Robert M. Haft | |
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 Robert M. Haft inside of a Crown Bookstore | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | Wharton Harvard University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Founder, Crown Books, Main Street Lender, Morgan Noble |
| Spouse | Mary Haft |
| Parent(s) | Gloria Haft Herbert Haft |
Robert Michael Haft is an entrepreneur, primarily in health care, and became a household name in the Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, and Los Angeles markets for his Crown Books television commercial tagline, "Books cost too much, so I opened Crown Books. Now you'll never pay full price again."[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][excessive citations]
- ^ "Herbert and Robert Haft: The Dynasty Behind Dart's Expanding Empire", New York Times, January 25, 1987
- ^ "'Our Destiny is in Our Hands' Says Phar-Mor CEO Haft, Drug Store News, October 9, 1995
- ^ "Phar-Mor's Haft to Step Down", Drug Store News, September 8, 1997
- ^ "Crown Books Company History", International Directory of Company Histories Volume 21, St James Press, 1998
- ^ "Private Sector: Denouement of a Family Feud?", New York Times, June 20, 1999
- ^ "Robert Haft Biography" Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, University of Pennsylvania Press, September 2007
- ^ "The Media Business: Aggressive Discounting Pays Off for Crown Books", New York Times, June 25, 1990
- ^ "The Growing Battle of the Big Bookstores", New York Times, November 8, 1992
- ^ "Herbert Haft, Founder of Discount Drugstores, Dies at 84", New York Times, September 4, 2004
- ^ Robert D. Hershey, Jr., "A Reopening of Wounds in Haft Family Struggle", New York Times, September 12, 1994