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Attention Kmart Shoppers!
In my alternate universe, domestic guru Martha Stewart buys Kmart in 1999, giving the store the "Kmartha" nickname from people who have acquired the knowledge of her buying out the store.
Kmart would never file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001 only to emerge in 2003, and they would never buy Sears in 2005.
Their corporate headquarters would stay in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan, moving from Troy to a building with a less confusing layout in either Ann Arbor or Royal Oak.
Kmart would still launch their lime green/gray store prototype and stick with opening stores in that style, ditching the red color (since their rival Target practically "owns" the color red by that point in time) Here's an example of that store (I like this look very much and I wish they had enough revenue at the time, in 2002, in our normal reality for a full rollout of this ahead-of-its-time store design beyond the White Lake Township, Michigan and four Peoria, Illinois locations with its wider aisles and a better mix of merchandise to all of their locations via large scale store renovations or store relocations. The new style would also carry over to their Super Kmart stores, as well as their Gallery at Market East mall store in downtown Philadelphia and their Penn Station and Middle Village store in New York City, a 3-story-high Super Kmart location with this style would open at East Rutherford, New Jersey's American Dream Meadowlands Mall in an alternate 2021 as Kmart's new east coast flagship store):
More pictures of the store (including its interior shots) here:
In my alternate universe, domestic guru Martha Stewart buys Kmart in 1999, giving the store the "Kmartha" nickname from people who have acquired the knowledge of her buying out the store.
Kmart would never file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001 only to emerge in 2003, and they would never buy Sears in 2005.
Their corporate headquarters would stay in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan, moving from Troy to a building with a less confusing layout in either Ann Arbor or Royal Oak.
Kmart would still launch their lime green/gray store prototype and stick with opening stores in that style, ditching the red color (since their rival Target practically "owns" the color red by that point in time) Here's an example of that store (I like this look very much and I wish they had enough revenue at the time, in 2002, in our normal reality for a full rollout of this ahead-of-its-time store design beyond the White Lake Township, Michigan and four Peoria, Illinois locations with its wider aisles and a better mix of merchandise to all of their locations via large scale store renovations or store relocations. The new style would also carry over to their Super Kmart stores, as well as their Gallery at Market East mall store in downtown Philadelphia and their Penn Station and Middle Village store in New York City, a 3-story-high Super Kmart location with this style would open at East Rutherford, New Jersey's American Dream Meadowlands Mall in an alternate 2021 as Kmart's new east coast flagship store):
More pictures of the store (including its interior shots) here:
Peoria IL Kmart (Closed)
STORE #: 9335 Full Address: 901 WEST LAKE AVENUE, PEORIA, IL 61614 ADDRESS: 901 WEST LAKE AVENUE CITY: PEORIA ST: IL ZIP: 61614 PHONE: 3096820350 OPEN DATE: 11/1/1998
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