[NJARC] More on Radio Shack

Tue Mar 24 17:02:30 EDT 2015

I would suggest actually calling the store over relying on their website's information.  They don't always know what they have it seems.

Funny anecdote from my RS raids:

When RS was closing in Raritan I wanted to buy an amplified OTA HDTV antnenna (one of ones that look like a frisbee).   They had a "current" model one, and an oldder model one on their showroom floor.  I tried to buy the old one, which had a better range, but they could not find it in their own inventory.  It had clearly been sitting there for several years, and was not a current stock product.  The store clerk tried looking it up online in there website, and in their internal system.   He actually ended up giving up, and refusing to sell it to me.

A store that was going out of business refused to sell me something they carried in stock.  They were selling the floor fixtures, drawers, shelves, etc. at some point, but couldn't sell me one of their own products!  For all  I know it's the only thing in the store today, the shelves are gone.  Or more likely someone else got a good deal on it (or it went back to their warehouse never to be seen again, right next to the Ark of the Covenant).

Regards,

Matt

Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:36:32 +0000
To: dave.sica at njarc.org; njarc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [NJARC] More on Radio Shack
From: njarc at mailman.qth.net

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Dave, I never go to a Radio Shack store without first checking to make sure the part I want is in stock. Just go to their website and find what you want. Click on the item, click on "find in store," add your zip code and it will tell you which stores have it within a certain radius of your house. It saves wasted trips, for sure.
For you, Dave, if Parsippany doesn't have it, Randolph or Madison aren't too far from you. 
Joe Connor 

     On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:50 PM, David Sica  wrote:

 I went to the local Radio Shack store today, the one by me that was not closing. 
The part I was looking to buy was out of stock.
I asked the guy there when it might be back in stock.  He said that none of the stores would be receiving ANY deliveries of ANY parts in the foreseeable future while they worked out the reorganization of the company.
Doesn't sound good.
The "other shoe" to drop was that for all the joking about Radio Shack becoming nothing more than a glorified cell phone store, I have been thinking about getting a new cell phone.  The carrier's web site had a seemingly great sale, but the deal was "in store only" and this Radio Shack was listed as one of their stores.  The poor guy there didn't even have a cell phone in stock to try to sell me. I almost felt sorry for him.
But if anyone sees a 1.5 - 3.0 volt piezo buzzer in stock at their local RS, please let me know.
Thanks,-- Dave Sica 
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Dave, I never go to a Radio Shack store without first checking to make sure the part I want is in stock. Just go to their website and find what you want. Click on the item, click on "find in store," add your zip code and it will tell you which stores have it within a certain radius of your house. It saves wasted trips, for sure.
For you, Dave, if Parsippany doesn't have it, Randolph or Madison aren't too far from you. 
Joe Connor  

     On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:50 PM, David Sica <dave.sica at njarc.org> wrote:

 I went to the local Radio Shack store today, the one by me that was not closing. 
The part I was looking to buy was out of stock.
I asked the guy there when it might be back in stock.  He said that none of the stores would be receiving ANY deliveries of ANY parts in the foreseeable future while they worked out the reorganization of the company.
Doesn't sound good.
The "other shoe" to drop was that for all the joking about Radio Shack becoming nothing more than a glorified cell phone store, I have been thinking about getting a new cell phone.  The carrier's web site had a seemingly great sale, but the deal was "in store only" and this Radio Shack was listed as one of their stores.  The poor guy there didn't even have a cell phone in stock to try to sell me. I almost felt sorry for him.
But if anyone sees a 1.5 - 3.0 volt piezo buzzer in stock at their local RS, please let me know.
Thanks,-- Dave Sica 

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