Listen to ‘On The Line’: Detroit history checking out with last Kmart – Detroit Free Press

Posted: October 1, 2021 at 7:41 am

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On this episode: The Kmart brand was born in Michigan. Now, it's leaving.

Host Cary Junior II chats with Free Press business reporter JC Reindl, who broke the story on the planned closure of the last Kmart in Michigan.

Reindl walks listeners through the downfall of the former retail giant.Meanwhile, Detroit Historical Society assistant curator Bill Pringle traces its history back to 1899, and the roots of the S.S. Kresge Co. in Detroit.

Shoppers at the last store, in Marshall, also give into the nostalgia and bid farewell.

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