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Answer : KMART
Kmart, original name S.S. Kresge Co., is an American retail chain with a history of marketing general merchandise primarily through discount and variety stores. It is a subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation.
The company was founded by Sebastian S. Kresge, a traveling hardware salesman, and John G. McCrory, owner of eight general merchandise stores in the eastern United States and one of Kresge’s customers. In 1897 the two opened a pair of five-and-ten-cent stores in Memphis, Tennessee, and Detroit, Michigan. Kresge ultimately became the sole owner of this venture and by 1907 operated S.S. Kresge stores in eight cities between Chicago and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In 1962, under a program designed by company president Harry B. Cunningham, Kresge’s entered the large-scale discount retail market with construction of the first Kmart store outside Detroit. With its success, the company expanded aggressively, erecting an average of 85 discount stores per year over the next two decades throughout the United States and parts of Canada. The corporate name was changed to Kmart in 1977. Kmart was particularly prescient in arranging a retail agreement with Martha Stewart: in 1987 the company hired her to serve as the public face for its entertainment and lifestyle products, and in 1997 Kmart became the exclusive retail store for the Martha Stewart Everyday line of home furnishings.
Kmart’s expansion continued throughout the 20th century, and by 2000 the company operated 2,200 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Increasing competition with Wal-Mart, and other discount stores, however, led Kmart to declare bankruptcy in 2002. The reorganized Kmart Holding Corporation acquired Sears, Roebuck and Company in 2005 and took the name Sears Holdings Corporation. In October 2018 Sears Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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- CHEST Big box
- TRUNK Big box of vital parts
- IKEAS Some big box stores
- STORE Grocery or big-box
- AISLE Big- box store division
- ABBOT American opens big, box of tricks in The Monk’s Head?
- FIGHT Escape out of large box
- OATHS Curses hat stuffed into extra-large box
- EXTOL Admire ends of huge box sent to hotel
- TIRE Canadian (hardware chain)
- ACES Hardware chain stores
- BOUCHERVILLE Quebec headquarters of hardware chain Rona
- ACE “Helpful” hardware chain
- RONA Hardware chain headquartered in Boucherville, Quebec
- LOWE Namesake of a hardware chain
- T R U __-Value (hardware chain)
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