Radio Shack probably could have benefitted from there being far, far fewer of them and focusing less on their house brands. Yeah, most of the reports in the financial section of the newspaper (and by newspaper I mean the money/finance section of their website) are RS suffered from "why are there 4000 of them" and "so, uh, what business are they in anyhow?" They later came out with a more exact clone machine, but it was already too late.
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Ther first PC compatibles were not completely compatible, which just didn't fly - even if the Tandy 2000 was far superior hardware to the IBM PC (actually above the level of the later PC AT, actually), the fact that it was not 100% compatible with the IBM PC sealed its fate.
Pre IBM days, their computers were some of the best ones. They made an attempt to get back to some of the experimenter roots by carrying some microcontroller project kits and books, but the Aurdino kits they sell, I can get from a place like Sparkfun for $30 less. They then morphed into a cell phone store - but there are plenty of places you cna go and buy a cell phone from any of the carriers (vs the specific stores like AT&T or Verizon) - even Walmart has cell phones from multiple carriers. I like to say that the last person who knew anythign about actual electronics quit when I finally quit. And then there were the quotas on getting people signed up for their credit card.
The district manager came in and yelled at home and made him disconnect it all because 'policy' was that the only thing that should eb hooked up for customers to try out was the system featured in the current sale flyer. I transferred to a different store in college to earn some spending money, and my manager there went through a lot of trouble to haveeverything they sold hooked up for demo - any receiver could be layed on any of the speakers and so forth. But even then, the writing was on the wall, as they pushed their junk stereos and stuff. And of course you know there was always some joker who picked up a pack of 10K resistors then realized he wanted 1K and shoved the pack of 10Ks on the 4.7K peg. The downside of all those electronic parts was inventory time. I worked at one, my friend worked at the other. They also built stores right on top of one another - heck in my small town, well, we weren't even incorporated as a town or even a village, it was just the township, we has two stores within walking distance of each other.
Back in the day, they had a very good selection of electronic parts.
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