Worked at radio shack during the Cuecat days. One day word came down that we had to destroy all remaining inventory. Those things were nearly indestructible.

Worked at radio shack during the Cuecat days. One day word came down that we had to destroy all remaining inventory. Those things were nearly indestructible. Ran one over with a car multiple times and it was fine. Eventually everyone interested just took them home. From my perspective the real decline came from canceling of the catalog. We had so many people coming in asking for it. Only to be told to use the kiosk in store or the website. That catalog was basically our training manual. We got to know our inventory from it. People always walked in and showed us what they wanted. That all dried up. Then we became just a phone shop. In my region I was the highest selling agent of parts , batteries and accessories. That stuff was pure profit. Yet, I was constantly in trouble for not selling enough phones. They did not care one bit about anything else. They had a glut of engineers after the dot com crash, wish is how I ended up their.