[Elecraft] RS sale items (more)

[Art - W6KY]

Old Radio Shack Manager here...
What they are trying to do is get rid of all the discontinued/devalued
merchandise. All the stores in each district have been directed to
send their disco/deval to specific stores that have a good past
record of being able to sell disco/deval. If you want to know which
store/s in your district have the stuff, the dist office should be in
your yellow pages. Call and find out......This is something new for
RatShack. Normally the 18 year old manager just lets the stuff sit
in the back room till it devalues to $0.00, scraps it and takes it
home. Or makes it into GrabBags, which takes it out of inventory,
and throws it in the trash. Remember, to most of the RS managers,
those IC's are "those little black things in the drawers"...Junk! Only
Cell Phones have any value because you get extra money above
min wage to sell those...You can loose $5000 worth of parts at RS
and keep your job, but hells to pay if a $99 cell phone is missing!
Have fun, Art   W6KY    K1-2  K1-4


Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
Similar conversation here in Auburn in the foothills of the Sierra
Nevada. I think the sale is company-wide. However, there are a lot of
things in bags that I would define as "Parts" that they apparently
don't. I'm quite sure cell phones are in that category as well.

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98

Ward Willats wrote:
> 
> I was in my local (Scotts Valley, CA) store to buy some parts from
> the drawers and found out all the individual components in there are
> half-off this month. Whether this is a local phenomenon or
> system-wide, I don't know.
> 
> When the guy told me I was getting half-off, I said (smart-mouth)
> "Why? Getting out of the business?"
> 
> He said "No, we are trying to get back to our roots."
> 
> [insert skeptical surprise here]
> 
> I said: "What, that cell-phone thing didn't work out for you guys?"
> 
> Him: "No, that's doing fine, we just thought parts had been neglected."
> 
> -- Ward / KG6HAF
> 
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