S. S. Kresge Corporation / Kmart, 1899 - 2024. Thank you for traveling 9 hours to capture and share this moment in Kresge’s 125 year history with us. You are the best!!!
Probably 1899 - 2025... the lease at the Miami location is up in March so it'll probably close then, unless they somehow terminate it early which wouldn't surprise me. October 10, 2024 11:42 pm
No, Guam still exists for one, and really Kresge began selling items in 1897 with his brother-in-law as Kresge & Wilson, before buying out the other half and renaming it to S.S. Kresge, so it should be 1897 - 2025 (at least).
@@jackson5116 you are right about Guam. My friend travels there for work from Honolulu occasionally. He said it’s there and I believe him. The other store in the US in Miami is very small and my friend says it isn’t worth counting.
😢There is something very sad about almost any business closing. I’m 51 years old now and in my childhood the idea of Kmart disappearing forever was unthinkable. I would have probably teared up walking around that place thinking of all the trips to Kmart with my grandparents.
Seeing this instantly reminded me of how sad my Mom was back in the day when Woolco closed their doors. She explained this to me and my siblings as "a home getting to small and needing to be bigger"! It worked back then but I see she was protecting our feelings because we kids loved going to Woolcos and eating lunch at the wrap around diner style booths in the middle of the store! And she always had quarters so we could enjoy the Rides outside the store off to the side! Enjoy your visits Lyd! MOO From down the road in COW-lumbus, Ohio 👋
My aunt Sandra loved K-mart. She had polio and lost the use of her legs but she still walked with the aid of crutches. I accompanied her many times to K-mart, where I would wonder on my own, mostly in the toy section or the electronics section. I remember looking at some He-Man action figures and thinking that the latest figures were inferior to the originals. Just then I could faintly hear my aunt's voice saying "Help! Help! I'm in the petites." Then a voice came over the PA system and said "Customer needs assistance in the petites." I'm not sure if I knew what or where the petites were but eventually I found her being rescued from the center of a circular, chrome clothes rack. She had fallen into the rack and couldn't get untangled from the moo-moos. An ambulance arrived but she declined medical assistance. On most trips she would usually buy me something, something like a small Lego set or perhaps an ICEE. Thanks for making the trip to NJ. Another great nostalgic trip for my mind. You got to witness the final Blue Light Special!
It's super sad that a lot of retail giants we grew up with have disappeared or are disappearing. RadioShack, Pathmark, Bradlees, A&P, Caldor, Sears, and now Kmart. Thank you for this last look at Kmart.
You really can't call them giants unless they were nationwide, and the Midwest didn't see Caldor or Bradlees. It's like me calling Venture a giant when they only existed in like 6 states.
Great video Lyd. This will be a very interesting video fifty or more years from now when folks see what the inside of the last Kmart store looked like.
I really enjoyed your video. it was like traveling back in time for me.i used to work at Kmart in allentown pa for 20 years and then I helped get the store cleaned after we closed. my favorite part about Kmart was the k-cafe and the Christmas department.
Wow, you went the extra mile for us... literally! Lol. Looks like you found some treasures. Sad to see the end of Kmart. They were such a part of my childhood, along with Ames and Zarye.
Oh wow, total flashbacks from the 80's and 90's, (including "How Bizarre" by OMC playing through the speaker system, well sung by the way)! The whoosh of air blowing through those oversized ceiling vents really takes me back. I believe that funky Brother contraption is an industrial embroidery machine, but I could be wrong.
I remember the last Kmart I shopped in (2014; Mobile, AL) and there was maybe 10 cars in the parking lot. It closed about 2 years later, and the store was pretty nice. It’s now an At Home.
Thank you for you're videos I appreciate what you do. I loved Kmart but unfortunately they closed the one in Danvers Massachusetts years ago. Ames store was great too.
Seems like she covered the store kind of fast. I know the store wasn't completely full of product, but if I drove 9 damn hours to visit the last full size Kmart ever, I'd be getting my money's worth.
so sad......this is gonna be huge in a sad way.......thanks for making this trip, and I will have more to say on my return, and have not forgotten about that Warren Burger King either, or the Woodland Mall. Thanks again for all you do, emojis apply, have to run but back later. :) JY.
