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Why? Because the shopping experience at all of those places is awful. RadioShack's advantages, where it had them, were in its convenience and its ergonomics. G
by phlakaton 3y ago
Why? Because the shopping experience at all of those places is awful.
RadioShack's advantages, where it had them, were in its convenience and its ergonomics. Get in, get what you want, browse a couple of human-scale shelves, pick up some batteries, and get out zippity-zap. Try doing that at Target.
- kevinmchugh 3y agoThe check out process at radio shack is infamously part of why people stopped going there - the insistence on getting a phone number or email address
- louky 3y agoAnd don't forget the battery-of-the-month club!
- phlakaton 3y agoI don't recall ever giving one. Of course, the big box stores and Amazon would never presume to do something so outrageous.
- tyrfing 3y agoOne click checkout, now including a warranty upsell, 3 attempts to sell Prime, and defaulting to paid shipping instead of the free option. A marvel of frictionless shopping, brought to you by 40% marketshare.
- theoldlove 3y agoAre Target shelves not “human-scale”? They’ve always seemed perfectly fine to me, and not especially different from my (distant) memories of RadioShack shelves.
- phlakaton 3y agoI think it's the most tolerable of the big box stores, but I've never been to a Target where electronics wasn't at the absolute far end of the (enormous, warehouse-sized) store.
- duskwuff 3y agoHaving home electronics at the back of the store is a common pattern. Wal-Mart does the same thing, for example. There are usually batteries at the checkout stands, though.
- ReactiveJelly 3y agoThat sounds like my Best Buy experiences. Get in, buy a low-end GPU, or an SSD, or whatever random PC component I don't want to wait a week for, play with the XBox and Macs, check out and go home