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From: appelbau@topaz.rutgers.edu (Marc L. Appelbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Buys Federated
Message-ID: <14247@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 07:26:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.14247
Posted: Thu Aug 27 07:26:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 08:54:09 EDT
References: ari/st <652@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Cc: appelbau


In article <652@cup.portal.com> Sheldon_Hijacker_Chang@cup.portal.com writes:

>      ATARI BUYS THE FEDERATED CHAIN STORE!  On August 23, 1987 Atari has
> announced that it will buy Federated Chain-Store for 67.3 million.  This will
> give Atari 65 retail stores in California, Texas, Arizona, and Kansas.  Is this
> another Rumor, is this a rumor somebody has created, or somebody at ATari has
> created???  Of course, if this isn't a rumor, Federated has to approve first,
> I hear they are in finacial difficulty.
> 

Nope it is not a rumor.  It is TRUE!  Neil Harris posted a message on
GEnie about it!  Now, if they would expand the chain to say the East
Coast.
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