I still can’t believe all we have left is the Shoebox Kmart in Miami which I’m sure is not too far from closing either. They recently started selling major appliances (kinda odd for such a small store)
I grew up in Levittown, L.I., I don't recall even ever having or going to KMART in the 70s and 80s. We had the nearby TSS (Times Square Stores) Stores, Woolworths, Caldor later on, and other such places so we didn't need KMART anyway. TSS was like KMART but even better, also had Record World inside them, as a separate dept., books, a pet store, a photo store, and even a barbershop and an auto center like Sears. Plus we had gigantic Sears everywhere on LI back then. Walmart is around LI these days, they're ok. TSS went out of biz. about 25 years ago now, or so. I was more broken up about that. We also once had a fantastic Nathans at Mid Island Plaza, a My PII actual Chicago deep dish pizza restaurant inside the mall, which was great, for decades, now all long gone. After that, the mall sucked ass. Roosevelt Field Mall once had three bookstores, two record stores, and all kinds of great stuff. Now, even that sucks. Now it's all upscale super expensive stores. WE also once had Korvettes stores all over LI, which had great cheap goods, plus they also had a crackerjack records tapes and vinyl dept. for years that I now miss terribly. Took it for granted in the 70s.
My wife worked in a Kmart store until it closed shortly after the pandemic. Fortunately that didn’t cause us financial problems. The good news is that a cannabis dispensary opened up next door to the old Kmart which is now a “club card” market.
Very sad knowing that there will only be 1 K-mart left in the entire USA beginning 10/21/2024, I remember when all the K-marts were still open in the late 90's!
When I was a kid the first thing I got from K-mart was a Zebco 202 rod and reel so I could go fishing with my grandfather. That would would have been sometime in the mid 1970’s. Time has flown by.
My mom would takey sister and I to K-Mart when I was a kid and we, my sister and I, would be so excited when the "Blue Light Special" would pop off. The blue light all flashing, women running dragging thier children by the hair and screaming, mine!, mine!
They actually had made the move before Wal-Mart...her husband had a import business and from what I heard his ship was called the S.S. Kresge...they opened store using that name S.S.Kresge as a 5 & dime...the K in Kmart was from the name Kresge.Our Kresge in Indianapolis had a full lunch counter,pet and toy department...and recently during a removal of some old paneling found some 2x4's with Kmart price tags...😂
I worked for Kmart Dstribution Center in warren ohio for 15 years before getting laid off in 2008, but everything worked out just fine. I ended up getting a supervisor position at another company and now I'm retired 😊
You made the journey really quick if you drove from Ohio to Long Island in 9 hours,especially considering how traffic slows you down in NYC.Good job! ✈
I too wish I would of filmed or at least taken some pictures when all the Kmarts here were closing. The thought never crossed my mind at the time unfortunately. This Kmart looks like it's "updated" from the older Kmarts which is probably why it's not giving Kmart vibes, kind of like how they're remodeling a lot of the Walmarts.
I remember when Kmart opened (under that name - it WAS called Kresge's) in my city. It was a weekly trip. Sad to see it go. Thanks alot Sears corp. BTW - Who gave you the giggles at the start of this episode?
I bet the pallets that have the white wrap on them that say PR might be going to a store in Puerto Rico. Anyway, so sad to see it go. I rememeber Ames. As well as Value City. I think there are only Value City Furniture's. The store in Elyria was both in the whole shopping center. one side was Value City, and the other half (which you could walk through to get to) was the Value City Furniture. We bought things from both over the years. Now, it's a Rural King and the value city furniture became like an indoor flea market, sorta like some of the buildings out at Jamie's Flea Market in South Amherst.
In my honest opinion I think Martha Stewart kinda killed Kmart because her stuff was too expensive and it was her legal trouble that really probably broke the camels back for Kmart. When I went to Kmart I can't really remember but it was a treat because they had everything you really needed or wanted. Thankfully the one where I live is renovated and used by quite a few stores that's because they remodeled in the mid 90s. Rip Kmart. Thanks for sharing Lyda
Goodbye to Home Base (California only) and National Lumber and Builders Emporium as well. Other companies are remaining open, but closing a lot of locations (Red Lobster, Walgreens, etc.)
Sad to see, our K Marts have been gone for 26 years in Canada, and just a few years ago Sears was no more here, Woolco and Woolworths and Kresge also in the graveyard of the 20th century here.....Yay Walmart? How could these once giants become so yesterday?
