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HD Radio...coming soon to a Radio Shack near you?

J

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"'Closing these stores benefits the customer because we are able to bring in new products such as Blue Tooth and HD Radio,' Study (a Radio Shack spokeswoman) says."

http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2006/03/20/daily37.html?surround=lfn<P ID="signature">______________
16-year-old radio geek.</P>
 
> "'Closing these stores benefits the customer because we are
> able to bring in new products such as Blue Tooth and HD
> Radio,' Study (a Radio Shack spokeswoman) says."
>
http://charlotte.bizjournal> s.com/charlotte/stories/2006/03/20/daily37.html?surround=lfn
>

Me: I'd like to see a new HD radio...
RS: How happy are you with your current cell phone?

Radio Shack: You have questions, we have cell phones.<P ID="signature">______________
</P>
 
> Radio Shack: You have questions, we have cell phones.

...and batteries.

Aside from cell phones, batteries are RS's highest-volume, highest-profit product.
<P ID="signature">______________
It's a common mistake to not use punctuation in its proper form.
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/its.html>Be kind to your friend, the apostrophe.</a></P>
 
> > Radio Shack: You have questions, we have cell phones.
>
> ...and batteries.
>
> Aside from cell phones, batteries are RS's highest-volume,
> highest-profit product.
>

Those Two HD radios they'll sell in year will be on the discount shelf in 2007.
 
> Radio Shack: You have questions, we have cell phones.
>
I've been thinking for the past few years that they should change their name from Radio Shack to Phone Shack.<P ID="signature">______________

</P>
 
> Those Two HD radios they'll sell in year will be on the
> discount shelf in 2007.

It better be really cheap or you will be right. 20 years ago, I thought the TM-152 was a bit pricey at $60, but I got one anyway and it has proved to be the best local AM tuner I have, even though the local stations have abandoned C-Quam. If they sell a TM-152 like IBOC tuner, priced $60 to $90, I might consider it as an auxiliary, local only type of tuner. Serious listening will still be on my Fisher AM-80 for non-IBOC AM stations, and one of my DX tuners for non-IBOC FM stations. I might as well get some benefit from this technology - while it lasts. I think it will probably be as obsolete as my TM-152 in 20 years.
 
As someone who spent several years working for RatShack, that is the honest to goodness truth. And that is why they are becoming more and more irrelevant to electronics consumers.

> > Radio Shack: You have questions, we have cell phones.
> >
> I've been thinking for the past few years that they should
> change their name from Radio Shack to Phone Shack.
>
 
> > > Radio Shack: You have questions, we have cell phones.
> >
> > ...and batteries.
> >
> > Aside from cell phones, batteries are RS's highest-volume,
>
> > highest-profit product.
> >
>
> Those Two HD radios they'll sell in year will be on the
> discount shelf in 2007.
>
Remember the Digital Compact Cassette? It was a digital tape recorder that used ordinary cassettes instead of DAT tapes. That went over like a lead balloon. It also wound up on the discount shelf. I also remember Radio Shack still sold 8 Tracks long after they were history. They must have had an extra supply.
 
> Remember the Digital Compact Cassette? It was a digital
> tape recorder that used ordinary cassettes instead of DAT
> tapes. That went over like a lead balloon. It also wound
> up on the discount shelf. I also remember Radio Shack still
> sold 8 Tracks long after they were history. They must have
> had an extra supply.
>

Radio Shack is where I buy my Beta blanks. :p

Stelly
 
> As someone who spent several years working for RatShack,
> that is the honest to goodness truth. And that is why they
> are becoming more and more irrelevant to electronics
> consumers.

It's the beggening of the end for Rat Shack.
I say it's completley gone by 2020.
 
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