Friday, November 5, 1999
Hastings offers residents a new entertainment choice

Residents looking for a one-stop entertainment center have a new option in Newnan.

Hastings Entertainment, Inc., a leading multimedia entertainment superstore and Internet retailer, recently opened a store in Newnan in the Kroger Shopping Center on Bullsboro Drive.

Hastings Entertainment superstores, which average 21,500 square feet, typically feature:

• Customized inventory in multiple entertainment formats, including about 40,000 book titles, 20,000 music selections, 6,000 videocassettes and video games, 800 DVD-format titles, 2,000 periodicals, 1,500 software titles, and 1,500 complementary products, including clothing, greeting cards and stationery products, for sale at discounted prices.

• Over 13,000 videocassettes, video games and DVDs available for rent.

• Extensive children's product section, including free rentals on children's videos and regular StoryTime

• Financial commitment to the literacy campaign in the local community.

• Employment for about 45 to 50 employees, primarily from the markets where the stores operate.

“These new stores offer our customers a wide range of entertainment products in a single location and reflect our total commitment to satisfying our guests' desires for personal entertainment and information,'' said John Marmaduke, chairman and chief executive officer.

“Because we believe that our stores should be fun and informative gathering places for our customers to shop, we offer such amenities as free gourmet coffee, comfortable chairs for reading, CD listening stations, video game preview stations, interactive information kiosks, telephones for free local calls, children's play areas and in-store promotional events,'' he added.

Hastings also operates www.gohastings.com, an e-commerce Internet Web site that makes available to our customers new and used entertainment products and unique, contemporary gifts and toys.

The site features exceptional product and pricing offers, including best-selling books at up to 50% off list price.

In addition, investors and customers can review general and financial information about Hastings at this Web site.


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