You plan your Vacations around Store closings? 😃 Small K-Marts (Conneaut & Cambridge OH) reminded me of SS Kresges which was owned by K-Mart (as well a Jupiter, which was K-Mart's reject & closeout store). Well.... Let's go shopping!
This is still sad because even out in Bridgehampton, at least people had some affordable options. After this closes forever, forget it. The Hamptons have zero affordable anything, otherwise, except maybe if you feel like trekking all the way to Riverhead to shop, which I guess a lot of people do there. The Hamptons otherwise is ONLY for the rich and shameless. When shops in Southampton want $250 for sheet sets, or more, or $100 for a Jaws sweatshirt, as I saw recently in SouthHampton, well, just nah.
"This crappy Kelly Clarkson song has to be playing" that ain't no lie. I feel like its on every grocery store Playlist. 😂 i feel like I hear it everytime i go to Meijer/Kroger.
Supposedly Big Lots are now in trouble too, I hope they stick around for awhile, I can of like them. I go to the Hicksville LI location here and there the past few years, can snag some good deals there sometimes. Big Lots even has DVDs and stuff, but mostly the movies are awful. Sometimes they have some good ones.
At the beginning of the video. Yo0u looked like you were going to cry. I felt bad for you . But in any case. You did another amazing job on this video. OH YEA !!! MOM WHY DID YOU BUY ME SOMETHING !!!!! What a rip off!!! lol
I also went into the bike store in Southampton, and all they stocked were TREK bikes, that ranged from $3000-10,000. Seriously!? I just left. I wanted to barf.
Is there a reason you're not counting the 4 kmarts in US territories? I'll never understand why people act like those don't exist. But good footage. Side note: I remember a yearbook photo of a teacher sitting on a trash can upside down outside with the caption "how bizarre" (song was recent then)
What's also sorta sad is that the store music keeps playing like it's just a normal day. What's really sad is all the employee's that still have to keep working till it's all gone. Normally though when a store is liquidated, it's by an outside company that just buys everything out for one price and then starts marking it all down. Sometimes they bring their old people in to ring out the sales, but many times it's still the store employees. I just hope they found new jobs elsewhere.
S. S. Kresge Corporation / Kmart, 1899 - 2024. Thank you for traveling 9 hours to capture and share this moment in Kresge’s 125 year history with us. You are the best!!!
Probably 1899 - 2025... the lease at the Miami location is up in March so it'll probably close then, unless they somehow terminate it early which wouldn't surprise me.
October 10, 2024 11:42 pm
No, Guam still exists for one, and really Kresge began selling items in 1897 with his brother-in-law as Kresge & Wilson, before buying out the other half and renaming it to S.S. Kresge, so it should be 1897 - 2025 (at least).
@@jackson5116 you are right about Guam. My friend travels there for work from Honolulu occasionally. He said it’s there and I believe him. The other store in the US in Miami is very small and my friend says it isn’t worth counting.
Dedication is driving 9 hours to a failing K-Mart. Another good vidja Lyd!!!!
And in Long Island traffic to boot.
😢There is something very sad about almost any business closing. I’m 51 years old now and in my childhood the idea of Kmart disappearing forever was unthinkable. I would have probably teared up walking around that place thinking of all the trips to Kmart with my grandparents.
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Seeing this instantly reminded me of how sad my Mom was back in the day when Woolco closed their doors. She explained this to me and my siblings as "a home getting to small and needing to be bigger"! It worked back then but I see she was protecting our feelings because we kids loved going to Woolcos and eating lunch at the wrap around diner style booths in the middle of the store! And she always had quarters so we could enjoy the Rides outside the store off to the side! Enjoy your visits Lyd! MOO From down the road in COW-lumbus, Ohio 👋
rusty carts is a tell-tale of a store closing, was dragged into Kmart so many times as a kid, thx for the final walk-through
My aunt Sandra loved K-mart. She had polio and lost the use of her legs but she still walked with the aid of crutches. I accompanied her many times to K-mart, where I would wonder on my own, mostly in the toy section or the electronics section. I remember looking at some He-Man action figures and thinking that the latest figures were inferior to the originals. Just then I could faintly hear my aunt's voice saying "Help! Help! I'm in the petites." Then a voice came over the PA system and said "Customer needs assistance in the petites." I'm not sure if I knew what or where the petites were but eventually I found her being rescued from the center of a circular, chrome clothes rack. She had fallen into the rack and couldn't get untangled from the moo-moos. An ambulance arrived but she declined medical assistance. On most trips she would usually buy me something, something like a small Lego set or perhaps an ICEE. Thanks for making the trip to NJ. Another great nostalgic trip for my mind. You got to witness the final Blue Light Special!
