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3 days ago · S.S. Kresge Co. opened the first official Kmart big-box store in 1962 in Garden City, marking the start of the Kmart brand. Kresge died four years later in 1966, but the Kmart brand lived...
4 days ago · By 1966, 162 Kmart stores and 753 Kresge stores were operational and brought in over $1 billion. Kmart began accounting for 95% of sales by 1977, leading to S.S. Kresge Company becoming the Kmart Corporation and selling the remaining Kresge stores.
Founded in Detroit in 1899 as the SS Kresge Company by a hardware salesman named Sebastian Kresge. It wasn’t until 1962 that the first store with the Kmart name opened in Garden City, Michigan.
3 days ago · Kmart Stores Began Closing All Over The Nation, And That Included Every Single Kmart Location In Illinois. In February of 2020, Illinois' last remaining Kmart at 1155 E. Oakton Street in Des Plaines, announced that they would be closing their doors forever at the end of April, 2020.
4 days ago · While Kmart’s Bridgehampton store will close, a smaller location in Miami, Florida, will remain open. However, this location is a far cry from the department stores of Kmart’s heyday, operating more like a convenience store akin to CVS, according to an August report by the Miami Herald.
3 days ago · The company planned to open a larger S.S. Kresge store on San Fernando, Calif., in late 1961 but late in the process branded the 27,000 square foot store as Kmart, opening on January 25,...
3 days ago · The impending closure will leave a smaller Miami location the last Kmart in the continental U.S. Here's a look at the history of Kmart, including its origins right here in Michigan. The company's roots date to 1899, when Sebastian Spering Kresge opened the first S.S. Kresge store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit.
