curtaincall, the grocery store (Kohl's II) was long ago sold to A&P, but no stores have used the name for about five years. The Kohl family (Sen. Herb's parents) founded both stores but haven't owned a majority stake since the early 1970s. Herb had left management by 1979. The only connection is the name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohl%27s#Hi...

I love shopping at the kohls dept. store.

This is the department store, not grocery right?
I dont' think sen.kohl owns the dept store or ever did. I was told it was the grocery store he owns.

Not sure when the last time Herb Kohl walked into headquarters or owned a share of stock, but it certainly isn't his business anymore. It's a public company. Go ahead, buy some stock.
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Kohls has really done quite well as a department store with discount-store efficiency to where many other retailers are copying it. If you read the business news regularly it is generally considered a pretty well-run company that has been successful even as competition has squeezed out other players. We should congratulate this Wisconsin success story.

Upnorth, you must work at better Kohl's than what I did. I felt that they were a good company to work for in beginning, but after time it became a typical company to work for....and the good employees weren't treated with any respect what so ever. Yes, they do have the option of giving part-time employees the insurance which was nice but I personally didn't need it, and personally I didn't think the pay was all that great for all the stuff you had to put up with. But you are entitled to your opinion on the company, this is just mine.

OH and Herb Kohl hasn't owned the company in years in regards to those previous posts, but congrats to a 1,000th store!

I will tell you one thing, Kohl's is an excellent company to work for. The pay is good and they offer insurance to part-timers, not many companies do. I don't dread going to work because I think my job is fun. It's been a pleasure working there for the last year, looking forward to many more!

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I don't know all the facts but I do know that a company that has very good (high) wages and benefits as well as a huge debt load of retirees, does not have much future when most people that are buying that product get paid much less. There needs to be a rethinking of the balance of wages in this country. We can not afford to buy products, oil or many other things made in the U.S. We have oil, we have great workers in the auto industry but we can not compete on the world market with our high prices. Some how, we need to get to a point where people can make a salary commensurate with the work they do. That way things would start to balance out better. Who is to say that the auto worker does harder or better work than a roofer, teacher or fry cook? Why does one group deserve the high wages when equally tough jobs do not get compensated as well? Maybe, just maybe the auto worker gets too much and the waitress gets to little.

Can anyone truthfully tell me what Herb Kohl has done for the state recently, say the last 5 years or more?

Dear "BartSimpson"; If you mean senator Herb Kohl, I'm sorry to inform you that he hasn't been involved in this business for at least 25 years. Sounds like Bart needs to do his homework.

Congrats Kohl's! Good to know something in this country is successful.