I was installing new hardware in a friend’s computer today, and I discovered I needed an internal power supply cable. This is a four-wire cable with white nylon connectors at each end. I figured I could just run out to good old Radio Shack to get one.
When I got there, however, the sales clerk didn’t have a clue what I was talking about. I looked around a bit, but they didn’t even carry parts like that.
The PC industry has been using these for at least 20 years now. Here’s a picture of one at MicroCenter. Radio Shack is a shadow of it’s former self.
I agree. I’ve gone there twice to get some coaxial cable adapters – so I can screw the adapter onto the cable and just be able to then push the cable into the VCR/DVD player/TiVo. A simple common device to make my life a little bit easier. The first time they didn’t have it, I chalked it up to bad timing. I guessed I just happened to show up at the moment they ran out. Then it happened a second time.
I guess it’s no longer profitable to foster customer goodwill by carrying these small ticket items. What used to be a place you could go to when you needed a “quick fix” has become an empty corporate brand name.
Yeah. The company is going down the tubes, big time, and the management has no clue what to do to stop it.
The company’s grown schizophrenic in what it wants to carry. It wants to sell iPods and electronics like best buy, and that’s not out nitch. So we’ve wound up carrying lots of products we have no use for, and the space that was once used for the products that people come to us for is now used for gaming stuff (which we shouldn’t sell) toys, ipod accessories (they get at least six feet of wall with lots of empty space in every store.) and things like that.
So yeah, our company is no longer relevant. We’re just a tiny Best Buy wannabe that still carries a few resistors.
I need a Radio Shack email address to register a complaint about a Radio Shack employee. Can anyone help? I’ve been all over the internet looking.