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Foot locker was started by F.W. Woolworth in 1974. Woolworth had purchased Kinney shoes and branched that into a series of specialty shoe stores over several years, one of which was Foot Locker. The parent company Woolworth Corp. turned into Venator Group Inc. which eventually renamed itself Foot Locker Inc.
