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Cheapo is a music , although retailers such as Sam Goody and Best Buy , as well as smaller independent music stores like the Electric Fetus , also compete in the market to varying extents.

Used discs purchased by Cheapo first go into unsorted racks—one for each day of the week—before being sorted and placed into the general collection. Customers looking for the best deals spend much of their time flipping through those seven racks, producing a distinctive "click-click-click" sound as they go along. A typical store is quite spartan, the building merely a warehouse or unfinished retail space with waist-high wooden racks of discs; larger stores are carpeted. There are usually a few Listening Station s for trying out discs. Stores may also feature an area of "top ten" selections for a regional Radio Station .

Cheapo keeps prices cheap by keeping overhead low: stores are sparsely decorated, no computer inventory or barcode systems are used, and used music makes up a large percentage of the selection.

The company produced vibrant and humorous Television Advertisement s in the 1990s . Around 2004 , ads called the company "the last authentic music store."


LOCATIONS


Minnesota

  • Minneapolis - the flagship location in Minneapolis' Uptown . The ground floor sells CDs, DVDs, and classical CDs. The basement features a large selection of vinyl records and cassette tapes. Popular music is sorted into a large number of genres ( Modern Rock , Punk Rock , Metal , Classic Rock , Avant Garde , etc.) unlike many music stores which file a wide range of genres under " Pop ".

  • , and International CDs. Together, the three stores' selection is comparable to the Minneapolis location's.

  • Fridley - smaller than the St. Paul and Minneapolis stores. Focuses mainly on CDs.

  • Moorhead - serves Moorhead and Fargo , North Dakota . Similar to the Fridley location with a selection of mainly CDs.



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