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Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. [2] [3] After multiple purchases and a successful run on ...
Just for Feet – bankrupt in 1999, acquired by Footstar, final stores closed in 2004. MC Sports – filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2017. Modell's Sporting Goods – first store opened in 1889. On March 11, 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy, and announced it would close all 115 stores.
Fry's Electronics, Inc. Fry's Electronics was an American big-box store chain. It was headquartered in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley. Fry's retailed software, consumer electronics, household appliances, cosmetics, tools, toys, accessories, magazines, technical books, snack foods, electronic components, and computer hardware.
1947. Defunct. 1995. Fate. Bought out by Fretter; liquidated. Products. Electronics. Silo was an electronics retailer operated throughout the United States between 1947 and 1995. The western region stores were known for a number of years as "Downings" in Colorado and "Appliance-TV City" in Arizona and California.
Yesterday news broke that Circuit City would announce the imminent closure of 155 retail locations, and this morning the company confirmed the news. Detailing its next plan of action in a lengthy ...
Richard L. "Rick" Sharp (April 12, 1947 – June 24, 2014) was an American business and retail executive who served as the CEO of Circuit City, a former consumer electronics retail chain, from 1986 to 2000. In 1993, Sharp co-founded CarMax, the largest used car retailer in the United States, which grew to more than 135 locations with revenue of ...
A Tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story is a documentary produced, directed, and edited by Tom Wulf. The documentary chronicles the entire 60-year history of the Richmond-based retailer, Circuit City. The documentary traces the defunct retailer from its humble beginnings as the family-owned Wards TV, to its rise to become the nation's ...
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