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    Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
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    11/11/08

    In reply to Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
    Given enough time, do any consumer electronics stores not go out of business?
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    11/11/08

    In reply to Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
    I feel embarrassingly old remembering "Nobody Beats the Wiz" (which was truncated later to "The Wiz") and "Service Merchandise"


    I do remember the wiz having sneaky sales Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what they were, but I know it did involve cablevision so that's enough of that

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    11/11/08

    In reply to Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
    Anyone know how that "The Wiz" logo animation in the end was done? could it be done using Adobe After Effects?
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    11/11/08

    @VakeroRokero: Commercial's from 1986, After Effects came out in 1993.
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    11/11/08

    In reply to Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
    WTF does "Random access remote" mean?

    Does it work randomly?
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    11/11/08

    @S-Mies: Thats what I want to know. I guess when you only got 3-4 channels OTA, ir possibly wasnt a big deal that it selected a random channel.. but wtf? Technology!
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    11/11/08

    In reply to Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
    What about Service Merchandise.....
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    11/11/08

    In reply to Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
    We had a store in KC called "Silo" that was a weird conglomeration of house-wares and consumer electronics, they always (without fail) had the highest prices in the area on an item, their only saving grace was that occasionally they would carry items that you couldn't get anywhere else w/out mail-ordering them. I was never sure if they were a national chain or not...


    Speaking of which does anyone remember "Service Merchandise"? They were sort of a precursor to CC in so far as they had a warehouse on site and nearly anything you wanted to buy there had to be ordered from the ware house via tickets that you grabbed from the displays and then turned in at check out, then you had to go wait by an unmanned conveyor belt for your stuff to come out through a hole in the wall. I always thought service merchandise was a national chain but again I was never sure...

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    11/11/08

    @bpapa9013: Yeah, we had one of those in Rochester. A Gold Circle too.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
    Were the Wiz and Crazy Eddie National retailers? I know we had them both in Jersey, didnt know if they were national or not.


    Before CompUSA there was "Computer City". That's where my folks purchased my first computer back in 1995 (this was in jersey). A packard Bell lol.

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    11/11/08

    @G_Money21: The Wiz at least was mainly a Tri-State shop. I live Upstate and Rochester cable used to carry SportsChannel NY where they advertised non-stop. I was always pissed that I couldn't shop there (or Modell's.) The first trip I took to NYC I demanded that make parents take me there.


    The Wiz still has an online shop.

    [www.thewiz.com]

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    11/10/08

    In reply to Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Other Failed Gadget Sellers
    AHHH The Wiz ...a Walkman from the Wiz and a Fudgie the Whale cake from Carvel. So warm, so fuzzy.
    Good times...Good Times..
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    11/11/08

    @Yetibelle: And Cookie Puss. And around St. Patricks Day, Cookie O'Puss.
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