A few disclaimers: 1. I made a mistake when saying that there are 2 Kmart's left globally, as there are a handful in other countries. The 2 only applies to the U.S. 2. My apologies if my breathing is very prevalent, I'm asthmatic LMAO

@KyleHartley_crazybangles

15 күн бұрын

In total there's 6 left: Bridgehampton, NY Miami, FL Tamuning, Guam St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands (there's 2 locations there) St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

@RonNewman

10 күн бұрын

The Kmarts in "other countries" (Australia and New Zealand) are owned by a company that is now unrelated to US Kmart.

@jacksroom3727

9 күн бұрын

There’s k mart in Guam 🇬🇺 us territory

@RyneMcKinney

7 күн бұрын

Australia has a separately owned Kmart that's still going strong

@tpatrickl9539

6 күн бұрын

@@xismlg as an American, we tend to be ethnocentric. The things going on in the far reaches of the world don’t count.

I miss Kmart, used to work there back in 1990 and then again in 2001 . Kmart was an American tradition a family store. It shows how everything is closing . Technology has phased kmart out out the retail business. Sad to see them close . And thank you for sharing this wonderful store

@blank1778

2 күн бұрын

Nah they did it to themselves with bad management and advertisements

@jfwfreo

Күн бұрын

It was Eddie Lampert and his dodgy financial shenanigans (shenanigans designed to make Eddie Lampert and his mates rich at the expense of the businesses he was in charge of) that killed K-Mart (and Sears for that matter)

@xismlg

20 сағат бұрын

theres blame to be passed around everywhere but many retail chains from that time are unfortunately dying out now. society as a whole has also changed.

This isn't a K-Mart from what I remember, it's a sad corpse and micro version of what K-Mart used to be.

@surferbri5346

2 күн бұрын

No shit captain obvious

@surlyGir

Күн бұрын

​@@surferbri5346rude

@Queen_EL11

22 сағат бұрын

🥴

In the 90s most of them had Little Caesar's pizza stations just inside the main entrance. I remember that fondly.

@VaNdaILoKo

5 күн бұрын

My local one was one of these! Their pizza would usually always be cooked way better than visiting a solo little ceasars location fondly remember cashing my checks for only a $1 while i would get their fresh made pizza smell. Very nostalgic now that was back in 2019-2020

@shawnwhite2572

5 күн бұрын

@@VaNdaILoKo yep, and those little baby pan pans. It was two square shaped pizzas. My aunt worked there cooking those back around 1993.

@allkindz6792

3 күн бұрын

Once that was taken out, I already knew something was going to happen soon...

@x-Abraham-x2

3 күн бұрын

Yes! Where I live the Pizzas used to be $5 incredible now they’re like $15-$20 😂

@jasonkyleadams7577

2 күн бұрын

They also had Slush Puppies or Icee Brand. K-Mart was my shopping place, I never heard of the mall for the longest time as it wasn't in my parent's budget.

The store to the right the "at Home" used to be the main building of Kmart. What you're walking in used to be just Garden and Lawn Furniture.

@johndersham1

7 күн бұрын

I noticed that and was going to say the same thing.

@snowflakehunter

4 күн бұрын

Sure

@freiza79

2 күн бұрын

i liked the family vibe too!!! I got my 1st apartment furniture there. they had good martha stewart brands.

@snowflakehunter

2 күн бұрын

@@freiza79 the only memory I have of Kmart is when the electronics associate looked past me to the customer behind me to help him and ignored me. All because I had just got off work and had grease on my clothes. I was going to buy a television but when they ignored me I left and went to walmart. I never walked back into a Kmart again. Piece of crap company. No wonder they went down the drain.

@jopat87

2 күн бұрын

That explains a lot. I’ve been Family Dollar stores that were bigger.

In the late 80’s, I lived in the apartment complex across the street. Shopped there all the time as we did not have Target or Walmart.

I was born in 1995, and loved to shop at Kmart, as a kid. My local store closed in 2016, and it’s sad to see how fast they have all closed. I used to love Target, as well, but it’s lost its magic.

@xismlg

20 сағат бұрын

hell yeah dude. many of the places i shopped as a kid are mere shells of what they used to be as well. corporatism at its finest

@Tristin471

15 сағат бұрын

@@xismlg Yes! Idk how old you are, but do you remember Hills/Ames?

