B-roll footage of people shopping at the once mighty retailer in March of 1992. From Suitland, MD. Please like this video and check out my other #kmart videos.
Do people today realize that were being replaced by technology so the big corporations dont have to pay us??? Do they realize how bad things can be if were not working and were depending some sort of social credit system??
I noticed that people responded to being recorded on video more politely back in the 1990's vs. modern times. It wasn't like everybody had a camera in their pocket & instant access to social media. Having a camcorder back then was rare. Today, people would just say, "You can't film that here sir !!" It's funny how technology changes with time..
Reminds me of when I was 4 and my mom would leave me in the car with the windows up in the hot sun, and she would call me a stupid idiot... I don't like k mart.
I worked loss prevention in a Super KMart back in 1998. The store is closed on Christmas, but they still need someone in the store to monitor the freezers, so if one of them shuts down, they don't lose all that frozen food. I worked the midnight shift. Was the only person in the entire store on Christmas Eve. It was honestly a little eerie, being in that giant store all by myself. There's so many places for someone to hide in there. To keep myself occupied, I grabbed a bicycle and did high speed laps around the store. Nearly killed myself.
I worked produce in a super Kmart from 2004-2005 in college. Paid $1 more per hour to start out than Walmart at the time, despite business going down the shitter
I'm a grown 41 year old man crying while watching this myself. We all would love to go back or revisit that special place in back in time when we were young, things were simple and some friends and family members were still living.
@@fernandasoares7645 The quality of the video is too high definition to be that old, and did you notice that nobody was looking at him like he was recording,, back then if you walked into a public place with a camcorder everyone was looking or embarrassed to be recorded because it was so unusual to see in public.. plus none of the VHS tapes I have looks that clear and high definition, not even the old movies on VHS look like that,, definitely a cell phone camera,,. If it's true then our entire reality is a perpetual illusion of time and place,, 1Love
I wouldn't go back even if you paid me as much money as Donald Trump claims to have. The '80s, the '90s -- horrific times that I'm glad I made it through once and would never try again!
@@FreddyPrays Right. Because people didn't "sin" in 1992... They're all acting just like most people would today when on camera being recorded. I was born in 1959 and I can tell you, with absolute certainty, there was PLENTY of "sin" to go around in '92 and well before. The only difference in the way people acted off-camera then as opposed to now, is that people didn't walk around with their heads down buried in a screen. You actually made eye contact with people.
@xaulted1 where in anything that I said did I say no one was sinning? What was stated is sin ABOUNDING, as in, multiplying and growing in intensity. Which is absolutely what is happening today. Our current society's decadence cannot be overstated. Apology accepted.
@@FreddyPrays Bull. In 2024 you couldn't possibly get away with 5% of the "sin" that "abounded" in 92. No cameras everywhere for people to avoid in '92, people afraid to report crimes (especially sexual) went unpunished. Rampant, out of control racism. The younger generations then had no problem attacking the elderly and sexual perversion was out of control. I don't know what alternate universe YOU stepped out of, but if anything awful behavior was much MUCH worse then because there were very rarely any repercussions for any of it. The level of raw sleaze in the world has dropped dramatically in the last 30 years.
Yeah today if you start videoing in a store, some psychotic bitch will start screaming that you’re being a creep. 🤦♂️ but what about all the Tiktokers?
It wasn’t for everyone. My grandfather happened to be a photographer at the time so he had a lot of old footage which we were lucky to have because he documented a lot of our lives. If it wasn’t because it happened to be his job in the Army and for the rest of his life we never could have afforded this. I think back now of how lucky we were to have access to his work red room. 😊 🤩 📸
@@PhillyAnthonyDThis video is authentic. In 1992, customers wrote checks, clerks wore ties and people definitely drove those kind of cars in the parking lot. Retailing has dramatically changed since 1992 but there’s nothing fake about this video.
I think everyone who watched this can agree that our society has devolved in massive tangible ways! 1 order. 2 cleanliness. 3 civic pride 4 enthusiasm. God bless y'all
1992 doesn't seem all that long ago, but it might as well be another world when you look at the cars, the clothes, the people with no cell phones giving each other eye contact
Back when there were a lot more smaller vehicles also. I hate today's newer vehicles. I would prefer to own an older vehicle from that time period as well that has been restored. I also really miss these mini jeep like vehicles such as the Geo Tracker (Suzuki Sidekick) and the Suzuki Samurai. Plus they have ruined the Jeep Wrangler. I really hate and despise these 4 door Jeep Wranglers. Modern day oversized gas guzzling garbage on wheels.
Yeah I love how people were smart enough to actually bring a huge bulky camcorder into a store and just start videotaping. People even did it at McDonald’s and Pizza Hut back in like 1989. Because obviously, times were going to change. And those stores would close.
@@stevarino1989 Most all stores restaurants have signs posted that say some variant of "Video and/or picture taking is prohibited" but these days its practically impossible to enforce. Back in the day if you walked into a store with a 20 pound camcorder on your shoulder, it was quite obvious that you were filming! I so wish, WISH, we had more footage like this of the stores of yesteryear, Caldor, Ames, Hills, Jamesway, Bradlees, and especially the older chains like Two Guys, E.J. Korvettes, Woolco, Grant City . . . . oh well wish in one hand and excrete in the other and see which one fills up first I guess. ☹
There isn't enough money on earth anyone could pay me to go back to that horrid time. I barely survived it once. Disability discrimination is still bad now, but it was much worse back then. I would never go back.
@@thankyouverymuch I would only offer you the chance. Plus you could modify the details of the past. How about no disability? How about someone with wealth and power who comes along to help you during that time? OR never mind. If your answer is an emphatic no, then okay. Here's 10 million in tax free cash instead.
What a cool time capsule. You never think mundane things like this would be interesting at all when taken in the moment, but wait a few decades and that changes.
I was 12 years old and I remember the 90s as just having the greatest times in my life. If I close my eyes I can still feel the cool summer mornings just starting getting ready for a hot day, riding my bike, rollerblading, swimming or go going to a theme park. My childhood summers were the greatest times to be be alive as a kid. To better times. Embedded into my DNA forever.
I definitely feel ya on that. I was 14. No internet, just the long cord house phone lol. If we need to get a hold of our friends or find out where the crew was.. All I had to do was go to one of the parents house and saw all the bikes out that front yard lol.. Fun times back then... Oh and cops actually had baseball cards and had positive words to say to you back then and on top of it, was hella tall and big back then (like a roll model) to look up to
Duuuuudde….agree to all of that. I can even close my eyes and remember the smell of dry grass in the hills. Biking, walking, roller hockey in the street, basketball, all of that. Best of times for sure.
No one with circus-clown-level makeup, or ridiculous-looking rope hair or wigs from a stripmall or gas station, and none of the women were dressed like prostittutes. That's a huge difference from any Walmart visit today.
It's sad that they are "all" gone now. Kmart, Sears, Montgomery Ward, Thrifty Drug Store, Longs Drugs, Toys R Us, Orchard Supply Hardware, Payless Shoes, A&W Rootbeer (for the most part), Homebase, and many others, and in general, "Dime Stores". Plus all the stores that my parents and grandparents saw evaporate. There are still a few stores left, like JCPenney and Ace Hardware.
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr Well, I wouldn't go that far, Jess. There are several kids and young adults in the video. Kids would now be in their 40's. The younger adults between 50 and 70 (ish).
Thank you for sharing these memories. I've been looking for videos like this lately. I was 13 in 1992. With children of my own now, I can't help but think that there was something magical about growing up in that time period and a distinct innocence that has all but disappeared from today's experience. I'm sure every generation has this kind of viewpoint, but it feels like it's much more marked with Gen X. I miss going to Blockbuster on a Friday and wandering around the place with family, and trying to get ahold of that new release before it was all rented out.
Every Generation Has That Viewpoint, Yes! But We Were Truly the Last Generation, Living in the Moment, Unplugged, Only Accessible to Those in Our Company, No Cell Phones, Social Media, No Texting. We Are Blessed to Have Experienced the Good Ole Days.
@@helenaasousaafter 1995 things really started going to shit. More Globalists centric as time went on then 2001, 9/11 IT was now pressing time for the NWO and creating events to get THIER out comes it's criminal and disturbing
BECAUSE it was in 93/4 when our dumbass Congress sold us out to send all manufacturing to China which made no sense but to only satisfy " climate/ global warming" communist
Aside from the lack of cell phones not much changed visually. This is 31 years ago; but 31 years before that was 1961. Think about how radically different shopping was then compared to 1992, and this compared to now.
And in the early 2000's it felt like the late 90's up until 2003 or '04. My big brother was born in 1992 and it's so nostalgic to me seeing videos and pictures of that time it makes me want to cry from the nostalgia. And also the 80's when my parents were teens in high school. Such a beautiful yet painful feeling! I collect magazines from that time and lose myself in time looking at the pics Imo the late 90's and early 2000 was the best Era in the world history and I wasn't even born yet, I wish could go back in time to live in that time 😔😌
Such a simpler time.. The employees appear happy to do their jobs, no one is losing their sh*t over a minor inconvenience, no unruly children, and no bloggers pulling pranks for social media.. What a time!
@6lemans10 I sent my mom this video this morning and she got very emotional. Kmart was just a part of life back then. She would shop and let me and my older brothers run to the toy section. We loved it. 😍
Yup because back then shop's and stores and TV and sports, education and just things I'm general weren't jam packed with radical Marxist and woke PC propaganda. Thats why life was more simple and thus overall much better than today. However I do have faith things will improve.
Man….I remember going to K mart as a kid and my parents would have in depth conversations with the store members and we would get popcorn at the snack stand and be in there for hours. It would be such a joyful experience as a child…nowadays I really dread going into stores and try to go either real late or early in the morning to bypass all the impatient, rude and assimilated population.
I dread going into stores and actually get a knot in my stomach. I used to enjoy it. Everything has gotten so crowded, traffic is worse, not enough parking spaces anymore and people are really rude. I dread any form of shopping. Grocery stores are a nightmare. It didn't used to be like that. It used to be mostly crowded on Saturday afternoons and holidays. Now it's just crowded all the time. And everyone is so angry. Can't believe how angry and tense everyone is.
