Kresge-Newark
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Kresge-Newark was an upper-middle market department store based in Newark, New Jersey. The firm was started in 1923 when its founder Sebastian Kresge purchased the L.S. Plaut Department store in downt
Kresge Newark department store building in Newark, New Jersey
Kmart
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Kmart, formerly Kmart Corporation, is a department store chain and online retailer in the United States and its territories.
Kresge-Newark
…purchased the L.S. Plaut Department store in downtown Newark and rebranded the business Kresge-Newark. This store had no management connection to the S.S. Kresge 5 & 10 chain based in Detroit, Michigan. In 1926, Kresge replaced the original Plaut store, nicknamed "The Bee Hive," which had been built in 1891…
This 1940s postcard shows the Kresge store in Springfield, Massachusetts (Store #26).
The front of the Super Kmart Center store in Cambridge, Ohio (store #3555), as it appears before it was downsized in 2015 and closed in 2018; this location is now Rural King
The KDollar logo (November 2004–2012)
The original Kmart store in Garden City, Michigan (store #4000), which closed in 2017 (pictured in 2016). It was demolished in 2020.