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Photos of aging Sears and Kmart stores offer a glimpse into the collapse of the two retail empires, including those shot inside the ill-fated Frederick Sears. Related: Iconic Department Stores We Miss
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
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 ...
The Shoppes at South Hills, formerly South Hills Mall, was a shopping mall on U.S. 9, now converted into a strip mall, [1] in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York.The 675,000 ft² plaza opened in 1974 and included two anchors, Sears and Kmart, at opposite ends of the mall.
Closed the majority of its retail stores in 2021 mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with merchandise moved online and to department stores such as Target and JCPenney. [57] Edison Brothers Stores – operator of numerous shoe and clothing chains, including Bakers Shoes, Wild Pair, J. Riggings, Oaktree, Foxmoor and Fashion Conspiracy. Company ...
The stores were given more of a "department store" feel as front-of-store checkouts were replaced with an area to pay at the centre of the store. [17] [18] Kmart 24 Hour stores are similar to regular Kmart stores, except that they are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, never closing other than on some public holidays, or during events. [31]
The mall suffered in the early 1990s, with the closure of Kmart in November 1992, followed by the closure of Sears in January 1993. [6] The Sears building was later occupied by a Big Lots discount store, which closed in 2003. [7] In August 2010, renovations began on the mall at the Sears end for conversion to office space. [8]
At the height of its success, Kmart was a go-to discount store with more than 2,000 locations. In the early 2000s, the retail chain began facing some challenges, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...