@@jenniferlloyd9574I completely agree! Just where did all these people come from?? I feel like everywhere is SO crowded now, no matter the time or day of the week.
I was also 15 years old and the 80s and 90s were a great time for sure and if it were possible I will give up all of this modern technology to go back to Ann and just socialize and talk with old friends and family again
@@christianpatriot7196 yeah, maybe that’s what everyone says when they get to their 40’s, but I agree. I’ve always loved technology, but it’s really done a lot to damage relationships and minds.
@@mtamech535 yes agreed it has done a lot of damage and when some of this technology first started flowing out into the world I thought it was wonderful but the more advanced and the more Technology continues to be incorporated into every facet of my life I don’t really see it getting much better for humanity not only in the moral realm but also the spiritual realm!
Everyone decided to let corporations and politicians do whatever they wanted post WWII to present day. This is what it has gotten us. It was coming even back in the 90's, but it hadn't really hit yet.
Man it’s a trip to see all those shoppers and no one is talking on a cell phone. Some of them ignored or acted shy and didn’t want to be on video when the camera was on them. I was 22 in 1992 and seeing the K mart logo and the cars in the parking lot brought back memories of being a 22 year old. I would go right to the record section and get a Coke and a box of way too salty popcorn on the way put.
I miss hearing those dot matrix printers at the checkout. People wrote checks and the cashier took their time getting the info from the driver's license. The guy in electronics tried to explain to the customer and help him. Good luck finding an employee now in any store and if you do, they know much less than I do.
If customers weren't so rude maybe the employees would be better. If you get harassed and be littleled on the daily basis, you would be irritated also.
I used to work for sears and back then Kmart used to give benefits vacation time and a decent wage and in the mid-2000s when they merge they took all that away.
@@reesedaniel5835 it's because AI is dangerous like Tesla Guy says. AI is actually part of the antichrist. He will do everything to imitate Jesus Christ, but he will lie and do the opposite. He nor any man human or Alien which are actually demons or AI on this earth will fix anything. He (antichrist) will use it to control people, EVERY part of your life. Life now especially in the last 3 years is so fearful and burdensome because that evil spirit really took control especially in the USA. People choose that spirit in 2020. Bad looked Good. Bible states in end times bad is good and good is BAD. Do you see it? My fav scripture explains it all Eph 6:12 google it and read it KJs version 1st.
Thee thing that impressed me the most is how patient everyone was back then. I was 32 back then and I loved shopping at K Mart. What a lovely piece of Americana.
Back when you couldn't just google reviews on TV's, you had to actually talk face to face with someone and trust that they knew what they were talking about. Simpler times. 💛 I miss actual customer service!
We had magazines, books, newspaper articles, local news, and consumer advocacy related TV shows back then. We had plenty of resources for studying options before buying.
Amazing, no one is being rude or impatient, everyone is dressed like they're actually going out in public and not like they just crawled out of bed. Even the kids are well behaved. We weren't perfect back then but at least we attempted to be civil. Sidenote : the electronics employee ACTUALLY KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT!! 😮
Yeah, a lot of people just wear sweatpants of pajamas, and look like slobs. I am guilty of this myself, however, 90% of the time when I know I will be out for nearly the whole day, I dress like how these people did back then. I love wearing a shirt that pops out in color, with denim or matching pants. I will occasionally do my make up. I tend to wear stuff similar to the late 90s and early 2000s. Its the happiest I can be when going out and closer to the times back then ;A;
I wonder if the guy was actually asking about the difference between PAL and NTSC, since he said he didn't mean the power. :) I worked for Kmart my senior year in High School and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express at some point.
The electronics guy didn’t entirely know what he was talking about. The customer was asking about NTSC vs PAL. It does indirectly involve the power frequency of a given country (60Hz countries mostly use NTSC, whereas 50Hz countries mostly use PAL) but the real issue is that it’s an entirely different transmission format. Voltage is not the issue.
Very true but on line shopping is convenient. I do miss the old days though. At least i have my happy memories of the 60s 70s-80’s. Great great time to grow up.
When it comes to the phrase "you can't go home again", I am unsure if people realize that applies to places you have also shopped/been to in general. We don't think about it while growing up, and take for granted what it once felt like to go so some place as simple as a Kmart, with a family member who has now passed, in your childhood neighborhood which doesn't look recognizable anymore, etc. I appreciate these nostalgic videos; they are very therapeutic. RIP Debbie, 3-5-20.
I can't even begin to count the times when I revisit these places and nostalgic moments from my childhood. I'm 35 and still long to go back and relive these seemingly mundane moments that are really what was the "good ol days". 😭
When I was kid, my dad bought me a BMX bike from Kmart. All the neighborhood kids poked fun of it calling it the Kmart Special. Still feeling the effects of the trauma 35 years later
I bet you wish you had that Kmart special today. Top quality today instead of the garbage they sell now unless you have a spare 20K for "a real bike". Walmart and their garbage.Daughter & I were just talking about all the cruel things that were kids said to us growing up. Every generation.
People seemed nicer and less sick and less depressed and irritable back in hese times. Thanks for this video brings back memories for me. There was a k mart where I use to go to and I was in that city a few years ago and it's now a wasteland.... I don't think they turned the old k mart building into anything, there's alot more drug addicts and homeless people around there. You can see how mentally un well people are compared to the old days. Something about the footage from the camcorder, the vibe in the air this video reminds me of the good old days with super nintendo and sega genesis, n64
I worked at a Kmart in Arizona 1991-93, this is exactly how it looked. Had to wear the same red "smock". They paid everyone in cash every 2 weeks hoping you would spend the money on your way out the store on things you saw all week while working 🤣 Remember layaway? And seeing people actually paying with check sure brings back memories!
I remember my dad paid by check for something at Lowe's when I was a teenager, maybe 15 years ago, and I swear I looked at him like an alien. It's been quite a while since checks have been a common way to pay for things at stores. Apparently you can still pay by check if the store has a check verifier, though I can't recall seeing anyone pay by that method for a long time.
Ah yes the 90s, when people were living in the moment, interacting, not looking down staring at their phones like zombies.... Miss that everyday... 🤧🤧🤧
be fr lmao what you remember as "living in the moment" was closer to being bored as hell trying to get shopping done so they can so sit and watch tv or play video games. (present day)
This is back when stores were still stores and not giant warehouses.. Cashier's were still human and the employees knew everything about the products they sold without getting on the internet and looking it up.. I miss those days tremendously.. We have really screwed things up pretty bad in the past 30 years..
@fortnitegamer-qh9cc I've never been a cashier anywhere.. I think the soul crushing part would probably depend greatly upon the area you live in and the type of store you are working at.. No way I'd want to be a cashier at a Walmart anywhere, but it may not be too bad scanning groceries at some mom and pop grocery store in a small town..
Ah yes, paying with a check at Kmart..... those were the days!! Does anyone else have memories of the Kmart cafeteria? That was a treat when I was a kid!!
Oh like the guy that was talking about 220 and 120, 115? 😂 Reminded me of that movie Mr Mom. “So, you running 220 in here?” “Yeah, 220. 221. Whatever it takes…” 😂
True - but the associate in this example was totally misunderstanding that the customer specifically mentioned NTSC "broadcast" platform and that his country uses a different "system" (probably PAL, or SESAC) and needed to know if the TV could accept those broadcasts. The associate was confused and kept talking about mains voltage in the home. Two totally different things.
@@slamcrank to be fair to this guy 30 years ago, the whole Pal to NTSC thing never really was a problem for most Americans unless they traveled a lot overseas.
I worked at a KMart in the mid to late 80s, things were so much better then. I was just telling my kids recently that when I worked there we had to hand type in the cost of each item since we didn't have scanners, about 80% of the people paid in cash, 15% with a check and the few that did pay with a credit card (there were no debit cards) required us to pull out those roller things and carbon paper sheets and hand write everything in. I miss those days.
And don't forget Kmart allowed the layaway plan, pay a little in increments, then pay the balance and get your stuff they kept stored away. I grew up in the 80's remember it very well.😀 And in this clip, Full House was playing on the floor model television display.🤣🤣🤣
That's why cashiers were paid really well and were as respected as they were back then; because it was a difficult job that required a specialized set of skills. Not easy ringing up prices manually, speedily, and accurately, without looking at the register but at the products as you passed them manually along the conveyer belt. Several of my friends acquired supermarket cashier jobs back in the late 70's- early 80's and were lauded for being able to obtain positions in, what what was then, a hard-to break-into industry. Especially in supermarkets, where many who acquired those jobs were "grandfathered in". They were paid outrageously great wages for that period of time. Yes, if was quite a different world we lived in back then.
How did I forget the handheld credit card machine?!?! I was a cashier back then and we sure did insert the credit card into the slot and pull the roller over to imprint the numbers on the carbon paper. Yesss, what memories! Lol thanks
4 years before I first came to the united states of America in 1996, so sad that I can't watch my little village back in the early 90s when I used to lived there, but I can have my consolation to watch these good video from 1992.
Notice how not only could you find a salesperson to help you but he understands what he is selling. My dad used to ask a bajillion questions in the electronics department when he was picking out the newest tv, stereo, or camera and the poor salesman was able to answer most of them.
Except this salesperson didn't quite get it. He understood the voltages were different in the other country, but not what the guy was asking about the NTSC system we have in the US. I think the guy was wanting to buy a TV at Kmart and take it back to another country to use. Wouldn't have worked. I'm really curious if the camera operator said anything to them off camera. S/He might have known.
@@roxicsand I don't think it would have worked because the plugs and outlets are different in other countries as well, but I do also agree with what you are saying
i had to do a double take at the year. based on the thumbnaill i thought it was going to be the 50's/60s.. wow! and i was there, would have been in college already. seems like such a long time ago now.
