Does anyone else hate Radio Shack?

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Originally Posted by tron3

This never really dawned on me until now. When you walk into any other electronics retailer you see something new and different. Sure, everyone has the clearance bin of $5 DVD's, and discounted stuff they want to sell off, but it turns over pretty fast.

In the time I had with Radio Shack, and even now when I walk in, I can still find the same toys they tried to sell from last Christmas, or even the years prior. Much of it is dirty, and you can often see old dusty stuff sitting on pegs for MONTHS. I made mention of a dirty, dirty store at a RS hate site and the corporate heads must have seen it. Word got out to all the stores to clean off the stock!

This has been the Radio Shack model for decades to my best memories. Walking into a Radio Shack is often like walking into the past. They should not be allowing that old dirty Christmas stock to be sold on the floor. Let alone those oddball electronics older than last year.

This is an incredibly bad business image. It's the mom and pop mentality of "we keep it until it sells". Meanwhile the package is filthy and fading from light exposure.

It doesn't matter how many stores you make over when you bring out the same old filthy stock from the basement or back room. In some cases covered in roach crap, or other excrement. Is RS TRYING to get a health violation? I bet some stores would be closed down for some of what they sell.

This is made worse by how RS is almost never on top of the trends of popular consumer electronics. Always a year late and a dollar more. Need I continue?

"Yes sir, I understand you are just buying batteries, but may we please have your address, postal code, telephone number and blood type for our system?"

Radio Shack needs to die. Period. I got hosed by them a long time ago when I went to replace studio headphones that died after only 7 months (90d warranty). They wouldn't do anything because I didn't buy an extended warranty, which I knew nothing about, because it wasn't offered to me at the time of the sale. Deceptive sales tactics, low-quality merchandise, and high prices have completely driven me away from this place.

On a side note, here in Canada, they are now "The Source, by Circuit City" but as far as I can tell, it's the exact same business model. I think the Radio Shack name may have done enough damage....