I pulled over and sat there with my mouth open, thinking, What an incredible universe'".

These three chains are likely to watch Incredible Universe most closely.

Our leaders were living in the most incredible and unrealistic universe, constructed entirely by their own hands.

Sometimes, too, it is inept management or, as was the case for Incredible Universe, a failed concept.

Incredible Universe was the name of a chain of American consumer electronics stores in the early to mid-1990s.

Incredible Universe closed in 1997 and became Sam's Club in 1999.

Incredible Universe will apply a similar strategy.

But investors and analysts also say that Incredible Universe must be shelved, rather than scaled back, as the company has said it would prefer to do.

In the Incredible Universe, a 185,000-square-foot electronics store-turned-amusement park, there is a giant stage where customers can sing as they try out the karaoke machines.

"At Incredible Universe we put on a show every day," said Rik Tokuno, general manager of the new store.