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Radio Shack was great... until some pointy- headed corporate genius thought that it would be good for business to require all customers--- cash, check, card, or shiny beads--- to provide their mailing address in order to make a purchase. Customers--- including me--- found this intrusive and irritating. I want to buy a two- pack of AAA batteries, but in order to complete the transaction, I need to provide detailed information on where I sleep at night?
That was the beginning of the end.
Corporate ideas are sometimes brilliant--- other times, not so much. It's time for people to realize that making intelligent decisions is the only way to go, not doing some stupid thing based off of some bizarre idea a CEO or president came up with one night in a dream.
Stupid idea... repelled customers in droves, and sent RS into a tailspin. They'd still be selling circuits and RC cars and headphones and even two- packs of AAA batteries just as fast as they could restock shelves if it weren't for the really dumb idea of somebody with the clout to make policy.
THAT'S my theory, and I'm stickin' to it.
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