Kmart
American retailing company
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| 2024 | Kmart closes its last big-box store in the mainland United States. |
| October 20 2024 | The Bridgehampton, New York Kmart location closed, leaving only the Miami store as the sole Kmart in the continental U.S. |
| April 2024 | Kmart publicly announced the September 2017 data breach, which had remained undisclosed for over six years. |
| October 2023 | The Westwood, New Jersey Kmart location closed after more than 40 years in business. |
| March 2023 | The Miami Kmart location was downsized, now operating mostly from its former garden center with a limited selection of goods. |
| 2022 | By this point, Kmart had effectively exited the U.S. retail market, with only three stores remaining operational nationwide. |
| October 15 2022 | The last Kmart store in Puerto Rico, located at Plaza las Américas, announced its permanent closure, ending Kmart's operations on the island. |
| April 2022 | Only three Kmart locations remained in the continental United States: Miami, Florida; Westwood, New Jersey; and Bridgehampton, New York. |
| April 16 2022 | Kmart closed its New Jersey store in Avenel, reducing the number of stores to four in the United States. |
| March 2022 | Kmart closed its 33-year-old Hamilton, Montana store. |
| 2021 | Kmart continued to significantly reduce its store footprint, with only a handful of stores remaining in the United States, primarily in California, Florida, and New Jersey. |
| December 2021 | Transformco announced plans to put its corporate headquarters and 120 surrounding acres in Hoffman Estates on the market at the start of the following year. |
| December 18 2021 | Kmart shut down its last West Coast location in Grass Valley, California. |
| November 21 2021 | Kmart closed its last store in Michigan, the state where the chain originated in 1962. |
| June 15 2021 | The unauthorized computer server access by an external party concluded, compromising employee personal and healthcare data across Kmart and Transformco. |
| June 3 2021 | An unauthorized party began accessing Transformco computer servers containing sensitive employee payroll and healthcare information, affecting current and past Kmart and Transformco employees. |
| February 6 2020 | Kmart announced it would close 15 more stores. |
| January 2020 | Kmart announced the closure of 45 stores as part of its ongoing downsizing and restructuring efforts. |
| 2019 | During this period, Kmart continued to close numerous stores across the United States as part of its ongoing restructuring efforts, significantly reducing its retail footprint and attempting to remain operational. |
| 2019 | Kmart becomes a subsidiary of Transform SR Brands LLC, a privately held company formed to acquire assets from Sears Holdings. |
| November 2019 | Kmart announced the closing of 45 stores in February 2020. |
| October 2019 | Closure of 84 Kmart stores was announced by TransformCo. |
| August 2019 | Between August 5 and 23, four more Kmart stores were announced for closure. |
| August 6 2019 | TransformCo announced potential additional store closures and could not rule out further shutdowns. |
| August 6 2019 | TransformCo announced plans to close five additional Kmart stores by October 2019. |
| May 2019 | Kmart revealed plans to close its store in Walla Walla, Washington in July. |
| February 2019 | A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved the sale of Sears Holdings to Edward Lampert, with Kmart expected to have 202 locations after the sale. |
| February 1 2019 | ESL filed plans with the bankruptcy court to close three Kmart stores per month in 2019 if their purchase bid was accepted. |
| January 28 2019 | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation expressed opposition to Sears Holdings' agreement with Lampert due to a potential $1.7 billion employee pension fund shortfall. |
| January 24 2019 | A group of unsecured creditors filed a motion to overturn the Lampert deal, claiming asset stripping and requesting company liquidation. |
| January 19 2019 | Sears Holdings officially announced winning the auction, with some existing stores to remain open. |
| January 15 2019 | Bankruptcy court judge ordered Sears Holdings to negotiate a new deal with Eddie Lampert to prevent complete liquidation, ultimately keeping up to 400 Sears and Kmart stores operating. |
| December 28 2018 | Sears Holdings announced the closure of 80 additional stores, including 37 Kmart stores. |
| November 23 2018 | Sears Holdings released a list of 505 stores, including 239 Kmart stores, to be presented for sale in the bankruptcy process, with stores simultaneously holding liquidation sales. |
| November 8 2018 | Sears Holdings announced an additional closure of 40 stores, including 11 Kmart stores. |
| October 2018 | Eddie S. Lampert's CEO tenure ends |
| October 2018 | Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, marking its second bankruptcy filing. This bankruptcy attempt was aimed at restructuring the company's financial obligations and potentially saving the struggling retail chain. |
| October 15 2018 | Sears Holdings filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced the closure of 142 stores, including 63 Kmart stores, marking Kmart's second bankruptcy in 16 years. This closure included the last Kmarts in Arkansas, Georgia, and Kansas. |
| August 23 2018 | Announcement of 13 more Kmart store closures to be completed by November 2018. |
| June 2018 | Sears Holdings reported a data breach where hackers successfully stole credit card numbers from several Kmart stores by exploiting store payment systems using an undetectable 'viruslike computer code' that bypassed current anti-virus systems. |
| May 2018 | Sears announced the liquidation of several Kmarts, including the last Kmart in Vermont located in Bennington. |
| May 31 2018 | Sears Holdings announced the liquidation of 16 Kmart stores and 48 Sears stores, including the last Kmart in Hawaii, located in Līhue. |
| May 31 2018 | Sears Holdings announced the liquidation of 16 Kmart stores, including the last Kmart in Hawaii located in Līhue. |
| May 21 2018 | Sears Holdings announced liquidation sales for 40 Sears and Kmart stores across 24 states, to be closed by July 4, 2018. |
| April 8 2018 | Last Super Kmart location in Warren, Ohio closed and was replaced by Meijer. |
| January 4 2018 | Kmart announced the liquidation of 64 more stores in spring 2018, including the last Super Kmart location in Warren, Ohio. |
| 2017 | Final Kmart Express gas station, located in Ionia, Michigan, closed. |
| November 3 2017 | Announcement of 45 additional Kmart store closures by January 2018, including the last Kmart in Alabama located in Albertville. |
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