Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics chain in the Northeastern United States. The chain was started in 1971 in New York, New York, by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar, and was previously named ERS Electronics (ERS stood for Eddie, Rose and Sam; Rose and Sam were Eddie's parents).

2016年9月11日 · Eddie Antar, the founder of the Crazy Eddie electronics retail chain known for its hugely popular TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s, and later brought down by a massive fraud scheme, died...

2022年9月10日 · Crazy Eddie Antar, the man behind the Crazy Eddie retail chain, filed for bankruptcy in 1989 and fled the country with six passports (in five different names) and around $43 million in cash.

2022年8月27日 · The rise and spectacular fall of the chain, and its CEO Eddie Antar is the subject of a the book Retail Gangster: The INSANE, Real-Life Story of CRAZY EDDIE by investigative journalist Gary Weiss.

2023年7月10日 · The Crazy Eddie saga appeared to end in 2016 when its founder Eddie Antar died at 68. But even in death, the entrepreneur was still causing chaos and confusion.

2016年9月17日 · Michael Schulman on the death of Eddie Antar, the entrepreneur and huckster who founded the electronics chain Crazy Eddie and was later imprisoned.

Eddie Antar founded the Crazy Eddie electronics retail chain in Brooklyn, New York, which rose to prominence across the New York-New Jersey area throughout the 1970s. Operating undetected for years, Eddie’s business practices were grounded in fraud from the very beginning.