Kmart was the go-to place for clothes, back-to-school, Christmas shopping for my family back in the 90s. Even despite having a Walmart we would always go to Kmart. My mom would only buy her shoes there because the brand that she liked was exclusive to Kmart and she would always buy the same design

The Kmart blue light was on a little mobile cart. The cart was probably 3 feet high and the flashing blue lights stood up another three or 4 feet. It was mobile. I don’t know if they were plug-in or there was a battery. Probably had to plug it in somewhere. They would announce it over the store PA system. For the next 15 minutes at the flashing blue light, sliced ham will be only $1.99 a pound.

@xismlg

8 күн бұрын

Ahhh okay makes sense. I figured it was a light on the ceiling that would flash while the rest of the lights go dim.

@tpatrickl9539

8 күн бұрын

@@xismlg the flashing blue lights stuck up just high enough that you could see it if you got to that department. They would tell you what department it was in, the item, and the sale price

@markdanielczyk944

4 күн бұрын

The blue lights were fully self-contained, battery (12 volts) with an on board charger. Our K Mart in Crystal Lake, Illinois blue light cart had a warning sign on it: "Caution, I blow fuses". Enough to deter this little guy from turning the strobe on!

@charlesbolton8471

3 күн бұрын

@@xismlg Originally the blue light was on a self contained rolling cart. However, the blue got discontinued for a few years (late 90s/early 00s-I don’t remember exactly when or how long), but when it came back it WAS a light in the ceiling in one high traffic location (the mobile Blue Light Cart came back as well) and whatever item(s) where being featured were taken to the blue light area on blue carts for the Blue Light Event. The crazy thing about the return of the Blue Light was that all of the featured items were planned by corporate and sent to the stores for the promotion. Originally, the Blue Light items were chosen by the individual store based on what items that individual store needed to sell quickly.

@xismlg

20 сағат бұрын

@@charlesbolton8471 so i was half correct? hey ill take it man

I miss Kmart. We had a nice Super K in Fairbanks Alaska which was closed right after Kmart declared Bankruptcy, I still remember smelling the little Cesar pizza as you entered the store. Currently one half of the building is being used for car storage, and Amazon is about to move in and use the other half.

When we migrated to the USA back in 1973, K-Mart was our very first department store. I bought my first Levis jeans jacket there.

Miss K marts layaway.

When I went there I felt like I was in a dollar store. The feel was not what Kmart use to be

@xismlg

8 күн бұрын

I can only imagine what it was like

So many nice stores used to exist: Service Merchandise, Phar-More, Venture, Builder's Square, Cub Foods,... The 90s were awesome. It was the end of an era for Millenials. The only memory Zoomers have would be Amazon and Walmart, which is so sad.

They moved into the former garden center as At Home took over the main building. My former Kmart in Virginia is an At Home. I was born 78 and my childhood Kmart opened in 1980 and closed in 2014

@xXTh3D4nkG1rXx

7 күн бұрын

i hate at home, they replaced my big kmart from where im from

@JonasMatthewBahta

3 күн бұрын

Same here in Sandy Utah around where I live. It was a K Mart and I believe they closed in the 1990s, it is currently an at home store.

That whole building used to be a K-mart that sectioned it off to save electricity and rent out the rest maybe

@xismlg

16 күн бұрын

Oh no way. I’m new to the area so I don’t know much.

A kmart used to be right behind the mobile gas station my grandmother and step grandfather franchised in the 70s before he passed away in 1980. I will never forget climbing over the short wall between with my grandmother sister and brother to go for sandwiches and icees and barbie dolls for me and star wars figures for my brother while we stopped by in the day while my grandfather was running his station. My grandmother was the bookkeeper. Just a sweet memory from a time long ago. The kmart was unfortunately torn down in maybe 2005 or so.

That is nothing like the Kmart I grew up going to, the kmart I grew up going to was as big or bigger then most normal walmarts nowadays

That Kmart looks like a Big Lots

@Queen_EL11

22 сағат бұрын

It really does. 😂

@xismlg

20 сағат бұрын

Yeah lmaoo

I so much agree with how it feels weird to be there its literally like a liminal space or smt

One of my earliest memories is shopping in Kmart with my mom in the 80s. The blue light at that time was a revolving blue light like you would see in top of an 80s police car, mounted on top of a pole in s mobile cart. When the announcement came on and the blue light came on everyone would make a mad rush towards it to get in on the deal. Back then it was a much bigger store than in your video, not as big as a full size Walmart is today but more comparable to an average grocery store in size.

