cisin wrote:
> >> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Ali wrote:
> >>> RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014 Super Bowl commercial -
> >>> the 80s called and they did want their store back. What they screwed up
> >>> was thinking that meant the old store had to go and be replaced with
> the
> >>> current monstrosity.
> >>> RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated
> >>> it items like cheap cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and
> do
> >>> it yourself stuff. Yes, they still would have to close a number of
> >>> locations (do you really need a ratshack on every corner?) but what
> >>> would have been left behind would have thrived...
> >> No, they would have had to take it back to the 1960s and 1970s.
> >> By the 1980s, Radio Shack was already committed to changing from
> hobbyist
> >> supplies to crappy consumer electronics.
> >>
> >>
> > Radio Shack  or as they were known in the UK - Tandy - Are long gone
> from here.
> > We have a UK alternative called Maplin. They have recently moved into
> being
> > flashy high stores selling own brand consumer electronics and mobile
> phone
> > accessories. The component side in the store is minimal.
> >
> > Their on line store is still good for some hard to get components.
> > We do have Farnell, CPC and RS components,
> > They are mail order only but have huge number of different stock lines.
> >
> > I also buy within the EEC as there is no customs duty to pay and VAT is
> the same as here or less.
>
> .. how things change ..
>
> When I was a kid in the 70's, Vancouver (Canada) was a backwater city
> situated on the edge of civilisation.
> At that time we had half-a-dozen real, industrial-grade electronic
> suppliers, in addition to the plethora of RS stores and such lower-grade
> component sources sprinkled around the region.
>
> 40 years later, Vancouver is a "world-class" city, assessed by some or
> other as the second most expensive real-estate on the planet, the most
> expensive to live in North America, a player in the "global economy".
> We are now down to 2 or 3 small-to-mid-size stores to which one can go to
> buy an off-the-shelf transistor or IC or capacitor.
>
> (Quoted phrases above presented with some note of derision.)
>
>