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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1892508, member: 75105&quot;]Radioshack had a niche. They sold things you could not get elsewhere, and they made out like kings on that, then other retailers came along and sold those things, but cheaper.</p><p><br /></p><p>How did they respond? They raised prices, and then they started selling crap you could get anywhere else, such as coax cable, cell phones, and TV&#039;s, but [you guessed it] at a higher price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a good choice, and now it&#039;s coming back to bite them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Retail outlets are not obsolete. I know of no place online I can buy groceries cheaper than the grocery store, unless maybe I ordered 5,000 cans of chef boyardee.</p><p><br /></p><p>Try to try on a pair of jeans on the internet, and let me know how that goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Retail CAN adapt, they just WON&#039;T. They are stubborn, they keep doing the same thing over and hoping it works, they fail to see the world is changing, so they go on old ideas.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some few retailers are adapting. I know of one where I can order something online, and go pick it up, free of charge. No waiting in line.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do know what I&#039;m talking about, I read the news, and I read between the lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember the Velveeta shortage? Kraft said &quot;we don&#039;t know why we have a shortage&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Guess when this was? Around superbowl, the time of the year everyone goes out and buys chips and Velveeta cheese to make nacho cheese...</p><p><br /></p><p>..and what a better way to increase sales by creating a <b>false </b>shortage so everyone goes out and buys a cartload of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to buy into everything you see on the news, and let other people think for you, then by all means do so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think for myself, and draw my own conclusions, not the greasy TV news reporter&#039;s conclusions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The more you open your eyes and take your blinders off the more you will realize how much of this kind of stuff goes on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Companies screw people all the time, and if it weren&#039;t for the laws and regulations we have in place, they would screw them even more.</p><p><br /></p><p>We live in a capitalist country. The goal is to make as much money as possible while screwing everyone as much as legally (and sometimes illegally) possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is so much stuff that goes on &quot;behind the scenes&quot; that it is not funny. But like I said, people don&#039;t think for themselves anymore. They just watch TV or read the newspaper and take it for granted.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have been screwing people for eternity. Hell, we screwed the Indians out of whole entire country.</p><p><br /></p><p>We would not be where we are today if we didn&#039;t screw people over, it&#039;s human instinct, but we try and cover it up with honesty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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