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Seaside electronics store unfazed
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It’s business as usual at
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chise store will continue to
have everyday electronics
needs, said Nate Keck, assis-
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11 in bankruptcy court Feb.
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customers ever since.
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The store is owned by Dan
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retired school teacher Nancy
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Kennell.
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been getting third-party be-
cause the margin’s better,”
Nancy Kennell said.
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Radio Shack’s operations,
including its insistence that
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Nate Keck, assistant manager at Kennell’s Electronics in
Seaside, helps customers. The store is making the transition
from Radio Shack franchise to electronics store.
store nine years ago. The
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the community, Nancy Ken-
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we’re not a big city,” she said.
“We match our products to
our community. We’re going
to stock what our community
needs.”
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actly what products Radio
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but said the upscale items
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community wanted.
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down,” she said.
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logo will start disappearing
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Roosevelt Drive as signs are
replaced and Radio Shack
merchandise sells out.
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to move out the Radio Shack
branded products. They’ll be
replaced with merchandise
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said.
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sistors and other small elec-
tronic parts that built Radio
Shack’s brand decades ago,
Kennell’s has plenty in stock,
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Regular customers will
notice very little, Keck said.
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business license, ordering
and other things customers
don’t see.
“It’s going to be a very
smooth transition.”
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service providers.
Nancy Kennell said they
can help with gadgets need-
ing new batteries as well.
She recently replaced the
batteries in a Montgomery
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Business in the store was
brisk, with customers seek-
ing cellphone accessories,
small electronics parts and
other supplies. The Ken-
nells are already making
the transition to the new
brand.
Nancy Kennell was strug-
gling a little to remember to
answer the phone, “Kennell’s
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dio Shack.” It’s worth it, she
said.
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‘What are we going to do?’’
she said. “Now I’m thinking
we’ll do better.”
Local seismic history to be discussed
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