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Jul 7, 1993 · Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in January, leaving Kmart with stores in two countries.
May 8, 1992 · WASHINGTON — “Pozor, Kmart shoppers!” Russians are eating Big Macs, Hungarians are reading by General Electric light bulbs and soon Czechoslovaks in Prague and other parts of the country will be...
Kmart recently ended a nearly three‐and‐one‐halfyear long retailing venture in Eastern Europe where they were able to successfully transform existing ailing retailing enterprises into thriving examples of Western retailing. Even though Kmart's entrance into the former Communist Bloc was cut short, the endeavor adeptly illustrates a number ...
- C. Louise Sellaro, Therese Maskulka, David J. Burns
- 1997
Kmart bought 13 state-owned department stores in Czechoslovakia after the fall of Communism. It was quite profitable, but due to their troubles in the US, these stores were sold to British supermarket chain Tesco in 1996.
Now time for a little something different: Interior pics of Maj, a store in Prague acquired by Kmart in May ‘92, after the formerly Communist owned-and-operated department store was retrofitted to be more like its American parent company’s stores.
Dec 26, 1992 · From Associated Press. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Attention Czech and Slovak shoppers: The blue light special is here. Kmart Corp., America’s second-largest retailer, is transforming 13...
Sep 6, 2012 · Looking at four of the most prosperous, consumer-oriented communist countries (the GDR, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia), Patrick Hyder Patterson demonstrates how the department store phenomenon played out in the socialist context: how the desires that were unleashed and the cultural values that were sustained through the use of the ...
