Dick smiths electronics powerhouse

I just made a post on today's Clearance Thread but figured it would most likely get buried, so thought I'd post to the forums as well. I was a Dick Smith Store Manager and salesperson prior to that for several years up to Experienced first hand the Gaming Sale, the uncertainty regarding the Woolies sell-off and the mostly unadvertised, but now infamous in relation to the way they cooked the books for the IPO clearance that Anchorage completed just after they purchased the business most of these items tended to show up individually on Ozbargain back in the day. I remember when we first received them in … We still sold plenty of NiCads, alongside crappy generic and energizer actually worse then the generics NiMH batteries.

April 20, Dick Smith Electronics turns up the power Click for big version Dick Smith Electronics is about to throw the switch on a new era of consumer electronics retailing in New Zealand. The square-metre Dick Smith Electronics PowerHouse consumer electronics mega store will be officially opened in Manukau city this weekend by the acting mayor, Councillor Anne Candy. Mr Meadows said that the New Zealand market was tested in Hamilton first. Manukau was chosen for the second store because it is the largest and fastest growing city in the country, and a suitable site with good parking was available close to the city centre.

In the beginning, Dick focused his energy towards installing and servicing car radios. He moved the business to bigger premises. It was built to be a playground for electronics hobbyists like Dick himself, and sold a huge array of electronics components to professionals and weekend hobbyists alike.

Dick Smith Holdings Limited formerly Dick Smith , Dick Smith Electronics or DSE was an Australian chain of retail stores that sold consumer electronics goods, hobbyist electronic components, and electronic project kits. The company closed in , within several years of its acquisition by Anchorage Capital Partners. Initially, the business focused on installing and servicing car radios.