Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Malekpour said the shop has had a help wanted sign up for the past two weeks and that he had advertised in the Boston Globe and the Phoenix with no success...
During the early 1980s, video shops were the hottest gambit for do-it- yourself entrepreneurs. "It seemed to be an easy-to-operate business, and the amount of money needed to establish it wasn't that great," recalls Walter Rosselle of North Hollywood, Calif., who is planning to sell his shop after 2 1/2 years in business. Because of newly arrived competitors, his daily tape rentals have dropped from 130 to about 75. A survey of 1,200 video stores conducted in January by the trade publication Video Store showed that 28% of the merchants were dueling with another store...
Other rental emporiums attract customers with monstrous selections. California-based Tower Records has opened a series of video superstores that stock 10,000 movies, compared with the 2,000 titles in a typical neighborhood shop. With so many alternatives, few consumers feel any loyalty to one store. If the movie they want is out of stock, they simply drive a few blocks to a competitor's shop...
Many mom-and-pop cassette shops believe they can compete by offering more personal service and refined video titles. Husband-and-Wife Entrepreneurs Brad and Leslie Burnside of Evanston, Ill., who plan this month to open their third Video Adventure store, attract an upscale clientele by stocking foreign titles and films featuring dance and opera. Unless other neighborhood video shops find such niches, they could conceivably go the way of the malt shop and the soda fountain...
...guaranteed $23 million purse (twelve for Hagler, eleven for Leonard) is the largest in boxing history. And away from the media glare, the Great Adversaries sounded more like cozy capitalists than fuming pugilists. "Marvin asked me about my restaurant," reports Leonard. "I asked him about his sports shop...