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Kmart Canada was the Canadian subsidiary of Kmart

History
The company that would eventually become Kmart, the S.S. Kresge Co., opened its first location in 1929 at 27 King Street West in Kitchener, Ontario. By the end of the year, a total of 19 stores were open by the end of the year.

In 1997, Kmart sold its Canadian subsidiary to an investor group that consisted of York Management Services, Capital D’Amerique CDPQ Inc, and Cherokee Ventures Canada Inc for $185 million, and kept a 12.5% equity interest in Kmart Canada. At the end of the year, Kmart Canada closed 10 stores and fired 756 employees. Soon after, the Hudson's Bay Company purchased the company for $265 million, which made the company the largest owner of discount stores in Canada. Kmart Canada was merged with their then 298-store Zellers chain in order to better compete with Walmart.

Legacy
As of 2017, Kmart still operates in the United States as a subsidiary of Sears Holdings, despite having prolonged financial problems. Many leases of Zellers stores were bought up by Target in 2011, which effectively ended the chain's national presence. As a result of this, along with the liquidation of Target Canada in 2015, a few former Kmart locations have briefly served as locations of Target and Walmart.



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 * Canadas Saving Place 1984