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44-602: 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. The remaining stores were purchased by Trans World Entertainment , which also runs FYE , Saturday Matinee, and Suncoast Motion Picture Company . Sam Goody specialized in music, video, and video game sales. Between 2007 and 2008, Trans World converted most of

88-471: A dead mall . Renovations on the mall began in September 2014, including a planned demolition of the former Dillard's space, prior to a change of plans that resulted in the continued presence of the big box store so that it could be refitted. At the time renovation began, only 12 stores were open. At the same time, the mall was renamed Centre of Tallahassee. The Centre (formerly mall) was refitted so that

132-467: A "deep catalogue" retail format that included a large amount of "recurrent" music albums and videos. However, whereas this format might have been successful in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s, in the United Kingdom it came under pressure from a range of price led and established retailers. In 1999, Sam Goody had exited from UK marketplace, selling its stores off to rival retailers. At

176-540: A branch campus of the popular Tallahassee charter middle school School of Arts and Sciences (locally known as SAS) located in the Centre of Tallahassee's former Dillard's anchor wing. Changes also included an outdoor amphitheater intended for public local concerts. Between 2016 and 2018, popular and notable music artists such as Steve Miller Band , Dashboard Confessional , Coolio , Willie Nelson , Blink 182 , and Alice Cooper were booked and played successful live shows at

220-458: A hobbyist strategy board game store; Stone Age, a New Age paraphernalia store; and GameScape, a Desktop Computer -based video game arcade and comic book store . All of these stores remained consistently popular attractions with local clientele during the initial decline of the former Tallahassee Mall and its carefully directed transition into the Centre of Tallahassee. For some time, an upscale hotel-style apartment complex had been planned by

264-611: A larger selection than department stores. In many countries including the UK and the U.S., the specialty record store business is booming with hundreds opening from 2013 to 2016. The County of Los Angeles currently has more independent record stores than any other county in the U.S. with over 50 stores ranging from Amoeba Records in Hollywood (which bills itself as the "world's largest independent record store") to The Record Parlour, where patrons can purchase, produce and perform music. In

308-534: A number of its former hallways would resemble the roads and paths of a town square in a traditional Swiss or Austrian burg , including cobbled walkways suitable for both slow-moving automotives and pedestrian foot traffic. Beginning with a liquor bar built into the AMC movie theater, a number of new commercial businesses were then established in the newly refurbished Centre of Tallahassee, including Urban Food Market, an organic food grocery store, wine bar , and deli , plus

352-656: A recent study, Brighton, England has the highest number of record stores per 100,000 residents in the world. With the demise of chains such as Sam Goody (except for 2 stores) and Tower Records in the 2000s, there remained no national retail chains focused on sales of recorded music except for FYE . Although music sales continued in dedicated sections of video stores (until their demise) and at big box retailers such as Best Buy , Walmart and Target . Most record retailers today are independent retailers. Spillers Records in Cardiff , Wales , founded in 1894 by Henry Spiller,

396-771: Is Tower Records in Shibuya, Tokyo and the largest in the United States is Amoeba Records in Los Angeles. The largest record shop in the Nordic countries is Bengans in Goteborg, Sweden, which opened in 1974. In some countries, electronics stores and department store chains have very large, comprehensive CD departments which now also sell vinyl records. These include Saturn , Media Markt and Fnac (Europe) and El Corte Inglés (Spain). Saturn in Cologne, Germany claims to now have

440-576: Is reputed to be the oldest record shop in the world. It originally specialised in the sale of phonographs, cylinders and shellac discs. Shellac and then vinyl records were popular right up to the 1990s when CDs became the most popular form of recorded music. Soon, however, mail order and internet selling caused prices to fall, and with the advent of downloads and streaming, many record shops were forced to close. The vinyl revival has however increased income for record shops, and many new record shops and even chains of record shops have opened. Major chains in

484-600: The 1960s and 1970s, between 500 and 1,000 black-owned record stores operated in the American South, and probably twice as many in the United States as a whole. African American entrepreneurs embraced record stores as key vehicles for economic empowerment and critical public spaces for black consumers at a time that many black-owned businesses were closing amid desegregation. In addition to shops that sell new products, many record shops specialize in second hand , vintage, or used collectible records, which they purchase from

