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Nov 22, 2016 · When the enterprise operated as Wards Company TV stores in the 1950s, founder Samuel S. Wurtzel took a personal interest in his employees. “He did not care how much education or what kind of...
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Father and son Samuel S. Wurtzel and Alan L. Wurtzel propelled the Circuit City Stores into a conglomerate specializing in consumer electronics, digital video programming, music software, and automobile sales. Today it is the United States' largest retailer of brand name consumer electronics and appliances. This remarkable growth started from the s...
Samuel S. Wurtzel was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey, March 2, 1907, the son of Jacob and Flora Wurtzel. He was an accounting student at the Pace School, at City College, and New YorkUniversity. He married Ruth Mann in 1932. They had two sons, Alan and David. Samuel Wurtzel died in 1985. Alan L. Wurtzel, the older son, was born in Mount Vernon, New...
Samuel Wurtzel worked for nine years, beginning in 1938, for Packing Products in New York City. In 1949, he was on vacation with his family in Richmond when a local barber informed him that the very first Southern TV station was going to air. Wurtzel began thinking about the possibilities of this fresh market for televisions. Later that year, he mo...
It was during Alan Wurtzel's involvement with Circuit City that he began to realize the problems with the education system in the United States, and especially with the local education system. Wurtzel and his staff were frustrated with trying to hire young people who could "read, write, and interact" on a level that made them capable of working in ...
Contact at: Circuit City Stores Inc. 9950 Mayland Dr. Richmond, VA 23233 Business Phone: (804)527-4000 URL: http://www.circuitcity.com
Today we learn about the story of Samuel Wurtzel and the electronics retailer, Circuit City.
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Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s.
Jun 5, 2012 · Before the strip mall showdowns of two retail giants sporting their "red plug" and "blue box" stores at the ends of massive parking lots, we have to go back to where Circuit City began to understand how it got so big and why it fell. Samuel Wurtzel started his first WARDS retail store in Richmond, VA in 1949.
Aug 26, 2020 · Samuel Wurtzel was having a haircut while on vacation in Richmond, Virginia, when he learned the first commercial TV station in the South would go live. Being a savvy businessman, he saw the...
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Oct 17, 2024 · The company was a pioneer, and it felt like they were building the future. Circuit City wasn’t always the juggernaut of electronics. In fact, it started out as a humble television store called Wards Company, founded by a man named Samuel Wurtzel in Richmond, Virginia, in 1949.
