The final Kmart in all of California is closing, ending the period of blue gentle specials for good.
The Grass Valley Kmart at 111 West McKnight Means is about to shut in mid December, reported The Union. The Grass Valley Kmart was the final one standing after current closures in South Lake Tahoe, Watsonville, Costa Mesa, McKinleyville and Ramona; these shops all closed in 2021.
Kmart started life within the late 1800s as a 5 and dime retailer in Tennessee. Its first Kmart-branded retailer opened in 1962 in San Fernando, Calif., and at its peak, Kmart had hundreds of places nationwide.
However issues soured within the 2000s. In 2002, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 chapter safety and laid off tens of hundreds of staff within the restructuring. Two years later, Kmart purchased one other struggling retailer, Sears, and merged the 2 corporations. However that transfer did not decelerate Kmart’s woes, because the retailer continued to shutter shops yr after yr.
In response to The Union, Kmart’s impending Grass Valley emptiness has already been snapped up by Goal.
“It was very bustling retailer again within the day, and it actually dramatically shifted into one thing very completely different through the years,” Grass Valley Mayor Ben Aguilar instructed The Union.
There are just a few dozen Kmarts now left in the USA, though do not belief the Kmart retailer locater to provide you an correct depend. It is nonetheless itemizing some completely shuttered places as open.
