[TrunkCom] Radio Shacks Quits?

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:28:48 -0500

The story has been on the street since Q4. Wall street did not like their previous numbers. Radio Shack is quitting the
installation business and reducing overhead by shutting down Non money making stores (35) and closing some Radioshack dot com
stores. Certain items will be eliminated  (car stereos, etc.) They are doing like everyone else trimming the fat.

"Delong, Mike (Dallas, CSC)" wrote:

> I was told just this morning by a questionable source that Radio Shack is throwing in the towel. Has anyone else heard this?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fourwd1 [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:55 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Trunkcom] (no subject)
>
> For what they pay their employees, it's amazing they can get high school
> grads, and your expecting more?
> Also, RS HQ does not even know the answers to or even understand the
> technical info being discussed here.
> The home office "experts" are no more (and maybe less) qualified than (with
> a few exceptions) the sale clerks. They do try to provide some basic
> training for the sales staff, but communications equipment is not one of the
> subjects, as you can see.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:00 PM
> Subject: RE: [Trunkcom] (no subject)
>
> >I think that Radio Shack employees would need just two years of college in
> >electronics, but I don't know.  I know that when it comes to trunked radio
> > coms and things like that some people don't even realize there is a
> trunked
> >system.  I can remember visiting one store back in1994 in a city that had
> >just gone to 800 MHz trunking and the sales person at Radio Shack wasn't
> >even aware of it, and gave me  a few low band or high band freqs.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, SJ wrote:
> >
> >>  It's hard to be impressed with the knowledge of RS employees sometimes.
> You
> >> would think they would require some minor technical knowledge.
> >
>
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