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Total assets. US$1.41 billion (2021) Number of employees. 22,900 [ 3] (2018) Subsidiaries. LW Stores (defunct) Website. biglots .com. Big Lots Stores, Inc. (stylized as Big Lots!) is an American discount retail chain headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Headquarters. Columbia, Tennessee. Number of locations. 18 (1969) 21 (1970) 105 (1977) Subsidiaries. Big K-Edward's. Kuhn's-Big K, (typically signed as simply Big K) was a large discount store chain in the Southeastern United States that merged with Walmart in 1981 [1] The store is entirely unrelated to, and preceded, Big Kmart.
Kmart (/ ˈ k eɪ m ɑːr t / KAY-mart), formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department store chain, and an online retailer in the United States and operates six remaining Kmart big-box department stores — 3 in the US Virgin Islands [5] [6] [7] and one each in Kendale Lakes, Florida (Miami postal address); [4] Bridgehampton, Long Island; [8 ...
Big Bear. Big Bear Stores was an American regional supermarket chain operating in the U.S. states of Ohio and West Virginia between 1933 and 2004. The company was founded in Columbus, Ohio, and was headquartered there until its acquisition by Syracuse, New York –based Penn Traffic in 1989. Upon Penn Traffic's bankruptcy in 2004, all remaining ...
Kresge's and S. S. Kresge (incorporated in 1899), [257] later K-Mart Corporation (headquartered in Troy), then Sears Holdings Corporation is frequently credited with invention of the modern discount department store with the opening of Kmart in 1962. The last Kresge's store in Livonia, Michigan closed in 1987. The chain operated over 2,000 ...
Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005. [ 7] It was the 20th-largest retailing company in the United States in 2015. [ 8]
S. S. Kresge. Sebastian Spering Kresge (July 31, 1867 – October 18, 1966) was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores, the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the Kresge-Newark traditional department store chain. The discounter was renamed the Kmart ...
Schottenstein Stores Corp., based in Columbus, Ohio, is a holding company for various ventures of the Schottenstein family. Jay Schottenstein and his sons Joey Schottenstein , Jonathan Schottenstein , and Jeffrey Schottenstein are the primary holders in the company.