Retail apocalypse 75,000 more store closures

[karlac]

Lady at the customer service counter with a 90's vintage VCR...
Lady: "I'd like to return this."
Clerk: "We do not now nor have we ever carried VCRs."
Lady: "I bought it here."
Clerk: "At Trader Joe's?"
Lady (stomping her foot): "THIS USED TO BE A RADIO SHACK!"

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

You old bastards and your nostalgia...sheesh, I remember when we had 'ice men' because there really were such things as 'ice boxes' that needed 'ice' and actual 'milk men' and, and crank up phones.

TV was only available in black and white and there were only 3 stations and kids still got polio and, and, and, shudder.......

 

[Moonpie]

My most recent catalog.

 

[Vaquero]

Jimmy Hoffa knows what happened to "Roebuck".

 

[GoPappy]

You old bastards and your nostalgia...sheesh, I remember when we had 'ice men' because there really were such things as 'ice boxes' that needed 'ice' and actual 'milk men' and, and crank up phones. . . .

My great uncle had brain damage from scarlet fever, and had limited mental capacity. His job as an adult was delivering blocks of ice in a wheelbarrow!! It was a VERY small town.

 

[Dawico]

Survival of the fittest.

I am a big fan.

 

[AustinN4]

TV was only available in black and white.......

You must be a youngster as I remember pre-TV. We would gather around a console radio in the living room for the evenings entertainment - Abbot & Costello, The Shadow, Benny Goodman, Amos & Andy, etc. http://www.oldradioworld.com/

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

'Only The Shadow Know'

 

[Kar98]

You must be a youngster as I remember pre-TV. We would gather around a console radio in the living room for the evenings entertainment - Abbot & Costello, The Shadow, Benny Goodman, Amos & Andy, etc. http://www.oldradioworld.com/

 

[AustinN4]

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Correct, I am, but I can still kick ass!

 

[Moonpie]

That dang telegraph thing will never catch on!

 

[BRD@66]

You must be a youngster as I remember pre-TV. We would gather around a console radio in the living room for the evenings entertainment - Abbot & Costello, The Shadow, Benny Goodman, Amos & Andy, etc. http://www.oldradioworld.com/

I'm same age as you & I remember some radio but I have a more concise memory of going to my uncle's house to see the new TV, where we watched while the studio camera rotated left to right showing 1st the temperature then the time. Quite entertaining.

 

[easy rider]

I remember that when the test pattern came on the tv, the broadcasting day was over.

 

[Quixote Six]

https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-apocalypse-thousands-store-closures-predicted-2019-4

It's getting hard to find a store where I can try on shoes before I buy.
Now days just order online, if they don't fit I can pay to ship them back.........

Tecovas Boots. Buy online, cut out the middle man, and free shipping, free returns and free exchages. I'm in.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Welcome to the Forum

I hope this isn't spam.

 

[karlac]

You must be a youngster as I remember pre-TV. We would gather around a console radio in the living room for the evenings entertainment - Abbot & Costello, The Shadow, Benny Goodman, Amos & Andy, etc. http://www.oldradioworld.com/

This is the first radio I remember, circa 1946, in Lafayette, LA.
My grandparents, listening to their radio in the living room.
Local news was in French.
We gathered around it each evening after supper.
Kids had damn well better "be seen and not heard" ...

 

[45tex]

In 1962 we returned from a 3 year tour in France. I had seen TV but not in English. We had a Telefunken AM/FM/Shortwave stereophonic HiFi. Stopped by a well to do relatives on the way and he had a color TV. So the first TV show I ever watched was Bonanza in color. It was 1971 before we got a color set of our own. One day I was watching a B/W rerun of Gilligans Island. My mother stomped in and changed the channel and yelled, You are wasting the color in this TV.

 

[benenglish]

My mother stomped in and changed the channel and yelled, You are wasting the color in this TV.

It really kicks you in the gut when you grow up and realize your parents were sometimes idiots. As children, we think of them as Those-Who-Know-Everything. As teens, we think of them as Those-Who-Must-Be-Deceived.

Then, one day, we're adults and we realize they were just people, as manifestly flawed as every other person on the planet. When that happens, it's one of the markers of true adulthood. It really broke my heart when that truth sank in.

 

[Moonpie]

This is the first radio I remember, circa 1946, in Lafayette, LA.
My grandparents, listening to their radio in the living room.
Local news was in French.
We gathered around it each evening after supper.
Kids had damn well better "be seen and not heard" ...

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Your Grandma looks about as stern as mine was. LoL

 

[gdr_11]

Ok, I will throw in some more nostalgia. I remember our first tv with a screen about 10" across....lots of lines the scrolled up the screen all the time. I remember the radio in the corner; it stood about four feet high on tall legs and had a round face with the station numbers all around. In the other corner was a big oil heater connected to the nastiest oil tank outside. The only thing nastier was the guy who used to come to fill the tank...his name was Springer ....how can I remember that almost 70 years later?.