It's super sad that a lot of retail giants we grew up with have disappeared or are disappearing. RadioShack, Pathmark, Bradlees, A&P, Caldor, Sears, and now Kmart. Thank you for this last look at Kmart.
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You really can't call them giants unless they were nationwide, and the Midwest didn't see Caldor or Bradlees. It's like me calling Venture a giant when they only existed in like 6 states.
@@jackson5116 Understood, however, they were huge in the areas they were in.
This is so cool that you made this trip! That is dedication to the mission!
This was a nice relaxing tour through the hectic Kmart in its final days. Looks like it was a fun trip.
Great video Lyd. This will be a very interesting video fifty or more years from now when folks see what the inside of the last Kmart store looked like.
I really enjoyed your video. it was like traveling back in time for me.i used to work at Kmart in allentown pa for 20 years and then I helped get the store cleaned after we closed. my favorite part about Kmart was the k-cafe and the Christmas department.
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday, RIP to the last K-Mart 🙏🕊️
I miss going to Kmart it was simple thank you for giving us one last look god bless
Wow, you went the extra mile for us... literally! Lol. Looks like you found some treasures. Sad to see the end of Kmart. They were such a part of my childhood, along with Ames and Zarye.
Gorgeous Lydia and a great video. Hope you had a great time
Thsnk you for capturing and documenting a lost but not forgotten childhood memory of the past/present. See you on the nexr amazing adventure 😎👍
Kmart left my area over 20 years ago. I still miss it!
Oh wow, total flashbacks from the 80's and 90's, (including "How Bizarre" by OMC playing through the speaker system, well sung by the way)! The whoosh of air blowing through those oversized ceiling vents really takes me back. I believe that funky Brother contraption is an industrial embroidery machine, but I could be wrong.
You and the beach in background was amazing at start of the video.
Thanks for the video tour and saving me the trip! Might have gone for nostalgic purposes 😢
Thanks for the 9 hour drive to the "Last Regular Kmart"! 🙂
I bought a 1990s popcorn, light up Jack o lantern this year. Flipped it over and smiled at the K-mart sticker. 🎃
I love you so much Lyd! ❤❤❤❤
When I was younger, we shopped K Mart all the time. Hard to believe they're all gone.
I remember the last Kmart I shopped in (2014; Mobile, AL) and there was maybe 10 cars in the parking lot. It closed about 2 years later, and the store was pretty nice. It’s now an At Home.
You are one cool girl good exploring all cool places the truck stop was the best video
You have a good laugh! Didn't watch the video YET but I'm workin' on that! Keep up the good work buddy!
Thank you for you're videos I appreciate what you do. I loved Kmart but unfortunately they closed the one in Danvers Massachusetts years ago. Ames store was great too.
Seems like she covered the store kind of fast. I know the store wasn't completely full of product, but if I drove 9 damn hours to visit the last full size Kmart ever, I'd be getting my money's worth.
so sad......this is gonna be huge in a sad way.......thanks for making this trip, and I will have more to say on my return, and have not forgotten about that Warren Burger King either, or the Woodland Mall. Thanks again for all you do, emojis apply, have to run but back later. :) JY.
I still can’t believe all we have left is the Shoebox Kmart in Miami which I’m sure is not too far from closing either. They recently started selling major appliances (kinda odd for such a small store)
Great video. I'll miss the kmart of old.
I grew up in Levittown, L.I., I don't recall even ever having or going to KMART in the 70s and 80s. We had the nearby TSS (Times Square Stores) Stores, Woolworths, Caldor later on, and other such places so we didn't need KMART anyway. TSS was like KMART but even better, also had Record World inside them, as a separate dept., books, a pet store, a photo store,
and even a barbershop and an auto center like Sears. Plus we had gigantic Sears everywhere on LI back then. Walmart is around LI these days, they're ok. TSS went out of biz.
about 25 years ago now, or so. I was more broken up about that. We also once had a fantastic Nathans at Mid Island Plaza, a My PII actual Chicago deep dish pizza restaurant
inside the mall, which was great, for decades, now all long gone. After that, the mall sucked ass. Roosevelt Field Mall once had three bookstores, two record stores,
and all kinds of great stuff. Now, even that sucks. Now it's all upscale super expensive stores. WE also once had Korvettes stores all over LI, which had great cheap goods,
plus they also had a crackerjack records tapes and vinyl dept. for years that I now miss terribly. Took it for granted in the 70s.
