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Originally Posted by Froide
Yep. RadioShack lost its way, strategically, and everything from its wares, its staff's expertise, its customers' interests, and its market position and performance reflects that. Makes me sad; as a child, I liked to accompany Dad there and to Lafayette (his first-pick electronics store), to pick up electronics parts and hear him discuss the arcane language spoken by people who worked and shopped there (typically males). Visits with Dad to auto parts stores were similar, but for me less interesting, experiences. |
Lafayette sounded kewl. I don't remember hearing about it. I didn't live far enough north, I guess. I guess every part of the country, back in the day, had some company or two that filled the needs. With Radio Shack being headquartered in Fort Worth, I suppose that it tended to add new stores out first from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I was considerably closer, in the places that I lived in then (all deep South), to Ft. Worth than to New York.
One company that I do remember (and, boy, I've haven't thought about this in
years) is a company called Allied Electronics. In the places that I lived, at least, it was a mail order business only. I loved thumbing through their catalogs. It seemed like they had
everything electronic.