[PaQSO] Radio Shack Closing Many Stores

[mkempisty at comcast.net]

There motto; "You got questions?  We've got dumb looks!"

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Take care, 
Mark N3GNW

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From: Mark K3MSB <k3msb at direcway.com> 

> Not really any surprise. 
> 
> RS Has lost their niche market, that of providing goods for 
> experimenters, for two basic reasons. First, there are not many 
> experimenters around anymore. Second, they're in business to make 
> money, and they make more money selling cell phones than capacitors. 
> 
> RS now sells cell phones and other consumer electronics and has to go 
> head to head with Wallmart, Circuit City etc, and that's not easy. 
> 
> I used to hit RS for resistors etc, but now I'll go out of my way at 
> lunch to the local electronics store for those parts (better quality). 
> Between the local place and Mouser, I can get pretty much what I want. 
> Granted I have to wait for Mouser, but that's usually not a problem. 
> 
> It's always fun when one of the sales persons comes up to you when 
> you're looking for a part: 
> 
> Them: Can I help you? 
> Me: Yeah. Have any 0.047uF 200V orange drops? 
> Them: Sir, we don't sell candy here. 
> Me: Thanks. An orange drop is a capacitor. 
> Them: What do you need it for? 
> Me: I'm recapping my Hallicrafters SX-101A. 
> Them: A what? 
> Me: A radio. you know, a thing with tubes in it? 
> Them: Tubes? 
> Me Yeah, those glass thingys that light up when you plug 'em in? 
> Them: Hey Jack (Yelling to his boss) do we have tubes? 
> Boss: Tubes? 
> Them: This guy needs a capacitor for his tube. 
> Me: No, I need a capacitor for a radio that uses tubes. 
> Boss: Sir, do you need a cell phone? 
> 
> 73 Mark K3MSB 
> 
> TwelveVDC at aol.com wrote: 
> 
> >>From CNN.com 
> > 
> >"DALLAS - Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. on Friday said fourth- 
> >quarter earnings dropped 62 percent and disclosed it plans to close 400 to 700 
> >stores and two distribution centers as part of a plan to improve its financial 
> >performance." 
> > 
> >Maybe no surprise to many... 
> > -de NL7XM 
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