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Originally Posted by 33girl
Seriously? They conciously left the state (i.e. they said "we will no longer do business in Oklahoma") or they just closed all the stores?
I know that sounds like nit-picking, but I just had a similar discussion about Burger King in Pittsburgh - some people think they left the market when actually I guess the local franchisor is in some sort of contract dispute. They're in some of the outlying suburbs.
Then again don't you have that Butt store down your way?
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When they downsized during the bankruptcy, they closed down a lot of stores which may not have been doing very well. It turned out that for some reason, that included nearly all of their stores in Oklahoma. I have heard rumors that we have a K-Mart out in Shawnee (if you know where that is) which is about 45 minutes East of Oklahoma City -- I'm pretty sure that's false though.
It could be that Wal-Mart is so popular here and K-Mart didn't like the competition (Oklahoma is a test bed for new Wal-Mart store concepts, I've heard they plan on opening 30 supercenters in the OKC metro area). I'm not sure how likely that is though. Target came behind K-Mart and opened locations near or at wherever K-Marts were located.
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