King's Department Stores was a chain of discount stores in the Eastern United States. The chain started in 1956, in

Brockton, Massachusetts Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population is 105,643 as of the 2020 United States Census. Along with Plymouth, it is one of the two county seats of Plymouth County. It is the sixth-largest city in Massac ...

. They expanded to 187 stores (three stores operated in the

Buffalo, New York Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Sou ...

area). In 1978, they purchased the bankrupt Mammoth Mart chain. Because of the economic downturn and the debt from the Mammoth purchase, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1982. In 1984 Ames Department Stores purchased the chain and converted most of them into Ames stores. Ames went out of business in 2002.

Retail Chains Bought out By King's

* Mammoth Mart * Barker's Discount Department Stores * Sandy's Discount Stores * Miracle Mart (US Chain, not to be confused with the Canadian chain)

References

Defunct discount stores of the United States Defunct companies based in Massachusetts 1956 establishments in Massachusetts {{US-retail-company-stub