Editing Shopko (section)

===Shopko===
[[File:ShopKo Houghton.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Store facade at [[Houghton, Michigan]], location in April 2012. This location closed on May 11, 2019.]]
[[Image:First Shopko.JPG|thumb|right|200px|The first Shopko store in [[Green Bay, Wisconsin]], and the marker commemorating its status, both taken in August 2009. This location closed on April 22, 2019.]]
By the time it went ceased operations, the company operated 363 stores in 24 states including, but not limited to, [[California]], [[Iowa]], [[Idaho]], [[Illinois]], [[Indiana]], [[Kansas]], [[Kentucky]], [[Michigan]], [[Minnesota]], [[Missouri]], [[Montana]], [[Nebraska]], [[Nevada]], [[North Dakota]], [[Ohio]], [[Oregon]], [[South Dakota]], [[Utah]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[Wyoming]]. Stores were typically placed in small to mid-sized communities. Most Shopko stores were located in [[strip mall]]s, [[shopping mall]]s, [[power center (retail)|power center]]s, or freestanding locations. Shopko, with partnerships from Green Bay, Wisconsin-based [[Bellin Health]] and other local hospitals, also operated walk-in clinics inside its stores called '''FastCare'''.

Past slogans include "Say hello to a good buy at ShopKo", "ShopKo discounts the price...not the quality.", "We won't be undersold.", "ShopKo: Discover for Yourself", "ShopKo - The Store for You.", "ShopKo - Your Lifestyle, Your Pricestyle.", "Shopko - Neat stuff, neat store." and "My life...my style...my store". Shopko's last slogan was "The Stuff that Counts", which was used from 2015 to 2019. The slogan for Shopko Express pharmacy was "Every day. On your way."{{citation needed|date=November 2012}}

[[Karen McDiarmid]] was Shopko's spokesperson in the 1980s and 1990s.

Shopko sponsored the [[exhibition hall]] venue portion of the [[Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena]]/[[Resch Center]] complex, known as [[Shopko Hall]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://expoandeventgreenbay.com/wp-content/uploads/shopko-tech.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006042642/http://expoandeventgreenbay.com/wp-content/uploads/shopko-tech.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=October 6, 2016|title=Technical Information| website=Expoandeventgreenbay.com|access-date=June 2, 2019}}</ref> Unrelated to the bankruptcy in any case, Shopko Hall closed on April 28, 2019 with the BCVMA and was demolished, and was replaced with a new expo hall known as the [[Resch Expo]].<ref>{{cite news| title=First look at the planned $93 million Brown County Expo Center| url=https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2019/03/11/brown-county-expo-center-first-look-93-million-project/3133113002/| date=March 11, 2019| newspaper=Green Bay Press-Gazette| first=Jeff| last=Bollier| access-date=November 24, 2024}}</ref>