Comments on: RadioShack Name Change. Why?

By: js

js — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:25:44 +0000

As I live in MS, the name “The Shack” is NOT conducive to a corporate entity name. In MS, “The Shack” would be a place where you could buy and eat chicken wings–LOL!

If you need ‘parts’, visit Hooper Electronic Parts in Meridian, MS; Pascagoula, MS; or Jackson, MS. In business since the late 1950′s they sell to civilian and military customers.

By: Jerome Lee

Jerome Lee — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:16:26 +0000

I try real hard to stay out of the place. Any busiess that needs my name and address before they will make a cash sale doesn’t need my business.

By: JT

JT — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:20:47 +0000

You ARE aware that this is only a marketing campaign, right? Radio Shack is not ACTUALLY being renamed to “The Shack”. Instead, this is simply a phrase their marketing team(s) coined to make them seem more modern. A re-branding, yes; a name change, no. You took the time to write this entire article, and you couldn’t even do something as simple as a web search for the official statement from the company?

By: capex99

capex99 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:51:00 +0000

Larry
I had the same intro to Radio Shack about 20 or so years earlier. Radio Shack in the mid 50′s sold mostly small components, resistors, capacitors, transformers and some war surplus from Ft. Worth probably before even Tandy was around. The customers were mostly hams which I suggest was the origin of the Radio Shack name. They published a monthly newsletter like weekend Staples, Office Depot and expanded from there to LP records. What parts or homebrew projects that you couldn’t cannibalize or scavenge, you went to Radio Shack and then to Burstein Applebee in Kansas City of Allied in Chicago for major brand name components.

Now I only go into Radio Shack as a last resort as their line is overpriced, service reps marginally knowledgeable, not really customer service oriented.

capex99 formerly W5CIG.

By: DOS_equis

DOS_equis — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:44:19 +0000

Geez Sharon, tell us what you really think about the UK!!! Maybe you should come over here to the states to get warm and cuddly with socialism. At least that’s where I feel we’re headed. The bad thing is I voted for him so I can’t really complain much. All I can do is just watch all of the “change” happen.

By: Sharron Field

Sharron Field — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:40:28 +0000

“I’d swap back to a nation of pissheads for a nation of budding electronics engineers anyday; but the intellectuality of the boozed-up-Brits has gone now.”

Somehow I managed to write that all arse-about-face: I meant that I’d swap back to a nation of budding electronics engineers from a nation of drunken idiots anyday.

By: Sharron Field

Sharron Field — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:34:56 +0000

Those were the days! I remember assembling projects from Heath Kit back in the 1970s with my Antex X25 soldering iron here in the UK. I used to buy them by mail order from Practical Electronics and Electronics Today International magazines. Even they’ve gone out of print. I think Everyday Electronics managed to hold on until the 1980s, but even that magazine’s disappeared. All the electronics supply stores seem to have disappeared from British High Streets. – All Brits seem to do these days is get drunk and take drugs. There’s no brains in Britain anymore; they’ve all been stoned, damaged, and sozzled.

More on track with this article; there used to be a company called radio Spares which advertised in the abovementioned electronics magazines in the 70s. They changed their name from Radio spares to RS Components, and are now one of the leading mail-order electronic component suppliers in the UK; so it apparently worked for them.

Back in the 1980s, maybe even the early 1990s, there were departments of Tandy’s dotted around the UK in major commercial locations such as cities, but they vanished too from the UK as the basic intellect of the general populus started to be washed away by alcohol-fuelled all-night binges. I used to go there to buy components, even though the choice was limited: Everything was either individually packaged inside enough cardboard to constitute what was once a small tree, with a plastic cover and inflated price, or sold in batches: – Such as if I needed a 27 kilohm resistor I’d have to buy a pack of 100 assorted values with a few 27K resistors included in it.

The great has vanished out of Great Britain. It’s now Drunken Britain; all behaving like the assholes they’ve become. Really this nation should be totally ashamed of itself! I’d swap back to a nation of pissheads for a nation of budding electronics engineers anyday; but the intellectuality of the boozed-up-Brits has gone now.

It’s nice to reminisce on how things used to be nevertheless. It also gives me a chance to get the frustrations of this waste-of-life nation off my chest too.

This Friday Moan was written and presented by Sharron Field. – ‘Blog linked above.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:41:36 +0000

This is the worst marketing idea since changing the taste of Coke and keeping the same name for Coke. Radio Shack began as a parts service for amateur radio operators. Parts of all kinds were actually laid out on tables or in containers. The operators kept their home-built radios in a “shack” often in their back yards. The word Shack had a meaning that connected to the word Radio. Yes, Radio Shack is a very old name. That is good. Good brand names are very old and very well known by millions and millions of people. Guess what, these millions and millions of people know what Radio Shack sells NOW. These people are not stupid.

By: lindowl

lindowl — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:55:36 +0000

In Aus, the shack is somewhere to go for the weekend ,chill out and have a few tinnies with the family or a few friends. Its got nothing to do with electronics etc.

By: Larry Thompson

Larry Thompson — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:42:15 +0000

Can you say BIG K mart now there must have been a Genius behind that one