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...On his first day, he found a Post-it note on his desk, complaining that rival Kmart sold cheaper fishing line. The handwriting was Walton’s....
...The teenager also attends the school and works at a Kmart store in the nearby eastern Auckland suburb of Botany. The school was closed last week....
...In the title story, “Fuckface” (the asterisk is reserved for the book title) is the only name given to the manager of its grocery-store setting....
...To create that space, Telfar sought support from unlikely patrons, such as department store Kmart, who sponsored a large-scale takeover of the New Museum in New York for Telfar’s Spring/Summer 2014 show,...
...Some of Tractor Supply’s new store openings have been on sites abandoned by struggling chains like Kmart and Bed, Bath & Beyond....
...In these times of grave inequality, the haves and the have-nots smash up against each other in a bargain store....
...Woolworths became the world’s biggest department store chain, a truly global brand, but by the 1960s cheaper competitors such as Kmart, Walmart and Target began to eat into its market....
...The new lawsuit centres on a series of transactions involving Sears and Mr Lampert, who created the modern-day company when he engineered an $11bn merger of Sears and discount store rival Kmart in 2004....
...Kmart Group, as the department stores division is now known, saw earnings fall 3.8 per cent. Worse yet was the industrials division, where turnover dropped 19.2 per cent....
...His proposal would keep 425 Sears and Kmart stores open and he has highlighted it could preserve up to 50,000 jobs....
...Mr Lampert, who became Sears’ largest shareholder and creditor after combining its department stores with Kmart’s discount stores in 2004, had outlined the terms of a possible offer earlier in December which...
...The asset purchases agreed by Judge Drain are the latest in a series of transactions between the retailer and its chairman since he orchestrated an $11bn merger of Sears and discount store rival Kmart in...
...If it is approved, the plan would be the latest in a series of transactions between the retailer and Mr Lampert since he orchestrated an $11bn merger between Sears and discount store rival Kmart in 2004....
...His plan could keep 425 Sears and Kmart stores open and preserve up to 50,000 jobs. Without it, the company could be heading for an outright liquidation....
...The company said on Thursday it aimed to save another $100m by pursuing “greater consolidation” of corporate and support functions at Sears and Kmart....
...His early moves — cutting inventory, selling stores and favouring margins over sales — sent his Kmart investment rocketing from $800m to more than $5bn....
...Mr Lampert, the hedge fund manager once the toast of Wall Street, in 2004 famously acquired Sears and Kmart, another chain....
...David Wood, the former Kmart executive who was originally hired to replace Mr Newton-Jones, has now resigned....
...About 500 Sears and Kmart stores, along with the US company’s well-known brands including Kenmore appliances and DieHard batteries, would be swept up by Mr Lampert’s hedge fund ESL under the proposal....
...Sears, which also operates Kmart, is to close 142 stores by the end of the year as part of an agreement with creditors....
...Changing consumer behaviour has left other tenants in malls that host Sears and Kmart stores struggling, too....
...Then Jeff Bezos turned Amazon into an “everything store” to shame the Sears catalogue....
...Mr Lampert was similarly vexed by fees in 2004 when he acquired Kmart, which he merged with Sears....
...Sears Holdings, created by a combination engineered by Mr Lampert in 2004 of Sears and Kmart, another big-box department store chain, has racked up more than $10bn in losses since the turn of the decade....
...The company, which has closed hundreds of its Sears and Kmart stores in recent years, would also pursue additional property sales to repay $1.5bn worth of its debt....
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