In '77 with New Superstores
New Faces To The Year In Review: Retail Watch Large Retail Chains Expand In '77 With New Superstores by Mark Mehler our company, and opened up great pro- NEW YORK - 1977 was the year of the motional avenues to us." (Cash Box, June "super -retailer" in the record industry. 4). Numerous major catalog chains, including The superstore concept has even grab- Odyssey, Record Bar, Peaches, Tower, Na- bed the attention of such longtime retailers tional Record Mart, Sam Goody, Camelot, as the Shapiro brothers, who have 110 and Sound Warehouse, mapped plans for operated the now 55 -store National Record extensive growth in the "superstore" mold. Mart chain for 40 years. "Record Oasis," t . > .it For a few large chains, however, 1977 the first of the Shapiros' series of free- was the year the bubble burst. Jimmy's standing outlets in the 14,000 to 17,000 Jerry Doucette Detective Music World in New York and Wallich's square foot range, will open in suburban Rock 'n' rollers have always loved to boot Michael Des Barres, lead vocalist of Music City in California, for example, went Pittsburgh in mid -February. Warehouse, the ball and crack the bat but sometimes Detective, recently found himself in a spot bankrupt, due in part to management Sound the Oklahoma - based there comes a moment for decision - when the waiters at Roy's Chinese failures and in part to the severe competi- southwest retail chain, opened four maki ng. At a young age, Jerry Doucette had Restaurant in Los Angeles insisted that he tion on both coasts.
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