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For many consumers, that means more money in their wallets. And with the conclusion of the college football playoffs and the Super Bowl looming in a couple of weeks, now — and I mean NOW — is the absolute best time to buy a new television. To drive the point home, brick-and-mortar store chains like Best Buy and HH Gregg are circulating fliers in the Sunday papers that showcase these big screens with generic football scenes. So, just how good are the deals?
Not big enough? Aside from the LG behemoth, these are Vizio-like prices.
How about Samsung? Case in point: And some will take the plunge into 4K as the price of inch sets drops closer to a grand. At the same time, Best Buy also said profitability will take a hit as it plans to spend heavily on store improvements. Expect further discounts as we get closer to the big game. There might even be more crazy discounts the day of the game as brick-and-mortar retailers try to push more black ink onto their ledgers.
All rights reserved. How low can you go? Published on Monday, 19 January Not on Black Friday, or Cyber Monday. Not right before Christmas. Happy hunting!
In , a small storefront was erected by Henry Harold and Fansy Gregg on the north side of Indianapolis. The new store featured home appliances such as washing machines , clothes dryers , refrigerators , and grills. Shortly thereafter, they began selling televisions and other electronics. In , Jerry W. Throgmartin began working in his grandfather's store while attending middle school. He eventually worked his way through many positions there over the next 24 years, and in , took over his father's position as Chairman , CEO , and Director of H.
Gregg Appliances and Electronics. Dennis L.
May succeeded Throgmartin as H. Despite market trends that have diminished profit margins on high-tech devices, Throgmartin and May expanded the business to stores in 9 states as of October Throgmartin said, "We've been fortunate in that the areas of the [overall CE] business that have been strong are the areas in which we excel: On July 8, , the company announced that it planned to open 22 stores in the following year, primarily in Richmond, Virginia , Tampa, Florida , and in Memphis, Tennessee , many of them being in buildings formerly occupied by defunct Circuit City , as part of an aggressive growth strategy to fill the gap created by Circuit City's bankruptcy.
March brought the openings of the first stores in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach metro area, in converted Circuit City and Linens 'n Things locations. In Spring , the company expanded into the Youngstown, Ohio market with the opening of a store in the Youngstown suburb Boardman. In the fall of , H.
Gregg opened several stores in former Circuit City locations in Maryland and Virginia. In March , H. Gregg announced it would open a new location in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina , also in the location of a defunct Circuit City. Gregg expanded into the Pittsburgh market with the opening of four stores in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Gregg opened four stores in the St.
Louis, Missouri metropolitan area. In August , H. The company's motto was "Gregg's Got It! In March , a mash-up music video of an H. Gregg filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filing followed the closure of 88 unprofitable locations outside of its core markets. Gregg said it would close all of its locations the 88 stores previously announced to be closing, plus the other locations and lay off about 5, employees. In June , the H.
Gregg name.
The new online store named H. Gregg is not affiliated with the company that went out of business. Fine Lines [32] was a division of H. Gregg that was introduced November 1, There were eleven Fine Lines locations.
On December 17, , H. Gregg's deal earned them rights to advertise in the south gate and display many of their large, flat panel televisions.
Gregg showroom. From late until the company's closing, H. Gregg sponsored several drivers on the Andretti Autosport team. They were slated to become the full-time sponsor of Andretti in , and sponsored them at St. When the company closed, the team removed their logos on their cars, although the logo remained on the firesuits.
When Takuma Sato won the Indianapolis , the company logos were still seen on the left breast of his firesuit though H. Gregg had closed three days prior to the race.
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