Very true, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead said in an interview in the 80s that pictures from the 1950s when he was a little kid now look like the 1920s... And so it goes...
ah yes, the memories. I can still smell the popcorn and hear the announcement of the blue light special. My very first candy bar I ever bought was a Mars Bar from K-Mart. We had a Ford Fairmont then. My mom driving that day. I sat in the back seat holding that candy bar and staring at it remember how special that was. Imagine that? Excited about a trip to K-Mart and my first candy bar! haha! That was a big deal to a little boy.
This Has Been the Most Relaxing & Interesting TH-cam Videos, I Think I’ve Ever Watched, A Kmart Vid. The Good Ole Days, Returning to Live One Day in the 80’s/90’s Would Be A Dream Come True! Thank You for Sharing.
If only it could be the 90s again. The last greatest era. I was 12 in 1991 and I'm so happy that I was a 80s kid and a teen during the 90s and had a chance to experience those eras.
Same here 80s were really fun as a kid and the 90s were awesome as a teenager.... the last era of being able to buy an older fun to drive 60s or 70s car cheaply.....every new band you heard was great.....plenty of mom and pop stores.....pre 9/11....no internet or cell phones.... I miss it all.
The 80s and 70s were much better. I actually didn't like the 90s much, but compared to now, lol, they were great....at least our country wasn't being systematically attacked by our own government and people were only a tiny fraction as insane as they are now. Oh and men couldn't become women just because they claim they are. That kinda talk was padded room and heavy medication worthy.
I was a teen in the early 2000s. I kept wanting to grow up faster so I could be a part of all the great music and culture. I was disappointed with my teenage years, all that bubble gum pop and Real TV was a let down.
Even in the 1990s many of their stores felt like they were in an era of decline. The height of this store's glory was the 70s and 80s. The "Blue Light Specials" were iconic. And it kept shoppers in the store for longer so they could see what the next special was. Their cafeterias had good food, too, so taking time to sit down for a meal while shopping was often on the to do list. By the 90s, much of these special touches felt like they were slipping away. And, of course, they were. As we well know now.
Yeah, one of many reasons K-Mart went under was that they didn't start modernizing until it was too late, you go into a WalMart or Target in 1992 and then go to K-Mart and it was like a time warp to a decade or more into the past. They basically did to K-Mart what K-Mart did to Woolworths.
This post made me smile. Very nostalgic. My mother was a merchandiser for Hallmark and two other brand card companies. She worked for a few KMarts, Toys R Us', and Targets. It was through my moms friendships, that I got my first after school job at KMart. I had that same red smock. 😊
Keep that in mind next time you're screaming at the McDonald's drive-thru Bobby. People your age are the ones having an issue being kind to service workers.
Ehhhh, I disagree, I feel that people were just as rude back then, but nowadays we have phones to record it all and so we are exposed to more rude people everyday.
I love this, thanks for the upload. I remember always going with my grandma to K Mart and I’d always call it THE K Mart which my granny thought was pretty funny. She would always buy me something at the food court which is why I liked going, usually I got a icee or a pretzel.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS . ... this is the same exact Kmart me and my mom shopped at all the time. i was 9 at the time of this video. I miss my mom so much. THANK YOU SO EFFIN MUCH FOR THIS UPLOAD
The most important thing I see in this video is the respect everyone have for each other. Children are properly behaved and the employees are very respectful and helpful. Discipline was 100%.
Kids were not watched by adults mostly back then , so going out with family 1 time a week was interesting and kids behaved , were fake good in front of adults .
Kmart will always hold a special place in my heart. I can remember my mom and I going Christmas shopping, back to school shopping and Halloween. You couldn’t tell me back then we would no longer have Kmarts. Goes to show you nothing lasts forever ..❤
I remember shopping with my mom throughout the different seasons from as early as the late 70’s. We would get a bag of stacked poor boy sandwiches to eat and maybe some whoppers candy as a treat. That blue light special always got us to go to that aisle to check out what was on sale. Good times as a kid.
Wow I was 19 at the time of this video and I forgot what it was like to see so many checkout lanes open at once. You can go to three stores in one day now and probably not see that many lanes open in all the stores put together.
Believe it or not, it was calming watching this video! It made me realize how much society has changed in the last 30 years and how impatient and rude people have become. I think we've lost our basic human respect and courtesies. It's a shame. I do see though, that TV prices are still about the same! ( car prices certainly are not!)
Yet some people consider staring at a phone along with looking and dressing like a homeless bum by wearing jeans that have rips, holes, and tears in them along with having trashy looking tattoos all over one's body Progress. People today are clueless when it comes to having class. What a warped society we have become. Makes me glad I never had any kids or grandkids.
Fun to look back at these times. I believe the customer looking at the TV's was trying to ask which video formats the TV could display; NTSC or PAL (or both), rather than what voltage it could operate on.
Technology certainly changed everyone. Family and friends did so much more together in the past. People just got lazy, and want to stay home on computers, and phones.
@@taylorangel7700 No, it didn't start with Kmart, but that's when NAFTA began to outsource jobs from the US. As a result, a lot of bad changes have occurred. Less people own homes and the middle class has shrunk. Income has decreased. So, it happens that businesses close and neighborhoods fall into disrepair. All of that is bad.
I understand what youre saying, but we can have anything you can think of shipped to your door in 1-2 days at the lowest possible price now. Its pretty good these days too. Just different
Man, seeing that miniature carousel in front - you just don't see that anymore. The old packs of baseball cards at the register, too. So much stuff I took for granted back then.
I would rather take 30 seconds to look up said question on google, than ask an employee. That’s a wild card on wether they know what they’re talking about/or can explain it in a timely manner, and I don’t have time for that.
That is NOT a good thing. Salesmen were always either ignorant about the products they sold or lied to you to unload an item that the manager told them to get rid of. It's MUCH better today. We can go online and ask real customers all over the world about their experience with a product, or read reviews from experts who are not paid to sell you something. Those days we were flying blind and trusting con men.
@@nokizzy4504tbh that’s an underestimated guess considering how the boxes tell you more specs the questions that did not have an answer the box would that would require the employees to go and check more interactions between customers and employees must I add that in that case the company would employ more workers thus creating more jobs that slight inconvenience that you’re being picky about has cost thousands of jobs but what I truly think you meant to say was I don’t like interacting with people that much
I like how being on camera was a special thing--people camera shy and excited too ! Love this video. I was a cashier at Harts and this brought back memories.
Yes!!! Exactly. Before instagram/tiktok, where everything you do is on camera/photographed... people are no longer mesmerized by a camera. Back then, it was a rare event, and people weren't posing or trying to look cute, they were more bashful and nervous (in front of the camera). I miss those times.
I worked at KMart in St. Clair Shores, Michigan from 1988 to 1992. It was an amazing company and I continued to shop there for decades after. I miss this company, this store, this experience.
This K-mart (on Rodney Parham Rd in Little Rock, AR) was one of my mom's go-to when I was a kid in the 90's. Showbiz Pizza (then Chuck E. Cheese) was next door. I think about it often since she passed a few years ago...Some of my fondest memories were: -putting our Nintendo 64 and extra red controller on lay-a-way -riding an elephant in the west side parking lot by the Garden Center during some sort of event -school shopping near those front cash registers as a big kid out of kindergarten -buying my first set of junior golf clubs with my Dad from the sporting goods in the back right-center Even the ones I hated at the time (following along in the ladies clothing section on the east side for what seemed like FOREVER, or getting off-brand Franklin and Shaq-branded sneakers that I got made fun of for at school...) still make me tear up seeing this.
🤣🤣 same here. I was a 12 year old boy. I had to walk through the women's section of underwear and bras while the women were shopping I was embarrassed.
No automatization, you actually got to interact with real people. Miss those days😢. Videos like this are time capsules and should be preserved for future generations to show them how good it was then
This is literally my childhood right here. Seeing those makes and models of cars, the interior of the K-Mart, and all the CRT TV's lined up on the wall... it just bring a tear to my eye, of that cozy 90's consumerist aesthetic that was such a part of my everyday life back then.... It really moves something within me, that pines for this point in time that can never come back. Brings me back to the days in which I was still playing Super Mario World and watching new episodes of Ren and Stimpy.
I was employed at Kmart in the early 90’s. I worked in the back office. I counted the drawers from the previous night and got the bank deposits ready. Back then all employees were paid in cash (as crazy as that sounds). There would be three or four of us on Thursdays counting out each persons pay and then someone had to double check it. The reason for being paid in cash? It encouraged employees to go shopping after picking up their money.
My husband was an Assistant Manager of a brand new Kmart back in the 1970's. I'm not sure if he would get nostalgic over this video or say good riddance to those days. He got out of retail not too long afterwards. 🤣
I also worked there and remember getting paid in cash and making time and a half on Sundays. I thought the at first lady who pulled out her envelope of cash might have been an employee who just got paid. This was before companies expected employees to do the work of 3 people for no additional pay. They actually employed enough people to manage the workload.
@@jacksonpaflas4080 Lol people are still the same with racism and homophobia, but the string pullers push "the narrative" and try to normalize (jam it down our throats) those things via corporate/government controlled media. No one in their right mind wants a non-straight child/offspring. Humans are tribal and most prefer their own kind, but of course "the narrative" pushes multiculturalism like it's amazing and fantastic...reality it is not.
Omg the new Jack Swing playing on the TVs! I remember new Jack Swing was all the rage. I miss the laid back feeling of this time. Nothing mattered but the present moment.
People who worked in electronics actually had to have some knowledge of what they were selling. I remember K-Mart’s cafe (before they became Little Caesar’s pizzas) used to sell sub sandwiches, and that was a rare treat, to go have a frozen Coke and sub sandwich from K-Mart.
@@fromulus Yeah, I think the customer was asking if the TV could play PAL transmissions since the US transmits NTSC, but the worker kept talking about outlet voltages.
