The Kmart in Bridgehampton will close Oct. 20, employees said. The Kmart store in Bridgehampton — the last full-size Kmart in the United States — will close in October after 25 years in operation.
An employee of the location confirmed the store’s closing date to CNN. Following the closure of the lone New York location, a small Kmart store in Miami, Fla., will be the final location bearing ...
By the 1990s, Kmart had 2,300 stores around the US, with 350,000 employees. However, K Mart Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002 and merged with Sears Holdings in 2005.
The store manager wasn’t available at the time, the employee said. A representative for Transformco, the Illinois-headquartered investment holding company that currently owns Kmart, didn’t ...
Kmart, once one of America’s leading discount ... is due to close October 20, according to an employee who answered the phone at the store Monday morning who did not want to give her name.