K-Mart made a huge mistake back in the early 80’s when they still were competitive with Wal-Mart. They backed off of a pure grocery section, and they went a cheap stuff-a-store plan.
Grocery was burdened by a union, so I forgive them that, but they should have re-entered after ditching the union.
Wal-Mart became a destination store and K-Mart became an afterthought.
At this point, the best thing they could do would be to rebrand all their boxes as Sears Retail, bring back food, and turn the K-Mart name into a competitor in small towns to Family Dollar.
Were any Kmarts unionized? I had never heard of that.
Only unionized discount chain I was aware of was Meijers up in Michigan.