[TheList] Dick Smith Continued

Thu Aug 23 09:11:08 AEST 2012

heard from a mate in aussie last night that Dick Smith is being sold to an Indian company. Apparently Dick Smith himself is absolutely livid about the whole thing as he built the business up to be aussie owned 
When you think back over the whole thing back in the 80/90’s Dick Smith actually bought out a NZ icon back then “David Reid”.

Geoff

From: Dick Thomas 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:53 AM
To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz 
Subject: Re: [TheList] Dick Smith Continued

And, don't leave them an anonymous obscene phone call Ray!!!!  Be nice to them.. hehe

Dick

On 22/08/2012 6:55 p.m., Stephen wrote:

  Dick Smith

  Head Office 

  (02) 9642 9100

  From: thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz [mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz] On Behalf Of RayC
  Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 4:29 p.m.
  To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
  Subject: Re: [TheList] Dick Smith Continued

  Little Dick made millions from the place and retired to a life of luxury.

  Woolworths brought it , changed the format to a Harvey Norman clone

  and staffed it with people with no clues what so ever in anything.

  EX customers moved over to Jaycar Electronics , started by two ex DSE top

  managers i am told.

  Now they wonder why it is has changed to be unprofitable. 

  I can tell them if i could find the Aussie phone number for Head Office.

  Ray

  P.S. Boss gave me a DSE $250.00 Xmas bonus voucher that i cannot find 

  much to buy at all.I still have it.

  From: Mark Foster 

  Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:51 PM

  To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz 

  Subject: Re: [TheList] Dick Smith

  They're just 'dick smith'.  They deliberately shed 'electronics' some time ago. And yes, nothing particularly useful in the component space anymore.

  On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Dick Thomas <300852 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

  Went in there the other day to get some chocolate connectors, was told that I should go to Jaycar, as they don't stock that type of an item any more. They said they were "Dick Smith Electrical"

  cheers

  Dick 

  On 21/08/2012 12:38 p.m., John Barnhill wrote:

    Reported in last Tusday’s “The Telegraph” that the Aussie retail giant Woolworths is preparing to shed the unprofitable Dick Smith electronics chain within weeks. Be interesting to see what happens on this side of the ditch!

    John B.

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