Radio Shack (Was: STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS)

From: John Chris Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 23:16:21 2002

Radio Shack: "You've got questions, we've got blank stares."

1. You learn that the Radio Shack slogan, "you've got questions, we've got
answers"' is true. They have answers alright, it just may not be the right
ones!
2. The people that work there think you are trying to contact someone from
Mars or outer space, with all the cables, adapters, connectors, etc., that
you buy there every week.
3. You think of opening your own store, because with a name like Radio
Shack, they ought to sell lots and lots of amateur radio equipment.
4. You know your way around the store better than the employees that work
there.
5. You spend so much time and money driving there, you think of buying one
of everything.
6. The people who work there think you own one heck of a radio station, (in
a way it might be a little truth to that), or you're trying to build a bomb.
7. You realize you know more about electronics and computers than they do.
8. You spend more money in a week at Radio Shack than you do on food.
9. You know everyone who works there by their first name.
10. You have your own private parking spot there.
11. When they call you for a stocking item because they are out.

--John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Russ Blakeman
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 23:43 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS
>
>
>
>
> => -----Original Message-----
> => From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> => [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Mike Ford
> => Nothing is more pathetic, or inherently nerdlike, than playing I
> => am smarter
> => than you with the salesdroids. I mean really what droid is going
> => to know if
> => its REALLY (ie despite the box marking, specs etc.) if a mic is
> => supercardiod or hypercardiod?
> =>
>
> Good point there - go to the average Radio Shack and you either
> get "I don't
> know" or some answer out of their butt - they are just retail clerks that
> people have somehow decided to put in the place of knowledgeable
> people and
> these sales clerks begin thinking that they really do know the stuff -
> Walmart has them in electronics and automotive too. Now before
> all you guys
> jump me that have decent Radio Shacks or formerly worked at one
> and do know
> your stuff, this is a generalized statement, not meant to mean every clerk
> at every Radio Shack.
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 23:16:21 GMT