900+ Radio Shack stores in Canada will have to change their name by the
end of June to "The Source by Circuit City."
Mike Kowal, an exec VP at Radio Shack (USA) arrived in Toronto
yesterday to scout new locations for new Radio Shacks across the
country.
He said, "Our goal is to be in some key cities in a key number of
locations by this Christmas...Our goal is to be aggressive this year,
and to have stores and re-establish our presence within the country."
He said, "Radio Shack is determined to remain the dominant
small-store electronics specialty chain in Canada. The new stores will
have an updated and brighter look."

source: The Toronto Globe and Mail, Friday, Apr 29, 2005, page B5.

If you read this excerpt of this report, it doesn't make much
sense..............

--James--

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900+ Radio Shack stores in Canada will have to change their name by the
end of June to "The Source by Circuit City."
Mike Kowal, an exec VP at Radio Shack (USA) arrived in Toronto
yesterday to scout new locations for new Radio Shacks across the
country.
He said, "Our goal is to be in some key cities in a key number of
locations by this Christmas...Our goal is to be aggressive this year,
and to have stores and re-establish our presence within the country."
He said, "Radio Shack is determined to remain the dominant
small-store electronics specialty chain in Canada. The new stores will
have an updated and brighter look."

James wrote:

If you read this excerpt of this report, it doesn't make much
sense..............

I guess it does if one has an idea of what is going on.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



--James--

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900+ Radio Shack stores in Canada will have to change their name by the
end of June to "The Source by Circuit City."
Mike Kowal, an exec VP at Radio Shack (USA) arrived in Toronto
yesterday to scout new locations for new Radio Shacks across the
country.
He said, "Our goal is to be in some key cities in a key number of
locations by this Christmas...Our goal is to be aggressive this year,
and to have stores and re-establish our presence within the country."
He said, "Radio Shack is determined to remain the dominant
small-store electronics specialty chain in Canada. The new stores will
have an updated and brighter look."

"James" wrote in message
...
If you read this excerpt of this report, it doesn't make much
sense..............

--James--

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900+ Radio Shack stores in Canada will have to change their name by the
end of June to "The Source by Circuit City."
Mike Kowal, an exec VP at Radio Shack (USA) arrived in Toronto
yesterday to scout new locations for new Radio Shacks across the
country.
He said, "Our goal is to be in some key cities in a key number of
locations by this Christmas...Our goal is to be aggressive this year,
and to have stores and re-establish our presence within the country."
He said, "Radio Shack is determined to remain the dominant
small-store electronics specialty chain in Canada. The new stores will
have an updated and brighter look."





Makes sense to me. Looks like RS Canada stores as were have been bought by
Circuit City. Tandy corporate told them they have to change the name of
those stores because Tandy's bringing their own stores in and retains the
rights to the name Radio Shack...

wrote in news:1114813196.225498.134610
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

900+ Radio Shack stores in Canada will have to change their name by the
end of June to "The Source by Circuit City."
Mike Kowal, an exec VP at Radio Shack (USA) arrived in Toronto
yesterday to scout new locations for new Radio Shacks across the
country.
He said, "Our goal is to be in some key cities in a key number of
locations by this Christmas...Our goal is to be aggressive this year,
and to have stores and re-establish our presence within the country."
He said, "Radio Shack is determined to remain the dominant
small-store electronics specialty chain in Canada. The new stores will
have an updated and brighter look."

source: The Toronto Globe and Mail, Friday, Apr 29, 2005, page B5.



Great, so we get Tandy up here. At least Intertan stores have a decent
selection of radio.

IMHO - The 'good news' would be...
"The Source by Circuit City"
comes to the USA )
~ RHF
. . . . .

"RHF" wrote in news:1114839753.604499.31250
@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

IMHO - The 'good news' would be...
"The Source by Circuit City"
comes to the USA )
~ RHF
. . . . .



Don't get me wrong, Radio Shack/The Source up here is not like the old days
when I was a kid, when an entire 30 foot wall was parts. Now, it's only
half the wall, and they sell satelite dishes instead of TV antennas
(although the latter is orderable to a store). Resistors, transistors,
capacitors, rectifers are available, but mostly the common types. However,
they do have every connector imaginable for 75 ohm and 50 ohm coax, along
with many adapters to go between types, which was invaluable in my
shortwave radio buying spree of the last year. Of course they have
cellphones, but not excessively. I think about 6-8 feet of wall space is
devoted to cellphones. The same company also owns a chain of stores that
specialize in cell phones, so I don't think they want to overdo the cell
phones in radio shack, er, I mean The Source. One other thing that has
changed in the last 5 years is no scanners.

Comparing the US and Canadian "Radio Shack" websites, the US one only
carries the cash-cow Grundig crank radios for shortwave (which I understand
are very high margin items and are actually quite popular for camping),
whereas the Canadian one carries those (of course, they are money makers)
as well as the much maligned S350, the Satellit 800, the YB-400PE, and a
few other assorted types.