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Jun 22, 2021 · Kresge Store Opening Record, 1959–1973. A list of stores opened by the S.S. Kresge Company between February 1959 and December 1973, including S.S. Kresge variety stores, Jupiter Discount Stores, and K mart discount department stores, with store numbers, opening dates, and opening day sales records.
Sebastian Spering Kresge (July 31, 1867 – October 18, 1966) was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores, the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the Kresge-Newark traditional department store chain.
Dec 31, 2014 · The official internal list of stores in the United States within the S.S. Kresge Company, dated December 1972. The document provides a comprehensive list of the company's 1,047 stores in the United States: 410 S.S. Kresge stores, 530 K mart discount department stores, and 107 Jupiter Discount Stores. Preliminary information is also given about ...
Stationary section in the Woolworth’s store, St. Paul, 1964. Via/ Flickr. Sebastian Kresge and John McCrory opened their version of the dime store in Memphis, TN, in 1897. Just 15 years after he first went into business, Kresge’s company was worth $7M and had 85 stores!
Jul 8, 2017 · Kresge, a variety store common in downtowns large and small, was hit hard by the postwar rise of suburban retail. It fought back with a new type of store you might know: Kmart. W.T. Grant, based...
S.S. Kresge was my favorite. Whether you called them lunch counters, luncheonettes, dinettes or soda fountains, anyone who can still recall sitting at the counter on one of their red vinyl pedestal stools will tell you that the food was wonderful…and cheap.
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Oct 28, 2014 · The first Kresge store, opened in 1899 on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, is shown in a 1939 file photo. S.S. Kresge Co. opened its first Kmart discount department store in a suburb of...
