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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 Goody. [137] In November 2021, director Paul Thomas Anderson released a movie with the same name loosely based on this chain.
Sam Goody is a music and entertainment retailer in the United States and United Kingdom, operated by The Musicland Group, Inc. It was purchased by Best Buy in 2000, was sold to Sun Capital Partners in 2003, and filed for bankruptcy in 2006, closing most of its stores.
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]
Still, Sam Goody hung on for as long as possible with acquisitions from Best Buy and Sun Capital Partners, which kept it going until 2012, when most of its stores closed or were converted to ...
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Closed Sam Goody store at the Wayne Hills Mall in Wayne, New Jersey. ... Unfortunately, its success expired in 2015 when the brand filed for bankruptcy, closing all store locations by 2017. You ...
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 ...
The upper level of the former Mervyn's was replaced with a variety of stores such as Forever 21 and Express in 2007. The Musicland Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2006, and in February it announced the closing of 226 Sam Goody and 115 Suncoast Motion Picture Company stores and all Media Play locations.