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When the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, closes its doors on April 16, it will leave only three remaining U.S. locations for the former retail powerhouse.
When the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, closes April 16, it will leave just a handful of remaining U.S. locations for the former retail powerhouse.
In its heyday, Kmart operated well over 2,000 stores and was firmly a piece of American culture
In its heyday, Kmart operated more than 2,300 stores across the country. On Saturday, there will be just three remaining. Many of the former Kmart sites in the North, West and Northwest suburbs have been redeveloped -- as other retailers, as a police station and even as a mass vaccination site. But several others await new uses.
Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the U.S. -- once well over 2,000 -- will be down to three in the continental U.S. and a handful of stores elsewhere, according to multiple reports, in a retail world now dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon.