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RadioShack’s new owner plots old comeback strategy

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Re: RadioShack’s new owner plots old comeback strategy

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Why? Because the shopping experience at all of those places is awful. RadioShack's advantages, where it had them, were in its convenience and its ergonomics. Get in, get what you want, browse a couple of human-scale shelves, pick up some batteries, and get out zippity-zap. Try doing that at Target.

Are Target shelves not “human-scale”? They’ve always seemed perfectly fine to me, and not especially different from my (distant) memories of RadioShack shelves.

I think it's the most tolerable of the big box stores, but I've never been to a Target where electronics wasn't at the absolute far end of the (enormous, warehouse-sized) store.

Re: RadioShack’s new owner plots old comeback strategy

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are Target shelves not “human-scale”? They’ve always seemed perfectly fine to me, and not especially different from my (distant) memories of RadioShack shelves.

I think it's the most tolerable of the big box stores, but I've never been to a Target where electronics wasn't at the absolute far end of the (enormous, warehouse-sized) store.

Having home electronics at the back of the store is a common pattern. Wal-Mart does the same thing, for example.

There are usually batteries at the checkout stands, though.

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