Attention Kmart Shoppers

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In 1989 Kmart was the biggest discount store chain in America. It could be found almost anywhere in small towns and big cities and mid-sized suburbs from coast to coast. By 2002 Kmart was bankrupt. The company had fallen into third place behind Wal-Mart and Target which were less than one-tenth the size of Kmart twenty years before. How did Kmart grow to become one of the nation's most dominant retailers and then lose it all in the span of just a few decades? </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Attention Kmart Shoppers</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> has the full story from the chain's founding as an arm of the Kresge variety store company in 1962 all the way down to the five Kmart stores that are still in business today.</span></p>