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bucolic_frolic

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3. As i recall it was bigger than walmart about 1992

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2024, 08:13 AM

Sep 2024

Kmart had good quality products when Floyd Hall was CEO. Then the financial press went to town on them for not having a checkout system llinked to inventory, and many KMarts were supposedy stacked with dozens of tractor traiers behind the stores laden with unsold junk merchandise. Floyd quit, and downhilll she went with a CEO from CVS and financial fraud. He hired a guy from Walmart..

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Kmart's blue light fades to black with the shuttering of its last full-scale US store [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 OP

The one in Newport News had a wheel to spin for the price of a milkshake underpants Sep 2024 #1

when i was a single mother I would get my dtrs clothes from K mart.. samnsara Sep 2024 #2

As i recall it was bigger than walmart about 1992 bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 #3

I hate Walmart and what they have done to this country. We had a K Mart in our doc03 Sep 2024 #4