Kmart Corporation. Sears Holdings, the parent company of Kmart, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018. S. S. Kresge, the founder of the company that would become Kmart, met variety-store pioneer Frank Winfield Woolworth while working as a traveling salesman and selling to all 19 of Woolworth's stores at the time. In 1897 Kresge invested $6,700 saved from his job into a five-and-dime store in Memphis, Tennessee. He jointly owned the first store with his former tinware customer, John McCrory. Kresge and McCrory added a second store in downtown Detroit the following year. These were the first S.S. Kresge stores.
Discount Tire in Monster Energy AMA Supercross. In 2016, Discount Tire stores in Arizona posted "Re-Elect Sheriff Joe Arpaio" signs in their windows. In 2016, Halle donated $1 million to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy in an effort to stop cannabis legalization in Arizona. Discount Tire The Reinalt-Thomas Corporation (doing business as Discount Tire Company) is a tire and wheel retailer, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Discount Tire is known as America's Tire in regions of California (except for San Diego County, where it is still known as "Discount Tire"). Discount Tire was founded in 1960, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Bruce T.