Two years ago, I made a decision to use my phone very sparingly… and I’m happy to say I’ve maintained that. What I didn’t expect were the extra benefits; A few months ago, I was just lying down in my bed doing nothing. Literally, looking at the wall. Suddenly, I had a brief but very vivid flashback of a lazy summer day in my childhood bedroom in the late 90s/very early 2000s. I even remembered the details of a comforter I hadn’t seen since my teens (I am in my thirties). I actually felt like I was back there, I even faintly recalled the smell of that room. I remembered the feeling of summer days were it was common to spend chunks of the day doing nothing, and enjoying it. It dawned on me that’s so rare nowadays with the constant stimulation we get from screens and calls and texts etc. Back then, you watched your favorite show when it came on, maybe a movie in the evening, maybe went online once to check your email or something…but otherwise just spent time one on one with people, reading magazines/books, and truly relaxing. This video brings back those feelings.
Honest to god, thc opens the doors of my memory bank to the point it brings me tears of joy. After some good strong medical flower in a quiet setting such as my recliner or stretched out on the sofa, I can re-visit absolutely vivid details of a childhood home, right down to the shimmer of the fibers of gold in the olivegreen carpet in patches of sunlight on a Spring morning when I was on the floor playing with my favorite HotWheels... and then I'll even remember soecifoc details about each car, which ones had the most realistic engines under the metal hoods that rose and smelled so tangy-metallic... If you haven't tried it, pleass do. I have a feeling you would respond very well to it, as there are obviously memorie waiting to be relived and savored again for moments at a time! Good luck, and enjoy.
I’m also in my (late) 30’s and so thankful I had a childhood without devices. Where I’d be with friends or just hanging out at home and that’s where I would be, not “somewhere else” via my phone. Waiting in line at the store was just that. I used to just go out in my backyard and lay in the grass just as something to do haha. I think if I’d had a device back then I would have been on it during those kind of times, and I would have missed out on so much. It really was a blessing. This is inspiring me to cut back on my phone usage.
I remember doing the same cash out of the bank envelope. I feel like my soul is mourning for the times back then. Feel sadness how the world is and what will be.
@@teijaflink2226Checks were issued by your bank which connects to your bank account. You would had to write down the name of the merchant and price on the check. In some cases if you had no funds then obviously the check would of "bounced" (get rejected) It wasn't until the mid 90s i believe they started having those machines to verify checks. Hope that helps
I pay with cash; sometimes it’s in an envelope if it’s a budget specific item (my automotive budget is that way) but yeah, most everyone is using plastic now.
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It’s nice seeing a cashier at every register.
It really is...
Ain’t that the truth!
Do people today realize that were being replaced by technology so the big corporations dont have to pay us??? Do they realize how bad things can be if were not working and were depending some sort of social credit system??
I noticed that people responded to being recorded on video more politely back in the 1990's vs. modern times. It wasn't like everybody had a camera in their pocket & instant access to social media. Having a camcorder back then was rare. Today, people would just say, "You can't film that here sir !!" It's funny how technology changes with time..
It sure is!
I never thought I would be watching people shopping at Kmart but here I am. The nostalgia is real with this one.
Ditto
God I miss that store, I used to get everything there I needed for the house and some clothes!
Reminds me of when I was 4 and my mom would leave me in the car with the windows up in the hot sun, and she would call me a stupid idiot... I don't like k mart.
A hometown legend for sure. Mf in my city had a Little Cesar's in it, and a plethora of the essential action figures. I'll miss that place forever.
@@shaun2222 She really did that?
I worked loss prevention in a Super KMart back in 1998. The store is closed on Christmas, but they still need someone in the store to monitor the freezers, so if one of them shuts down, they don't lose all that frozen food.
I worked the midnight shift. Was the only person in the entire store on Christmas Eve. It was honestly a little eerie, being in that giant store all by myself. There's so many places for someone to hide in there. To keep myself occupied, I grabbed a bicycle and did high speed laps around the store. Nearly killed myself.
Lol. Good times.
Sounds like wonderful memories to me!
I hope their is a security video of you somewhere lol.
Just like career opportunities 😂
I worked produce in a super Kmart from 2004-2005 in college. Paid $1 more per hour to start out than Walmart at the time, despite business going down the shitter
I'm so grateful to have experienced life during the 80s and 90s.
Never thought watching a Kmart store from the past would reduce me to tears....ahhhh yesterday....we just didnt know how good we had it....
Yes, this video makes it look ancient. I don’t feel that old yet. I was 18 back then.
@@taoist32 Fifteen myself.
I'm a grown 41 year old man crying while watching this myself. We all would love to go back or revisit that special place in back in time when we were young, things were simple and some friends and family members were still living.
Amen 🙏
Dang we all be crying over here. I miss Kmart. Me and my mom would go shop and go to the little restaurant to eat.
It’s true when people say that TH-cam is the closest thing to a Time Machine. This is pure nostalgia! RIP Kmart 🙏🏽
Yeah, but do you miss credit cards being so inconvenient to use?
I had forgotten what a pain they were.
Time traveler
@@iFixJunk yes lol
@@arrowcrusher Facts! 💯
@@fernandasoares7645 The quality of the video is too high definition to be that old, and did you notice that nobody was looking at him like he was recording,, back then if you walked into a public place with a camcorder everyone was looking or embarrassed to be recorded because it was so unusual to see in public.. plus none of the VHS tapes I have looks that clear and high definition, not even the old movies on VHS look like that,, definitely a cell phone camera,,. If it's true then our entire reality is a perpetual illusion of time and place,, 1Love
The 90s , I WANNA GO BACK😢
You wanna be killed by gangs?
I wouldn't go back even if you paid me as much money as Donald Trump claims to have. The '80s, the '90s -- horrific times that I'm glad I made it through once and would never try again!
كانت ايام جميله
I agree lets go back.to.thr 90s
Fun shopping!!! 😁
People seemed so civilized and respectful
when sin abounds you get what we have today...
They were.
@@FreddyPrays Right. Because people didn't "sin" in 1992... They're all acting just like most people would today when on camera being recorded. I was born in 1959 and I can tell you, with absolute certainty, there was PLENTY of "sin" to go around in '92 and well before. The only difference in the way people acted off-camera then as opposed to now, is that people didn't walk around with their heads down buried in a screen. You actually made eye contact with people.
@xaulted1 where in anything that I said did I say no one was sinning? What was stated is sin ABOUNDING, as in, multiplying and growing in intensity. Which is absolutely what is happening today. Our current society's decadence cannot be overstated.
Apology accepted.
@@FreddyPrays Bull. In 2024 you couldn't possibly get away with 5% of the "sin" that "abounded" in 92. No cameras everywhere for people to avoid in '92, people afraid to report crimes (especially sexual) went unpunished. Rampant, out of control racism. The younger generations then had no problem attacking the elderly and sexual perversion was out of control. I don't know what alternate universe YOU stepped out of, but if anything awful behavior was much MUCH worse then because there were very rarely any repercussions for any of it. The level of raw sleaze in the world has dropped dramatically in the last 30 years.
People were less pissed off back then.
Yeah today if you start videoing in a store, some psychotic bitch will start screaming that you’re being a creep. 🤦♂️ but what about all the Tiktokers?
No internet.
@GetMeOutta Tennessee Also signs of the times.
@@Mrcruisefever1 phones period
@@travishardy1761 , yep
( I was born in November 1984 )
Forever grateful to the person who captured this beautiful moment in time.
It wasn’t for everyone. My grandfather happened to be a photographer at the time so he had a lot of old footage which we were lucky to have because he documented a lot of our lives. If it wasn’t because it happened to be his job in the Army and for the rest of his life we never could have afforded this. I think back now of how lucky we were to have access to his work red room. 😊 🤩 📸
These nostalgia videos on TH-cam are fake. They are generated with A.I. Nevertheless, I still love watching them.
@@PhillyAnthonyD What? Is this true?
@@clarice4426 That is what I heard, but I am not certain.
@@PhillyAnthonyDThis video is authentic. In 1992, customers wrote checks, clerks wore ties and people definitely drove those kind of cars in the parking lot. Retailing has dramatically changed since 1992 but there’s nothing fake about this video.
I think everyone who watched this can agree that our society has devolved in massive tangible ways!
1 order.
2 cleanliness.
3 civic pride
4 enthusiasm.
God bless y'all
Not really. Nothing is that different from 30 years ago.
1992 doesn't seem all that long ago, but it might as well be another world when you look at the cars, the clothes, the people with no cell phones giving each other eye contact
After 2000 things changed a lot.
1992 not enough money for toys and power ranger shortages. 2024 doesn't seem much different.
You don’t know how bad the truth of your comment hurts
what caught my eye right off was the lack of SUV's in the parking lot
Back then SUVs were actually REAL SUVs. Trucks meant for going off road.
Me too! First thing I noticed.
@@bassage13FACTS
Back when there were a lot more smaller vehicles also. I hate today's newer vehicles. I would prefer to own an older vehicle from that time period as well that has been restored. I also really miss these mini jeep like vehicles such as the Geo Tracker (Suzuki Sidekick) and the Suzuki Samurai. Plus they have ruined the Jeep Wrangler. I really hate and despise these 4 door Jeep Wranglers. Modern day oversized gas guzzling garbage on wheels.
Im so sick of the now day suvs everywhere.
These classic videos prove that TH-cam is the closest thing to a time machine.
Yeah I love how people were smart enough to actually bring a huge bulky camcorder into a store and just start videotaping. People even did it at McDonald’s and Pizza Hut back in like 1989. Because obviously, times were going to change. And those stores would close.
Totally agree!!!
@@stevarino1989 There are stores, which are even open to this day
people vlogging before vlogging was a thing. there would probably alot more of these videos if people knew there would be youtube in the future.
@@stevarino1989 Most all stores restaurants have signs posted that say some variant of "Video and/or picture taking is prohibited" but these days its practically impossible to enforce. Back in the day if you walked into a store with a 20 pound camcorder on your shoulder, it was quite obvious that you were filming!
I so wish, WISH, we had more footage like this of the stores of yesteryear, Caldor, Ames, Hills, Jamesway, Bradlees, and especially the older chains like Two Guys, E.J. Korvettes, Woolco, Grant City . . . . oh well wish in one hand and excrete in the other and see which one fills up first I guess. ☹
I was 14 in 1992. I would do anything to be back there again with the full knowledge, memory, and exoerience of my 45 yr old self in my teenage body.
yeah same... my parents were about the same age I am now lol
There isn't enough money on earth anyone could pay me to go back to that horrid time. I barely survived it once. Disability discrimination is still bad now, but it was much worse back then. I would never go back.
