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Circuit City going belly up

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jlb1705 said:
I worked at RadioShack in the mid-aughts while I was in grad school. Working at one of these places is [Mark May]tier than you'd imagine. Jon Bois captures it perfectly:

Revisiting the 2002 RadioShack Catalog Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

A Eulogy for RadioShack: The Panicked, Half-Dead Retail Empire

adioS: The End of RadioShack Through the Eyes of a Store Manager
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This guy is livin' the dream. Between the ages of ... I don't know, 14 and 20, this was the exact setup I was determined to have one day. Just sittin' around outside a coffee shop in the business district, m'man. On the laptop, m'man, talkin' on the celly, m'man. Just multitasking, you dig? Just Compaq'in' m'balls off, just makin' things happen, just a little o' this, a little o' that, m'man. Things are happenin', m'man. Things are happenin'.

And eventually, I became this guy. It's not so great. It's humid, bees are everywhere, and the glare makes the laptop's screen unreadable. But the first day I did this was the day I decided I had made it. It was important.
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*Slow clap* ... Yup. That was me in the summer of 1998. Nokia cellphone, Palm III, PowerBook G3 ... Imma sit outside and multitask the fuck out of all this stuff while sipping a coffee. I've made it! I'm big time! Fuck me, it's like 90 degrees out here and I can't even read the screen on my laptop because of the glare. And I got no Internet without a place to plug in my LAN cable. Fuck this, I'm going back inside where it's air conditioned and Web pages render 10-times faster on my desktop.
 
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Jon Bois has some great stories, but his comments on Part 2, Page 164 (not understanding why an 'F/phono adapter' exists) tells me he's too young to have known the joy of blindly feeling behind the big wooden console TV in the family room to manually flip the toggle switch on the RF selector and enable an Atari console. So he's also too young to have known that the cables connecting the console to the TV were too short, as were the cables connecting the controllers to the console deck. It was only a matter of time before an intense game of Combat resulted in you or your brother/sister yanking the controller so hard that you ripped the cable out of the F jack connector on the back of the TV, so you had to carry the entire thing into RadioShack and have them crimp on a new one.

Of course, Jon Bois probably also never forgot to set an RF selector back to VHF/TV, so he never got his ass whooped by his mother because she missed the first five minutes of Magnum PI trying to figure out why the TV didn't work. Good times ... good times ...
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Funny you say this-

I was helping an older friend- 45 years old and recently divorced- move out of her house last week. As we're unhooking and loading up the TVs, her friend from college says "Oh! My husband says to take all the cords for the cable. The cable company only needs the boxes and remotes returned. And oh my gosh! Definitely those! Those HDMI cables are SO expensive."

I am standing completely dumbfounded, knowing that 5-6 years ago I hopped on Monoprice.com and bought a 6 ft. HDMI cable for $10 bucks. Let alone, knowing what Amazon and other online retailers can do when it comes to cords/cables nowadays- I haven't really needed to purchase any recently as I stocked up on a handful of them back then of all sizes and have been good since, but a quick browse says the prices are dirt cheap. And it dawned on me in that moment that there is literally an entire, very large, demographic of white, 40-50 year old middle to upper-class people that truly believe, and expect, to walk into Best Buy, purchase a 3ft HDMI cable and walk out with a $60 tab thinking they got a steal.

A sucker is born every second and in this case, those suckers were born in the 1960s and 70s. No offense, geezers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Since you asked: http ://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-feet-Braided-Cable/dp/B003CT08E4

The comments are the stuff of legend :lol:
 
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Do have a care if you have small animals. My Scottish Terrier nibbled into my new $1500 Diamond cable, was converted to pseudo-energy and beamed throughout the neighborhood. It's taken weeks to reassemble him. However, the initial transmission was granny-smacking fast!
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Hi! Welcome to Earth! We have cookies!
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our zeroes are rounder and your ones are sharper than any mere copper conductor could provide.
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