I miss the kmart

@spderman123

2 күн бұрын

for some reason lil caesars tasted better at k mart

One of my earliest memories is shopping in Kmart with my mom in the 80s. The blue light at that time was a revolving blue light like you would see on top of an 80s police car, mounted on top of a pole on a mobile cart. When the announcement came on and the blue light came on everyone would make a mad rush towards it to get in on the deal. Back then it was a much bigger store than in your video, not as big as a full size Walmart is today but more comparable to an average grocery store in size, with all the racks low enough that you could see the blue light flashing throughout the store.

@xismlg

20 сағат бұрын

That sounds very entertaining. I miss when companies did cool things like that. Nowadays it feels like the life has been sucked out of everything.

The whole building (where At Home is) used to be Kmart and the part you’re seeing was the garden center. The blue light special was a rolling box they had with a tall pole and a blue flashing light on top. They would pick an item to have a blue light special on and roll the light to that part of the store, turn it on and announce it over the intercom

I remember looking at the parakeets in the pet section, messing with the security guards and launching walnuts off of the roof at Kmart in Concord California in the late 1970's. The building now sits vacant and unused, Kmart having shuttered in 2020.

I'm a 90's baby. My mom used to take me to Kmart very frequently when i was a kid. They had lots of nice, affordable items for poor families. I liked kmart just as much as target and will miss it.

Wow! K-Mart...I recall in my childhood getting video games and toy cars & kMart was the spot to be. I recall my parents buying washers and dryers there as well. My last K-mart in the area was in Santa Rosa, before the building burned down. Bare stock, expired items and couldn't even find charcoal for the BBQ.

i miss shopping instore i hate online shopping sometimes because most of amazon stuff is from cheap garbage stuff

I was 13 years old when I went to a Kmart and bought my very first boom box like a CD player in Canada 🇨🇦

Dang I miss the older blue light special kmarts.

One of my first real jobs. I was a K20 and loved it.

It has a " dollar general or family dollar" vibe..just not the same. Great video, thanks 4 sharing

A guy's father in my childhood neighborhood worked in Kmart as a pharmacist.

K-Mart, we're open! Come on in!... Seriously, for the love of God please come in.

@xismlg

20 сағат бұрын

LMAOOOOOOOO

For a minute, I thought that was Rite Aid. 🤕

i wish i could go back when kmarts were open good times

@PraveenSrJ01

Күн бұрын

I wish I could also

I can sense your feeling of not being there to. It just feels sad knowing the past is fading away with stores and malls just not making it anymore.

Some info about the store: The downsized Kmart used to be the garden section of the original Kmart. The original Kmart building is now an at home store.

There's kmart in Australia, but they are separate from the US kmart (they were formally part of the same company) and are doing way better.

Last year, I went to St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands and was surprised to see two Kmart stores still in business.

Wow. Very interesting.

Many memories as a kid in the late 90s to early 2000s. The last thing was some socks in 2018

I miss Kmart in NY. It was a convenient store to go to and cheaper than target.

Been a while since our local Kmart closed. They had a small deli section where you could get a sub sandwich for a ridiculously low price - not great, but not enormously different from Subway. Also a great place for hunting and fishing supplies.

That’s a really weird Kmart! I was born in 1975, so I definitely saw it in its hey day. Up here in northern Michigan, Kmart was all we had, until the first Walmart showed up in 1990. That’s when Kmart started going downhill. Then they started adding Meijer to every town and that’s when all the Kmart stores in Michigan closed.

Here in Australia we still have K Mart, my husband works at a K Mart store, he has been working there for 30 years. Our local K Mart store has been going for nearly 50 years, the same shopping Center, it's also the one my husband works at.

Used to work at Kmart in 2014 as a cashier. Was my first job. I still remember the day (October 15th) when they told us we were closing down. I still have my badge and blue polos and I can still remember my clock in number. I can't say I miss the customers lol but I do miss the workers AND liquidator he was dope! I'll always have the memories 🥲

Let's keep this k-mart alive 😊

Yup I remember Kmart back in early 2000. Was spot back then and with blue light sale and during black friday it was popping! Also in My area they had little Cesar's pizza!!

I remember shopping 🛒 at Kmart as a child and a teenager in the 1990s with my parents as I was born in 1983.

The blue light was usually on a small rolling cart by the front cash registers. Once the store turned the blue light on the sale would last for 15 minutes.

