When they talk about Radio Shack changing for the worst, they aren't
kidding. Yesterday I went there to pick up some hookup wire. I've
purchased it there many times before, and for as long as I remember it
sat in the same place in one corner of the store. However, yesterday it
was gone. An employee asked if he could help me and I explained what I
was looking for. He had no clue what I was talking about, and kept
gesturing vaguely in the direction of some power cables. (I guess he
was hoping he'd luck out and point at the right item without even
knowing what it is, but no luck.) Eventually he got his manager. I
talked to the manager and explained what I was doing, and the manager
also had no clue what I was talking about. Not only was the hookup wire
gone, no one even remembered its ever being there. I felt like I was in
the Twilight Zone or something.

Steve wrote:
When they talk about Radio Shack changing for the worst, they aren't
kidding. Yesterday I went there to pick up some hookup wire. I've
purchased it there many times before, and for as long as I remember it
sat in the same place in one corner of the store. However, yesterday it
was gone. An employee asked if he could help me and I explained what I

These days, I'll look up what I want on radioshack.com first and write
down their part number, then bring that to the store.

Often they still can't find it, but at least with the number they can
look it up in their computer & find out whether there's any point in
looking...

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Most of these guys are incapable of ****ing a hole in snow!



Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
Steve wrote:
When they talk about Radio Shack changing for the worst, they aren't
kidding. Yesterday I went there to pick up some hookup wire. I've
purchased it there many times before, and for as long as I remember it
sat in the same place in one corner of the store. However, yesterday it
was gone. An employee asked if he could help me and I explained what I

These days, I'll look up what I want on radioshack.com first and write
down their part number, then bring that to the store.

Often they still can't find it, but at least with the number they can
look it up in their computer & find out whether there's any point in
looking...

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Yes Frank, but that takes lots of talent & practice to achieve an
acceptable pattern in the snow..

73, Ken


wrote:
Most of these guys are incapable of ****ing a hole in snow!



Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
Steve wrote:
When they talk about Radio Shack changing for the worst, they aren't
kidding. Yesterday I went there to pick up some hookup wire. I've
purchased it there many times before, and for as long as I remember it
sat in the same place in one corner of the store. However, yesterday it
was gone. An employee asked if he could help me and I explained what I

These days, I'll look up what I want on radioshack.com first and write
down their part number, then bring that to the store.

Often they still can't find it, but at least with the number they can
look it up in their computer & find out whether there's any point in
looking...

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

In the snow? When I was in the Army at Scott Air Force Base,Illinois in
1963,a WAF (Women in the Air Force) bet me I couldn't wee wee my name in
the snow.Guess what? I won that bet.Fortunately (or
unfortunately,depending on how you look at it) it almost never snows (I
hate snow) here in Jackson so I have lost a lot of practice over the
years.
cuhulin

fones-R-us

I went to my local Radio Shack a couple of weeks ago to pick up a roll of
4-conductor telephone cable. I needed to make a couple of extension cables.
The salesperson told me that they don't carry such an item. When I explained
that I purchased a roll of this stuff six months ago, the manager told me
that they just don't carry such an item, and could she help me with
something else? I told her that I would look around and see if there was
anything else that I needed.
I went to one of the middle aisles and picked a roll of the cable (778-367)
that I needed, and that they didn't have in stock.
I showed the manager where this stock was kept. I guess they hadn't done any
inventory with this relatively new staff yet.

Pete

"Jim" wrote in message
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fones-R-us

Steve wrote:
When they talk about Radio Shack changing for the worst, they aren't
kidding. Yesterday I went there to pick up some hookup wire. I've
purchased it there many times before, and for as long as I remember it
sat in the same place in one corner of the store. However, yesterday it
was gone. An employee asked if he could help me and I explained what I
was looking for. He had no clue what I was talking about, and kept
gesturing vaguely in the direction of some power cables. (I guess he
was hoping he'd luck out and point at the right item without even
knowing what it is, but no luck.) Eventually he got his manager. I
talked to the manager and explained what I was doing, and the manager
also had no clue what I was talking about. Not only was the hookup wire
gone, no one even remembered its ever being there. I felt like I was in
the Twilight Zone or something.

I went to the Radio Shack in Tonopah, Nevada. Tonopah is one of those
old mining towns in Nevada where once the mine went belly up, the town
nearly folded. This store was a combination Radio Shack and Western
Auto (a car parts store). Now the amazing thing is this Radio Shack was
the best stocked store I ever saw. Even more shocking, the store
manager knew what he was doing. When I mentioned this was the biggest
Radio Shack I ever saw to the store manager, he told me that the nearby
Tonopah Test Range and the Nevada Test Site used this particular store,
so regarding components, they had at least one of everything in the
Radio Shack catalog.

Pete KE9OA wrote:
I went to my local Radio Shack a couple of weeks ago to pick up a roll of
4-conductor telephone cable. I needed to make a couple of extension cables.
The salesperson told me that they don't carry such an item. When I explained
that I purchased a roll of this stuff six months ago, the manager told me
that they just don't carry such an item, and could she help me with
something else? I told her that I would look around and see if there was
anything else that I needed.
I went to one of the middle aisles and picked a roll of the cable (778-367)
that I needed, and that they didn't have in stock.
I showed the manager where this stock was kept. I guess they hadn't done any
inventory with this relatively new staff yet.

Pete

"Jim" wrote in message
...

fones-R-us





That is about par for the course for Radio Shack these days. You want a
cell phone? Nope, already got one. You sure you don't want a cell phone?
They still have some pretty decent scanners and decent shortwave radios
but after that you can forget it. There are probably a good dozen of
them within about 40 miles of me and I can't recall the people being of
much help at any of them. If you are looking for hookup wire, resistors,
etc, Buddy you are on your own. Hate to see it though and frankly it
shows that we are a consumer society, not a producer society which
explains the lack of knowledge and know how that goes into the
conveniences. Not a pretty picture.

Billy Smith wrote:
Pete KE9OA wrote:
I went to my local Radio Shack a couple of weeks ago to pick up a roll
of 4-conductor telephone cable. I needed to make a couple of extension
cables. The salesperson told me that they don't carry such an item.
When I explained that I purchased a roll of this stuff six months ago,
the manager told me that they just don't carry such an item, and could
she help me with something else? I told her that I would look around
and see if there was anything else that I needed.
I went to one of the middle aisles and picked a roll of the cable
(778-367) that I needed, and that they didn't have in stock.
I showed the manager where this stock was kept. I guess they hadn't
done any inventory with this relatively new staff yet.

Pete

"Jim" wrote in message
...

fones-R-us





That is about par for the course for Radio Shack these days. You want a
cell phone? Nope, already got one. You sure you don't want a cell phone?
They still have some pretty decent scanners and decent shortwave radios
but after that you can forget it. There are probably a good dozen of
them within about 40 miles of me and I can't recall the people being of
much help at any of them. If you are looking for hookup wire, resistors,
etc, Buddy you are on your own. Hate to see it though and frankly it
shows that we are a consumer society, not a producer society which
explains the lack of knowledge and know how that goes into the
conveniences. Not a pretty picture.
Surprized you didn't get a new phone, or batteries or ????????????????
I HATE the upselling bull**** from them. I know what I need and don't
need them to remind me......