View Comments Kohl's Corp. is doing a lot better than it was at this time last year as the company emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Menomonee Falls-based retailer said in the first fiscal quarter of 2021, Kohl's sales were up nearly 70% from the same time last year. That brings the company more in line with how it performed in the first quarter of 2019 — in the time before the pandemic. At this time last year, the company had temporarily closed all of its stores because of the pandemic. Sales were down 40% during the first fiscal quarter of 2020 — the company's worst quarter last year. Kohl's finished its last fiscal year with sales down around 20%.