‘Time to let it go’: Canada’s last Sam the Record Man store is up for sale
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After 45 years in the business, the owners of Belleville, Ont.'s, Sam the Record Man store has announced they're ready to retire.
The music may be coming to and end for Canada’s last remaining Sam the Record Man location.
After 45 years in the business, the owners of Belleville, Ont.’s, Sam the Record Man store has announced they’re ready to retire.
But it’s too soon to say exactly what that will mean for the iconic record store.
“Everything’s still up in the air,” explained Spencer Destun, who owns the Quinte Mall shop as well as independent music stores in Kingston and Oshawa along with his wife and son.
“We’ve been at this business for a long time and it’s time to retire — it’s time to let it go.
“So we’re having a retirement sale and we’re looking at all other options to keep the stores open.”
Destun and his wife have run the Belleville Sam the Record Man store since it opened in 1979 and their son joined the team in 2000.
Started in the 1930s by Sam Sniderman in Toronto, the Sam the Record Man chain was once the largest music recording retailer in the country, with 140 locations across Canada.