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I am an ex-Radio Shack executive. The figure that I gave is true. The
published figures from the last stockholders report includes Dealers, which
make up the majority of non-CO stores. These are generally where RS does
not have a leased facility but has an agreement to maintain a presence in a
retail environment is a facility not leased or owned by RS, but RS maintains
the RS inventory. A privately owned franchise are those few stores where
the owner has paid a franchise fee to Tandy/RS to carry RS product. The
franchisee is responsible for inventory levels, ordering, etc, and is not on
the RS replenishment system. The latter example is in the 3% range,
although I admit it has been a while since I have had access to the actual
figures. Historically, it was much higher in the past, but has been in the 3
percentile range for the last decade or so. In response , the breakout
would be 3% POF, 22% DOF, and 75% COF.
Bobby
"Tinman" <mlynch@REMOVEMEcitlink.net> wrote in message
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> NoNoBadDog! wrote:
>>
>> Less than 3% of Radio SDhack stores are privately owned franchises.
>>
>
> And 98.2% of statistics are made up on the spot. I'm not a mathematician,
> but it sure looks like the true percentage is greater than 25%. Right from
> the horse's mouth:
>
> RadioShack stores: 6,834 (As of 12/31/04)
> Company-owned: 5,046
> Dealers/franchisees: 1,788
>
> Retail kiosks (wireless phones and accessories): 599 (As of 12/31/04)
> Sam's Club: 546
> Sprint-branded: 53
>
> As far as dropping SPCS, there certainly hasn't been any official
> announcement. But Radio Shack does state this: "Over its history,
> RadioShack has gained notoriety for accelerating the adoption rates of new
> technologies as evidenced by the introduction of CDMA wireless technology
> in 1996."
>
> I don't think they are dropping SPCS in any way. In fact, they appear to
> want to open more wireless kiosks--some SPCS-only.
>
>
http://www.radioshackcorporation.com/about/index.html
>
>
> --
> Mike
>
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