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Making paradise affordable: life would be harder for many Americans without discount stores.
The first K-Mart opened in Hawaii, my home state, in 1992. That was the debut for Big Box retailing of the "no membership required" variety (Costco had already been here for a couple of years), and residents were amazingly excited. The day of the store's grand opening, local news outlets interviewed future K-Martians mulling the Big Moment. One woman, in an obvious state of pre-shopping ecstasy, exclaimed, "K-Mart is the best thing to ever happen to Hawaii!"
Now, personally, I believe that the unification of the Islands under Kamehameha the Great, the introduction of written language, the lifting of martial law after World War II, and statehood all rank a bit ...
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