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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? -- Anti-Spam address: my last name at his dot com Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA |
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"Charles Gillen" wrote in message ... 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. |
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"meticulus epithineese" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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... -------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------- DX-392 DX-398 RX-320 DX-399 CCradio w/RS Loop Torus Tuner (3-13 MHz) Select-A-Tenna ----------------------- Vicksburg, MS US |
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"Charles Gillen" wrote in message ... 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? -- Tom Sevart N2UHC Frontenac, KS http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc |
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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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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In article 3sGgb.706567$uu5.116769@sccrnsc04, CW says...
Don't insult the rest of us by associating yourself with the west coast. There is the PRC (Peoples Republic of California) then there is the rest of us. We're contemplating building a wall. Make sure it's not that cheap, chain-link stuff used on the California/Mexican border. It doesn't work. elfa "elfa" wrote in message ... In article , Charles Gillen says... The catalog is back. I picked one up today. So why am I complaining? Because it lists no prices at all. Astounding incompetence, or arrogance? -- Anti-Spam address: my last name at his dot com Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA I stopped by my RS and asked for it.....'what catalog?' was the response. I'm on the west coast. Maybe we need a good earthquake....California tipping on its side may cause any excess catalogs on the east coast to slide westward into our Radioshack stores. Just a thought. elfa |
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In article ,
In article 3sGgb.706567$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. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 972-54-608-069 Icq/AIM Uin: 2661079 MSN IM: (Not for email) Carp are bottom feeders, koi are too, and not surprisingly are ferrets. |
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