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1. Kmart

   Kmart Corporation ( KAY-mart, doing business as Kmart and stylized as kmart) is an American retail company that owns a chain of big box department stores. The company is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States. The company was incorporated in 1899 as S. S. Kresge Corporation and renamed Kmart Corporation in 1977. The first store with the Kmart name opened in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan. At its peak in 1994, Kmart operated 2,486 stores globally, including 2,323 discount stores and Super Kmart Center locations in the United States. As of April 16, 2022, that number was down to nine, including just three in the continental United States. From 2005 through 2019, Kmart was a subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation. Since 2019, Kmart has been a subsidiary of Transform SR Brands LLC, a privately held company that was formed in 2019 to acquire assets from Sears Holdings.

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1. Kmart

   Kmart, is an American chain of discount stores headquartered in the United States. The chain purchased Sears in 2005, forming a new corporation under the name Sears Holdings Corporation. The company was founded in 1962 and is the third largest discount store chain in the world, behind Walmart and Target, with stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. As of January 29, 2011, Kmart operated a total of 1,307 Kmart stores across 49 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This store count included 1,278 discount stores, averaging 93,000 sq ft, and 29 Super Centers, averaging 169,000 sq ft. Kmart became known for its "Blue Light Specials." They occurred at surprise moments when a store worker would light up a mobile police light and offer a discount in a specific department of the store. At the height of Kmart's popularity, the phrase "attention Kmart shoppers" also entered into the American pop psyche, appearing in films and other media such as Troop Beverly Hills, Six Days Seven Nights, Rain Man, Beetlejuice, and Dawn of the Dead.

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Kmart in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Kmart in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Kmart in a Sentence

1. Efraim Levy:

   Most consumers are not aware of positive changes at Sears or Kmart, you need to drive traffic. Otherwise you just keep on seeing lower and lower sales in a vicious cycle.

2. Marlo Thomas:

   Whenever you go to any of these fabulous stores, [like] Kmart, Ann Taylor, Domino’s Pizza, Chili’s Bar Grill and Best Buy … Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma … they’re going to ask if you’d like to give a dollar or two to the children of St. Jude.

3. Jai Holtz:

   We see a great layaway business in our Beverly Hills Kmart store. This is a program that goes across all demographics.

4. Marlo Thomas:

   Kmart let us fill up all the carts we wanted to with all kinds of toys for the children … and they sent the presents out down to the children of St. Jude.

5. Mark Cohen:

   I think Kmart was too far gone by the time Eddie Lampert took over to be salvaged unless Eddie Lampert or someone was willing to invest a tremendous amount of capital.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmart
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Kmart