I worked at a k-mart in 2016 as a second job. I originally applied there because I was on a huge vaporwave-nostalgia kick at the time, and all of the old worn out signage from the late 90's and early 00's was something I genuinely vibed with. It actually felt like I was a kid again walking down the isles. That place sucked ass. The store was run like a complete scam operation. If someone returned a broken item in a box, we were told to get the item from customer service and put it back on the shelf to sell. We had items in there from 2008 still on the sale floor, and that's not an exaggeration. Old tools, duralast car batteries, and other miscellaneous items in boxes that were covered in dust, or light-damaged from sitting under the fluorescents. We had piles and piles of old Bakugan arenas with the first run branding and logos that would sit on a dirty bottom shelf behind rows of other playsets and arenas. Again, this was 2016, lol. The store itself was old, not in a vaporwavey nostalgic/analogue memories way. Just old. Rotting. Smelled like mildew and polyester. Anyway, I only worked there for a week, so I don't have a full picture of the downfall, but I still get legal letters to this day about Sears Co.'s bankruptcy filings. Fun stuff.

I used to always go to Kmart in the summers with my grandmother. It was always the best times plus they always had a little Caesars in them.

So sad! We used to work at Kmart in the 70s and early 80s and had a blast.

I grew up going to Kmart locations in San Diego and Battle Creek. They had the best selection of cleaning supplies

I used to love to go to Kmart and shop. I can still shop online and that is fine but the stores was always so clean and so organized. Unfortunately, we went from having at least eight or nine Kmarts in our area to none.

My Mom loved and shopped at Kmart all the time. My brother worked there many years ago. The store to the right the "at Home" used to be the main building of Kmart. What you're walking in used to be just Garden and Lawn Furniture. They must have downsized the store back while ago.

Loved the blue light specials

The last Kmart I visited was 1001 Hertel Ave Buffalo NY in 2015 it was sad RIP Kmart

We had a Kmart but I don’t really remember it. All I can remember is that they had this thing and it was a video machine. I remember you pressed a button of a movie and it showed a preview of the movie on a screen. The building sat empty for years and now it’s a hardware store. I don’t even remember when our Kmart even closed to be honest I was still really young maybe 8 or 9 years old at the time. Plus I live in Canada and we had Zeller’s and that store was round for the longest time and was one of the best stores.

Wow seeing this brings me back memories, i live in los angeles, california and i remember going to kmart amd getting the pizza from there, the pizza was yummy

It's insane how small it is. Wow!

Ummm, we still have the largest Kmart left in the U.S, it’s on the island of Guam U. S. A. Guam is “technically” (time-zone wise) where America’s Day begins. I was shopping there last week for large swimming pools. Btw, Kmart on Guam is our Walmart, lol.

@sakurapablo671

3 күн бұрын

Thank you for mentioning Guam. Cause, I’ve lived on Guam for 33 years at 38 of my life. And I kid you not, Kmart is still one of those places that we still have locals and tourists that shops there. But with our recent DONKI store that just opened up, it’s gonna take awhile for the time being.

K-Mart actually has 325 stores combined in New Zealand and Australia. They are very popular and very modern.

I remember going to Kmart as a kid. I can hear the Christmas music playing, I remember looking at Jay Z CD’s, & I loved the fresh hot pizza too lol

This is so strange and surreal.

@PraveenSrJ01

Күн бұрын

I didn’t see anyone in the store

I shopped at Kmart all the time back in monroeville, Pennsylvania in the eighties and nineties and the year 2000 after that shopped at the Cary Kmart until it closed in 2011.

“It almost feels like I shouldn’t be here.” 😂😂😂

@xismlg

19 сағат бұрын

LMAOOO

I heard that the Miami KMart was downsized, but I didn't think it was going to be this small. If a department store like this is downsized, I'm pretty sure that this store will be closed in the next couple of years. It really surprises me that KMart hasn't thrown in the towel after years of decline. There are 6 stores left stateside and in the US territories. The only place where KMart is thriving is in Australia and New Zealand.

K-Mart used to be huge in the 80’s. My aunt worked there. I remember as a kid I wouldn’t want to go into K-Mart because I didn’t want anyone to see me in there. 😂. Walmart is now the new version of K-Mart.

@chrisbooth3417

2 күн бұрын

Same here..My grandmother used to take me with her to Kmart. I would say I didn't want to go in because the blue light specials were embarrassing.😅

Geez before Walmart we had Kmart! My sister and I would always go through it and had fun! I was maybe 9 or 10 when I went shopping. We would shop for different things. It was a great store! I’m 42 now that was like 32 years ago! Gosh how times have changed! I still remember that Kmart! This Kmart is different p. When I went before Walmart came the store was packed with stuff!

