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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 08:08:56 GMT
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- Eric Szulczewski (ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net) wrote:
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- : As I said, Chris, you're coming in from Texarkana, in the heart of
- : Wal-mart Country, and I understand you using them. I just have a very
- : sore spot when it comes to that particular corporation. I want the
- : Amiga to be mass-marketed; I really would prefer that it wasn't
- : Wal-Mart. Besides, don't you think that Wal-Mart would present the
- : wrong image of the Amiga?
-
- I don't think they would alter the image of the Amiga, just the
- availability. Now if you want to talk about the wrong image, K-Mart would
- do that. I can just see it. "Attention K-Mart shoppers, we have a blue
- light special on the Amiga 1200 computer in the electronics department.".
-
- Talk about a company that needs to change it's image and name. K-Mart is
- basically the same as they were in the early '70s. One of the local
- K-Marts closed down about 6 months ago and the last time I went through
- there, they had a set of game paddles from a VIC-20 on sale. The box was
- yellowing, the year on the box was 1982 and the price was $12. No wonder
- they are going out of business.
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- Chris Hall
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