Kmart - Fashion Company Profile
Kmart is the American discount chain whose first store opened in Garden City, Michigan in 1962 - once a network of more than 2,000 stores, passed to Transformco out of the 2018 Sears Holdings bankruptcy, and by August 2025 reduced to three remaining locations, including a downsized Miami store in its former garden centre.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Effectively wound down - the last full-size Kmart in the continental United States closed on October 20, 2024; by August 2025 only three locations remained in U.S. states and territories: a downsized Miami store operating from its former garden centre, one store in Guam and one on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Type
- Private - a Transformco brand since 2019, when Transformco acquired the surviving Sears and Kmart stores out of the Sears Holdings bankruptcy
- Headquarters
- Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States (Transformco)
- Founded
- 1962 - the first Kmart store opened in Garden City, Michigan; the chain's roots run to the S.S. Kresge Company, founded in 1899
Company Profile
A retailer that has effectively wound down carries no Amazon/eBay shop box here. Sears Holdings, Kmart's parent, filed Chapter 11 on October 15, 2018; Transformco acquired the surviving stores in 2019, and closures continued until the last full-size mainland store, at Bridgehampton, New York, closed on October 20, 2024. The Kmart website linked above remains the chain's official address under Transformco. The earlier record - the 2006 and 2009 store snapshots with their dates, the three store formats and the 2018 Chapter 11 announcement - is kept in full on the history page.
The 2009 snapshot fills in the operating detail. Approximately 290 Kmart stores were selling an assortment of major home appliances, including Kenmore-branded products; 1,025 Kmart stores operated in-store pharmacies; 20 Sears Auto Centers operated in Kmart stores, offering automotive repair and maintenance services and accessories; and Kmart began operating its own footwear business, previously operated by a third party, in January 2009. Kmart also sold its products through kmart.com. An earlier snapshot in the same filing, as of January 28, 2006, counted 1,416 stores - 1,361 discount stores and 55 Super Centers - so the kept record shows the chain's slow contraction in its own numbers, three years apart.
Kmart History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Kmart History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
How many Kmart stores are left?
By August 2025 only three locations remained in U.S. states and territories: a downsized store in Miami, Florida operating from its former garden centre, one in Guam and one on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The last full-size mainland store closed in Bridgehampton, New York on October 20, 2024.
Who owns Kmart now?
Transformco, which acquired the surviving Sears and Kmart stores in 2019 after Sears Holdings filed Chapter 11 on October 15, 2018.
When did Kmart start?
The first Kmart store opened in Garden City, Michigan in March 1962; the business descends from the S.S. Kresge Company, founded in 1899.
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