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Hi Bruce,
I think what you really are asking is what I ask every time I am going down to Beaverton: "why can't the Country Store be open when it is convenient for me because I happen to be in the area."

I think the answer is obvious. The store loses money. Being open twice per month is all they need to satisfy their regular customers (Ex-Tek employees) and just about everybody else.

Tek isn't interested in dealing with walk-in traffic for lots of reasons:
1) There is no reason to be open more often. If you are there on one of those days you would see there is only a very small group of people waiting to go in and they are mostly Ex-Tek people. So there is no reason to add more hours.
2) It is expensive to be open. You need someone (two people actually) to keep an eye out for people stuffing their pockets with small parts that have significant value.
3) Walk-in customers are a pain in the ass. I know because I am one. I will automatically ask them to lower the price enough on something I want so I can buy it.
4) Online sales via Ebay or whatever else they use are more cost effective because they can list big ticket items there.

Dennis Tillman W7PF
"Quando Omni Flunkus Terra Retreatum"

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Lane Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 8:26 AM

Fellow Tekkies,

I've gotten curious about the rhyme or reason to the RAMS store's
limited public hours (two Thursdays a month, less than half a day).

Thoughts on this?

Thanks much.

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Bruce Lane, ARS KC7GR

kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech dot com
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (Red Green)