It’s the end of an era. The very last remaining K-Mart store in California will shutter its doors this year for good.
Employees at the store in San Francisco said they just learned of the closure – slated for mid-December – last week.
Grass Valley Mayor Ben Aguilar noted the store’s dramatic shift.
“It was very bustling store back in the day, and it really dramatically shifted into something very different over the years,” he told The Union.
A Target is expected to take over the space, the news outlet said.
A handful of other K-Mart stores remained at the beginning of 2021 but closed as well this year.
K-Mart – which began in the 1800s as a Five and Dime in Tennessee – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002. It merged with Sears two years later but the decline continued.
Only 17 of the company’s stores remain open nationwide. At its peak, it had an estimated 2,400 locations across the U.S.
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