Talk:Public department store

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Slovakia is Slovak

@User:Ehrenkater You merged the Slovak stores into the Czech section. Slovakia is not the Czech Republic. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 00:35, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, apologies. The Slovakia section was headed "Czech Republic", and I obviously didn't read the contents properly. However the "Prior" stores operated (almost?) entirely during the period before the two separated, and I would suggest that at least there is some sort of cross-reference between the two sections to make this clearer. Ehrenkater (talk) 06:36, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ehrenkater Ah, my mistake. I just looked up the exact date of privatization and under which government it was privatized. NYT says in 1992 that K Mart "has acquired the Prior & Maj department store chain for $118 million". This source says that "At the end of 1992, the Ministry of Trade and Tourism of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic included 199 companies (such as Prior), for which 1,500 privatisation projects were submitted" and that "The American chain K-mart, created via the privatisation of six Prior department stores (in Prague, Brno, Liberec, Plzeň, Pardubice and Hradec Králové), was also operating on the Czech market. This chain ceased on the Czech market in 1996 when it sold its department stores to the British chain Tesco." Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 09:24, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I'm not sure yet what became of the remaining Prior stores in Slovakia. Whether they were owned by Kmart, who owns them now, etc. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 09:40, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]