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After decades of decline, Kmart has closed its final full-scale U.S. store in Bridgehampton, NY, marking the end of a retail giant. Learn more about Kmart's legacy and its impact on American ...
Kmart is closing its last big-box store in the contiguous U.S., employees with the company told CBS MoneyWatch, capping the retreat of what was once America's dominant discount retailer.
Longtime discount retailer Kmart has reached its end of days, as the last full-size store on the U.S. mainland is officially closing. The final Kmart store has stood in Bridgehampton, New York ...
Combined, Sears and Kmart have closed more than 3,500 stores and cut about 250,000 jobs in the past 15 years. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: New York Kmart closes, last full-sized ...
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 ...
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 ...
Since the early 2000s, Kmart stores have been dwindling. The last full-size Kmart in the U.S., located in Bridgehampton, New York, closes on October 20.
Although Eastland itself was a single-story mall, all three of its original anchor stores were constructed with two stories of retail space. The Sears store closed off its upper level at some point during the 1980s. With the closure and subsequent demolition of Northland in 2002, Eastland became the oldest shopping mall in the Columbus metro area.