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One little story: there is a tv shop in our town that still sells new Zeniths (as far as I can tell). I went in there last Christmas because I thought about buying my mother a DVD player and really wanted to buy it from a mom & pop. I really couldn't stomach the $169 they wanted so I got her something else. Anyway, the shelves in that place are very sad. They have a couple 13" Zenith tv's, one a vcr combo, brand new, never sold-they are at least 10 years old. Priced around $350. Well, he probably paid a couple hundred dollars or so, right? And now Wally World is 15 minutes away selling them for $100 (or whatever) When he opened that store 20 years ago he stocked the shelves with clock radios, police scanners (mostly crystal type) and various small appliances-they are all lined up, unsold. Very sad. Real nice folks, mom at the counter, father & son in the back at the repair bench. Today, though, its all about volume. Another repairman in town said that the minimum purchase now for sets was something like $5000 (I have a bad memory on this but it was in the thousands) and so the new tv's from the local shop are actually bought from a larger appliance store in another town.
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Bryan
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