Thrifty PayLess Holdings, Inc. was a pharmacy holding company that owned the Thrifty Drugs and PayLess Drug Stores chains in the western United States. The combined company was formed in April 1994 wh
A Thrifty Drug Store at Sunset Blvd. and Fairfax Ave. in Los Angeles, c. 1939
A selection of Thrifty store-branded products
Single scoop of Circus Animal Cookies ice cream on a cake cone, showing the distinctive flat-topped, flat-sided shape of the scoop as typically served at Thrifty Ice Cream dispensaries
Kmart, formerly Kmart Corporation, is a department store chain and online retailer in the United States and its territories.
Thrifty PayLess
…of Oakland, California, in 1980. Pay Less hit $1 billion in sales in 1984. In 1985, the 164-store Pay Less Drug Stores Northwest Inc. was acquired by Kmart for $509 million as part of the company's expansion program created by CEO Joseph Antonini. In 1986, there were 225 PayLess stores. In 1987, the company…
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.