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Big Kmart is a chain of discount department stores that carry everything a regular Kmart carries, but with an emphasis on home decor, children's clothing, and more food items such as meat and poultry, baked goods, frozen foods and an extended, but limited section of garden produce; however, they do not feature a bakery, a delicatessen, or fresh seafood. Big Kmart stores range from 84,000–120,000 sq ft (7,800–11,100 m2). Big Kmart stores also feature a garden center, a pharmacy, a branch of a local bank, a Jackson Hewitt tax center, an Olan Mills portrait studio, an arcade, a K-Cafe or Little Caesars Pizza station, and sometimes a Kmart express gas station. As noted above, Kmart rolled the Big Kmart brand out almost companywide when it was introduced in 1997. Since Kmart began focusing more and more on Super Kmarts in the early 2000s, the branding has been retired, but there are still a lot of remaining Big Kmart stores across the U.S. A growing number of Big Kmart stores are being converted into Super Kmart stores every year.

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