Radio Shack fumbles again
 

The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining?

Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or arrogance?

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Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA

"Charles Gillen" wrote in message
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The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining?
Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or arrogance?

None of the three. They let individual franchises set
some item prices. In most cases however all they
sell is cheaply made Chinese junk. Your better off
going to WalMart or Circuit City.

"meticulus epithineese" wrote in message
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None of the three. They let individual franchises set
some item prices. In most cases however all they
sell is cheaply made Chinese junk. Your better off
going to WalMart or Circuit City.


And buy their cheaply made Chinese junk.

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:36:01 -0500, Herbert West wrote
(in message ):

On 6 Oct 2003 20:33:24 -0400, Charles Gillen
wrote:

The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining?

Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or arrogance?

How about: Now they can make up new prices at *any* time and
force-feed it to the individual stores' POS computers overnight or
even in real-time.

"To our valued customers: Please refer to http://www.radioshack.com
for latest pricing information."

Or perhaps, districts and even individual stores, might be able to set
whatever price they think their local market will bear.


Herb, N1 sommthing or other...

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You mean like Wal*Mart?

My wife found a desk she wanted at out local Wal*Mart (Vicksburg,
Mississippi) with the "price rolled back from $129 to $99" but they were out
of them and as everyone knows

Shockley's Third Law states that
JIT (Just in Time) inventory isn't.

So we were driving over to Jackson and there are two Wal*Marts on the way.

At the Clinton store, there were four of the desks but the price was $129.

At the Jackson Store on 18, after the third request for someone to give us a
price, we found that the price was $129 and they had two of the desks in
stock.

My wife commented to the employee at the Clinton store that, in V'burg, the
price was $99. The woman (very nice lady) stated that maybe the V'burg store
was in a more competitive market so had to have lower prices and the Clinton
store didn't have to drop their prices that low to be competitive.

It hit me on the way to the car that - if the Clinton store had four of the
desks (and, later, the Jackson store on 18 had two) and Vicksburg had none -
that maybe the Clinton and the Jackson-18 stores weren't competitive at all.


So, we went looking and we found a really
great - a much better - desk for $200 at a
non-Wal*mart store.


So Wal*Mart lost a $99 sale.


And made me suspicious of Wal*Mart prices per store from now on.



Gray Shockley
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DX-392 DX-398
RX-320 DX-399
CCradio w/RS Loop
Torus Tuner (3-13 MHz)
Select-A-Tenna
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Vicksburg, MS US

"Charles Gillen" wrote in message
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The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining?

Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or arrogance?

Maybe they want people to ask questions their staff may actually be able to
answer?

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Frontenac, KS

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In article , Charles Gillen says...

The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining?

Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or arrogance?

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Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA

I stopped by my RS and asked for it.....'what catalog?' was the response. I'm
on the west coast. Maybe we need a good earthquake....California tipping on its
side may cause any excess catalogs on the east coast to slide westward into our
Radioshack stores.

Just a thought.

elfa

Don't insult the rest of us by associating yourself with the west coast.
There is the PRC (Peoples Republic of California) then there is the rest of
us. We're contemplating building a wall.


"elfa" wrote in message
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In article , Charles Gillen says...

The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining?

Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or
arrogance?

--
Anti-Spam address: my last name at his dot com
Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA

I stopped by my RS and asked for it.....'what catalog?' was the response.
I'm
on the west coast. Maybe we need a good earthquake....California tipping
on its
side may cause any excess catalogs on the east coast to slide westward
into our
Radioshack stores.

Just a thought.

elfa

Forgot to add: :) :) :) to the post below. BTW, somebody down there has
likely got them. I got one here in Washington.
"CW" wrote in message
news:3sGgb.706567$uu5.116769@sccrnsc04...
Don't insult the rest of us by associating yourself with the west coast.
There is the PRC (Peoples Republic of California) then there is the rest
of
us. We're contemplating building a wall.


"elfa" wrote in message
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on the west coast. Maybe we need a good earthquake....California
tipping
on its
side may cause any excess catalogs on the east coast to slide westward
into our
Radioshack stores.

Just a thought.

elfa

In article 3sGgb.706567$uu5.116769@sccrnsc04, CW says...

Don't insult the rest of us by associating yourself with the west coast.
There is the PRC (Peoples Republic of California) then there is the rest of
us. We're contemplating building a wall.

Make sure it's not that cheap, chain-link stuff used on the California/Mexican
border. It doesn't work.

elfa




"elfa" wrote in message
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In article , Charles Gillen says...

The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining?

Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or
arrogance?

--
Anti-Spam address: my last name at his dot com
Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA

I stopped by my RS and asked for it.....'what catalog?' was the response.
I'm
on the west coast. Maybe we need a good earthquake....California tipping
on its
side may cause any excess catalogs on the east coast to slide westward
into our
Radioshack stores.

Just a thought.

elfa

In article ,
In article 3sGgb.706567$uu5.116769@sccrnsc04, CW says...
Don't insult the rest of us by associating yourself with the west coast.
There is the PRC (Peoples Republic of California) then there is the rest of
us. We're contemplating building a wall.

elfa wrote:

Make sure it's not that cheap, chain-link stuff used on the California/Mexican
border. It doesn't work.

If you build it properly it would make one heck of a long wire. :-)

Geoff.

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