What I liked about the Minnesota K-Marts in my area was the accessibility. Good locations and parking areas. Also not as busy as other stores. Prices weren't to bad either. The last one I shopped at was in a really good spot and I felt safe going there at night. After they closed it a major medical center bought it and it's now a parking lot for them. What would have been better is if the medical clinic across the street would have brought the property and built a new clinic. The current one is old, cramped, with terrible parking. Walking access to the building itself is terrible.

We had a full sized Kamart with I oil change and tire department in rhe back ..in my town of Wake Village it closed several years ago.. yea blue light specials were a thing.. I’d go in for a popcorn 🍿 and and Icee frozen drink and brows the records in the music Department.. this was wayyyy back when. Come to think of it o think I bought my Nirvana Cassette from K mart in the 90s. When I was a little kid they had a restaurant inside and would play “Muzak” in the speakers . it was a staple of inexpensed goods too bad they closed

i used to work at sears when i was 19 and we got discount from kmart

I remember back in the 1970's and 1980's our local K-Mart's here in the Phoenix area all having a Lay away section and a restaurant not the Little Caesars pizza in them as they did in the 1990's.

I remember Kmart as a kid before it was even called Big K. K-Mart in my time where huge stores prob bigger than most Wal Marts, i remember K-Mart use to have a food court. A place to chill. this K-Mart looks like a 99 cent store or a family dollar, K-Mart will be a store of the past just like Sears and many others, How times change,

I think I heard Rod Stewert playing the last time I was in a K Mart (1995)

This store was the best to compare with Target and Walmart . I really miss the USA store that had different products than the other chain stores.

Their hayday was the 70s and 80s..... Thats a security camera. The blue light used to be on a cart that they would roll to the place where the items were. Loved Kmart.

We need k mart back !

I've never seen this Kmart. I have to say, it is wild they are even bothering keeping this store open. Also, aside from thosse dresses, there were no clothes? So weird. I'm not too far from the one in Bridgehampton, NY and I've been making a trip of it a couple of times a year. That one is significantly larger and somewhat decently stocked. In fact, they even put some money towards upkeep last year. Kmart truly is an enigma at this point.

man i remember going to K-mart and buying Yu-Gi-Oh! cards there they'd always have tins/packs for 15 and under i miss that store...

What has happened to K-Mart is the perfect example of everything that's wrong with the way Wall Street works.

As a Canadian, this is sadder than Target Canada by the end... Much less when K-Mart Canada became part of Zellers which of course became Target Canada... And even then the selection was better and less sad than this country store looking set up...

Still have Kmarts in the Virgin Islands

I felt like I was in that store in a dream some time ago.

Yo, do you know if anyone was working there? It looked kinda of empty.

Popcorn and icees

There’s still a KMart open in Miami

Reminds me of 1989 Troop Beverly Hills movie.

Kmart is huge in Australia . Everyone shops there and loves it .

I used to work at one in Bullhead AZ I miss the Hot Pretzal and Icee

Red lobster exist in my area. Every other town has shut down.

Kmart is big in New Zealand great clothes for children and adults. Always very busy.

Great video sad too I am an 80s kid. This is not the store I remember.

@PraveenSrJ01

Күн бұрын

I’m an 80s kid also and was born in 1983

@cranberry411

Күн бұрын

@@PraveenSrJ01 82 here

@PraveenSrJ01

Күн бұрын

@@cranberry411 were you in the class of 2000? I was class of 01

@cranberry411

Күн бұрын

@PraveenSrJ01 messed up my freshman year 2001 I graduated cuz of it.

I suspect there has to be some ulterior motive for keeping just 2 Kmarts still open in the USA (excluding USA territories and other countries). Anybody know the reason why these 2 are still going?

70s was peak Kmart. 80s Walmart was rapidly expanding. 90s it was Target's turn. First decade of 2000s began the diabetic rot where appendages died and began falling off, rapidly.

@francoamerican4632

3 күн бұрын

A retail form of diabetes, that's an interesting way of looking at it.

@PraveenSrJ01

Күн бұрын

The end was in the early 2010s

It feels like the Backrooms 😱😵‍💫

I’d heard one of their stores entire operation was downsized to just their former gardener center due to high rent. Looks like it was this one.

No, it's not the blue light on the ceiling. We used to push it around the store wherever we made blue light announcements.