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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: Big Brother Radio Shack
- Message-ID: <wiegand.721325562@lido16>
- Keywords: competition, free market, monopoly
- Sender: news@rtsg.mot.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lido16
- Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1840073@hpsad.sad.hp.com> <BxBzJK.BqK@news.udel.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:12:42 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:
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- >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? Aren't we living under
- >a competitive free-market economy where stores that customers do not like
- >to go to will be competed with by other stores? Isn't that the way it's
- >supposed to work? I mean, RS does seem to usually have what I am looking
- >for, but I still would like the option at least to do business elsewhere.
- >You know, like maybe an electronics store where the salesmen know what
- >they are talking about...
-
- You can always buy parts mail-order. Personally, I don't buy parts
- from Radio Shack anyway - their selection sucks.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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