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Tom_PM · 02-10-2015, 10:43 AM

I had that exact 150 in one kit. The 200 in one was the first one that didn't come in a wooden box for useless trivia buffs, haha.

The name and address stuff is something we should probably all be thankful for in a way. RadioShack asked people for that because they continued the mailing list started in the early 1900's by Tandy Leather which had the longest running active mailing list in the country I believe. The precursor to customer tracking, targeted advertising and.. I guess data mining. That company had / has so much data for each store, customers, employees (including name and address acquisition percentage like kane mentioned). I used to staff people based on historical data which includes how many receipts written per hour for any given hour in the year. Everything was noted, such as if weather events affected traffic and whatnot.

The buyers sucked for the company which is why things were overpriced. If they pay too much then there is no room to profit. When we had IBM computers, they were about 3% profit at regular price, which they never sold for. Other shit was the big money. Such as duplex phone adapters which cost the STORE 70 cents to buy from the warehouse, and sold retail for like $4.50. This is where RS always made it's money, and never should have tried to do anything else. Small shit you need to hook up your big shit which you bought where it was a good deal. The handwriting was on the wall since the mid 90's that this was going to happen. Now I'm stuck with useless stock shares, haha.

02-10-2015, 10:43 AM
Tom_PM Porn Meister Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 16,443	I had that exact 150 in one kit. The 200 in one was the first one that didn't come in a wooden box for useless trivia buffs, haha. The name and address stuff is something we should probably all be thankful for in a way. RadioShack asked people for that because they continued the mailing list started in the early 1900's by Tandy Leather which had the longest running active mailing list in the country I believe. The precursor to customer tracking, targeted advertising and.. I guess data mining. That company had / has so much data for each store, customers, employees (including name and address acquisition percentage like kane mentioned). I used to staff people based on historical data which includes how many receipts written per hour for any given hour in the year. Everything was noted, such as if weather events affected traffic and whatnot. The buyers sucked for the company which is why things were overpriced. If they pay too much then there is no room to profit. When we had IBM computers, they were about 3% profit at regular price, which they never sold for. Other shit was the big money. Such as duplex phone adapters which cost the STORE 70 cents to buy from the warehouse, and sold retail for like $4.50. This is where RS always made it's money, and never should have tried to do anything else. Small shit you need to hook up your big shit which you bought where it was a good deal. The handwriting was on the wall since the mid 90's that this was going to happen. Now I'm stuck with useless stock shares, haha. __________________ 43-922-863 Shut up and play your guitar.