Replying to a message of JAY EMRIE to ROY J. TELLASON:

 GM>>> I suspect that Radio Shack (AKA Tandy in Aus) and Dick Smith
 GM>>> Electronics would both have closed in Australia if Woolworths, the
 GM>>> supermarket chain, hadn't bought them up.

 RJT>> Woolworth's is a supermarket chain there?  They were (before they
 RJT>> closed down entirely) something else entirely here...   And they
 RJT>> bought up both those other outfits?  Weird!

 JE> Originally Woolworths was a dime store here - correct?

F. W. Woolworth, general merchandise.  Essentially the same thing as K-Mart
or Target.

AAMOF, back around 1970, Tandy Leather Products bought Lafayette Radio
Shack (a large store and mail-order house) in New Jersey and Allied Radio
Corp. (a similar
operation in Chicago) and used that base to build their Radio Shack chain. 
I bought a Scottkit (H. H. Scott, better known for their audio equipment
than their kits)
AM/FM tuner/amplifier from Allied and a pair of Altec-Lansing speakers to
go with it; still have them.

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