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Kmart - owned by Transformco; groceries, general merchandise; United States (formerly Canada, Australia, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore) Big Kmart - groceries, general merchandise (Defunct) Super Kmart - groceries, general merchandise (Defunct; United States, Australia and Mexico)
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 ...
Fedco – membership department store chain, operated in Southern California from 1948 to 1999; Gemco – division of Lucky Stores; Harts Stores / Big Bear Plus – division of Big Bear Stores; Hypermart USA – division of Wal-Mart; Kmart Super Center – last location closed in April 2018 in Warren, Ohio
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.
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 ...
Transformco, Sears and Kmart's parent company, says it plans to close 96 more stores. The decision comes shortly after the business also announced it received $250 million in funding from lenders ...
Big Kmart stores range from 84,000 to 120,000 sq ft (7,800 to 11,100 m 2). Since the merger with Sears, many stores have been rebranded simply to Kmart. K-Fresh – a new format that was implemented in several Super Kmart locations, which extended the grocery section into a store-within-a-store model.
Wellsville’s Kmart was among the final Kmart locations in the Southern Tier. The Allegany County location anchored the Riverwalk Plaza, along with Tops, for many years. The store was among 80 ...