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To: 1066AD; Moiraine
The first store was on Beltwood Pkwy in Addison, then moved to a store next to Fullers Jewelry at Marsh and Beltline.

There were time the Addison Fire Marshall shut the doors to additional customers due to overcrowding.

Errol Jacobsen and Mike Henoshowitz were from South Africa and seemed to truly love the US.

It seems that the seeds of their death was the purchase of Computer City and absorbing the real estate leases. Sucked the life out of the cash flow.

Nathan Morton collected his money and left, after populating management with his relatives. He valued loyalty over experience.

BTW, by the time that the liquidators take over, all of the inventory will have been sold. The liquidators try to maximize their profit so great deals are rare.

If a store had a good manager and a couple of good reps then customers loved them.

If not ...

65 posted on 12/07/2007 5:19:28 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster
...then moved to a store next to Fullers Jewelry at Marsh and Beltline

And that's when the good deals started going away.

74 posted on 12/07/2007 6:04:43 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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To: texas booster
The first store was on Beltwood Pkwy in Addison

Agreed, I remember going in there and even at that time it was hard to get attention !!!!!! It was always very busy but I thought their prices were on the high side. I bought my first PC, an XT clone, elsewhere, seems so long ago but then not really...

101 posted on 12/07/2007 10:22:32 PM PST by 1066AD
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