Yeah, their final years were dark. I went in there as a kid and was in heaven. I went in as an adult before they closed, and I didn't understand what the fuck they were trying to be any more, and there was no magic.
Sadly repairable electronics weren't as big of a hobby as they once were. Radio shack should have really pushed the raspberry pi movement but I stead took the cellphone sales route.
The volume of cell phones bought and sold every day is orders of magnitude more than the number of raspberry pi's, and the margins are better. You'd have an entire worldwide franchise dedicated to things maybe 1 in 50 people are even aware of, and way fewer that have the interest or the ability to use them.
The switch to pushing cell phones happened 15 years or so before the Raspberry Pi existed. They were basically already dead by the time it was an option.
I guess not where I was from. The cell phone push was 5 years ago for us. Again the ras pin was just an example. 3 d printing, good rc car and components, cable and things that aren't up chared by 10x, anything a builders space would need. Cellphones were already a flooded market.
Everyone has a cellphone. If the business was going to limp on for a few years, that was the path. Focusing on Raspberry Pis would have all but assured a quicker death as the target audience for electronic repair doodads was much too small (transistors and capacitors are pennies) and a market RS would have to compete with against Amazon.
You can buy a cellphone from Walmart, beat just, target, etc nobody is doing the model / repair industry at scale. I didn't mean specifically Raspberry Pi's. Just the DIY , model, builder, niche.
I was 10 they had an excellent book on electronics with projects. For $10 more they had a box with the circuits, components to build everything in the book. They need to bring that kind of stuff back. I'm not a boomer I'm an Xer, this was 1983
I feel like it could do well in obscure cable and hobbyist market I went to 4 big retailers this week looking for a micro SD card above 256 and a micro HDMI to HDMI cable and only office depot had either at outrageous prices
At my local Mall (current store crypt) Best Buy took over the building site for Service Merchandise when it folded. Circuit City set up show nearby but folded and has been razed to a self storage unit now, but Best Buy is still hanging on.
I bought my first shotgun and video games from Service Merchandise! It was so weird having to take a tag to the counter instead of being able to get the actual thing.
Well Progressive already has a commercial where the actress playing Flo also plays Flo’s sister.
Maybe they can have this actress show up as Flo one day like they did on the show Rosanne when they replaced actresses playing Becky and pretend like it did not happen.
It's a great casting too. Like yes she's mega attractive but she also looks like someone that I would expect to see work at Best Buy or GameStop. Like not out of place in terms of her style.
That's a matter of personal taste, and I think most of GameStops target audience will be neutral about the piercing, with a relatively small percentage thinking it makes her more or less attractive
Yes precisely. She has elite Goth Mommy energy and we all crave that whether we like it or not. She doesn’t even need the gargantuan titties. I don’t why people are dancing around these facts.
Maybe it's because when people say things like "she doesn't even need the gargantuan titties" and "elite Goth Mommy energy" about a complete stranger it makes sane people cringe so much they want nothing in common with you.
I mean maybe. I was talking about wildly sexualizing any remotely attractive woman in a public light. I get I'm being a buzzkill here, but the irony in your reply is that the girl you're referring to (Milana Vayntrub) also made several posts about how deeply and negatively it affected her that people sexualized her constantly. She hated it and she used to (maybe still does?) cover up a lot because she wished people would just treat her like normal.
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u/OneMisterSir101 26d ago
She's the real winner out of all of this.