to 67 stores throughout the Southwest, Texas and Kansas by the time he sold the company to Atari in 1987. Schwartz described his 20,000-square-foot "superstore" in Orange County, California, as a "cornucopia filled with the most overwhelming selection of audio, video, personal electronics and accessories ever assembled under a single retail roof" -- all deeply discounted. "Most people in our industry at that time believed that we were crazy and that we were opening a format that was too unorthodox to succeed," Schwartz later said. Federated's legacy under his watch was the sale of low-margin commodity CE goods alongside higher-profit limited-distribution AV products not available through his competitors. Survivors include his wife and three daughters. Memorial plans will be announced later. Gary Shapiro, CTA CEO, emailed us Monday that Schwartz "grew the first Federated store in LA to 60+ locations that had an unprecedented selection of consumer electronics products, creating the first superstore concept.”