“Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. reported Friday its third-quarter profit rose 56 percent on a large one-time gain and increased sales,” Steve Quinn reports for The Associated Press. “Chief Operating Officer David Edmondson said the company will emphasize sales of satellite radio, digital imaging, MP3 and wireless products. ‘These are hot categories and very productive for RadioShack,’ Edmondson told analysts in a conference call. ‘They drive traffic into the stores, and they also provide opportunities for selling profitable accessories.'”
Quinn reports, “Edmondson said customers now connect RadioShack with the hand-held electronic devices. ‘We are selling all that we can get’ of the iPods and their accessories, he said. ‘They are coming in the back door and going out the front door.’
Quinn reports, “William Baldwin, Dallas-based analyst for Baldwin Anthony Securities, said the move to carry the devices was late. ‘It’s a plus, and it will bring traffic into the stores, but why wasn’t it there two years ago?’ he said. ‘They don’t have too many female shoppers, and iPods appeal to everybody. If they get more female shoppers who see other things they like, it will help overall sales.'”
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I wonder what kind of sales Apple would get if they were ever truly able to saturated a market with their products?
MW “answer”! Well who has the answer!
Way to go Radio Shack
Finally, truly moving out of 1980.
MDN Magic Word “effect”
Look at the “effect” of an Apple product of excellence on those who embrace it.
The Electronics 303 Snapkit, not so much…
“You’ve got questions, we’ve got blank stares”
“You’ve got questions, we’ve got blank stares”
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MW: Fact, as in “That’s a fact.”
Nice to see “RadioCrap” finally selling something other than, well, crap.
Welcome to premium brand market!
“Finally, truly moving out of 1980.”
“You’ve got questions, we’ve got blank stares”
MWAAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d add:
“Staffed by people constantly looking for jobs somewhere else!”
‘They don’t have too many female shoppers, and iPods appeal to everybody. If they get more female shoppers who see other things they like, it will help overall sales.’
Apple needs to release a pink Nano.
“Apple needs to release a pink Nano.”
Don’t worry, boomboom — Soon enough there’ll be plenty of “pink” on iPods everywhere.
Okay, so MDN has a Ballmer photo caption contest going on — BUT THIS COULD ACTUALLY BE EVEN MORE FUN!
Let’s see — so far we’ve got:
“Finally, truly moving out of 1980.”
“You’ve got questions, we’ve got blank stares”
“Staffed by people constantly looking for jobs somewhere else!”
What other RADIO SHACK taglines can YOU come up with?
Here’s my entry:
“Radio Shack: We’re still living down the memory of the TRS-80!”
Let the quasi-official Radio Shack slogan contest BEGIN!
Shhhhhhh. I heard that RadioShack Skunkworks is almost ready to unveil the TRS-80 mini.
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Apple needs to sell a gay nano
There aren’t enough show tunes in the iTMS!
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“RadioShack CEO: We’re selling all the Apple iPods we can get”
“And whatever we can’t sell, we eat.”
“Apple needs to sell a gay nano”….
uh… you mean one where you insert the audio cable into the wrong slot?
mdn word is effort…. as in that’s way too much effort for too little satisfaction
If they get more female customers, we can dub them Radio Stack.
I hear the females like the Sirius radios they sell there. Gives the teen workers there an opportunity to up-sell the boombox.
Has anyone ever had a good experience at Radio Shack. I hear they don’t treast their employees very well, but have you ever gotten anything useful out of them? They only sell junk, and I have no idea how they stay in business. There are several stores that somehow manage to pay the high rent at malls even though they haven’t had a customer since the 1950’s.
“Radio Shack – You’ve got questions…er, so do we!”
They don’t have too many female shoppers, and iPods appeal to everybody. If they get more female shoppers who see other things they like, it will help overall sales.’
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and you know the all-white-male staff loves that..
by staff i mean.. oh.. shit.
I have an electronic store in a mall near RS and prior to RS’s deal with Apple, I use to sell around 2 to 4 iPods (all kinds) a day. I couldn’t keep’em in stock. Yet just weeks ago, my sales dropped to ZERO, ZILCH, NADA. So I spoke to the RS mgr and she, yes she, told me that APPLE underestimated RS when they committed 480,000 iPods to be sold in the 4th Qtr (aka Golden Quarter by RS employees). Apple has already shipped 20,000 to RS and already sold in less than one week. She also mentioned that yes about the female shopper, yet they’re starting to see more female shoppers during the holidays, yet no change on their other normal days.
Steve, why did you’re sales drop to zero. Or are you saying that Apple ran out of untis to send you? Just curious.
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Also, once again, Radio Shack is the junk store of the mall.
“Radio Shack: Pardon the dust, it’s still 1960 to us!”
“Finally, truly moving out of 1980.”
“You’ve got questions, we’ve got blank stares”
“Staffed by people constantly looking for jobs somewhere else!”
“Radio Shack: We’re still living down the memory of the TRS-80!”
“Radio Shack – You’ve got questions…er, so do we!”
“Radio Shack: Pardon the dust, it’s still 1960 to us!”
Here you go:
“Radio Shack – It’s the Microsoft of electronics: Old, bloated, and full of CRAP!”
Yeh-heh-hehessssssssss.
Radio Shack…SHACK for pete’s sake! Junk Shack! Even the “Radio” part is outdated. Transistor Radio Shack is more like it.
According to Tiger’s built-in Thesaurus:
Radio = transceiver, CB, walkie-talkie, ship-to-shore radio, radio phone; receiver, tuner.
Shack = hut, chantey, cabin, lean-to, shed; hovel.
So, we can put those together and form new company names for this stain of a store…
Radio Shack = Tuner Hut (sounds like Schooner Tuna from Mr. Mom)
or, how about “CB Chantey” or “Ship-to-shore Shed!”
bwahahaa…
BTW, I had never heard of “hovel,” so I looked it up in Tiger’s Thesaurus and here are its synonyms:
hovel = SHACK, slum, chantey, hut; informal dump, hole, dive, pigsty.
“Walkie-Talkie Dive”
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Radio Shack —
“7,000 stores and not ONE NAME BRAND!”
“Apple needs to sell a gay nano”….
The Gonado.
or maybe that’s the spanish gay nano.
Radio Shack is good for one thing, and one thing only. If you need some odd component for your audio/video system or computer network, they’ll have it. If I need some odd adapter to connect two components together, I go to Radio Shack. When I needed a long-ass Ethernet cable to run from my cable modem near my front door to the Airport Express in the center of the condo, I went to Radio Shack.
So if you need bits and pieces, they’re your guy. But if you want something that’s already assembled, don’t bother — you’re better off at Best Buy.