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A CompUSA store in Santa Clara, California, circa 2005. Founded in 1984 as Soft Warehouse in Addison, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas, by Errol Jacobson and Mike Henochowicz, [3] the company began national expansion in 1988 with its first megastore opening in Atlanta, Georgia.
Kaufmann's Department store in 1974 at the Fort Steuben Mall in Steubenville, Ohio. ... compusa store closing. CompUSA. CompUSA, which sold computer hardware and software, was started in 1984 as ...
Micro Center is a subsidiary of Micro Electronics, Inc., a privately held corporation headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio. [16]Stores are sized up to 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m 2), stocking about 36,000 products across 700 categories, including major name brands and Micro Center's own brands. [17]
Big Bear Stores – Columbus, Ohio based chain; stores closed or sold to Kroger by 2004. Unrelated chain in San Diego with same name sold to Fleming Companies and Albertsons in 1994; BI-LO – dissolved in 2021; Bohack; Bottom Dollar Food – acquired by Aldi 2015; Boys Markets – converted to Ralphs or Food 4 Less in 1994 [112] Bruno's
By 1990, growth of Tandy Corporation's Radio Shack chain of electronics stores and Tandy personal computers had stalled. Incredible Universe was created with the intention to compete with rapidly growing electronics superstores like Circuit City, Best Buy, and CompUSA that were taking market share from Radio Shack.
Computer City innovated a number of retail concepts that are now common retail practices. First begun at the Costa Mesa Incomp, the store hosted a professional service bureau called The Graphic Zone, that provided film and graphic services for the nascent desktop publishing industry, the store operated a cafe which served coffee and sandwiches to prolong shopping visits, and the store featured ...
Revco Discount Drug Stores (known simply as Revco or Revco, D.S.), once based in Twinsburg, Ohio, was a major drug store chain operating through the Ohio Valley, the Mid-Atlantic states, and the Southeastern United States.
The first phase of the mall, featuring Bigg's and approximately 20 other stores, opened on July 11, 1988. A month prior to this, Higbee's withdrew from the project after being purchased by a joint venture of Dillard's and Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. [8] As a result, B. Altman was relocated from its originally planned store to the space vacated by Higbee's, thus leaving a vacant anchor store and ...