I don't think most Walmart shoppers are nasty.I resemble that remark
However of all the Black Friday robbery and shooting they are almost always in the Walmart parking lot.
I don't think most Walmart shoppers are nasty.I resemble that remark
Not Home Depot. I have a serious bone to pick with their website... it is VERY inaccurate! I can't tell you how many times I have spotted something that I needed, showing as in-stock on their website, only to go there and they didn't have the item. This is unforgivable given the fact that they use a fully computerised inventory control system. It infuriates me when this happens, so much so that if I can wait a couple of days for the item, I just go ahead and order it from Amazon. I have complained to Home Depot about this on several occasions, their response? Crickets! I have finally given up on running around for hours going to several stores trying to find something when Amazon has it for a good price and I can have it in my hands in a couple of days.
RadioShack was known for carrying miscellaneous, hard to find parts that other stores stopped carrying. How well did that work out for them?
They were profitable when they actually did this, it is when they stopped selling the miscellaneous parts and became a cell phone and toy store that they went downhill.RadioShack was known for carrying miscellaneous, hard to find parts that other stores stopped carrying. How well did that work out for them?
Was that coincidental? I mean, just how many people were ever buying small electronic parts for home hobby stuff.They were profitable when they actually did this, it is when they stopped selling the miscellaneous parts and became a cell phone and toy store that they went downhill.
Radio Shack was doomed the day the founding family passed on. Charles Tandy was a excellent CEO. The day he passed Tandy Corporation jumped into the death spiral. Thousands of company cronies stole everything that was not bolted down.RadioShack was known for carrying miscellaneous, hard to find parts that other stores stopped carrying. How well did that work out for them?
Charles Tandy died in 1978. Radio Shack was viable and profitable until the mid 90's, well past his death. One of the first really dumb moves that they made after he died was in the early 80's when they pulled their PCs from Radio Shack stores and put them in dedicated Tandy Computer stores (later renaming them as Radio Shack Computer Centers, and then finally, Computer City) that they were opening. This decision turned-out to be a disaster. Up till then, Radio Shack TRS-80 series PCs literally owned the emerging home PC business (as high as 60% at one time), handley outselling everything else on the market combined. They initially refused to sell any other PC brands in their Tandy Computer stores, which was also a mistake.Radio Shack was doomed the day the founding family passed on. Charles Tandy was a excellent CEO. The day he passed Tandy Corporation jumped into the death spiral. Thousands of company cronies stole everything that was not bolted down.
Around here all the shootings are at Malls.I don't think most Walmart shoppers are nasty.
However of all the Black Friday robbery and shooting they are almost always in the Walmart parking lot.
You were describing Fry's electronics. They went out of business.They were profitable when they actually did this, it is when they stopped selling the miscellaneous parts and became a cell phone and toy store that they went downhill.
You could write a very long history book on the numbers of retail and wholesale operations that were absolute tops in their fields that have gone long downhill.
The common denominator of quite a few was that they figured they since they were able to dominate in their field, that they would be able to do so in other fields also. It ain't that easy to do.
Don’t have to worry about that, the last mall in my county is being tore down in a few months.Around here all the shootings are at Malls.
Maybe in 25 years Amazon will be defunct like some other retailers.
As so many others...If anything Amazon is a policy mistake
100% of their profit is government funded
Whether it’s their warehouses built using government grants, their initial technology loans, or the Fed and DOD paying to use their servers even their shipping is government subsidized and many of their employees get government insurance.
Perhaps Amazon is a good example of communism but nothing they do makes profit without government assistance
Even their delivery fleet, self driving, drone ,EV or otherwise is due to government handouts. If the post office would get the same government investment they give Amazon we might have world class equipment buzzing around
Maybe in 25 years Amazon will be defunct like some other retailers.