Caltrops - Wall Street Kid





	[quote name="Roop"]I knew one Radio Shack that managed to stay a 1970's Radio Shack well into the 1990's, owned by a stubborn Radio Shack guy. The rest of them had renovated decades before to be clean and open like the ones in the shopping malls. Mine still had the dark and dusty crowded aisles with fire hazard crap hanging from walls, shadows everywhere, but in the back was a clean and well lit workbench with equipment all around, where people would work on their Heath kits, bring in their broken TVs, and the guy who owned the place helped these people and sold them capacitors. There was a whole goddamn aisle of of fucking capacitors, millions of them. When I was a kid, my buddy's dad built the first computer I ever saw in person in the same place. Now Corporate hated that home town maker space bullshit, wanted to sell toy cars and cell phones! Cell phones were the future! O they eventually made Radio Shack's these goddamn cell phone stores exclusively--right about the same time 3-D printer technology was becoming popular. Sweet Jesus, morons wanted to top the Sears hotshots deciding to close down the venerated Sear's Catalog the same day a little company called Amazon was founded. Because <i>"Retail is the future!"</i> Anyway, if they'd had just fucking let the local guy run the local store the way he'd fucking wanted, in wouldn't be a vape shop right now. Gamestop should reinvent itself into that 1990's Radio Shack secretly being a 1970's Radio Shack. Sell games and consoles, videos games and computer games and board games, have tables set up and let them play. If Starbucks can have a business model of overpriced coffee and survive fatasses in tables for eight hours, sell overpriced Donuts and Mountain Dew. Tables for games, tables like 1970's Radio Shack with oscilloscopes and shit like that, tables with 3D printers, and lockers to have PC equipment delivered. Because you want all your atuff delivered there, where you'll assemble your PC, because it's easy trust us we'll help. Or sell motherboards fine, but honestly I'm thinking there's better margins on the Mountain Dew. Anyway, what people need is a place like this and they don't get that anywhere anymore, because the corporate prick's are soulless assholes and fired the Radio Shack guy so he had to get a job at Verizon. So many young nerds today could use, nay, need that old Radio Shack guy to just stand around like he used to with his hands in his pockets, to just <i>be there</i> in case you break shit. Online can't provide this see. Ah they'll go out of business. [/quote]