K-Mart needs to shut down completely. Family Dollar and Dollar General are making great strides in small towns but they’re shooting themselves in the foot for going up against each other in the same towns. They are also expanding too quickly. Every small town around here with a population of 3-5K has both. It’s too much of the same thing. If there was a large enough market for K-Mart in a small town, Walmart would be more the more welcomed company by the public.
I agree Sears would do well as a stand alone store as they were decades ago.
Those small town chain stores are exploding, so healthy competition is a good thing. If K-Mart rebranded in the Family Dollar mold as a smaller dollar store, and if Sears took over their big box stores with the Sears name, quality, and history as the replacement, then Sears would get value out of both.
K-Mart is easy seen as having similar quality as Family Dollar. Small K-Marts scattered throughout the towns of America would have a huge legacy of marketing to build upon.
JMHO