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- From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
- Subject: Re: Big Brother Radio Shack
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.033524.28724@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Keywords: competition, free market, monopoly
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- Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
- References: <1840073@hpsad.sad.hp.com> <BxBzJK.BqK@news.udel.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:35:24 GMT
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- In article <BxBzJK.BqK@news.udel.edu> bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:
- >I've just read this thread containing 50+ complaints about Radio Shack.
- >What I would like to know is: Why do we have to shop at RS to get
- >electronic supplies? Why aren't there other electronic stores in
- >competition with RS? Well, maybe there are in your area (let me know)
- >but where I live they are the only thing going. And boy is that ever
- >frustrating! Aren't there laws about monopolies?
-
- There is no law requiring other people to set up electronics stores, if
- that's what you mean...
-
- Radio Shack has been surprisingly successful at something which other
- companies did not think possible.
-
- Their main competition is mail-order in nature. See the numerous ads in
- Nuts & Volts or Popular Electronics, for a world _distinctly_ different
- from Radio Shack.
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