@@thankyouverymuch I would only offer you the chance. Plus you could modify the details of the past. How about no disability? How about someone with wealth and power who comes along to help you during that time? OR never mind. If your answer is an emphatic no, then okay. Here's 10 million in tax free cash instead.
@@stevenorellano2039That tax payer money goes to illegal aliens now Not to American citizens
What a cool time capsule. You never think mundane things like this would be interesting at all when taken in the moment, but wait a few decades and that changes.
I was 12 years old and I remember the 90s as just having the greatest times in my life. If I close my eyes I can still feel the cool summer mornings just starting getting ready for a hot day, riding my bike, rollerblading, swimming or go going to a theme park. My childhood summers were the greatest times to be be alive as a kid. To better times. Embedded into my DNA forever.
You should have seen the 80s. Safer and much better music.
I definitely feel ya on that. I was 14. No internet, just the long cord house phone lol. If we need to get a hold of our friends or find out where the crew was.. All I had to do was go to one of the parents house and saw all the bikes out that front yard lol.. Fun times back then... Oh and cops actually had baseball cards and had positive words to say to you back then and on top of it, was hella tall and big back then (like a roll model) to look up to
Duuuuudde….agree to all of that. I can even close my eyes and remember the smell of dry grass in the hills. Biking, walking, roller hockey in the street, basketball, all of that. Best of times for sure.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 maybe the mid to later 80s…them early years hits did not make.
To better times. Cheers
Seeing regular people just being is so calming.
No dancing, no branded content, no antics, just being.
Dancing 😆👍
Some of you people complain about the stupidest shit. No dancing? Really?
No one with circus-clown-level makeup, or ridiculous-looking rope hair or wigs from a stripmall or gas station, and none of the women were dressed like prostittutes.
That's a huge difference from any Walmart visit today.
The “dancing” took me out. I wish there was a random person dancing to nothing in the background now lol
By dancing you mean tweaking 😉
It's sad that they are "all" gone now. Kmart, Sears, Montgomery Ward, Thrifty Drug Store, Longs Drugs, Toys R Us, Orchard Supply Hardware, Payless Shoes, A&W Rootbeer (for the most part), Homebase, and many others, and in general, "Dime Stores". Plus all the stores that my parents and grandparents saw evaporate. There are still a few stores left, like JCPenney and Ace Hardware.
Radio Shack...the list goes on & on
I miss Winn's Variety Store. They had everything!
JCPenny will soon be following
Also everyone in this video is dead too. It’s sad how life goes by so fast that we have to realize it or we miss it without even noticing it
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr Well, I wouldn't go that far, Jess. There are several kids and young adults in the video. Kids would now be in their 40's. The younger adults between 50 and 70 (ish).
Thank you for sharing these memories.
I've been looking for videos like this lately. I was 13 in 1992. With children of my own now, I can't help but think that there was something magical about growing up in that time period and a distinct innocence that has all but disappeared from today's experience. I'm sure every generation has this kind of viewpoint, but it feels like it's much more marked with Gen X. I miss going to Blockbuster on a Friday and wandering around the place with family, and trying to get ahold of that new release before it was all rented out.
The good old days.
Every Generation Has That Viewpoint, Yes! But We Were Truly the Last Generation, Living in the Moment, Unplugged, Only Accessible to Those in Our Company, No Cell Phones, Social Media, No Texting. We Are Blessed to Have Experienced the Good Ole Days.
@@helenaasousaafter 1995 things really started going to shit. More Globalists centric as time went on then 2001, 9/11 IT was now pressing time for the NWO and creating events to get THIER out comes it's criminal and disturbing
BECAUSE it was in 93/4 when our dumbass Congress sold us out to send all manufacturing to China which made no sense but to only satisfy " climate/ global warming" communist
I never thought I’d live to see the day when the 90s were “old”.
Aside from the lack of cell phones not much changed visually. This is 31 years ago; but 31 years before that was 1961. Think about how radically different shopping was then compared to 1992, and this compared to now.
You thought you'd die young? 😟
And in the early 2000's it felt like the late 90's up until 2003 or '04.
My big brother was born in 1992 and it's so nostalgic to me seeing videos and pictures of that time it makes me want to cry from the nostalgia. And also the 80's when my parents were teens in high school. Such a beautiful yet painful feeling! I collect magazines from that time and lose myself in time looking at the pics
Imo the late 90's and early 2000 was the best Era in the world history and I wasn't even born yet, I wish could go back in time to live in that time 😔😌
Hmmmmm. Yes. It is older but not what you really call old per se.
@@cdevidallol history repeats itself . here in 30 years they'll be saying the same thing
Such a simpler time.. The employees appear happy to do their jobs, no one is losing their sh*t over a minor inconvenience, no unruly children, and no bloggers pulling pranks for social media.. What a time!
I remember the 90’s like it was yesterday. They didn’t have social media back then and no smart phones
Lol if you seriously think thats how most places were back then, then you need to take off your nostalgia goggles
I think they look happy because the camera is on.
There were DEFINITELY unruly children (I was one of them...)
And no looting ninjas.
It’s crazy watching all of these videos and seeing people actually being chill and not sucked into their phones
Everyone looked so sane just 30 years ago! The internet has made us all crazy.
even 20 years ago people were still mostly sane. The shift occurred around 2007-2008 lol
@@shaunsteele6926 then in 2012 it turned into a wildfire that will never be put out creating the worst addiction this planet has ever seen.
That's what politics do. They divide and destroy. The party affiliation isn't relevant. It's what they produce.
I see it as we were mostly brainwashed consumers ruled by huge retail companies. Now we are ruled by massive tech companies….
Just wait till y’all see 2027, it’s gonna make 2176 seem lame!
So weird not seeing everyone staring at their phones.
Right.
The phones were either in their homes or in phone booths.
I'll go back to that time anyday 😊❤
I am binge re-watching Northern Exposure... So intuitively peaceful. I now have the goal to leave me phone home more often.
Yeah be cause their phones were barbaric and not computers like they are today.
I was 16 in 1992. Never thought that decade would be the last good decade we would have.
I was 6 😂 I remember our trips to Kmart very vividly. It was a part of life lol
@@chinaarlene7035I was 8 years old.
@6lemans10 I sent my mom this video this morning and she got very emotional. Kmart was just a part of life back then. She would shop and let me and my older brothers run to the toy section. We loved it. 😍
I was 15 in 1992 and have many memories of Kmart.
Yup because back then shop's and stores and TV and sports, education and just things I'm general weren't jam packed with radical Marxist and woke PC propaganda. Thats why life was more simple and thus overall much better than today. However I do have faith things will improve.
I worked for Kmart for 25yrs until we closed the doors for good 😭. There's never been a store like it. Loved the video brought back memories
♥️
Man….I remember going to K mart as a kid and my parents would have in depth conversations with the store members and we would get popcorn at the snack stand and be in there for hours. It would be such a joyful experience as a child…nowadays I really dread going into stores and try to go either real late or early in the morning to bypass all the impatient, rude and assimilated population.
And people staring at their phones like the mindless drones they are these days. Sheep (Smart) Phone Zombies in the "Toxic 21st Century."
I dread going into stores and actually get a knot in my stomach. I used to enjoy it. Everything has gotten so crowded, traffic is worse, not enough parking spaces anymore and people are really rude. I dread any form of shopping. Grocery stores are a nightmare. It didn't used to be like that. It used to be mostly crowded on Saturday afternoons and holidays. Now it's just crowded all the time. And everyone is so angry. Can't believe how angry and tense everyone is.
@@jenniferlloyd9574 Where do you live?
Who are you calling assimilated, you’re just making an ass of yourself! 😂
@@jenniferlloyd9574I completely agree! Just where did all these people come from?? I feel like everywhere is SO crowded now, no matter the time or day of the week.
I just really really really miss those days 😢
Yep. I was 15. Racism wasn't a thing...it really wasn't.
Me too everything was all so simple ❤❤
I was also 15 years old and the 80s and 90s were a great time for sure and if it were possible I will give up all of this modern technology to go back to Ann and just socialize and talk with old friends and family again
@@christianpatriot7196 yeah, maybe that’s what everyone says when they get to their 40’s, but I agree. I’ve always loved technology, but it’s really done a lot to damage relationships and minds.
@@mtamech535 yes agreed it has done a lot of damage and when some of this technology first started flowing out into the world I thought it was wonderful but the more advanced and the more Technology continues to be incorporated into every facet of my life I don’t really see it getting much better for humanity not only in the moral realm but also the spiritual realm!
I miss the way things were back in the 1990's, I feel quality of life was so much better back then unlike today.
Everyone decided to let corporations and politicians do whatever they wanted post WWII to present day. This is what it has gotten us. It was coming even back in the 90's, but it hadn't really hit yet.
That's because there wasn't a Trump right wing cult terrorizing our streets and mass shooting every other week.
it was a better time. I had a tough time finding a job, but how little I knew that things would get much harder.
90s is the peak of American civilization.
Being connected with cell phones all the time and social media ruined our lives.
Imagine wearing a long sleeve shirt and tie to work in a Kmart... Mad respect. I miss these days.
And not having a cell phone in their hand.
Man it’s a trip to see all those shoppers and no one is talking on a cell phone. Some of them ignored or acted shy and didn’t want to be on video when the camera was on them. I was 22 in 1992 and seeing the K mart logo and the cars in the parking lot brought back memories of being a 22 year old. I would go right to the record section and get a Coke and a box of way too salty popcorn on the way put.
I miss hearing those dot matrix printers at the checkout. People wrote checks and the cashier took their time getting the info from the driver's license. The guy in electronics tried to explain to the customer and help him. Good luck finding an employee now in any store and if you do, they know much less than I do.
If customers weren't so rude maybe the employees would be better. If you get harassed and be littleled on the daily basis, you would be irritated also.
I used to work for sears and back then Kmart used to give benefits vacation time and a decent wage and in the mid-2000s when they merge they took all that away.
