> replaced a perfectly good electronics parts wholesaler
David Reid? Radio Spares? (There was another with a name that started with T, but it's slipped my mind.)
David Reid, they took over a bunch of their storefronts
Are you talking about the Kogan-clone that took over the online store about 5 or 6 years ago, or prior to that? The online part of the business was sold off to Kogan and became another online store front.
I'm talking about what happened in the 80s
Care to elaborate? I’m not old enough to remember much before the mid-to-late 80s, but I remember my local NZ Dick Smith Electronics being a pretty cool and wondrous place back then.