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Kmart had 17 locations open by the end of the year, and reached 162 stores by 1966. By 1976, Kmart had expanded to 1,206 locations and over 2,000 stores by 1981. But by the early 2000s, the ...
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 ...
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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.
Further dismantling of the Sears and Kmart store network continued in the subsequent years, and as of 2024, only eight Sears stores and one Kmart store remain in the continental United States. [280] [281] Shopko filed for bankruptcy on January 16, 2019, and planned to close 250 of its more than 360 stores. However, on March 18, 2019, Shopko ...
Kmart opened its first store in Garden City, Michigan, in 1962. And two decades ago, the company still operated 1,400 stores across the U.S., although its sales were sagging amid rising ...
Bailey Brothers (Cleveland, Ohio) Later Bailey's Department Store, closed 1968. [369] [370] B.R. Baker, Toledo [371] Buckeye Mart (Columbus, Ohio) owned by Gamble-Skogmo, Inc.; Columbus stores closed in the mid-1970s; Remaining Ohio stores along with Tempo stores in Michigan were sold to Fisher's Big Wheel Stores and renamed Fisher's Buckeye Tempo.
Further west in Cattaraugus County, the Kmart store at 2801 W. State St. in Olean closed in the fall of 2017. The store has since been subdivided into a Marshalls, Ollie’s Bargain Outlet and ...