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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 ...
Federated Group was an American chain of consumer electronics retail stores with 67 stores in California, Texas, Arizona, and Kansas. [1] The company was founded by Wilfred Schwartz in 1970, and opened the first deep discount consumer electronics "superstore" in the United States. [2] In 1987, Federated Group was the fourth-largest discounter ...
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.
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 ...
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1991 Sacramento hostage crisis. On April 4, 1991, 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by four gunmen and held at a Good Guys! electronics store at the corner of 65th Street and Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, California, near the Florin Mall (now Florin Town Centre) for approximately eight hours. Near the end of the hostage crisis ...
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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.