1962
S.S. Kresge Co. opened its first Kmart discount department store in a suburb of Detroit.
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1997
Image Credit: Marco Ugarte/Shutterstock People walk by a Sears store in Mexico City.
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Sears
Image Credit: Stock Connection/Shutterstock Sears
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2004
Image Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Shutterstock Shoppers enter a Sears store in Hollywood, Calif.
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2007
Image Credit: Mel Evans/Shutterstock A huge Sears Roebuck and Co. retail store sits in disrepair in Camden, N.J.
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2017
Image Credit: AP/Shutterstock Traffic passes by a Sears department store in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood in New York.
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2018
Image Credit: Seth Wenig/Shutterstock People stand outside a Sears department store in Hackensack, N.J., following news that Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.