“Kmart was part of America,” Michael Lisicky, a Baltimore-based author who has written several books on U.S. retail history, told USA TODAY. “Everybody went to Kmart, whether you liked it or no ...

No more blue light specials. Attention Kmart shoppers: It’s the end of an era. The last full-size Kmart store in operation in the US mainland will be closing its doors on October 20, 2024.

A proposed redevelopment of the former Kmart plaza site in Augusta would provide an attractive place for people to live and work, not just store their stuff, neighbors told the City Council last week.