Remember the blue light special.
That's because they are dealing with rude customers hourly. Not so much back then
Same on airplanes.
@@divinelotus19 Exactly. From driving, flying, shopping. Rudeness and impatience are common. Can you imagine the world in 2053?
Ironic how people were more connected without the Internet
that's not really true, people already died alone, very often.
@@vodkaboy Actually it IS true. People dying alone has nothing to do with it. We were more connected and respectful back then.
@@reesedaniel5835 it's because AI is dangerous like Tesla Guy says. AI is actually part of the antichrist. He will do everything to imitate Jesus Christ, but he will lie and do the opposite. He nor any man human or Alien which are actually demons or AI on this earth will fix anything. He (antichrist) will use it to control people, EVERY part of your life. Life now especially in the last 3 years is so fearful and burdensome because that evil spirit really took control especially in the USA. People choose that spirit in 2020. Bad looked Good. Bible states in end times bad is good and good is BAD. Do you see it?
My fav scripture explains it all Eph 6:12 google it and read it KJs version 1st.
Yep now everyone’s face is constantly staring at a smartphone
@vodkaboy you sound dumb
Thee thing that impressed me the most is how patient everyone was back then. I was 32 back then and I loved shopping at K Mart. What a lovely piece of Americana.
Back when you couldn't just google reviews on TV's, you had to actually talk face to face with someone and trust that they knew what they were talking about. Simpler times. 💛 I miss actual customer service!
Why do you deserve that level of interaction with somebody?
We had magazines, books, newspaper articles, local news, and consumer advocacy related TV shows back then. We had plenty of resources for studying options before buying.
Amazing, no one is being rude or impatient, everyone is dressed like they're actually going out in public and not like they just crawled out of bed. Even the kids are well behaved. We weren't perfect back then but at least we attempted to be civil. Sidenote : the electronics employee ACTUALLY KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT!! 😮
Yeah, a lot of people just wear sweatpants of pajamas, and look like slobs. I am guilty of this myself, however, 90% of the time when I know I will be out for nearly the whole day, I dress like how these people did back then. I love wearing a shirt that pops out in color, with denim or matching pants. I will occasionally do my make up. I tend to wear stuff similar to the late 90s and early 2000s. Its the happiest I can be when going out and closer to the times back then ;A;
Dude people dress the same way now
@@Aobcldeefcgh sweatpants don’t make people look like slobs they’re just comfortable for a lot of people.
I wonder if the guy was actually asking about the difference between PAL and NTSC, since he said he didn't mean the power. :) I worked for Kmart my senior year in High School and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express at some point.
The electronics guy didn’t entirely know what he was talking about. The customer was asking about NTSC vs PAL. It does indirectly involve the power frequency of a given country (60Hz countries mostly use NTSC, whereas 50Hz countries mostly use PAL) but the real issue is that it’s an entirely different transmission format. Voltage is not the issue.
Pulling out fresh money from the bank envelope ✉️ classic.
Pay day...
So true! LOL how many times I did that back in the day!
Why is this so heart warming? ❤
because it reminds us of a simpler, more innocent time in America. Before social media and MSM "news" actively worked to divide us
Back when there was actually customer service and person to person interaction 😢
Very true but on line shopping is convenient. I do miss the old days though. At least i have my happy memories of the 60s 70s-80’s. Great great time to grow up.
Back when store security was able to manhandle the guy who lifted a Bon Jovi Cassette.
Remember service desks?!
There still is.
@@DLO0622this would be me, they thought i was 18
Wow!!! This is so great!!! 92 was a great year! I was 15. Now I’m 45. I miss the 90’s. A wonderful decade ♥️
I was 18. Still feel like it at times. Obviously, energy levels are not as high, and hopes of an awesome future has decreased a bit.
@@freechocolate 🤣LMAO! I caught that too!
I was 10 years old back in 92, it feels like the older you get the more it feels like time flies by .
@@freechocolate How does HER math need help? My sister was born in 1977 and she is 45 right now. She also would have turned 15 in 1992...
@@felipevaldez1135 If you mean a few years, yeah. With the second Cold War on us, it seems more futile than the first.
When it comes to the phrase "you can't go home again", I am unsure if people realize that applies to places you have also shopped/been to in general. We don't think about it while growing up, and take for granted what it once felt like to go so some place as simple as a Kmart, with a family member who has now passed, in your childhood neighborhood which doesn't look recognizable anymore, etc. I appreciate these nostalgic videos; they are very therapeutic. RIP Debbie, 3-5-20.
Great comment Dorian.
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Yep,my mom was a supervisor at the k mart here were I live,and I would go in k mart with my dad ,miss him,mom has dementia, now I'm old and miserable!
Damn Dorian. That hit really close to home
I can't even begin to count the times when I revisit these places and nostalgic moments from my childhood. I'm 35 and still long to go back and relive these seemingly mundane moments that are really what was the "good ol days". 😭
When I was kid, my dad bought me a BMX bike from Kmart. All the neighborhood kids poked fun of it calling it the Kmart Special. Still feeling the effects of the trauma 35 years later
I bet you wish you had that Kmart special today. Top quality today instead of the garbage they sell now unless you have a spare 20K for "a real bike". Walmart and their garbage.Daughter & I were just talking about all the cruel things that were kids said to us growing up. Every generation.
Kmart sucks
And your bicycle was just as good as any other bike. Kids can be so cruel. Bless you❤❤
People seemed nicer and less sick and less depressed and irritable back in hese times. Thanks for this video brings back memories for me. There was a k mart where I use to go to and I was in that city a few years ago and it's now a wasteland.... I don't think they turned the old k mart building into anything, there's alot more drug addicts and homeless people around there. You can see how mentally un well people are compared to the old days. Something about the footage from the camcorder, the vibe in the air this video reminds me of the good old days with super nintendo and sega genesis, n64
Yep sega genesis. Sega CD back then. Even pog people don't remember collection coin. Back then. Kmart good times. 🙂👍🙏
I worked at a Kmart in Arizona 1991-93, this is exactly how it looked. Had to wear the same red "smock". They paid everyone in cash every 2 weeks hoping you would spend the money on your way out the store on things you saw all week while working 🤣 Remember layaway? And seeing people actually paying with check sure brings back memories!
I remember my dad paid by check for something at Lowe's when I was a teenager, maybe 15 years ago, and I swear I looked at him like an alien. It's been quite a while since checks have been a common way to pay for things at stores. Apparently you can still pay by check if the store has a check verifier, though I can't recall seeing anyone pay by that method for a long time.
I still use a check register which my kids laugh about they said why the paper, I need that extra trail just in case.
@@okedokie I sometimes work the register at my job. We occasionally do have people pay with check. Older individuals.
You mean you didn’t get paid by paycheck?
Yea now you have the NWO on the way and digital currency and an RFID chip implanted in your hand. The world was free back then
Ah yes the 90s, when people were living in the moment, interacting, not looking down staring at their phones like zombies.... Miss that everyday... 🤧🤧🤧
I COULDN'T agree more, sick generation now sigh im 42 damn i miss these days!
Same
I miss that too
be fr lmao what you remember as "living in the moment" was closer to being bored as hell trying to get shopping done so they can so sit and watch tv or play video games. (present day)
Insightful, no one has ever mentioned that before
When i was a kid i always loved the small rides they would have out front.
You bet your boy was excited to go to K-Mart everytime 😅
This is back when stores were still stores and not giant warehouses.. Cashier's were still human and the employees knew everything about the products they sold without getting on the internet and looking it up.. I miss those days tremendously.. We have really screwed things up pretty bad in the past 30 years..
We sure have screwed things up. I’d love to go back.
Being a cashier is soul crushing, would rather be put in the deepest darkest pit in hell for all eternity than do that job again 😂
@@notafortnitegamerWhen I worked at any store I always requested not to work a register before I got hired lol
@@troublesum7885 thats usually the position there hiring for since the turnover rate is so high lol
@fortnitegamer-qh9cc I've never been a cashier anywhere.. I think the soul crushing part would probably depend greatly upon the area you live in and the type of store you are working at.. No way I'd want to be a cashier at a Walmart anywhere, but it may not be too bad scanning groceries at some mom and pop grocery store in a small town..
Ah yes, paying with a check at Kmart..... those were the days!! Does anyone else have memories of the Kmart cafeteria? That was a treat when I was a kid!!
The cafeteria... yes! way in the back of the store, with the little booths. loved the chocolate pudding.
@@MrDaydreamer1584 the Kmart we had also had an automotive shop, so we could get our oil changed, rotate the tires, and eat lunch!!
Mostly old people pay with checks at my brothers job he works at a publix grocery
Omg....yes! The Kmart cafeteria! I remember getting hot dogs from there as a kid. I can literally remember the smell of it!
I remember!!!!
I remember people used to go talk electronics at Walmart and Kmart with the associates that were actually knowledgeable
Oh like the guy that was talking about 220 and 120, 115? 😂
Reminded me of that movie Mr Mom.
“So, you running 220 in here?”
“Yeah, 220. 221. Whatever it takes…” 😂
True - but the associate in this example was totally misunderstanding that the customer specifically mentioned NTSC "broadcast" platform and that his country uses a different "system" (probably PAL, or SESAC) and needed to know if the TV could accept those broadcasts. The associate was confused and kept talking about mains voltage in the home. Two totally different things.
@@slamcrank to be fair to this guy 30 years ago, the whole Pal to NTSC thing never really was a problem for most Americans unless they traveled a lot overseas.
@@slamcrank True, but my brother was chill; handling a language barrier AND upselling a voltage adapter.
@@slamcrankexactly. i immediately knew the customer was talking about pal. the assiciate was so clueless.
I miss these days. People knew how to interact. No one is distracted by social media
They got some " Full House " going on in Electronics, that is so cool.
I noticed and loved that as well! Best shows ever during the 90's.
And the old Fred the baker "Time to make the donuts" Dunkin Donuts commercial!!
