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Kmart (/ ˈ k eɪ m ɑːr t / KAY-mart), formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department store chain, and an online retailer in the United States and its territories and operates six remaining Kmart big-box department stores — 3 in the US Virgin Islands [5] [6] [7] and one each in Kendale Lakes, Florida (Miami postal address); [4] Bridgehampton ...
The former international headquarters of Kmart Corporation was located at 3100 W. Big Beaver Road in Troy, Michigan. The building, on the northwest side of the intersection of W. Big Beaver Road and Coolidge Highway, used to employ thousands of people, but had been vacant since 2006. The building was erected in 1969, designed by Smith, Hinchman ...
Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005. [ 7 ] It was the 20th-largest retailing company in the United States in 2015. [ 8 ]
By the 1990s, Kmart had 2,300 stores around the US, with 350,000 employees. However, K Mart Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002 and merged with Sears Holdings in 2005.
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FILE - A large Kmart sign is displayed in front of a shopping plaza in Avenel, N.J., April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Kmart became known for its 15-minute-long “blue light specials”: A store would flash a blue light and announce “attention Kmart shoppers” over the public address system, and customers ...
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]