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Kmart recently ended a nearly three‐and‐one‐halfyear long retailing venture in Eastern Europe where they were able to successfully transform existing ailing retailing enterprises into thriving examples of Western retailing. Even though Kmart's entrance into the former Communist Bloc was cut short, the endeavor adeptly illustrates a number ...
- C. Louise Sellaro, Therese Maskulka, David J. Burns
- 1997
Now time for a little something different: Interior pics of Maj, a store in Prague acquired by Kmart in May ‘92, after the formerly Communist owned-and-operated department store was retrofitted to be more like its American parent company’s stores.
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Let me take you several decades back. We will stop in a year 1946. One year after the end of WW2. This was a year when Communist party won the elections. The last free parliamentary elections held in Czechoslovakia until the end of communist regime. Yes, free election didn´t exist during the communism. It wasn´t mandatory to vote, but if you didn´t...
They got 40 % of the votes. With this result they won the elections and got all the key ministries under their full control. And started to place agents in the government structures. Two years later they changed the winery into a dictatorship that lasted 41 years. But the question is: how could they win? Communists basically misused the post-war at...
The spreading influence of communists, unbearable pressure on democratic opposition and democratic president resulted in full takeover of the country by communists. This was in February 1948. How? It was all well prepared and controlled by Stalin from Moscow. He was threatening and pushing on the Czechoslovak communist party to finally take over th...
Lives of people were fully under control of the communist party. There was no freedom. People were facing show trials, purges, many families broke up, friendships ended when people emigrated. Properties and businesses of people were nationalized. Intelectual elites were struggling. They were often not allowed to work in their fields or in positions...
Very important year in our communist history came in 1968. This was a year of big hopes but also big dissappointment in the end. A new president was elected and believe it or not, his name was Svoboda which means freedom in English! There were also new, progressive leaders of the Communist party who came up with a number of surprisingly meaningful ...
All the turbulent changes were absolutely unaccepted by USSR. Such a rebelion in the Eastern Block! But soviets quickly came up with very agressive solution as they were seriously afraid of counter-revolution in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was invaded by Warsaw pact army on August 21, 1968 when thousands of soldiers from USSR, Hungary, Poland, E...
In the second half of the 80´s the political opponents in Czechoslovakia became more active. while the communist leaders were active less. By force of habit they were managing the country without knowing where they were going. Czechoslovakia was experiencing a huge economic decline. Another shock for Czechoslovak communists were all the progressive...
Velvet Revolution started on November 17, 1989 (International Students Day) as a peaceful gathering of students commemorating 50th anniversary of violent act of Nazis against Czech students in 1939. Later in the day, the 1989 gathering turned into a political demonstration against the government. This was just 8 days after the fall of the Berlin wa...
Feb 1, 2017 · Ack in 1992, Kmart bought a old communist chain of stores in czechosloviakia. Ow czech republic and slovakia. The stores in Prague and Bratalava were the most successful in the entire company.
Apr 11, 2022 · The rapid growth would lead to spin-off Kmart stores such as Super Kmart Centers and Big Kmart. By 1981, the 2000th Kmart store was opened. They had expanded here into Canada, and by the end of the year were up to 2,055 stores. But even in the 1980s, those old Kresge stores were still holding on.
Feb 22, 2019 · Stores may have often been empty in Czechoslovakia, but that didn’t mean that goods didn’t exist. The trick was to have connections – either to a producer of goods or to a cashier/store keeper. If one could establish delivery dates of products, one could work out an order well in advance of a delivery.
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Kmart bought 13 state-owned department stores in Czechoslovakia after the fall of Communism. It was quite profitable, but due to their troubles in the US, these stores were sold to British supermarket chain Tesco in 1996.
