Kmart spearheads super push

Discount Store News, Nov 16, 1992 by Laura Liebeck

Interestingly enough, Kmart has not established separate warehouse facilities for the supercenters. The stores, which will total six by year-end - montrose, Medina, Clinton, Iowa, Kankakee, Ill., and the newly converted American Fare's in Jackson, Miss., and Charlotte, N.C. - receive product via Flemming food distributors, directly from manufacturers and from Kmart's hard lines and soft lines distribution centers.

"We have to study all the issues. We're babies. We have to crawl first. If we execute here like in Medina, we have the potential to change food retailing," declared Marsico.

Marsico said Kmart's largest combination store, the 220,000 sq.-ft. American Fare in Stone Mountain, Ga., is not yet slated for a retrofit to the supercenter format.