[TriLUG] Article on Radio Shack's Demise

[tj via TriLUG]

loved to go Fry's in Atlanta, especially the one that closed on rumbling
Gwinnett Mall.
I missed a lot since no Frys in RTP/Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill/Cary :|.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:06:29 -0800 (PST)
> Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> >
> > >>
> http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21643461-radio-shack-lost-its-way-when-it-ditched-its-hobbyist-customers-making-it
> >
> > the author seems to think that Fry's got it right. Every mention of
> > Fry's in forums I see is by someone who hates the place.
> >
> > Joe
>
> I hated Fry's. Living in the San Fernando Valley (just north of LA)
> 1989-1998, I got ample opportunity to go to Fry's, mostly for computer
> parts and accessories. Every single time, I knew more than the
> salespeople. One time I got berated for looking in a part of the store
> that I wasn't supposed to be in, but wasn't marked as such. Their
> prices were so-so, their quality substandard.
>
> But my big bitch about Fry's was the same as everybody else's: Shop
> there enough times, and you'll be detained or arrested for shoplifting.
> In my case, it was buying a tape drive that had, as a promotion, an
> extra tape inside the shrink wrap. I bought it, headed out through
> security (with a guy in an actual police looking security uniform), and
> the security guard ripped my tape right out of the shrink wrap, held it
> up, and in a threatening voice said "what's this!" He then demanded I
> "stay right here."
>
> I swear to God, the security guy looked like George Zimmerman
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zimmerman), but of course George
> Zimmerman was twelve when this incident occurred.
>
> My first reaction was that of a paranoid 20 year old who gets stopped by
> the cops every half mile. But I was about 45. My next thought was to
> smash the ignoroso's face flat, but I had two year old triplets at
> home: My brawling days were over. So I told him it's a long time since
> I was accused of being a thief, and demanded he get the store manager,
> right now.
>
> So the manager comes over. He's a short, scrawny, pimply 19 year old
> with all sorts facial tics, and I immediately felt sorry for him. The
> manager said he was sorry, but people were walking out right and left
> with merchandise. In other words, he called me a thief all over again.
> But the poor manager was so pitiful I just couldn't get mad at him: I
> said OK and left, giving the security guard the evil eye once more.
>
> I heard stories just like mine, over and over, about shopping at Fry's.
> One of my buddies told me that the cops were so used to bullshit
> shoplifting arrests at Fry's that after "arresting" the
> "shoplifter" in the store, they used to drive the "perp" around the
> corner, let him out in the alley, and tell him not to go back to Fry's
> for a while.
>
> LOL, Fry's.
>
> SteveT
>
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