Talk:E. J. Korvette

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Companies Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Companies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of companies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CompaniesWikipedia:WikiProject CompaniesTemplate:WikiProject Companiescompany articles

Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Companies To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies
Assess : Category:Unassessed company articles
Copyedit : Category:Company articles needing attention
Infobox : Category:Company articles needing infoboxes
Maintain : Portal:Companies
Stubs : Help expand stub articles located at Category:Company stubs
Other :
- Tag company articles with the {{portal|Companies}} template
- Tag company talk pages with the {{WikiProject Companies}} project banner
- Answer requests for comments

New York City Low‑importance

	New York City portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York City, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New York City-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York CityWikipedia:WikiProject New York CityTemplate:WikiProject New York CityNew York City articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Retailing Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Retailing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of retailing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RetailingWikipedia:WikiProject RetailingTemplate:WikiProject RetailingRetailing articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

Retailing To-do List:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : SM Lanang Premier
Copyedit : Retailing in India
Expand : :- Please expand this project's list of articles. The subcategories of Category:Retailers is also an excellent starting point.
- Expand this project's image gallery page

- More articles for expansion: Automated retail, Big-box store, Chain store, Hypermarket, Store manager
NPOV : Retail loss prevention
Photo : Retail design
Stubs : Leakage (retail), Retail geography
Verify : Department store, Discount store, Retail clerk, Retail in the Republic of Ireland, Retail media, Retail software, Suggested retail price
Other : * Please add this project's banner {{WikiProject Retailing}} to retail-related talk pages. Also, bots can be utilized to automate this task.
- Also, add biographies to the articles list.

–When a task is completed, please remove it from the list.

Section on Locations of Stores[edit]

I think it is great that the locations of stores sections exists. I think it is a classic example of the wisdom of crowds, and seems the kind of knowledge that, unless you found the company's bankruptcy archives, no other source on the planet would ever have taken the time to document even to a 80% accuracy level.KevinCuddeback (talk) 22:10, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I find it interesting, or can I identify a former occupant by building design. I think Rockford, IL could have been another location - by style of building (south side of the city) I don't remember the street names. I know of no other discount store that used stone in it's store design, though with so many there could have been other(s). Kidsheaven (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Korvette is not Korean Vet...[edit]

Please be advised that Eight Jewish Korean Vets derivation of the name is on its face ahistorical and has been completely discredited. That the founder himself contradicted the Eight Jewish... derivation is certainly helpful, but the real discrediting comes in simple chronology. The name was coined at Korvette's founding in 1948--two years before war broke out in Korea, and even longer before anyone would have considered himself a Korean War Veteran. This alone torpedos the legend.KevinCuddeback 18:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup[edit]

I've created the page. Thank you to others who have made it better. If you think that it still needs cleanup, perahps you can suggest what kind? KevinCuddeback 18:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I seriously doubt Korvette was selling computer speakers in 1980. I bought stuff from their audio department in West Orange, NJ, in the mid-late 1960s, including a Sony reel-to-reel recorder and many reels of tape (Scotch and Kodak, plus their house brand, the name of which I no longer remember.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.230.158.68 (talk) 22:21, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures[edit]

Anyone have any pictures. Only way I could get something fair use would be take a picture of the instruction manual of the XAM television and the price tag of a record that had the modernized Korvettes italic text version of the name on their unique at the time letter priced tags for the record department. I do have a photo copy which would not be usable with the stone used on the front of the store type design. Kidsheaven (talk) 21:06, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What I was told[edit]

When I was small in the 60's & 70's I had an Aunt that worked at the Paramus, NJ Korvette's. She told me as others did back in those days that the eight letters of Korvette were taken from one letter of each of the founding eight partners names. I'm really glad this article put that theory to rest. My point actually is that the urban legend is that old and it first came to me by Korvette employees. Thank You. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.5.133 (talk) 09:52, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]