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Caldor was my go-to store for buying albums new. Each album would have a sticker with a letter on it. H was for most new releases. E (I think; it could have been D) was for "nice price" older releases. They frequently had sales, and you could get H new releases for about $5.99 and the E's would be $3.99.

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I worked at Suncoast at the mall where Caldor was an anchor store and even though I could get a discount at Sam Goody, it was usually cheaper to find albums at Caldor.

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Aug 20Liked by Retroist

What a wealth of information, thank you.

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My parents used to go to The World's Fair quite a bit since they lived so close, thank you for the link!

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I've played a lot of systems in my time, but never the Fairchild. I was born in '76 so that could be why, and also.... Atari!

Great post, cheers!

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Thanks, it is worth chasing down if you can. I had some notions about it because of the unusual joystick, but I was wrong even about that.

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