Kmart

Kmart is a discount store located in the United States and Australia, the latter a low-end discount store licensing the name.

The first Kmart opened in Garden City, Michigan and eventually reached a peak of 2,000 stores by the year 2000. Unfortunately, Kmart has fallen to a rather distant third place in the discounter race, namely due to being behind on remodeling, poor location build-out, and general incompetence. Kmart is still around (but going nowhere) with three stores in the USA and approximately 300 stores in Australia and New Zealand as of April 2022.

Film

 * Rain Man: "Kmart sucks."
 * The Book of Eli reveals that Eli once worked in a Kmart.

Literature

 * Somewhere in IT, Kmart is mentioned.

Newspaper Comics

 * An old Calvin and Hobbes comic strip has Calvin's dad telling him he was a Blue Light Special from Kmart (cheaper than Sears, ironically from the same company nowadays)