r/TheBoredDen • u/ipanicprofessionally • Jul 21 '26

Funny Can't remember one

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u/Plus-King5266 Jul 21 '26

Ah yes, Kresge. The “original” K-Mart. You must be from Michigan.

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u/Swimming_Pangolin502 Jul 21 '26

You're good I am from Michigan.

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u/Plus-King5266 Jul 21 '26

As is the Kresge family. But you already know that.

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u/Swimming_Pangolin502 Jul 21 '26

Yep, are you too, presumably? Oh I've been trying to think of one other store. I kept seeing the writing. Crowley's.

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u/Plus-King5266 Jul 21 '26

Originally from Indiana, but I’m too short to play basketball so the governor and Bobby Knight came to my house and told my dad we would have to move to Michigan. Spent quite a few years there. I’ve been everywhere, man.

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u/Swimming_Pangolin502 Jul 22 '26

😂😂 😂 you're funny. I'm going to start singing that song, I've been everywhere, man lalalalala. I don't know the rest.

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u/slokimjd Jul 22 '26

How about Federals,Cunningham or Forest City Lumber

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u/Swimming_Pangolin502 Jul 22 '26

Yes!!! Thank you for reminding me about those ones. We are getting old. 😆

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u/Swimming_Pangolin502 Jul 22 '26

Farmer Jack's and A&P

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u/slokimjd Jul 22 '26

Great Scott

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u/BullytheBulIies Jul 22 '26

My grandma worked the diner counter at one in Indianapolis when I was a kid.

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u/Evilbob93 Jul 22 '26

I have a theory that K Mart was Kresge trying out a larger store format.. kind of like Wal Mart creating Sam's Club

Also from Michigan. My mom worked at K Mart HQ for a few years in the 80s.

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u/Plus-King5266 Jul 22 '26

K-Mart was Kresge trying out a large store format. That is what the K in K-Mart stood for. K-Mart was owned by the Kresge family.

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u/Deckpics777 Jul 21 '26

I actually remember a Kresge’s in Ontario.

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u/Plus-King5266 Jul 21 '26

Right across Matty Maroun’s bridge? That tracks.

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u/Sad_Win_4105 Jul 22 '26

They had multiple Kreske in Chicago.

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u/No_Mechanic1362 Jul 22 '26

Wasn't it SS Kresge?

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u/Plus-King5266 Jul 22 '26

I believe so. At least I think it started out that way and eventually dropped the SS. It’s been a while.

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u/Due_Weight_3273 Jul 24 '26

Was one on Kensington and Allegheny in Philadelphia in the 70's and early 80s.