It is upon his return from the aforementioned trip (and 1300 AD) that various versions of Ash either choose to stay with the S-Mart company, choose to leave, or are outright fired.

How long he had been employed with the company varies from universe to universe, though most versions of him seem to have been working at the store during the time he took a weekend trip to a cabin in the mountains. One of the Michigan locations severed as the place of employment for Ash Williams. Unlike it's future larger department store-like locations, this S-Mart was a small convince store on a street corner set up more like a gas station, with snack foods, sodas, and magazines being their primary source of sales.īy the 1980s and 90s, S-Mart had expanded into a nation-wide chain of stores. The earliest known store was located in Detroit, Michigan in 1979. The early history of the S-Mart company remains mostly unknown, though we do know that it was founded sometime before the 1970s by a man simply known as 'Mr.

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