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Sam "Goody" Gutowitz (1904–1991) of New York City opened a small record store on New York's 9th Avenue shortly after the advent of vinyl long-playing records in the late 1940s. Although he did some retail business from his main store on 49th Street, most of his volume was in mail-order sales at discount prices, of which he was a pioneer. [2]
In 1977, American Can Company purchased Pickwick International and in 1978 purchased the Sam Goody chain of record stores, which had a long history going back to 1951 in New York. Shortly after, Musicland began converting the majority of its stores to the Sam Goody brand name, although some locations did retain the Musicland name into the early ...
Kim's Video and Music; King Karol – New York City; Kroch's and Brentano's – Chicago-based bookstore chain; filed for bankruptcy in 1995 [134] Licorice Pizza – Southern California chain that was started in Long Beach by James Greenwood in 1969, [135] acquired by Record Bar in 1985, acquired by Musicland in 1986, [136] and rebranded Sam ...
Formerly owned by Trans World Entertainment, [2] it began in 1993 [3] and was expanded in 2001, 2006, and again in 2009 after buying out and rebranding mall-based stores Camelot, Sam Goody, Spec's Music, Strawberries, Record Town, Coconuts Music & Movies, DiscJockey, Saturday Matinee, The Wall, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, Musicland, Media ...
In 1999, Musicland launched websites for Suncoast, Sam Goody, Media Play, and Oncue. In 2001, Best Buy purchased their then parent-company, Musicland, for $685 million. [1] In January 2003, Best Buy closed 20 Suncoast stores as part of a larger closing that included 90 Sam Goody stores. [2]
Hundreds of stores were slated to be opened, but only 89 ever were. Media Play opened stores from 1992 to 2000. Their Replay program was a loyalty program that allowed members to earn points for purchases which could earn members gift certificates. The same Replay card also worked at Sam Goody and Suncoast Motion Picture Company stores.
A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells recorded music. Per the name, in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, record shops only sold gramophone records . But over the course of the 20th century, record shops sold the new formats that were developed, such as eight track tapes , compact cassettes and compact discs ...
King Karol was a New York City, New York-based record store chain founded by Ben Karol [1] and Phil King in 1952. [2]Lasting through at least 1987, [3] and defunct for some time by 1993, [4] King Karol was one of New York's "largest [and most] comprehensive" music stores.