Kmart, every mention
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- ▶ 20:57 David Rosenthal Why do you think Kmart was called Kmart?
- ▶ 21:10 David Rosenthal They were expanding across the country, and he was like, oh great, we're gonna draft off the Fedmart brand, and it was the same thing with Kmart.
- ▶ 21:26 David Rosenthal Discounters are Walmart's, Kmart's, Targets.
- ▶ 24:00 David Rosenthal First, he invents the discounter, which then Sam Walton, Kresge with Kmart, Dayton with Target, copy, and becomes the dominant retail form of America.
- ▶ 34:26 David Rosenthal As these other companies are scaling, and I think particularly Kmart, they don't really have
- ▶ 34:41 David Rosenthal Kmart, if you remember back to our Walmart episode, came out of the Kresge department store chain, which was huge.
- ▶ 34:52 David Rosenthal You know, Sam had to fight bitterly, last mile by last mile, building out his distribution network to beat Kmart.
- ▶ 43:11 David Rosenthal They're gonna get steamrolled by Walmart and Kmart and Target and everybody else.
- ▶ 49:14 David Rosenthal So at the time, Walmarts and Kmarts had on the order of about 50,000 SKUs and even FedMart had
- ▶ 1:07:50 David Rosenthal Walmart and Kmart and Target start, 1982 when all this is happening.
- ▶ 1:13:28 David Rosenthal Capital in order to be able to grow stores and compete with Walmart and Kmart.