Talk:S. H. Kress & Co.

Confusion between Kress and Kresge
There are two stores and founders who are being confused; S.H. Kress and S.S. Kresge. Kresge was an early five and dime, competing with Woolworth, which is the one that in the 60s or 70s created K-Mart, not Kress. Mulp (talk) 05:05, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Redirect from Kress
Folks I am going to remove the redirect here from 'Kress'. There is a governor in Russia with the same name. Rather than clutter up your page with a link to that page page, I am going to put in a disambiguation page for both this article and the Victor Kress article.Montco 22:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I believe that if you will check, the K Marts were NOT an outgrowth of the S.H. Kress Company, they were the outgrowth of the S.S. Kresge stores. The Chairman of the Board and Acting President of S.H. Kress (William B. Sutherland) resigned in 1959 or 1960 because Kress would NOT move their stores from downtown to the suburbs in the mart style. Kresge then did when they learned of the concept. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.19.39.42 (talk) 13:44, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Kress store in a theme park in Florida?
"...and [a store] formerly on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, now preserved at a theme park in Orlando, Florida."

Is there a source for this? I've removed that part of the sentence because I dont see anything about it online. -- LaNaranja (talk) 02:22, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

History section
I suggest the removal or drastic re-working of the second and third paragraphs in this section. The impartiality is easily questioned, and the mention that Genesco bought the Kress chain in 1955, the year of Mr. Kress's death, flatly contradicts the paragraph near the top which says that the sale to Genesco took place in 1964. Rontrigger (talk) 08:19, 10 July 2014 (UTC)