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iPhone Shortages Not Helping RadioShack as Consumer Sales Plummet
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I agree 100%. RS used to be where you went to get the bits and pieces that you couldn't get anywhere else. Remember all of those little drawers full of electronic parts? It was a place where a hobbyist could get what they needed. They have truly lost their identity, IMO.
some things should just die
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Move
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I want radio shack to do better
They are the only local electronics shop is my area aside from GameStop, not counting Walmart and target.
Best buy is 40 minutes away, end up ordering online instead.
Move
Bought what I thought was a hard to find battery at Radio Shack. Went next store to Ace Hardware and found the same battery at ⅓ the cost. I don't think iPhone inventory is Radio Shack's problem. Radio Shack SHOULD be thriving due to it's electronic/technical nature. They've failed to keep up with consumer demand and lack innovation. Case in point, Batteries Plus+ move to Batteries and Bulbs. Brilliant.
Radio shack, now there's a name I haven't heard in 20 some years or so! Up here they have been replaced by the Source. Surprised they are still around.
I agree but you really can't blame them there are just to few hackers left and that in itself is kinda sad.
In the first place, they should have changed their name a DECADE ago!
If you read media sites, you know that the term "Radio" certainly AM, and now FM is considered ancient technology or dying technology by millennials. They just have too many other options that sound better than AM or FM.
So when millennials think Radio Shack, they think a place to buy radios, not cell phones or computers. People my age (40s) think of Radio Shack as the place that sold electronic parts and they don't even carry them anymore!
I could think of a half dozen different names that would be better than Radio Shack... Gadget Shack, Gear Shack, Cell Phone Shack, ANYTHING but RADIO! LOL
Nobody knows what they sell anymore. And their product selection is all over the place. They can't compete with toy stores, they can't compete with Best Buy on computers, they don't sell many electronics parts anymore and there's no profit in just selling headphones and cables.
Finally they don't have the room to stock a lot of these things or even display the confused collection of things they sell.
Long ago, they should have picked one thing and stuck with it.
The mall I live nearest to has a Radio Shack, an ATT store, a Sprint store & a Verizon store. Where do you think most people are going to go first for an iPhone?
It won't be RADIO SHACK! HAHA!
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That is a fantastic commercial, but unfortunately it didn't change public perception enough.
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With today's electronics, what really would anyone need electronic parts for?
Almost nothing today is user serviceable like back in the 1980s.
They would have went out of business even sooner if they'd stuck to selling mostly electronics parts.
In my area we have a huge Electronics Parts store for hard core repair people, but even it is 4 times the size of a Radio Shack.
Radio Shack should stick with one or 2 things and that's it. And it shouldn't begin with the word "RADIO" because everyone associates that with dying technology.
If you read media sites, you know that the term "Radio" certainly AM, and now FM is considered ancient technology or dying technology by millennials. They just have too many other options that sound better than AM or FM.
So when millennials think Radio Shack, they think a place to buy radios, not cell phones or computers. People my age (40s) think of Radio Shack as the place that sold electronic parts and they don't even carry them anymore!
I could think of a half dozen different names that would be better than Radio Shack... Gadget Shack, Gear Shack, Cell Phone Shack, ANYTHING but RADIO! LOL
Nobody knows what they sell anymore. And their product selection is all over the place. They can't compete with toy stores, they can't compete with Best Buy on computers, they don't sell many electronics parts anymore and there's no profit in just selling headphones and cables.
Finally they don't have the room to stock a lot of these things or even display the confused collection of things they sell.
Long ago, they should have picked one thing and stuck with it.
The mall I live nearest to has a Radio Shack, an ATT store, a Sprint store & a Verizon store. Where do you think most people are going to go first for an iPhone?
It won't be RADIO SHACK! HAHA!
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That is a fantastic commercial, but unfortunately it didn't change public perception enough.
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With today's electronics, what really would anyone need electronic parts for?
Almost nothing today is user serviceable like back in the 1980s.
They would have went out of business even sooner if they'd stuck to selling mostly electronics parts.
In my area we have a huge Electronics Parts store for hard core repair people, but even it is 4 times the size of a Radio Shack.
Radio Shack should stick with one or 2 things and that's it. And it shouldn't begin with the word "RADIO" because everyone associates that with dying technology.
I loved getting the new catalog in the mail as a kid.....spent hours looking at Stereo equipment I couldn't afford and TRS 80 computers I couldn't afford....till I got my first job and bought my first computer a Tandy 1000-SX - which I updated with a floating point unit, then overclocked, then a (I think) 10MB hard drive (it was $300 - I know that) and a 300baud modem to dial in to BBS's......too bad it has lost its way, but the world has changed
They might as well throw in the title if that is all they can afford to do. I mean that means they are less convenient than buying online and you don't get the item right away anyways. There's really no point in shopping in a place you have to drive to get to only to wait to get the product (especially if they would propose that you have to drive to pick it up as well).
It would be better off spending the money selling off your assetts and going out of business than try such an obviously failing business model.
That article confirms I made the right decision when I declined a job offer from RadioShack 40 years ago. Their payment schedule was too complicate which I assumed, rightly it seems, would make it easier for them to screw me out of money I'd earned.
RadioShack should change their image and become a hobby specialist store. The whole reason I went to RadioShack as a kid was to see if they had a part that no one else carried. Now that they have cut down their inventory to just phones, some cables boxes and random cord assortments there really is no point to going.
Go back to what you were good at RadioShack.
Go back to what you were good at RadioShack.
You may have missed a good opportunity. As I mentioned, I worked for them early 70's thru late 80's part time. Their managers were making 50 to 100k a year in the SW Ohio area. Very good for that time period in retail. Many in the stock program made out quite well, as at that period there were splits with the stock going back up fairly quickly. I knew several who left with 400 to 700k in their stock program. One friend started his own business with it. Somewhere in the 80's they went the way of Kmart and severely cut manager pay. They tried to recruit me pending my military retirement, but pay was not there anymore for me. Too bad, as one could get use to monthly, manual inventories with free beer and pizza. And playing with all the toys and computers. BiPlanes was one of our favorites. Basically an on TV game of BiPlane Dogfights.
I enjoyed my time with them and the people I met. Two young guys I initially trained went on to Regional Mgt and one set up Regional franchise stores. Both now own their own electronics companies and are very good friends.
Unfortunately, all this reminiscing will not help what may be the inevitable. I do hope they find a way to stay in business.
Radio shack, now there's a name I haven't heard in 20 some years or so! Up here they have been replaced by the Source. Surprised they are still around.
In Canada they had to change their name due to some legal disputes, nonetheless, same old failing company.