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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores and online retailer. The company was founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and rei
Willis Tower (previously Sears Tower), corporate headquarters from 1973 to 1995.
Richard Warren Sears
Alvah Curtis Roebuck
The exterior of the former Sears Merchandise Building Tower, now the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Tower
Kmart
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Kmart, formerly Kmart Corporation, is a department store chain and online retailer in the United States and its territories.
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…Sears was the largest retailer in the United States, but was surpassed in 1989 by Walmart. In 2005, Eddie Lampert took control of the company through Kmart. The merger resulted in Sears Holdings. Sears' parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018. After the bankruptcy, Transformco…
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.