Suncoast Motion Picture Company is an American chain of retail stores specializing in pre-recorded videos, particularly movies but also carries television series. The stores sell them in the DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray formats. The store also carry various other items, including movie-related posters, toys, collectibles, Japanese manga, CDs, and snacks such as Pocky and Ramune. Suncoast is a division of Trans World Entertainment. In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end user customers, usually in a shop, also called store. ... For other uses, see Video (disambiguation). ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... HD-DVD disc HD DVD (for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical media format which is being developed as one standard for high-definition DVD. HD DVD is similar to the competing Blu-ray Disc, which also uses the same CD sized (120 mm diameter) optical data... Blu-ray discs Blu-ray Disc is a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by a group of leading consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu_ray Disc Association (BDA), which succeeds the Blu_ray Disc Founders (BDF). ... This article is about the comics created in Japan. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit ÄŒeské Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Pocky logo American Pocky Pocky ) (Japanese pronunciation IPA: /pokːiː/)   is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan. ... This article is about the soft drink. ... Trans World Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: TWMC) is a chain of entertainment media retail stores in the United States. ...

History

The first Suncoast store opened in Roseville, Minnesota, in 1986 as Paramount Pictures. In 2007, the Rosedale location closed. Roseville is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, just north of Saint Paul and east of Minneapolis. ... Rosedale Center, commonly known as just Rosedale, is a shopping center in Roseville, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...

In 1988, the Paramount Pictures stores changed its name to Suncoast Motion Picture Company.

In 1999, Musicland launched websites for Suncoast, Sam Goody, and Media Play. Musicland is an entertainment company which runs Sam Goody and Suncoast Motion Picture Company and ran the former Media Play Superstore Chain. ...

In 2001, Best Buy purchased Musicland, and in 2003, Sun Capital Partners assumed Musicland's liabilities from Best Buy. It was reported that all Suncoast stores would be closed at the end of 2003, but this did not happen.^{[citation needed]} For the defunct chain of catalog showrooms, see Best Products. ... Sun Capital Partners, Inc. ...

In January 2006, The Musicland Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York due to very poor sales for the 2005 fiscal year.

Trans World agreed to purchase all of Musicland Inc. stores with an agreement that all failing stores with low sales and high shrink be closed and included in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy Fort Gratiot, Lakeside and Eastland were just a few.

In February 2006, Musicland started closing its failing stores just before Trans World Entertainment completed the purchase of all Musicland Inc. stores.

In late March 2006, Trans World Entertainment Corp. completed the purchase of nearly all of the assets of, Musicland Holding Corporation, for $104.2 million in cash and $18.1 million in assumed liabilities. Trans World will retain the Suncoast Motion Picture Co. name on about 170 stores.

In December 2007, Trans World Entertainment Corp. decided to close around 150 stores nationwide many of them were Suncoast Locations.(The closings also included undepreforming FYE's and some remaining Sam Goody locations) .

Their decision to close even some of their most profitable stores leads consumers, and stockholders, to believe that Trans World Entertainment's purchase of Musicland's property was merely to close out their competition.^{[citation needed]}

The remaining Suncoast stores are expected to be renamed as F.Y.E. Movies, which has the highest sales over any other movie or compact disc company, though typically less than 1% of their inventory involves compact disks (which are primarily anime soundtracks and/or used).^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Suncoast website
• Trans World Entertainment Corporate Website