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528-480: The 21st century, record stores mainly sell CDs, vinyl records and, in some cases, DVDs of movies , TV shows , cartoons and concerts . Some record stores also sell music-related items such as posters of bands or singers, related clothing items and even merchandise such as bags and coffee mugs. Even when CDs became popular during the 1990s, people in English-speaking countries still continued using

572-501: The Centre of Tallahassee, in the latter case to replace office space previously leased from the Northwood Centre (former Northwood Mall). The Florida Department of Children and Families' lease has been confirmed to take place within a timespan of 2018-2019. The Tallahassee Democrat has interpreted these bids as a sign that the developers’ plan for the Centre has been dropped or shifted gears since Alex Baker's death. Locally,

616-513: The Centre. As of 2019, a large portion of the Mall has been internally partitioned and spaces have been claimed by the Department of State, Department of Children and Families and the Department of Health. However, some plans for retail use still remain, as the current developers plan for branches of Tom Thumb and Culver's to move into previously occupied space in the former mall. As of 2023,

660-592: The Suncoast Motion Picture Co. name on about 170 stores. After a dismal fourth quarter 2006 and a lackluster year in general, Transworld admitted that it failed to anticipate some of the challenges that remained associated with the remaining Musicland stores that it acquired, especially the "Sam Goody Rural" concept located in small communities. As a result, they announced more store closings, many of which were likely to be former Musicland stores. Trans World has announced their intention to focus on

704-1327: The UK and North America that have closed in recent years are Our Price, Zavvi, The Wherehouse , Andys Records , Music and Video Club and Media Play . HMV have closed all stores in North America and Ireland, although still present in the UK. Virgin Megastores have closed all stores in North America and Europe. Tower Records has closed all stores in North America except for one store in Mexico . Rough Trade is, however, currently expanding, with two shops in London, one in Cambridge, one Megastore in New York and plans to further expand. Current record shop chains in Europe are now HMV (UK), Tower Records (Ireland), Free Record shop (Luxembourg: complete stores, Netherlands: shop-in shop), Velvet Music, Plato, (both Netherlands) and Golden Discs (Ireland). Record shop chains still present in North America include Sunrise Records (Canada), its subsidiary FYE (For Your Entertainment), which in turn owns

748-412: The United Kingdom the national chain style of selling records and tapes developed with Our Price , itself originally a small independent business founded in the early 1970s that expanded nationwide. The current record store chains in the UK are HMV, Fopp , and Rough Trade . The enormous increase in sales of vinyl records in the 2000s has provided an opportunity for growth in some sectors. According to

792-604: The United Kingdom, London has Flashback Records (a small chain), Honest Jon's in Portobello Market London amongst others. There is also the aforementioned Spillers Records in Cardiff, and Brighton has Resident Records. Centre of Tallahassee The Centre's present anchor stores include AMC Theatres , Ross Dress For Less , and Belk , as well as several big-box stores including Barnes & Noble and Guitar Center . Other stores that operated in

836-555: The Zayre chain was acquired. A new wing was added behind Montgomery Ward in 1992. This new wing ended in a fourth anchor store, Parisian . As a result of this wing opening, the Montgomery Ward store was bisected by a new mall concourse to connect the new wing to the existing mall. Development was also to have included Kmart moving into the former Ames space, plus the addition of Mervyn’s . Afterward, then-manager Tom Strauss

880-507: The chain's height, there were 22 stores and only 14 stores remained when the company exited the UK market. Record shop 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 (CDs). Today, in

924-527: The company closed more stores and tried to get the business back to basics, but ultimately the challenges of competition and lackluster music industry releases proved too much and in January 2006, The Musicland Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In February 2006, the company announced the closing of 226 Sam Goody and 115 Suncoast Motion Picture Company stores. Following the closings, the Sam Goody chain

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968-474: The company was acquired by the American Can Company (later renamed Primerica ), the owners of Minneapolis-based Musicland , Goody's rival. Sam Goody continued to grow through both acquisitions and organic growth, including the launch of its website. The stores averaged 4,600 square feet (430 m) but varied in size from 1000 to 30,000 square feet (2,800 m). The Musicland Group was once