I worked at a KMart in the mid to late 80s, things were so much better then. I was just telling my kids recently that when I worked there we had to hand type in the cost of each item since we didn't have scanners, about 80% of the people paid in cash, 15% with a check and the few that did pay with a credit card (there were no debit cards) required us to pull out those roller things and carbon paper sheets and hand write everything in. I miss those days.
Yup, we zipped the credit card payment form over the credit card (for the info). Truly was a simpler time!
And don't forget Kmart allowed the layaway plan, pay a little in increments, then pay the balance and get your stuff they kept stored away. I grew up in the 80's remember it very well.😀 And in this clip, Full House was playing on the floor model television display.🤣🤣🤣
That's why cashiers were paid really well and were as respected as they were back then; because it was a difficult job that required a specialized set of skills. Not easy ringing up prices manually, speedily, and accurately, without looking at the register but at the products as you passed them manually along the conveyer belt. Several of my friends acquired supermarket cashier jobs back in the late 70's- early 80's and were lauded for being able to obtain positions in, what what was then, a hard-to break-into industry. Especially in supermarkets, where many who acquired those jobs were "grandfathered in". They were paid outrageously great wages for that period of time. Yes, if was quite a different world we lived in back then.
How did I forget the handheld credit card machine?!?! I was a cashier back then and we sure did insert the credit card into the slot and pull the roller over to imprint the numbers on the carbon paper. Yesss, what memories! Lol thanks
Not many people paid with cards back then it was mostly cash and checks w/ ID.
4 years before I first came to the united states of America in 1996, so sad that I can't watch my little village back in the early 90s when I used to lived there, but I can have my consolation to watch these good video from 1992.
Notice how not only could you find a salesperson to help you but he understands what he is selling. My dad used to ask a bajillion questions in the electronics department when he was picking out the newest tv, stereo, or camera and the poor salesman was able to answer most of them.
Except this salesperson didn't quite get it. He understood the voltages were different in the other country, but not what the guy was asking about the NTSC system we have in the US. I think the guy was wanting to buy a TV at Kmart and take it back to another country to use. Wouldn't have worked. I'm really curious if the camera operator said anything to them off camera. S/He might have known.
@@roxicsand I don't think it would have worked because the plugs and outlets are different in other countries as well, but I do also agree with what you are saying
@@roxics Surprised the salesman actually knew the voltages were different at least.
It's crazy the 90s look like the 70s did in the 90s. So retro looking
i had to do a double take at the year. based on the thumbnaill i thought it was going to be the 50's/60s.. wow! and i was there, would have been in college already. seems like such a long time ago now.
Very true, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead said in an interview in the 80s that pictures from the 1950s when he was a little kid now look like the 1920s... And so it goes...
Especially the 80s
I always loved that first Kmart sign big red "K" and "mart" in aqua or turquoise blue.
ah yes, the memories. I can still smell the popcorn and hear the announcement of the blue light special. My very first candy bar I ever bought was a Mars Bar from K-Mart. We had a Ford Fairmont then. My mom driving that day. I sat in the back seat holding that candy bar and staring at it remember how special that was. Imagine that? Excited about a trip to K-Mart and my first candy bar! haha! That was a big deal to a little boy.
Remember how the shoe department smelled of cheap rubber shoes
@@arrowcrusher haha! Yes!
And don't forget the Coke ICEEs!!!
I was a cashier at K Mart in the 90s in high school. The sound of the register even brought back memories. So cool!!
This Has Been the Most Relaxing & Interesting TH-cam Videos, I Think I’ve Ever Watched, A Kmart Vid. The Good Ole Days, Returning to Live One Day in the 80’s/90’s Would Be A Dream Come True! Thank You for Sharing.
If only it could be the 90s again. The last greatest era. I was 12 in 1991 and I'm so happy that I was a 80s kid and a teen during the 90s and had a chance to experience those eras.
Same here 80s were really fun as a kid and the 90s were awesome as a teenager.... the last era of being able to buy an older fun to drive 60s or 70s car cheaply.....every new band you heard was great.....plenty of mom and pop stores.....pre 9/11....no internet or cell phones.... I miss it all.
I agree.
Same, I miss this time and the simplicity of life without social media
The 80s and 70s were much better. I actually didn't like the 90s much, but compared to now, lol, they were great....at least our country wasn't being systematically attacked by our own government and people were only a tiny fraction as insane as they are now. Oh and men couldn't become women just because they claim they are. That kinda talk was padded room and heavy medication worthy.
I was a teen in the early 2000s. I kept wanting to grow up faster so I could be a part of all the great music and culture.
I was disappointed with my teenage years, all that bubble gum pop and Real TV was a let down.
I remember my mom putting clothes on layaway for me and my siblings. I still remember exactly what the store looked like inside. It was huge.
A trip to Kmart was everything for me as a kid . And if we ate too wow what a treat lol
I got my first stationary bike at Kmart in the mid 90s. I still have it today and it still works.
Love the sound of that cash register back then. This brings back so many memories. Look at the prices! Unbelievable.
Good point! The sound was different. Yes- the prices!
Those receipt printers sure were LOUD though!
@L Morales
Most things were cheaper, but now you can get a HD flat screen tv that is 3x bigger and 20x lighter for less money lol.
@@ZepG Same for microwaves
Even in the 1990s many of their stores felt like they were in an era of decline. The height of this store's glory was the 70s and 80s. The "Blue Light Specials" were iconic. And it kept shoppers in the store for longer so they could see what the next special was. Their cafeterias had good food, too, so taking time to sit down for a meal while shopping was often on the to do list.
By the 90s, much of these special touches felt like they were slipping away. And, of course, they were. As we well know now.
@@IntergalacticDustBunnySo what would happen when the blue light came on? Everybody trampled each other to buy a dish towel?
I used to eat nachos and hot dogs while mom shopped. It was such a different time back then. You could leave your kids and not worry so much.
Yeah, one of many reasons K-Mart went under was that they didn't start modernizing until it was too late, you go into a WalMart or Target in 1992 and then go to K-Mart and it was like a time warp to a decade or more into the past. They basically did to K-Mart what K-Mart did to Woolworths.
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I needed this right now, you have no idea.. Sincerely, thank you.
This post made me smile. Very nostalgic. My mother was a merchandiser for Hallmark and two other brand card companies. She worked for a few KMarts, Toys R Us', and Targets. It was through my moms friendships, that I got my first after school job at KMart. I had that same red smock. 😊
I love how full house is on the TV to add to the nostalgia 😂
In just thirty years. Look at how much more civilized, courteous and well mannered the folks here are compared to today.
Sad we've become
we didn't start the fire, bob.
Keep that in mind next time you're screaming at the McDonald's drive-thru Bobby. People your age are the ones having an issue being kind to service workers.
Anecdotal evidence.
Ehhhh, I disagree, I feel that people were just as rude back then, but nowadays we have phones to record it all and so we are exposed to more rude people everyday.
I love this, thanks for the upload. I remember always going with my grandma to K Mart and I’d always call it THE K Mart which my granny thought was pretty funny. She would always buy me something at the food court which is why I liked going, usually I got a icee or a pretzel.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS . ... this is the same exact Kmart me and my mom shopped at all the time. i was 9 at the time of this video. I miss my mom so much. THANK YOU SO EFFIN MUCH FOR THIS UPLOAD
The most important thing I see in this video is the respect everyone have for each other. Children are properly behaved and the employees are very respectful and helpful. Discipline was 100%.
Todays people barely say hello to you it's like a crime saying hello in the 2020s it's very sad in today's world.
Kids were not watched by adults mostly back then , so going out with family 1 time a week was interesting and kids behaved , were fake good in front of adults .
If I go in any store right now and shoot a 7 minute video you'd probably see the same results
Spot on, man.
That is the point. People in charge now and the media are doing everything they can to destroy that.
Kmart will always hold a special place in my heart. I can remember my mom and I going Christmas shopping, back to school shopping and Halloween. You couldn’t tell me back then we would no longer have Kmarts. Goes to show you nothing lasts forever ..❤
kmart had nice christmas decorations
Thank trump's friend Steve Mnuchin
@@amerigovespucci3956 < Trump
Kmart made shopping a pleasure, not a chore.
I remember shopping with my mom throughout the different seasons from as early as the late 70’s. We would get a bag of stacked poor boy sandwiches to eat and maybe some whoppers candy as a treat. That blue light special always got us to go to that aisle to check out what was on sale. Good times as a kid.
Wow I was 19 at the time of this video and I forgot what it was like to see so many checkout lanes open at once. You can go to three stores in one day now and probably not see that many lanes open in all the stores put together.
The sound those cash register printers made! I had completed forgotten about those old printers.
Worked for Kmart for 9 years right up until Sears went bankrupt in 2017. We still used half of that tech from 1992, lol.
Why not? If it works, why get rid of it?
@@toucansam3 I wonder why they aren’t in business anymore…
Yep. Kmart literally still looked just like this when they closed.
Believe it or not, it was calming watching this video! It made me realize how much society has changed in the last 30 years and how impatient and rude people have become. I think we've lost our basic human respect and courtesies. It's a shame.
I do see though, that TV prices are still about the same!
( car prices certainly are not!)
Tv prices are a lot cheaper now. 494 for a TV in 92. That's like 750 now. You can get a nice LED tv for 350.
And everything else is 600% more. Thank the Fed debasing your currency
Those TVs would have lasted longer than the new ones too.
Yet some people consider staring at a phone along with looking and dressing like a homeless bum by wearing jeans that have rips, holes, and tears in them along with having trashy looking tattoos all over one's body Progress. People today are clueless when it comes to having class. What a warped society we have become. Makes me glad I never had any kids or grandkids.
@@mandya.8203
agree. no kids for me. single, by myself til the end.
Fun to look back at these times. I believe the customer looking at the TV's was trying to ask which video formats the TV could display; NTSC or PAL (or both), rather than what voltage it could operate on.
I love footage like this - just capturing everyday life in a period of time.
As soon as Kmart got shutdown by my house years ago, that’s when everything started becoming weird. This world has changed so much since then.
You don’t say sherlock
@@mikes7446 find something better to do. Isn’t it past your bed time?
