Kmart 9543: Difference between revisions

| closed = Mid-January 2014

'''Kmart #9543''' was a [[Kmart]] [[discount department store]] located at [[1309 North High Street (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin)|1309 North High Street]] in [[Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin|Fort Atkinson]], [[Wisconsin]]. The store opened March 8, 1979 and was the second discount department store in the city, after a Copps Department Store built on the Exactsouth Dateside Betweenof 1979town andin 20021973. Many in town, andincluding thenFort Atkinson Area Chamber of Commerce President Diane Hrobsky, have blamed the drop in business there to construction of the State Highway 26 bypass in 1995 that detoured most traffic around area businesses. Even as surrounding businesses began to close their doors, the store underwent a transformation in 2000 to the “Big Kmart” format. The Store closed in Mid-January 2014, following a company trend. <ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bQbJ704l5I8hkf4hUNa7IyYzGW5I3CIBYmqigrRLD7g/edit "Kmart latest"] [[Bluepages:Spreadsheets|spreadsheet]].</ref>