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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 ...
Petrie Ross tore down the vacant Kmart store and constructed a new Target store, remodeled the mall's interior, and renamed the mall as The Centre at Forestville. On July 31, 2020, JCPenney announced they would be selling their surplus stores with 21 stores including Forestville. As of March 2022, this location is still open. [5]
Kresge's and S. S. Kresge (incorporated in 1899), [256] 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 ...
The store is now just a memory in the Southern Tier. Kmart’s last bastions in the region have been closed for nearly five years, with stores in Horseheads, Bath and Wellsville among a wave of ...
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.
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.
The two chains will move into Westmount Plaza on Route 46, filling a space vacated by Kmart seven years ago. Marshalls, HomeGoods announce opening for new Parsippany locations at long-closed Kmart ...
Builders Square was a big-box home improvement retailer headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. [1] A subsidiary of Kmart, its format was quite similar to The Home Depot, Menards, and Lowe's with floor space of about 100,000 square feet (9,300 m 2), [2] [3] and inventories in excess of 35,000 different items. [4]