Technology certainly changed everyone. Family and friends did so much more together in the past. People just got lazy, and want to stay home on computers, and phones.
It all started with Kmart huh? 😅 that's deep
@@taylorangel7700 No, it didn't start with Kmart, but that's when NAFTA began to outsource jobs from the US. As a result, a lot of bad changes have occurred. Less people own homes and the middle class has shrunk. Income has decreased. So, it happens that businesses close and neighborhoods fall into disrepair. All of that is bad.
Love this! The sound of the old registers, people writing ✍🏾 on papers, the electronics section was spectacular back in the days… we had it so good!
I understand what youre saying, but we can have anything you can think of shipped to your door in 1-2 days at the lowest possible price now. Its pretty good these days too. Just different
Going there with my grandpa in the 70s was best time of my life.
Man, seeing that miniature carousel in front - you just don't see that anymore. The old packs of baseball cards at the register, too. So much stuff I took for granted back then.
Back when you could actually talk to someone about a product you were thinking about buying, miss those days.
Nowadays, I go to a store, it's so difficult to locate an employee. When I do, nobody seems to have the answer.
I would rather take 30 seconds to look up said question on google, than ask an employee. That’s a wild card on wether they know what they’re talking about/or can explain it in a timely manner, and I don’t have time for that.
That is NOT a good thing. Salesmen were always either ignorant about the products they sold or lied to you to unload an item that the manager told them to get rid of. It's MUCH better today. We can go online and ask real customers all over the world about their experience with a product, or read reviews from experts who are not paid to sell you something. Those days we were flying blind and trusting con men.
@@nokizzy4504tbh that’s an underestimated guess considering how the boxes tell you more specs the questions that did not have an answer the box would that would require the employees to go and check more interactions between customers and employees must I add that in that case the company would employ more workers thus creating more jobs that slight inconvenience that you’re being picky about has cost thousands of jobs but what I truly think you meant to say was I don’t like interacting with people that much
@@davidw4781 I don't know. I just work here.
I like how being on camera was a special thing--people camera shy and excited too ! Love this video. I was a cashier at Harts and this brought back memories.
Yes!!! Exactly. Before instagram/tiktok, where everything you do is on camera/photographed... people are no longer mesmerized by a camera. Back then, it was a rare event, and people weren't posing or trying to look cute, they were more bashful and nervous (in front of the camera).
I miss those times.
Yes, being ‘filmed’ used to be a thing you’d notice. Now we just accept it but back then it was a big deal.
I’m a 90s kid I’ll never let go and forget the greatest time of my life. Humans reached the peak in the 90s. I miss having customer service .
@@MGillDesign not a soul making duckface, peace sign or giving the finger!
I worked at KMart in St. Clair Shores, Michigan from 1988 to 1992. It was an amazing company and I continued to shop there for decades after. I miss this company, this store, this experience.
The sound of those old registers is hitting me right in the nostalgia!
This K-mart (on Rodney Parham Rd in Little Rock, AR) was one of my mom's go-to when I was a kid in the 90's. Showbiz Pizza (then Chuck E. Cheese) was next door. I think about it often since she passed a few years ago...Some of my fondest memories were:
-putting our Nintendo 64 and extra red controller on lay-a-way
-riding an elephant in the west side parking lot by the Garden Center during some sort of event
-school shopping near those front cash registers as a big kid out of kindergarten
-buying my first set of junior golf clubs with my Dad from the sporting goods in the back right-center
Even the ones I hated at the time (following along in the ladies clothing section on the east side for what seemed like FOREVER, or getting off-brand Franklin and Shaq-branded sneakers that I got made fun of for at school...) still make me tear up seeing this.
Thanks for sharing ❤
🤣🤣 same here. I was a 12 year old boy. I had to walk through the women's section of underwear and bras while the women were shopping I was embarrassed.
I've driven thru Little Rock! I remember Rodney Parham! that's one of the main roads.
I swear Shaq was still with reebok in 92
I remember that K-Mart on Rodney Parham! Fun memories.
No automatization, you actually got to interact with real people. Miss those days😢. Videos like this are time capsules and should be preserved for future generations to show them how good it was then
This is literally my childhood right here.
Seeing those makes and models of cars, the interior of the K-Mart, and all the CRT TV's lined up on the wall... it just bring a tear to my eye, of that cozy 90's consumerist aesthetic that was such a part of my everyday life back then.... It really moves something within me, that pines for this point in time that can never come back. Brings me back to the days in which I was still playing Super Mario World and watching new episodes of Ren and Stimpy.
That's interesting. I was just thinking about Ren & Stimpy the other day and how popular they were. Great comment 👍
Man I remember having to write the person’s driver license numbers on checks! Wow lmao I’m old and mom I love you ❤️
I was employed at Kmart in the early 90’s. I worked in the back office. I counted the drawers from the previous night and got the bank deposits ready. Back then all employees were paid in cash (as crazy as that sounds). There would be three or four of us on Thursdays counting out each persons pay and then someone had to double check it. The reason for being paid in cash? It encouraged employees to go shopping after picking up their money.
My husband was an Assistant Manager of a brand new Kmart back in the 1970's. I'm not sure if he would get nostalgic over this video or say good riddance to those days. He got out of retail not too long afterwards. 🤣
I also worked there and remember getting paid in cash and making time and a half on Sundays. I thought the at first lady who pulled out her envelope of cash might have been an employee who just got paid.
This was before companies expected employees to do the work of 3 people for no additional pay. They actually employed enough people to manage the workload.
I love videos like this... it's like a window to a better time when life was good, and people weren't unbearable.
Yup, when gangs and murder rates in most US cities were at an all time high. The good ole days. 😇
People were also more racist, sexist, and homophobic back then, so no you're really incorrect.
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Don't hate just because your life sucks.
@@malcorub
As long as you didn't live in the bad parts of large cities it was fine.
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Lol people are still the same with racism and homophobia, but the string pullers push "the narrative" and try to normalize (jam it down our throats) those things via corporate/government controlled media. No one in their right mind wants a non-straight child/offspring. Humans are tribal and most prefer their own kind, but of course "the narrative" pushes multiculturalism like it's amazing and fantastic...reality it is not.
Man, my first real gig. Good times. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Omg the new Jack Swing playing on the TVs! I remember new Jack Swing was all the rage. I miss the laid back feeling of this time. Nothing mattered but the present moment.
People who worked in electronics actually had to have some knowledge of what they were selling. I remember K-Mart’s cafe (before they became Little Caesar’s pizzas) used to sell sub sandwiches, and that was a rare treat, to go have a frozen Coke and sub sandwich from K-Mart.
Dude had no idea what he was being asked, and rambled until the guy became distracted upon noticing the camera.
I just know Kmart café used to have some of the best cheeseburgers and fries. Occasionally, we would go to Kmart just to eat in the café.
The donuts and deli sandwiches were AWESOME! And they single hard candy that was very good for about a nickel.
My granny use to get the fried chicken gizzards.I get the lil caesars and slushy mix cherry n coke.
@@fromulus Yeah, I think the customer was asking if the TV could play PAL transmissions since the US transmits NTSC, but the worker kept talking about outlet voltages.
Two years ago, I made a decision to use my phone very sparingly… and I’m happy to say I’ve maintained that. What I didn’t expect were the extra benefits; A few months ago, I was just lying down in my bed doing nothing. Literally, looking at the wall. Suddenly, I had a brief but very vivid flashback of a lazy summer day in my childhood bedroom in the late 90s/very early 2000s. I even remembered the details of a comforter I hadn’t seen since my teens (I am in my thirties). I actually felt like I was back there, I even faintly recalled the smell of that room. I remembered the feeling of summer days were it was common to spend chunks of the day doing nothing, and enjoying it. It dawned on me that’s so rare nowadays with the constant stimulation we get from screens and calls and texts etc. Back then, you watched your favorite show when it came on, maybe a movie in the evening, maybe went online once to check your email or something…but otherwise just spent time one on one with people, reading magazines/books, and truly relaxing. This video brings back those feelings.
Exactly. The pre-internet days!
Honest to god, thc opens the doors of my memory bank to the point it brings me tears of joy. After some good strong medical flower in a quiet setting such as my recliner or stretched out on the sofa, I can re-visit absolutely vivid details of a childhood home, right down to the shimmer of the fibers of gold in the olivegreen carpet in patches of sunlight on a Spring morning when I was on the floor playing with my favorite HotWheels... and then I'll even remember soecifoc details about each car, which ones had the most realistic engines under the metal hoods that rose and smelled so tangy-metallic...
If you haven't tried it, pleass do. I have a feeling you would respond very well to it, as there are obviously memorie waiting to be relived and savored again for moments at a time!
Good luck, and enjoy.
@@gavinvalentino6002 I want to do that!!
I’m also in my (late) 30’s and so thankful I had a childhood without devices. Where I’d be with friends or just hanging out at home and that’s where I would be, not “somewhere else” via my phone. Waiting in line at the store was just that. I used to just go out in my backyard and lay in the grass just as something to do haha. I think if I’d had a device back then I would have been on it during those kind of times, and I would have missed out on so much. It really was a blessing. This is inspiring me to cut back on my phone usage.
@@jacquelynroe9036 Good for you! We should all try this.
I just love these videos you are putting... honestly they are better then the crap on TV 😅
lol....thanks
Your channel is simply amazing
Thank you, that's a very nice comment 😊
It was fun to see the girl take out an envelope full of cash to pay as well as the woman paying with a check. I remember those days!
I remember doing the same cash out of the bank envelope. I feel like my soul is mourning for the times back then. Feel sadness how the world is and what will be.
Yall I still do that😆
I'm so confused how you where able to pay with a check.
@@teijaflink2226Checks were issued by your bank which connects to your bank account. You would had to write down the name of the merchant and price on the check. In some cases if you had no funds then obviously the check would of "bounced" (get rejected) It wasn't until the mid 90s i believe they started having those machines to verify checks.
Hope that helps
I pay with cash; sometimes it’s in an envelope if it’s a budget specific item (my automotive budget is that way) but yeah, most everyone is using plastic now.