Exhibit 24.3

                        POWER OF ATTORNEY


     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, in his
capacity as a director or officer, or both, of REX Stores Corpora-
tion, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes
and appoints Stuart A. Rose and Edward M. Kress, or any one of
them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Company's
Registration Statement on Form S-8 covering 512,079 shares of the
Company's Common Stock, $.01 par value per share, to be issued
pursuant to the Company's 1989 Nonqualified Executive Stock Option
Plan, and to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact 
and agents, and any one of them, full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that such attorneys-in-fact and agents or any one of them, or their
or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instru-
ment on this 18th day of November, 1998.


                                   LEE FISHER
                                   
                                   Lee Fisher