"Dave Platt" wrote in message
...
Got the word today at the neighborhood RadioShack that a catalog will
once
again be available---no date offered but should be soon.

Well, that's a step in a good direction, I suppose. Their Web-site
search engine from Hell was really getting on my nerves.

Now, if they'd just quadruple the size, selection breadth, and quality
of their electronic-components rack...

Unfortunately, all their money comes from cell phone sales. I won't be
visiting them until they lose their shirt doing that and have to go back to
selling components.

I think it is mainly the old timers which keep them in business, anyone 40
and younger will grab what they need off the internet (cell phones too)
and get a much better deal...

John

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:30:50 -0500, john graesser wrote:


"Dave Platt" wrote in message
...
Got the word today at the neighborhood RadioShack that a catalog will
once
again be available---no date offered but should be soon.

Well, that's a step in a good direction, I suppose. Their Web-site
search engine from Hell was really getting on my nerves.

Now, if they'd just quadruple the size, selection breadth, and quality
of their electronic-components rack...

Unfortunately, all their money comes from cell phone sales. I won't be
visiting them until they lose their shirt doing that and have to go back to
selling components.

Unfortunately, all their money comes from cell phone sales. I won't be
visiting them until they lose their shirt doing that and have to go back
to
selling components.
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Ratshack get their income from people living in today's consumers' society
,not from the few dinosaurs who enjoy tinkering with electronics . That's
the reality . If they are reconsidering publishing a catalogue and include
electronic components ,then their marketing people and nobody else consider
this a potentially profitable move .

They wouldn't do it just to please electronics enthousiasts (which include
some home brewing radio amateurs)

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH

In article , Highland Ham wrote:
If they are reconsidering publishing a catalogue and include
electronic components ,then their marketing people and nobody else consider
this a potentially profitable move .

They wouldn't do it just to please electronics enthousiasts (which include
some home brewing radio amateurs)

No, it's the simple demographics. The parts buyers are older people with
more disposable income and a technology bent. They won't sell you a cell
phone, but they might get you to buy one of their big ticket items
while you are there.

Let's face it, if you go to a Radio Shack once a week to pick up parts,
like many of us used to do in days gone by, while you are there you are
more likely to buy something else than make a trip to one of the
big stores especialy to buy a $20 item. I'll bet you that they make
profit on that $20 item than some of the big stores make on a $100
item.

Geoff.

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