Love that u r doing abandoned places. Lydia
You beat wallie up there and looking gorgeous as always 😍
Great job. Lydia keep it up
That's awesome, I had no idea Kmart was still a thing!
Reminds me of the old one that was in Eastlake, Ohio wand it closed in 2016. Awesome cups 🙂💜
"Attention KMART shoppers we know have a Blue Light Special on Isle 9!''
Imagine the power the K Mart manager must have felt, summoning the power of their very own blue Sun to light the way
you look good on the beach, buterfly girl.......thank you! from tacoma washington......🎵🎶🎼 they had the best sub sandwitches....
U walking through the isles reminded me like going to a lot of Rite aids and seeing the empty shelves before they went bye-bye forever here in Ohio. 😢
My wife worked in a Kmart store until it closed shortly after the pandemic. Fortunately that didn’t cause us financial problems. The good news is that a cannabis dispensary opened up next door to the old Kmart which is now a “club card” market.
Man that's depressing seeing the store like that. You'll have to do one of the Rite Aids in Warren or Newton Falls now that they're all closed.
Very sad knowing that there will only be 1 K-mart left in the entire USA beginning 10/21/2024, I remember when all the K-marts were still open in the late 90's!
When I was a kid the first thing I got from K-mart was a Zebco 202 rod and reel so I could go fishing with my grandfather. That would would have been sometime in the mid 1970’s. Time has flown by.
How much is the tent? Would be cool for tailgating
You're not missing much not having a Kenmore dryer. I got to drive past this store when I was in the Hamptons for a funeral in '09 but didn't go in.
Live near it. Rip to Kmart starting today…
Rip kmart you will not be forgetten
My mom would takey sister and I to K-Mart when I was a kid and we, my sister and I, would be so excited when the "Blue Light Special" would pop off. The blue light all flashing, women running dragging thier children by the hair and screaming, mine!, mine!
They actually had made the move before Wal-Mart...her husband had a import business and from what I heard his ship was called the S.S. Kresge...they opened store using that name S.S.Kresge as a 5 & dime...the K in Kmart was from the name Kresge.Our Kresge in Indianapolis had a full lunch counter,pet and toy department...and recently during a removal of some old paneling found some 2x4's with Kmart price tags...😂
ha, his name was sebastian spering kresge, hence the ss, not like the ss minnow!
I worked for Kmart Dstribution Center in warren ohio for 15 years before getting laid off in 2008, but everything worked out just fine. I ended up getting a supervisor position at another company and now I'm retired 😊
You made the journey really quick if you drove from Ohio to Long Island in 9 hours,especially considering how traffic slows you down in NYC.Good job! ✈
I too wish I would of filmed or at least taken some pictures when all the Kmarts here were closing. The thought never crossed my mind at the time unfortunately. This Kmart looks like it's
"updated" from the older Kmarts which is probably why it's not giving Kmart vibes, kind of like how they're remodeling a lot of the Walmarts.
Great video :)
Awesome video.
Love the tiedie hopefully have on next video ❤❤
U have a great voice Lydia
Hard to believe this is the last kmart! I agree with you it doesn't really give off kmart vibes it does kinda look like an old Ames or Roses store
ill have to go to that kmart before they close!
I hope you were able to get the blue plate special. Just kidding.
I've watched so many "last Kmart" videos but then, there is always another. And my Kmart is still open.
I loved k mart as a kid
The last remaining Kmart that is stay open is in Miami Florida in the Kendall lake shopping center is been downsized to size of a convenience store
I remember when Kmart opened (under that name - it WAS called Kresge's) in my city. It was a weekly trip. Sad to see it go. Thanks alot Sears corp. BTW - Who gave you the giggles at the start of this episode?
Was that Coopers Beach at the beginning?
i love watching ur vids u are so awsome and cutie
I loved when super K was open 24 hours we would shop at 2 in the morning
The last Kmarts are in NJ and Miami
I bet the pallets that have the white wrap on them that say PR might be going to a store in Puerto Rico. Anyway, so sad to see it go. I rememeber Ames. As well as Value City. I think there are only Value City Furniture's. The store in Elyria was both in the whole shopping center. one side was Value City, and the other half (which you could walk through to get to) was the Value City Furniture. We bought things from both over the years. Now, it's a Rural King and the value city furniture became like an indoor flea market, sorta like some of the buildings out at Jamie's Flea Market in South Amherst.
