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    New Hobo Radio Shack Name Already Forgotten

    Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    08/06/09

    In reply to New Hobo Radio Shack Name Already Forgotten
    This is the only commercial they will ever need. Shot on some sort of herky-jerky low frame rate webcam from 1998 with a red faultline down the middle of the image, for backfround music there's a phone that never gets answered, and on-air talent is a spokesman who can't remember the name of the store. This clip sums up my experience of decades of dealing with Radio Shack.
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    Image of lionboy lionboy
    08/06/09

    In reply to New Hobo Radio Shack Name Already Forgotten
    Say what you will, but Radio Shack is the only place I can go to get the weird-ass batteries they don't sell at Target. They'll even put them in when you can't figure out how to open whatever weird-ass device takes the weird-ass batteries. Sure, they're sort of sad and pathetic like the guy in the clip, but that's why I heart them.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    08/06/09

    In reply to New Hobo Radio Shack Name Already Forgotten
    "However You Wanna Call It" has got to be my favorite branding campaign ever.

    Brought to me by "Whomever I Want to Listen to", so I can "Buy Whatever da Fuck I Want!"
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    Edited by Niko Bellic at 08/06/09 12:52 PM Niko Bellic was starred Niko Bellic was unstarred
    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    08/06/09

    In reply to New Hobo Radio Shack Name Already Forgotten
    The Internets Shack
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    08/06/09

    @hilikusopus: You may find your self/living in an internets shack.
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    08/06/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: You may find yourself/Living in another part of the world wide web
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    Image of TroisFilles TroisFilles
    08/06/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: How did I get here?
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    08/06/09

    @hilikusopus: And you may tell yourself: "This is not my beautiful Wi-Fi"
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    Edited by SidAndFinancy at 08/06/09 2:12 PM SidAndFinancy was starred SidAndFinancy was unstarred
    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    08/06/09

    In reply to New Hobo Radio Shack Name Already Forgotten
    Now it's The Shack? How avant garde. I think I'm going to go down right now, buy a replacement transistor for my wireless and just watch the beautiful people come and go.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/06/09

    In reply to New Hobo Radio Shack Name Already Forgotten
    If they would only try "Weirdly Sized Connectors and Emergency Replacement Phone Chargers," I think they could save themselves.
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    Image of Tattertotter Tattertotter
    08/06/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    The only mildly interesting aspect of RadioShack amputating its first 3 syllables is the inevitable lawsuit it will face from that dickhead who's had a book called "The Shack" on the best-seller lists for almost two years. The book is the usual it-changed-my-life, I've-given-copies-to-everyone-I-know, pseudopsycho bullshit Americans suck up like the brainless sponges they are (with the exception of Gawker commentors obviously).
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    Image of Magister Magister
    08/04/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    Back before I moved, I'd call Radio Shack "Al's" because he was the local franchisee.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    08/03/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    The Shack sounds like a 70s record store chain.
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    Image of ifstone ifstone
    08/03/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    The Unabomber will be doing an endorsement
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    Image of ValterMelcator ValterMelcator
    08/03/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    tin roof. rusty!
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    08/04/09

    @ValterMelcator: the radio shack, is a little love place

    well, no.
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    08/03/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    So, Wireless Wormhole was already taken?
    The Motherboard? (Mum's!)
    It is unfortunate, but Radio Shack will serve as a business school model/paradigm of how not to adapt to a changing marketplace. Pity really, as RS had the resources to do well if they had had any foresight oh, 15 years ago.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08/03/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    In Michigan, that's how you pronounce "shock." Which is why I left.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/03/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    and I hear they're going to start selling shakes...
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    08/03/09

    In reply to Radio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
    First ad starring Shaquille O'Neal. Probably.
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