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Comment Re:Democrat saying Stripe should not do this. (Score 1, Troll) 584

Yeah I don't see any criminal convictions and no court would ever be able to convict him of what the media have lied about. Why do you think they haven't shown his exact words fully. Why did social media delete the videos where he called for calm? Democrats are lying traitors. Always.

Comment Re:But what about the bleach? (Score -1, Troll) 287

It's too bad you're a clown and he never said "bleach" he was talking about disinfectant and asking questions of some experts nearby regarding UV light and other interesting things people were testing out. . you're an petulant toddler. But keep crying, and I'll keep enjoying.

Comment Re:The movie is wrong - in Facebook's favor (Score 1, Troll) 39

"anyone that is lost on what I was saying, you are part of the problem" "You're part of the problem." "You're part of the problem." "You're part of the problem." Ok millenial lefty douchebag. Get some fucking new material. Thing is you're wrong and that article you link to is unresearched. saying "this doesn't exist" just because you look both ways across the street doesn't mean shit. We know for a fact that people, who have been at antifa gatherings HAVE been arrested for starting fires. We know that antifa gatherings have set buildings, dumpsters ablaze. Now whether you want to argue how strong of ties any one individual has to "antifa" guess what. Let's use YOUR measurement stick that the left love to do. If there's even the most remote association, it's antifa. Justl ike you pull the same shit when you label people "far right" or "neo-fascist" See the thing is you're a hypocrite and you're a clown. And if you are lost on what I'm saying, you're part of the problem. So STFU you rodent child.

Comment what is this "white" thing people are saying? (Score -1) 290

I've never met this so called "white person" people are always complaining about. Unless we mean albino, but they are kind of gray in fact. So some cross albino race is out there in the world that thinks it's the best? I heard about this other race, called "personofcolorTM" not long ago, these were people who seemed to team up for some reason as a clique and express 'personofcolor' supremacy constantly vying for their own special segregated spaces and constantly making racial remarks against the fictitious"white people" and 'whiteness'. Seems like this website Vice is ignoring the vastly larger mainstream hatred of whiteness, some sort of boogeyman made up while attacking the fictitious boogieman instead. Weird fiction. Even to the point where they have people creating hoaxes just because there's no 'white' people to be found. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wtoc.com%2F2020%2F05%2F1... oh well maybe this will make sense one day.

Comment Companies always tech-ing up, yet..... (Score 1) 232

Fact is, we think things are getting more simple, but they aren't. There are things that come and go. for example I think there are aspects of social media that have come and gone for certain companies. So things abandoned mean, less tech, but if anything, products and services are becoming more integrated and that's not making it easier requiring less intervention. And that comes from the drive within a company to progress in some form. Some of it is the drive for higher numbers. Some of the drive is to take on or improve the creation process or value-adds for customers. I think certain people who grew up with Star Trek always have a strange impression of what tech debt and tech maintenance is. As if a team of 10 or 12 on a Starship of a thousand people is enough to maintain all those systems including the propulsion hardware, medical facilities. You can crawl around in those clean hallways, point a diagnostic probe at a part of the system, maybe pull out a chip and reseat or replace... then all done! Yah right. More and more devices with potential connectivity, and more software and entertainment and facilities and service provisioning. IT is not going away. I'm not sure what peak IT looks like but we're not really close or going to see a downward slope just because Cringely feels like he needs less in HIS life and is getting long in the tooth and simply doesn't foresee where things can go.

Comment Re:good (Score 1) 322

And as an example of the accountability you demand, you've posted as anon for this round. Well done. Demanding no tweets can be deleted is like asking for scratch paper while somebody is writing an essay. He's deleted one tweet, after ample time was there to complain and it was to correct an autocorrect. People who demand this stuff are the same who said nothing when Obama was sicking the IRS on journalists, or Holder giving guns to drug cartels, or Hillary killing someone to help birth ISIS. You only care because it gives your autism comfort.

Comment Re:Killed by the internet... (Score 1) 176

They made a go of it last summer. They were at the midwest maker faire and sponsored a big soldering event teaching kids to solder. It was really cool. I signed up for their email list and they had pretty good emails. Unfortunately I just never reconnected the brand or what i would need at any given time. Their products in the emails were pretty cool things like drones and some audio stuff. I remember thinking man, I think this could work for them, but I wasn't persuaded back into the store b/c of a nearby Microcenter.

Hmm, all might not be lost. Companies sometimes try to re-logo rebrand and it can work. Or they can totally change the name and try again with a massive marketing campaign. Or they could go totally niche and maybe corner the market on something out of the ordinary but with good profits.

I'll give you an example. There's a truck stop / gas station called "Loves" It's got some really cool items in there for truckers. They were even carrying a bluetooth headset before Amazon had it. I could drive down there and get it, whereas Amazon didn't even know when it was going to be in stock. Now that was a specialty item, it was expensive and it was *possibly* an early exclusive to Loves. Plus Loves carries other items like that, it's. Some are cool, some are meh but it's a specialty store that's doing fine, plus they sell gas, so that helps.

Problem with radio shack doing a niche is you have to change marketing tactics totally and it might not even work. Then what you've once again roasted the brand for a percentage of people who might have gone back in as a general store. I dont' really think selling 3D printers is the way for them to go. I do think they could see about a team up with monoprice where I would say some of the better chinese products that rise to the top, get rebranded and can have the mail order and retail outlet. Mono-shack. Hmm, it's a thought.

Tough problem. I tend to think there's ways around it using the power of authenticity, guerilla marketing or just targeting a key competitor and trying to beat them with brand influence. Despite being an older failing brand, I think more people know Radio Shack than monoprice.

Just a side note. In the early 2000s, Radio shack would have these big group seminars where if you were looking for job, you could see what radio shack had to offer. I attended one, not knowing what to expect. In the presentation basically they hammered home that they were ALL about cell phones and cell phone commissions. For somebody who thought radio shack might be cool as a little retail job to learn gadgets and products and become a subject matter expert I basically was hearing that "this job is all about commission, and commission comes from cell phones. This really was the cell phone boom time so they probably thought it was a great thing to latch on to, problem was, all the other stores in those same strip malls, half were tanning salons and the other half were your sprint, t-mobile, verizon etc.

Radio Shack was competing with specialty phone stores in the SAME lot. Enough people went in there, probably got turned off by the phone emphasis and said never again.

I think Radio Shack also limited themselves by their own standards. They always wanted to be in these high end strip malls where the lease MUST have been astronomical. But radio shack probably had a standard requirement for real estate (much lke McDs and Walgreens all have) but when you place yourself in these areas and start to fail, your options are limited, you start closing stores, then your stock reports look like shit. Your image suffers because of your standards.

I'm pretty annoyed by both Radio Shack and Sears not being able to figure things out. Merchandising is an art and a science but they have long histories and should be able to get good data and beg borrow and steal ideas and avoid failures for the most part.

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