In my honest opinion I think Martha Stewart kinda killed Kmart because her stuff was too expensive and it was her legal trouble that really probably broke the camels back for Kmart. When I went to Kmart I can't really remember but it was a treat because they had everything you really needed or wanted. Thankfully the one where I live is renovated and used by quite a few stores that's because they remodeled in the mid 90s. Rip Kmart. Thanks for sharing Lyda
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kmart in canada closed in the mid 1990s 1994-1995 and all became wal-marts, another store closed around the same time by way
I miss my Kmart!
Goodbye to Home Base (California only) and National Lumber and Builders Emporium as well. Other companies are remaining open, but closing a lot of locations (Red Lobster, Walgreens, etc.)
I'm shocked that KMART even sold like local souvenirs and Hamptons shirts, etc.
Sad to see, our K Marts have been gone for 26 years in Canada, and just a few years ago Sears was no more here, Woolco and Woolworths and Kresge also in the graveyard of the 20th century here.....Yay Walmart? How could these once giants become so yesterday?
Easy. You lib voted for that
Eddie Lampert ruined KMart and Sears.
Did u like Long Island?
I'm shocked you didn't buy any of the food and beverages at 40% off. I would have filled up the cart 😁
You plan your Vacations around Store closings? 😃 Small K-Marts (Conneaut & Cambridge OH) reminded me of SS Kresges which was owned by K-Mart (as well a Jupiter, which was K-Mart's reject & closeout store).
Well.... Let's go shopping!
Did you mean 10/10/24 on your description?💁🏻♂️
No, did it close early? I thought the last day was 10/20
This is still sad because even out in Bridgehampton, at least people had some affordable options. After this closes forever, forget it. The Hamptons have zero affordable anything,
otherwise, except maybe if you feel like trekking all the way to Riverhead to shop, which I guess a lot of people do there. The Hamptons otherwise is ONLY for the rich and
shameless. When shops in Southampton want $250 for sheet sets, or more, or $100 for a Jaws sweatshirt, as I saw recently in SouthHampton, well, just nah.
i looked and there are two listed in Miami Fl. Pages and pages of 'permanently closed'
OOH! Get me one of those kayaks in the back please! I'll pay you back! :)
Yea I remember the one. In westlake. On Detroit rd
Big lots.., I still call it Odd lots!
So sad to see so many at these stores we grew up with go out of business 😢
this should say last one in the USA because they thriving in Australia where they are there walmart super popular over there.
I could imagine new York state prices
"This crappy Kelly Clarkson song has to be playing" that ain't no lie. I feel like its on every grocery store Playlist. 😂 i feel like I hear it everytime i go to Meijer/Kroger.
Supposedly Big Lots are now in trouble too, I hope they stick around for awhile, I can of like them. I go to the Hicksville LI location here and there the past few years, can snag some good
deals there sometimes. Big Lots even has DVDs and stuff, but mostly the movies are awful. Sometimes they have some good ones.
17:08 that is an embroidery machine
At the beginning of the video. Yo0u looked like you were going to cry. I felt bad for you . But in any case. You did another amazing job on this video. OH YEA !!! MOM WHY DID YOU BUY ME SOMETHING !!!!! What a rip off!!! lol
I also went into the bike store in Southampton, and all they stocked were TREK bikes, that ranged from $3000-10,000. Seriously!? I just left. I wanted to barf.
Not the last Kmart, Miami still has one open.
Kmart and Sears now gone. So sad.😥
Is there a reason you're not counting the 4 kmarts in US territories? I'll never understand why people act like those don't exist. But good footage. Side note: I remember a yearbook photo of a teacher sitting on a trash can upside down outside with the caption "how bizarre" (song was recent then)
Hi lyd.
What's also sorta sad is that the store music keeps playing like it's just a normal day. What's really sad is all the employee's that still have to keep working till it's all gone. Normally though when a store is liquidated, it's by an outside company that just buys everything out for one price and then starts marking it all down. Sometimes they bring their old people in to ring out the sales, but many times it's still the store employees. I just hope they found new jobs elsewhere.
Wow! I didn't know there was still any open! Great video!