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2. Circuit City - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. P. C. Richard & Son - Wikipedia

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   P.C. Richard & Son, commonly known as simply P.C. Richard, is the largest chain of private, family-owned appliance, television, electronics, and mattress stores in the United States. [ 4] Its 66 stores are located in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with the majority of the stores located on Long Island, including the New ...

4. Fry's Electronics - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Richard Sharp (executive) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Alan Wurtzel - Wikipedia

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   Circuit City was profiled as one of the eleven companies in Jim Collins' 2001 book Good to Great. Wurtzel sold all of his Circuit City Stock in 2000, and left the company in 2001. [ 1 ] Under his leadership, the company grew to be the best performing Fortune 500 Company for any fifteen-year period between 1965 and 1995.

7. Fretter - Wikipedia

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   This was an attempt by Fretter to compete with its new major competition, electronic superstores Circuit City and Best Buy, which were larger than Fretter's stores. The merger temporarily made Fretter the second largest retailer in this category, after Circuit City and larger than Best Buy, based on previous store sales, but Fretter immediately ...