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August 06, 2012|By JANICE PODSADA, Special To The Courant, The Hartford Courant
With the dog canicule of August still looming, Joe Korb was in allegation of a brace of shorts. To acquisition the ones he wanted, the 61-year-old barter disciplinarian knew absolutely breadth to go: Kohl's in Rocky Hill.
"For as abundant as I shop, I boutique at Kohl's or Wal-Mart — Wal-Mart for garden things and domiciliary items; Kohl's for clothes. They're both close," said Korb, a citizen of Rocky Hill who doesn't like visiting bounded malls.
Kohl's Corp., a abatement administration abundance alternation that operates added than 1,100 food nationwide, affairs to accessible 10 new food this abatement — three of which will acceptable Connecticut shoppers in Berlin, New Milford and Killingly and accompany about 375 jobs to the area.
Over the weekend, hundreds of job seekers descended on job fairs in Cromwell, New Milford and Danielson to administer for the accessible positions at the three new Connecticut stores. Kohl's is captivation job fairs through Wednesday.
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Each abundance is accepted to apply about 125 part-timers to run banknote registers, agents the sales floor, banal shelves or unload freight, said Christie Wolfe, a aggregation spokeswoman.
The job fairs accept been able-bodied abounding Wolfe said. At the Cromwell event, breadth applications were actuality taken for positions at the Berlin store, a abundance recruiter said about 500 candidates showed up Saturday and Sunday.
At apex Monday, about 15 account afterwards the job fair at the Crowne Plaza in Cromwell got underway, the feast allowance breadth the accident was actuality captivated was filled. Nearly every bench was taken. About 30 bodies were either bushing out applications at one of three tables or built-in forth the far bank cat-and-mouse for an account or acclimatization session.
Many job candidates said they shopped at Kohl's, including retired accompaniment agent Laura Niewinsky, of Newington, who was gluttonous a part-time position at the Berlin Kohl's, which will accessible abutting to Home Depot on the Berlin Turnpike.
"I boutique there; my babe shops there — it's, 'Mom, can I allegation this?'" said Niewinsky, 56.
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Niewinsky said she was acquisitive to "go aback to retail afterwards years and years" in accompaniment government.
"I formed at Caldor back I was in aerial school. I don't apperceive if anybody remembers them," she said. Caldor, which bankrupt it doors in 1999, was a bounded abatement administration abundance alternation based in Norwalk. "I'm attractive for article that will get me out of the house, accomplish me feel accustomed again," Niewinsky said.
"Kohl's is a abatement administration store, abutting in position to a Target and J.C. Penney and Macy's, but with a little bluff pricing," said Tim O'Connor, carnality admiral of RetailNet Group in Waltham, Mass.
Kohl's locations are about amid in baby retail centers or by themselves as stand-alone stores. In Rocky Hill, the Kohl's shares a huge parking lot with an ALDI grocery store. The Kohl's in Manchester, amid beyond the artery from a Big Y World Class Market grocery store, occupies its own building.
It's a architecture that has begin favor with abounding Connecticut association who adopt to boutique abutting to home. But Kohl's' acumen for alienated malls and operating stand-alone food is due, in part, to its "relative newcomer" status, O'Connor said.
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"They don't appetite to be in the capital with their absolute competitors — food like Macy's and Penney's — that accept already bound up sales," O'Connor said. Kohl's Administration Abundance was founded in 1962 by Maxwell Kohl. Maxwell Kohl's son, Herbert Kohl, who was admiral of the Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based alternation from 1970 until 1979, owns the Milwaukee Bucks NBA aggregation and is currently Wisconsin's chief U.S. senator.
Kohl's, which was the 20th better U.S. banker in agreement of acquirement aftermost year, is now about endemic and trades beneath the New York Banal Exchange attribute KSS.
Although Kohl's would not accommodate Connecticut sales information, the chain, which sells men's, women's and children's accouterment and accessories, forth with home décor items, currently operates 18 food in the state.
"Kohl's has been actual advised in its advance strategy, and we are accurate to baddest locations that are adjoining to or abreast cities and towns we are accustomed with through accepted abundance locations. We additionally accede locations/markets breadth it makes the best business sense," commune administrator Michael Rusciano wrote in an emailed acknowledgment to The Courant.
For shoppers who ambition to abstain the hassles of a appointment to the mall, Kohl's promises accessible admission and affluence of parking. For others, who say they adopt Kohl's appraisement and accoutrement over added administration stores, a cruise to Kohl's has become a destination.
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On Saturday, one car afterwards addition pulled into the abounding parking lot at the Rocky Hill store. Inside, barter perused sales on men's pants, women's shoes, kitchen accessories and exhaustion cleaners. Teenagers arrested out the Mudd jeans, Candie's acme and Tony Hawk T-shirts. And best shoppers gravitated at some point against the accouterment approval racks that advertised up to 80 percent off the aboriginal price.
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