Posted by GrapeSoda at spider-tr013.proxy.aol.com on May 12, 2000 at 20:27:37:
In Reply to: Didn't posted by D. Stratford on May 12, 2000 at 18:47:38:
Nobody Beats the Wiz was once owned by a family based party in NYC and Spring Lake NJ.
I worked at several Wiz locations including Holdmel NJ and Eatontown, NJ.
TO know what a crock the chain once was... I'm dead serious when I say that the owner would come in and take wads of cash from the safe.. leaving IOU's.
The place was run by crooks. The management was so crooked that you couldn't stock a display after the store was closed... and open the next morning without some of the items mysteriously vanishing.
Several NBTW Locations were closed after the chain went Chapter 11.
The remaining stores and some of the "closed" ones were purchased by Cablevision.
My advice to you guy and girls...
If you can afford the extra buck or two, shop at localized Mom and Pop stores while they are still around. Once extinct places like The Wiz, Sam Goody, Suncoast, etc will fuck all of us up the ass with prices.