[K6BW] Good News for Radio Shack!

[Bill Smith]

>From QRP-L.  Radio Shack has seen the light.

I don't know if this has been posted here or elsewhere yet, but a friend
who is a Radio Shack manager said that some recent corporate
communications sent to him bode well for hams and other experimenters. 
The new CEO of Radio Shack has openly questioned why RS ever thought
that cutting back or getting out of the small parts business was a right
thing to do.  Further, he has expanded the "buy" allowance for store
inventories, and encouraged (read "required") all stores to eventually
carry ALL of the parts in the RS small parts corporate inventory.  The
CEO stated to the store managers what we all knew to be true before: 
the sale of small parts leads to other sales, AND the aggregate profit
margin for small parts is actually greater than the margins for Ipods,
etc.  The bottom line is that RS will be expanding the small parts lines
and doing more to ensure that all stores have all items.  My friend says
that it may take a few months to fully implement, but that change is on
the horizon.   I'll take that as rather good news any day.  My source on
this info is someone I know to be trustworthy.

Steve 
W9HC