King's
TypeDiscount store
IndustryRetail
FoundedBrockton, Massachusetts; 1956
Defunct1984
FateBankruptcy; all locations sold to Ames
SuccessorAmes (1984-2002)

King's Department Stores was a chain of discount stores in the Eastern United States. The chain started in 1956, in Brockton, Massachusetts. They expanded to 187 stores (three stores operated in the Buffalo, New York area[1]).[2] In 1978, they purchased the bankrupt Mammoth Mart chain.[2] Because of the economic downturn and the debt from the Mammoth purchase, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1982.[2] In 1984 Ames Department Stores purchased the chain and converted most of them into Ames stores.[2] Ames went out of business in 2002.[2]

Retail Chains Bought out By King's

  • Sandy's Discount Stores
  • Miracle Mart (US Chain, not to be confused with the Canadian chain)

References

  1. ↑ Rizzo, Michael F. (2007). Nine nine eight : the glory days of Buffalo shopping. Morrisville, NC: Lulu, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4303-1386-1. OCLC 154700690.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Whatever happened to.............King's Department Stores". The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA. Retrieved 2020-08-16.


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