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“Attention Kmart shoppers.” A retro sign aims to entice customers inside the last Kmart in Florida at the Kendale Lakes Plaza at 14091 SW 88th St. in Miami on Aug. 23, 2024.
Kmart's longest lasting logo, used from 1969 to 1990. Under the leadership of executive Harry Cunningham, S.S. Kresge Company opened the first Kmart-named store, at 27,000 square feet (2,500 square meters), which was referred to by Kresge as a "bantam" Kmart and was in fact originally intended to be a Kresge store until late in the planning process, on January 25, 1962, in San Fernando ...
At its peak, Kmart had well over 2,000 locations in the U.S. and was among the nation's retail giants. Kmart merged with Sears in 2005 in a deal engineered by hedge fund manager and CEO Eddie Lampert.
The last Kmart — in Miami's Kendale Lakes Plaza — is a surprising relic from retail history. This lonely store marks the end of an era for the brand once woven into American culture, a place ...
MIAMI (AP) — The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits at the west end of a busy suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored. All around it are thriving chain stores attracting steady streams of customers in sectors where the former box-store chain was once a major player: Marshalls, Hobby Lobby, PetSmart and Dollar Tree.
On December 31, 2016, it was announced that Sears Holdings was closing some 180 additional stores, among which was mall anchor Kmart. This Kmart location closed its doors for the last time on Sunday, March 26, 2017, leaving roughly 60 employees without jobs, some of which could either apply at the few remaining local stores, or receive ...
Kresge's and S. S. Kresge (incorporated in 1899), [257] later K-Mart Corporation (headquartered in Troy), then Sears Holdings Corporation is frequently credited with invention of the modern discount department store with the opening of Kmart in 1962. The last Kresge's store in Livonia, Michigan closed in 1987. The chain operated over 2,000 ...
By 1976, Kmart had expanded to 1,206 locations and over 2,000 stores by 1981. But by the early 2000s, the company started to falter. It filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and closed 293 stores.