Precision Trading Corp. was founded in 1979 with the goal of becoming the premier exporter and distributor of consumer electronics and housewares in the Americas. In an industry often permeated by less than honest practices, Precision’s main goal has been and continues to be to offer the best products at the best prices while adhering to the highest ethical standards as well as total customer satisfaction.Precision Trading is located in Miami, Florida, where its headquarters as well as its main warehouse and distribution facilities are located. Additionally Precision has a network of distributors and service stations in most major countries throughout Latin America. In Brazil, Precision has a joint venture audio and video manufacturing facility in the free port city of Manaus. Worldwide purchasing is managed out of Miami headquarters with the assistance of satellite purchasing offices in Hong Kong and Ningbo, P.R.C.

Earth Fare stores offer about 26,000 natural and organic products, house cafes and juice bars, sell vitamins and herbs, and offer deli service and cooking classes. Earth Fare was founded in 1975 by Roger Derrough who owns it along with other investors.Shoppers looking to fill their carts with products containing high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, artificial flavors, and synthetic growth hormones need not shop at Earth Fare. The regional organic and natural foods supermarket chain operates some 20 stores in Alabama, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee. Its stores are smaller than those of its conventional supermarket competitors and national natural foods chains like Whole Foods Market.

Outlet mall capital Reading, Pennsylvania, has conceived more than bargain shopping. It's given us Boscov's Department Store, which operates about 40 stores (down from 50 in 2007) that anchor malls mainly in Pennsylvania and four other mid-Atlantic states. The stores sell men's, women's, and children's apparel, shoes, and accessories, as well as jewelry, cosmetics, housewares, appliances, and sporting goods. It also operates an online store. After expanding too rapidly amid a worsening outlook for department stores, Boscov's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2008 and was later purchased by a group led by its chairman and CEO Albert Boscov. Boscov's was founded by Solomon Boscov in 1911.

There might be a trip to Best Buy for some CDs or a television in your future. Best Buy Canada operates about 210 consumer electronics superstores under the three brands: Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile, and Future Shop. The retail outlets offer televisions, computers, and DVD players, as well as cameras, CDs, DVDs, mobile phones, and software. In addition the Future Shop stores, which average 26,700 square feet and are smaller than Best Buy Canada locations, offer home appliances, office supplies, and maintenance services. Best Buy Canada also offers customers in-home and commercial technical support through its Geek Squad services unit. US-based retail giant Best Buy acquired the Future Shop chain in 2002.

Food 4 Less stores average about 56,000 square feet and in addition to deeply discounted groceries sell fresh produce, bakery and dairy items, ethnic foods, and meat to compete against supercenters and warehouse clubs.Food 4 Less Holdings operates about 145 price-impact warehouse stores under the Food 4 Less banner in Southern California, Illinois, Indiana, and Nevada. A division of grocery giant Kroger, the company operates about 80 of Food 4 Less' no- frills stores operate in the crowded Southern California grocery market where it competes with Safeway-owned Vons, Stater Bros., and relative newcomer Wal-Mart Stores, which has set its sights on Southern California for expansion.

Founded in 1952 by namesake -- the late Jack Fruth -- the company is family owned and operated. Fruth Pharmacy operates about 25 drugstores in southern Ohio and West Virginia. While prescriptions account for the majority of sales, Fruth pharmacies also sell gift items and computer supplies, and have floral departments and digital printing. The regional drugstore chain competes by constantly trying new things, such as participating in the Face2Face diabetes program and testing in-store dollar departments. It is countering Wal-Mart Stores's $4 generic offering with a discount generic drug program created by Cardinal Health.

Loblaw is also Canada's largest wholesale food distributor. Loblaw Companies is a subsidiary of Canada's George Weston.When grocery shopping in Canada, it's hard to escape the long arm of Loblaw. Loblaw Companies Ltd. is the market share leader among Canadian supermarket operators. Its corporate, franchised, and affiliated banners (22 in all) fly over more than 1,440 stores nationwide. Trade names include Loblaws, Atlantic SaveEasy, Extra Foods, Fortinos, No Frills, Provigo, Your Independent Grocer, T&T, and Zehrs Markets, to name a few. Its stores offer more than 8,000 private-label products, including its signature President's Choice brand, as well as traditional and organic grocery fare

Ultimate Acquisition Partners has the ultimate gift: an electronics store. Ultimate Acquisition Partners, L.P. company owns and runs Ultimate Electronics, a retailer of home theater, TV, audio and video products with more than 40 locations in 15 states. Ultimate Electronics stocks some 130 major brands and offers such in-store services as computer repair and TV and Internet service provider sign-up. The retailer also peddles products online. The Ultimate Electronics chain was operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection when CEO Mark Wattles formed Ultimate Acquisition Partners to buy the business in 2005. His Wattles Capital Management investment firm controls Ultimate Acquisition Partners, L.P. company.

Ritz Interactive was founded by Chairman David Ritz and CEO Fred Lerner in 1999. It's separate from Ritz Camera Centers, which filed for bankruptcy in 2009. Ritz Interactive is all over the Web. The company, a network of e-commerce Web sites, sells digital cameras and photographic products, as well as marine, boating, and fishing gear, through e-retailers, including RitzCamera.com, WolfCamera.com, and BoatersWorld.com. The company also owns and operates a handful of content-based community portals, such as Photography.com and BoatingOnly.com. Its Ritz Interactive Big Print Gallery allows users to upload digital images, view images posted by other community members, and rate photos or post commentary.

Big Lots, Inc. is the nation's #1 broadline closeout retailer, with some 1,360 Big Lots stores (down from a high of 1,500 at the start of 2005) in 47 states. (More than one-third of its stores are located in California, Florida, Ohio, and Texas.) It sells a variety of brand-name products that have been overproduced, returned, discontinued, or result from liquidations, typically at 20%-40% below discounters' prices, as well as private-label items and furniture. Its wholesale division, Big Lots Wholesale, sells its discounted merchandise to a variety of retailers, manufacturers, distributors, and other wholesalers.

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