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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware
Here on Tyneside our original shop like that was 'Aitken Brothers' on High Bridge, a narrow street running between Grey St and the Bigg Market. Aitkens sadly went the way Tandy and Maplin did with increasing focus on DJ type equipment and eventually closed.
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I well remember Aitkens. Got started in electronics in my early/mid teens buying stuff from them. Although I recall through the intervening five decades that they were somewhat expensive. Plus the return bus fare from Ryton.
Even so, I was sad to see them go, even though I last lived permanently in the NE in 1974.
But there was a common thread to the demise of Aitkens, Tandy and Maplins - you dumb down at your peril. They miss the point that it is far easier to keep existing customers than to win new ones; Business ABC.
Craig