Good riddance.

Tandy ruined the once proud term "radio shack" by naming their chain of
stores selling
trinkets and low-quality consumer junk after the 70s. When RS was a real
electronics
store based in Boston they were great but that was in the 50s and 60s. Tandy
really ruined it.

Since then I have done most anything to avoid going in one. The clerks are
imbeciles.
The products, inferior. Anything you ask them for is met with a dumbfounded
look.
They'd be better suited to wearing vests and greeting customers with
"welcome to Radio Shack...
would you like to try a bloomin' onion or start out with an appetizer?"

Maybe the bruised term "radio shack" can now begin its healing process and
be used again
with a semblance of respect.

On 08/07/09 10:15 , SX-25 wrote:
Good riddance.



Since then I have done most anything to avoid going in one. The clerks
are imbeciles.



"Welcome to Radio Shack. Can I help you?"



"Yes, see that empty space over by that Verizon display?"



"Yeah?"



"Go stand there until my car has left the parking lot."

Didn't Radio Shack used to be called Allied Radio? I have an old 1955
Allied Radio catalog here, it is in Good condition.In Limeyland, Radio
Shack stores are called Tandy.

Also, in Limeyland, Gunsmoke (the old tv movies) is called Gun Law.
cuhulin

wrote:
Didn't Radio Shack used to be called Allied Radio? I have an old 1955
Allied Radio catalog here, it is in Good condition.In Limeyland, Radio
Shack stores are called Tandy.

Also, in Limeyland, Gunsmoke (the old tv movies) is called Gun Law.
cuhulin


I learned more about electronics from Allied Radio (100 N. Western Ave,
Chicago) catalogs, than from any other single source.

Lafayette had killer stores in the early '60s.

"D. Peter Maus" wrote in message
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On 08/07/09 10:15 , SX-25 wrote:
Good riddance.



Since then I have done most anything to avoid going in one. The clerks
are imbeciles.



"Welcome to Radio Shack. Can I help you?"



"Yes, see that empty space over by that Verizon display?"



"Yeah?"



"Go stand there until my car has left the parking lot."

"But sir, if I do that, it will be difficult to sell you one of these
overpriced TracFone®s or this cheap Chinese made voice recorder *pushes
playback button and you hear something that sounds like a drunken Max
Headroom*"

Free door handles/door knobs?
cuhulin