Mark Schwartz to be his second-in-command. Schwartz had left Wal-Mart after trying and failing to start his own real estate business, which he abandoned when it came under millions of dollars in debt. In the two years since then, he had briefly been the CEO of Hechinger–Builders Square before it collapsed, then led Big V Supermarkets, which also went bankrupt shortly after Schwartz left for Kmart.8