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You can subscribe here, or find the current issue on sale here. This article originally appeared in Connecticut Magazine. Honesty, integrity and transparency, that’s the secret to business. To me, this puppet has been one of the great experiments in marketing. I’m 69, and I don’t want that to happen for my 6,000 employees and tens of thousands of their family members supported by Bob’s income. Both did not plan adequately for when they were gone. As a student of marketing, I look at Col. I am probably the only person in the history of marketing who lost my job to a puppet.
This article is provided by FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing () RadioShack(RadioShack Corporation, Ft. In recent years, you stopped appearing in your commercials. Tandy (company) A US company, the parent company of Radio Shack, makers of the TRS-80 and other early personal computers. I have the most talented group you’ve ever met. We have our own studio, and everything is done in house. I can’t tell you how many people told me that the first words from their kids’ mouths were “Come on down!” when I used to say “Come on down!” in the commercials. We’ve spent many hours trying to digest why it worked. That was the advice from my dad, the ad man, whom I loved dearly. Will UConn play in Bridgeport for NCAA tournament? Downtown Bridgeport businesses sure hope so.Pedestrian killed in hit and run, Bridgeport police say.Ultra-wealthy Russian oligarchs have called Greenwich home for decades.Bulldog tossed out of truck in CT after botched, makeshift surgery seeks forever home.Why Daylight Saving Time was once year-round due to rising oil prices.Her body washed ashore in Connecticut.Sale closed in Bridgeport $99,900 for a three-bedroom home.The closures will affect 36 of the chains stores. Last year, we were the 10th largest furniture chain in the country. RadioShack, which filed for bankruptcy for the second time last week, is closing 552 of its stores. We have a total of 16 on the book for this year. Ironically, I started both businesses a decade apart on the exact same day, March 31. In 1991, we opened Bob’s Discount Furniture in an old Nimbus waterbed store in Newington. We were very successful, but the industry crashed in the late 1980s. I actually think of myself as a waterbed guy instead of a furniture guy even though I did much more with furniture. When I woke up, I thought, If I’m going to work this hard for somebody, I might as well try something for myself. On the beach one Saturday, I fell asleep. I was at Faria and had to work Saturdays from 7 a.m. How did you go from making tachometers to creating one of the nation’s biggest furniture retailers? I also met the woman who became my life partner there. I had 25 people working under me responsible for making tachometers. Professionally and personally, it was a hugely important step for me. I had some electronics training and used that to become a line supervisor at Thomas G. Working on my feet 14 hours a day at Radio Shack was no longer an option. Even today, my leg is partially paralyzed. I swerved and my leg got caught between the bike and a utility pole. I was going to the Radio Shack district office in West Hartford for a meeting and running late. I understand a serious motorcycle accident changed your life. It happened that two weeks after I took over, they settled the strike. Electric Boat was the town’s economy, and it was on strike. I took over from a guy named Red who was demoted when the store’s sales plummeted. Running the Radio Shack in Groton, I learned about the unfairness of the corporate world. I did really well and got a store in Groton. One local newspaper said the opening highlighted the company’s renaissance as a line of independently-owned franchise stores that have entirely succeeded the corporate-owned RadioShack locations that went out of business. Then I got a job as assistant manager at Radio Shack at the Enfield site. In March, a new RadioShack opened in Pocatello, Idaho (population: 54,255) owned by Vern Murray and his wife Dalyn. All Rights Reserved.My first job was at a dairy bar called Nielson’s Dairy in Bloomfield. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC.
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