"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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Perhaps if they stopped calling themselves Radio Shack, if they aren't
going
to sell RADIO's or RADIO parts anymore. As others have said, if all they
are
going to sell is cell phones, then they should change their name to Cell
Shack.




I'm annoyed with Radio Flyers.


They have nothing to do with radios.

They only fly one time.


I saw a movie a bunch of years ago where a kid flew one around the world..

"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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I'm annoyed with Radio Flyers.


They have nothing to do with radios.

They only fly one time.


I saw a movie a bunch of years ago where a kid flew one around the world..




"You've got questions, we've got circumlocution!" No, wait. That's
circumnavigation.

And, at one time, I used to think I knew what words such as "radio" meant.

Frank Dresser

Why would any retailer stock a shortwave radio in this
day-and-age?

even in this day and age, shortwave radio is still the only way for radio
listeners to get the radio news directly from other countries, or to directly
hear each country's opinions about world events from the countries theirselves.

"Stereophile22" wrote in message
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Why would any retailer stock a shortwave radio in this
day-and-age?

even in this day and age, shortwave radio is still the only way for radio
listeners to get the radio news directly from other countries, or to
directly
hear each country's opinions about world events from the countries
theirselves.

Absolutely agree, there is still a place for shortwave despite the internet.

Mike

I'm baffled by the suggestion that shortwave has something to fear
from the internet. I mean, why is there a threat to shortwave and not
newspapers, magazines, FM broadcasting, movies, television or any one
of the dozens of other media out there that carry the same sorts of
information that one could, in principle, dig out from among a billion
web pages on the internet? I just don't see this often cited
"shortwave/internet" connection. In fact, I think the internet will be
good for shortwave. In my view, what has kept shortwave alive thus far
is the fact that it haa more interesting content than other mass
media. The internet simply makes this truer than ever before; for
while there is of course interesting info in the net, it's buried
under so much crap that you have to labor over google for hours just
to find one interesting tidbit. The internet could be the best thing
that ever happened to shortwave.

Steve

"Mike Terry" wrote in message ...
"Stereophile22" wrote in message
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Why would any retailer stock a shortwave radio in this
day-and-age?

even in this day and age, shortwave radio is still the only way for radio
listeners to get the radio news directly from other countries, or to
directly
hear each country's opinions about world events from the countries
theirselves.

Absolutely agree, there is still a place for shortwave despite the internet.

Mike

In article , says...

Time to get real and stop whining.

In case you haven't noticed: SWL'ing, ham radio is dying...the demand just
ain't there anymore!

(Heavy sigh) We go through this a lot.

Condensed version: No, those mediums are not dying, and yes, the demand
is still there.

Why would any retailer stock a shortwave radio in this
day-and-age?

To make a profit?

snip

FW

"Frank White" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

Time to get real and stop whining.

In case you haven't noticed: SWL'ing, ham radio is dying...the
demand just
ain't there anymore!

(Heavy sigh) We go through this a lot.

Sure do. I remember having these same conversations in
1994, before the internet became THE INTERNET to every
Tom, Dick and Harry.

Condensed version: No, those mediums are not dying, and yes, the
demand
is still there.

As long as it costs a bit of cash to use the internet and
cell phones (not even counting extra for other things like
sending photos and whatnot), other outlets that are free
will continue to hang around.

The internet killed the dial-up bulletin boards and Fidonet,
but it hasn't killed CB, shortwave and other items yet. Hell,
even cable and satellite hasn't killed the radio medium
yet.

Why would any retailer stock a shortwave radio in this
day-and-age?

To make a profit?

Yes. Radio Shack has been for quite a while now the public
face to electronic specialty stores for the general public.
(When the general public gets familiar with Universal Radio
and Parts Express, I'll change my mind.) If you want something
that is specialty oriented, you think about Radio Shack. It used
to be (back when I worked a short stint there in 1991-2) that
when you got a VCR for Christmas, you went to Radio Shack
to get the cables and info on how to hook it up to the damn
multi cable Time Warner boxes. Same thing for cordless telephone
batteries and bulk telephone (and speaker and other) wire.
People who didn't know you could order woofers and tweeters
in catalogs knew that if you wanted to build a speaker, you could
go to Rat Shack to get parts. If your turntable needle needed
replacing or you needed other odds and ends, you could special
order them there. If you wanted to know about electronics,
your local manager (or someone on staff) tinkered in the stuff
you were asking about.

Nowadays, it seems that Tandy is getting away from that
because of the emphasis on cell/satellite/whathaveyou; their
main differentiator between them and their competition (the
in-house knowledge) is no longer there.

--Mike L.

You really should run a spell check on your signature before posting. You
misspelled "putz".

"patgkz" wrote in message
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Time to get real and stop whining.

In case you haven't noticed: SWL'ing, ham radio is dying...the demand
just
ain't there anymore! Why would any retailer stock a shortwave radio in
this
day-and-age?

Step into a Radshack store...what do you see? Stuff that makes them
money:
cellphones, cell accessories, home theatre.....NOT SHORTWAVE RADIO....
DUGH.

If you want a freakin' radio so bad....get on the Internet and search one
out.

I'm sick of this "boo-hoo Radio Shack doesn't stock my favorite items like
they did 30-years ago" crap.

This is 2004, not 1974!

Do you see shortwave radio's in the Sears and JC Penney catalogues like
you
did in 1974? Of course not! Why would the shack be any different? Why
would the Shack want to continue to cater to a bunch of cry-babies that
want
an outdated product like a shortwave radio!

Get real.


"lsmyer" wrote in message
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I've been keeping my eye on the YB400 which is being closed out at Radio
Shack. Last week, my local store still had one, and the price was
$129.97.
Yesterday, I went in to check on the price, and they didn't have any
left
on
the shelf. In fact, there was other stuff in its place, and you couldn't
ever tell that the YB400 ever had been there. When I went to ask the
manager, she said that she didn't remember that radio because she had
only
been there two months. Good excuse. So I tried to get her to look it up
for
me on the computer. Of course, she asked if I knew its catalog number,
and
of course, I didn't remember it. She messed around a bit, but she never
found it. I went home, found the catalog number (20-234) and called her
back. This time, she checked and said that they were out, but they could
get
me one. I asked what the price was down to. She said $129.97. (Still too
high for what I was hoping to spend). Then she told me that I would have
to
come in and pay in advance if I wanted her to order one of these from
another store. I said I'd let her know.

i would say that your rat shack experience was a wonderful ray of
sunshine compared to what it could of been. take your scratches home and
be glad they arent lumps! we are like sheep, still returning to the
scene of disaster looking for long gone memories. i am like the
compulsive gambler loosing my money and saying "yes i know that the game
is rigged! but its the only game in town!" why do i keep going back to
rat shack?

Radio shack makes enough of a killing off the Grundig FR200's, especially
with recent weather events getting people in a panic, that I don't think
they care to stock other radios. As a local radio shack employee said to
me, with a bit of exaggeration, "these things [the FR200's] are the only
thing keeping the store profitable."