1012-629: The composer Sir Edward Elgar and had four floors of CDs, LPs, singles and DVDs. During the ‘60s, the in-store recording studio was used by Brian Epstein to record the Beatles' first demo. The revamped store was reopened in 2013 attended by many of the world's biggest stars including Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams and Elton John. The largest record shop in Ireland is Tower Records in Dublin, the largest in Asia

1056-507: The developers had hoped that the presence of a school as well as a number of new restaurants (including Lemongrass, a Southeast Asian cuisine restaurant, and craft beer bar and a planned brewery plus the first expansion of the Dreamland Bar-B-Que chain into Florida) and entertainment venues (including a seasonal ice skating rink ) would allow the new Centre of Tallahassee to thrive as a commercial success. Alex Baker, one of

1100-481: The developers to complement and accompany the newly refurbished Centre of Tallahassee. However, some businesses that have occupied space in both the Tallahassee Mall and Centre of Tallahassee iterations of the shopping center were recently forced to relocate outside of the Centre to make way for new office space. While the renovation project was often criticized by Tallahassee locals as a white elephant ,

1144-573: The f.y.e. brand and convert all Sam Goody stores to f.y.e stores in the future. By February 2009, Trans World had removed the Sam Goody brand from its corporate website. They kept a large store in San Diego branded Sam Goody due to the cost of changing the signs until late 2012. By late 2015, Transworld had a fully operational Sam Goody in the newly renovated Centre of Tallahassee in Tallahassee, Florida . The last recorded instance of this store

1188-492: The following year. Best Buy attempted to diversify its retail holdings by purchasing Musicland in 2001, only to sell it two years later. Best Buy's attempt to transform Musicland into a youth-oriented small-format technology hub failed after two years of ownership. Losses were exacerbated by a decline in physical CD sales in line with the general decline in CD sales, and by competition from big box retailers. Just weeks before Best Buy

1232-459: The largest music retailer in the country, operating at its peak more than 1300 stores, over 800 of them Sam Goodys, and earning over $ 2 billion in annual revenue. In 1986, Sam Goody's corporate parent Musicland purchased the then just recently purchased 34-store Southern California -based Licorice Pizza chain and 26 other record stores for $ 13 million (~$ 30.7 million in 2023) from Record Bar . The Licorice Pizza stores were rebranded Sam Goody

1276-592: The last 2 Sam Goody stores. Outside of Europe and North America, the current record store chains include Virgin Megastores, HMV and Tower Records. The HMV Vault in Birmingham, England is now the world's largest record shop, opening its doors in October 2019. Before this, the former HMV in Oxford Street, London, England claimed to be the world's largest record store. The shop was originally opened in 1921 by

1320-484: The main developers of the renovation project, died in 2017, with an adverse effect on the project of reviving the Centre. At the moment, the Centre of Tallahassee is undergoing another redevelopment into an office complex. In addition to a charter school, two Public sector agencies, the Florida Department of State and the Florida Department of Children and Families , have put in a bid for office space at

1364-560: The mall from Jones Lang LaSalle in 2005. Belk acquired the Parisian chain in 2007 and downgraded the Tallahassee Mall store as Belk, while Dillard's announced its closure in early 2008. The mall went into foreclosure in January 2011. Later in the same month, a real estate company based in Miami bought its ground lease for $ 100. It was then announced that the mall was not expected to close, in spite of its increasingly common reputation as

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1408-418: The mall such as Sam Goody have closed their doors between the initial close of the Tallahassee Mall and its renewal as the Centre of Tallahassee. Tallahassee Mall opened in 1971 with three anchor stores: Woolco , Gayfers and Montgomery Ward ; other major tenants included McCrory Stores and Walgreens . Woolco was closed in 1983 and replaced with Zayre . Seven years later, this anchor became Ames when

1452-534: The prospect of these agencies moving into the Centre of Tallahassee has proven controversial. This is in part due to the precedent established by state government offices previously housed in the Northwood Centre. Additionally, store owners based in the Centre, including the owners of longtime commercial staples such as Stone Age and gamescape, were asked to relocate to make way for possible office space leased by these agencies. Along with Burlington Coat Factory, these businesses both now occupy other locations outside of

