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  • Members: 523
  • Category: Preservation
  • Founded: Nov 7, 2002
  • Language: English
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Everyone knows names like Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target, Kroger, and such.....but let's take a trip before they ever became dominant, before they ever existed, to the chains they squashed. The chains that went bankrupt, the chains with corporate mismanagement. This is the place to remember the past, and to save what's left for the future before it becomes an entire "big-box" universe.

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In the northwest suburbs. there was also: Joseph Spiess: originally downtown Elgin on Grove Ave., expanded into Kresge building; added stores in Crystal Lake
Posted - Sat Nov 7, 2009 12:37 pm
 Dennis Neylon
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Walmart/ Kuhn's Big K merger(was Re: Lost local department stores)
For the most part the Walmarts that began as a Kuhn's Big K were given store numbers in the 6xx and 7xx series. Dublin is store #555 and Waycross is #556,
Posted - Sat Nov 7, 2009 3:25 am
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Re: Lost local department stores
The 1981 class of Wal-Mart were all for the most Big K/Kuhns stores. From: remembering_retail@yahoogroups.com [mailto:remembering_retail@yahoogroups.com] On
Posted - Fri Nov 6, 2009 7:39 pm
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Re: Lost local department stores
Wow, that has to be tiniest mall I've ever seen. I did not think a mall could be smaller than Northgate in Tullahoma. I was looking at it on street view and
Posted - Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:16 am
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Re: Lost local department stores
... All three malls were built in 1972, and Wal-Mart did not come to Georgia until 1981. Did these start out as Kuhn's Big K, Rose's, Sky City or what?
Posted - Fri Nov 6, 2009 5:58 am
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