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Empty Shack
By adamg on Sat, 02/07/2015 - 5:20pm
All that's missing at the soon to close Dedham Radio Shack - besides most of the inventory, that is - is a sign saying even the fixtures are for sale.
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Used to be my favorite store growing up
I grew up in Jersey and would mow lawns during the summer hoping to save enough money to buy a RC Car or CB Radio from Radio Shack.
Maybe they should not have asked so many questions each time you went into the store and made a purchase....
"Would you be interested in
"Would you be interested in purchasing an iPhone?" No thanks, just here to get some radio parts.
Go to check out, "would you like to look at the phones we have?"
Radio Shack--I remember it well:
It was where my folks purchased a very much desired thing for me as a Channukah/Christmas present--my first clock radio, during my Junior year of high school, back at around the Channukah/Christmas season of 1967. It was a great clock radio, which I frequently listened to the most popular rock station, which, back then, was WRKO A. M., as well as going to sleep with that music (The clock radio that my folks bought for me as a present had a 'sleep' button, where I'd listen to music before falling asleep, as well as an alarm that caused the radio to turn itself on in the morning and wake me up, so I'd llsten to my radio when I was getting ready to go to school.
This clock radio lasted for almost 20 years, before it finally conked out, after good use and enjoyment of it. Hopefully, I'll get another clock radio sometime, but not at Radio Shack, which has gotten sleazier and been selling junkier stuff.
How about that ladder? I
How about that ladder? I could use another step ladder.
"What is a ladder? Oh, that
"What is a ladder? Oh, that thing. Now, what is your home address and phone number, please?"
"Would you like to buy some
"Would you like to buy some batteries for that?"
CambridgeSide Galleria
I went to the Cheesecake Factory at the CambridgeSide Galleria tonight and I swung by the RS in the mall.
Totally picked clean. Geez didn't they announce store closes only a few days ago?
I felt sorry for the lone employee working.. she just had a look of "I really don't care anymore" on her face.
Dedham and CambridgeSide Galleria supposedly closing Feb. 28
since they are listed in the "second tranche" of the store closing list. Doesn't sound like they'll stay around nearly that long, unless they get restocked with excess merchandise from "first tranche" stores (which close February 17).
The employee's perspective
I recommend this article
horrible
wow they were horribly treated. Not getting paid after closing? Why wasn't this investigated.. that's boring on illegal. You work, you get paid.
What a horrible place to work.
But thanks for the link.. long, but a decent read.
I ran one
Well, ... back in the day... I worked for one of the downtown stores. It was located in the old "Combat Zone." Once and a while some of the dancing girls from the clubs would come in for batteries for the little lights on their costumes. I was a young and impressionable young fellow at the time.
The "working girls" and the "working boys" from the neighborhood were great cash customers.
I had the pleasure of meeting Radio Shack's founder, Lou Kornfeld while there, and later Charlie Tandy when he bought the chain out.
After a few years stint there I moved to the store in Roslindale since it was new turf and closer to home. I was the co-manager of that store as was the practice in those days. We're talking early 70s now, kids.
The original RS on American Legion Highway was in the small block of stores where Simcos is now, right about where the Dollar Store is. Simcos was not there in those days. It was a Chinese restaurant.
Back in those days you needed to know your stuff so you could advise people on electronic parts, the right kind of radio to listen to the police or fire calls (all on low band or VHF band in those days, and in the very early days of scanners.
After that I moved on to industrial electronics, but accrued enough insider info that I never overpaid for anything ever again.
Anyone old enough to remember Radio Shack's competition, Lafayette Radio on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury? It was located in the block where Firestone Tire is.
Later I grew up and found You Do It, in Needham. The rest, they say, is history.