According to the company site, Kmart had a promising start. It opened its first store in 1962, the same year as Walmart and ...
The business quickly expanded, growing to 85 stores with $10.3 million in sales by 1912, according to the Kresge Foundation. S.S. Kresge Co. opened the first official Kmart big-box store in 1962 ...
Over the last 10 years, the department-store chain has closed more than 3,000 locations as sales tumbled from $43 ... employed at roughly 425 Sears and Kmart stores, the company said at the ...
Renovations to create a Rural King are underway in the former Kmart building on Plank Road. The Illinois-based retailer known ...