[TheList] Dick Smith Continued

Thu Aug 23 09:48:51 AEST 2012

I believe he would be, as all I have seen him do is promote Australia. 
Should of guessed it would be either Chinese or Indian

On 23/08/2012 11:11 a.m., kiwi56 wrote:
> 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 <mailto:300852 at xtra.co.nz>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:53 AM
> *To:* thelist at radiowiki.org.nz <mailto: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 <mailto:blakjak at gmail.com>
>>
>> *Sent:*Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:51 PM
>>
>> *To:*thelist at radiowiki.org.nz <mailto: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 
>> <mailto: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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