1496-605: The public or other dealers, and sell for a profit. Some used record stores also sell used CDs and DVD movies. It is not uncommon for such shops to contain several items priced in the hundreds or thousands of US dollars (or local equivalent) due to their rarity, as well as items that are fairly common for much less. This type of record shop has also faced fierce competition from Internet sites like eBay and Discogs , where people can sell their own records and avoid "the middle man ". Some pawnshops sell used CDs. Many customers prefer to buy vinyl from small, independent record stores with

1540-779: The stores into FYE. As of August 2022, there were only two Sam Goody stores left within the United States—in the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville, Ohio , and the Rogue Valley Mall in Medford, Oregon . 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

1584-444: The term "record shop" to describe a shop selling sound recordings. With the vinyl revival of the 21st century, often generating more income than CDs, the name is again accurate. Prior to the 2000s, more record shops were privately run, independent businesses, meaning that prices could differ from town to town and store to store. In the 2000s, record shops are largely chain-owned and thus prices are fairly similar in different towns. In

1628-471: The venue, drawing in a respectably sized audience from the Leon County and surrounding areas. During this time, Belk and AMC planned renovations as the mall transformed into the Centre of Tallahassee. In addition to Ross Dress For Less, Barnes and Noble, Guitar Center, and Burlington Coat factory, a few staples of the former Tallahassee Mall in the new Centre of Tallahassee that remained included: Tara's,

1672-552: The world's largest selection of records. The world's largest store selling records, CDs and other related and non-related products is Saturn in Hamburg, Germany. This former department store is the world's largest electronic retailer with 6 floors selling consumer products related to music and electric appliances including record players. Record stores played a vital role in African American communities for many decades. In

1716-541: Was added to the Parisian wing in 1996. Gayfers was acquired by Dillard's in 1998, followed by the closure of two more anchors: Service Merchandise in 1999 and Montgomery Ward in 2000. Jones Lang LaSalle acquired the mall and then began renovations on it. The former was split between Ross Dress for Less and Shoe Carnival , while the latter became Burlington Coat Factory and other stores. Several new big-box stores were added, including Oshman's , Barnes & Noble and Guitar Center . Feldman Mall Properties acquired

1760-436: Was fired by the mall's owners, Westinghouse, and the mall's management was sold to Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation. In 1995, a local group took over from DeBartolo. Despite the opening of Service Merchandise and the first Tallahassee-area Goody's Family Clothing store in the former Ames in 1995, mall occupancy had decreased to forty-five percent by June of that year. A twenty-screen movie theater owned by AMC Theatres

1804-487: Was in an Internet Archive snapshot of the Centre of Tallahassee website from April 4, 2016, only to disappear by April 30. In February 2020, Transworld sold Sam Goody's parent FYE to Sunrise Records for approximately $ 11 million (~$ 12.8 million in 2023). In 1990, Sam Goody entered the UK market and established a presence in a number of English towns, such as Milton Keynes , Weston-super-Mare and Stockport , with

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1848-419: Was in mail-order sales at discount prices, of which he was a pioneer. He became something of a folk hero among penniless college students as the first successful large-scale LP discounter. Later, the Sam Goody name was applied to a chain of record stores established in 1951 by Gutowitz. In 1959, a group of creditors took over the company to collect $ 2.4 million (~$ 19.2 million in 2023) in debts. In 1978,

1892-423: Was left with 191 stores. In March 2006, Trans World Entertainment , which had been acquiring their competitors for several years, announced the purchase of 400 Sam Goody and Suncoast stores. Trans World kept 345 of the stores open and closed 55. In late 2006, Trans World Entertainment Corp. began changing the names of mall-based Sam Goody stores to f.y.e. , the company's signature retail store. Trans World retained

1936-546: Was prepared to liquidate the entire chain of stores (and after closing several hundred), they found a buyer in Sun Capital Partners , a private equity firm in Boca Raton, Florida , which acquired the chain in a cash-free transaction by acquiring Musicland's liabilities. In 2002, Best Buy decided to consolidate some of the acquired stores by converting On Cue stores to the Sam Goody brand. Under Sun Capital,

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