The coin cells are insanely priced.\u00a0 I get five of them on a card from the dollar store for a dollar or $1.50, I forget which.\u00a0 Then I walk into Radio Shaft and I see them for something like $4 apiece!\u00a0 I hardly ever go into Radio Shack any more.\u00a0 About the only thing I buy there are battery holders, but now that I use two magnets to hold the wires to the batteries, I don’t need battery holders very often.\u00a0 Except the last package of AA cells I got from Harbor Freight had non-magnetic contacts (brass?), so I had no choice.\u00a0 A year or two ago I ordered a dozen single AA cell holders online and I’ve used most of them, so maybe I’ll have to go back to Radio Shaft again soon.<\/p>\n
Several years ago I went into a Radio Shack and took a few items to the checkout counter, and stood behind some other guy who had a few items in his hand.\u00a0 After about ten minutes, we were still watching the salesdroids on the phone, trying to register customers’ cell phones.\u00a0 Blah-blah-blah…\u00a0 The guy in front of me just lost his patience, gave up and threw all the items on the counter and walked out.\u00a0 I walked back to the shelf and put the items back, and walked out.\u00a0 I have only been to that store maybe once or twice, and only if I couldn’t get what I needed at another store, preferably not Radio Shaft.<\/p>\n
We consumers have to vote with our feet, and that’s what I’ve done with Radio Shaft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The coin cells are insanely priced.\u00a0 I get five of them on a card from the dollar store for a dollar or $1.50, I forget which.\u00a0 Then I walk into Radio Shaft and I see them for something like $4 apiece!\u00a0 I hardly ever go into Radio Shack any more.\u00a0 About the only thing I <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,74,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-or-cell","category-electronic-components","category-other-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9031"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}