Even the boss can’t figure it out:
?FORT WORTH, TX?Despite having been on the job for nine months, RadioShack CEO Julian Day said Monday that he still has “no idea” how the home electronics store manages to stay open.
“There must be some sort of business model that enables this company to make money, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is,” Day said. “You wouldn’t think that people still buy enough strobe lights and extension cords to support an entire nationwide chain, but I guess they must, or I wouldn’t have this desk to sit behind all day.”
The retail outlet boasts more than 6,000 locations in the United States, and is known best for its wall-sized displays of obscure-looking analog electronics components and its notoriously desperate, high-pressure sales staff. Nevertheless, it ranks as a Fortune 500 company, with gross revenues of over $4.5 billion and fiscal quarter earnings averaging tens of millions of dollars.
“Have you even been inside of a RadioShack recently?” Day asked. “Just walking into the place makes you feel vaguely depressed and alienated. Maybe our customers are at the mall anyway and don’t feel like driving to Best Buy? I suppose that’s possible, but still, it’s just…weird.”
Heh.
Via The Onion.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Radio Shack rules… You have to have a certain warped personality to understand it (commonly cited by psychologists as a case of “engineerism”), but walking up to those racks of obscure analog electronics and knowing what they do is actually kinda cool…
And of course, when I re-designed a strobe light in my “Signals and Systems” class at Purdue to flash with the beat of music instead of on a timed interval, Radio Shack came in handy
April 24th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Radio Shack is the oldest franchise followed by Hallmark Gold Crown stores.