They all haven’t been updated and the buildings where decaying and their prices where lousy and sold mostly junk they should have bought into themselves instead of buying other companies that they sold in 1995
Imagine what Kmart would look like today if they never bought out a bunch of companies that put them billions in debt. They would probably still be competing with Walmart, Target, and other retailers. A lot of people think it was Walmart, but not really. They kept buying companies out left and right, and Sears was the last one that they purchased. They thought since they were the second biggest retailer in 2000 that they would be able to make more money by purchasing other stores that were going bankrupt. Not a good idea. It lead to the big downfall for Kmart. They also had/has terrible customer service, making customers not happy. My childhood in the 90’s and early 2000’s was spent shopping at Kmart with my family. I used to act like the white floor was lava, and the blue tiles were safe. Good memories!
@@Commenter839 The atmosphere is "elevator music". (Which they also happened to play.) It can be either the most boring thing in the world or the most relaxing. To me, even as a kid, it was always incredibly a relaxing feeling to walk around Kmart.
When I worked in this area, I often shopped at this Kmart. It was kind of “upscale “ for a Kmart & was always kept meticulous! Hope their hard working employees are finding other jobs...
I was laid off from Kmart when they closed my store in Tampa, FL. I got a job at Best Buy full time within two weeks. The job market isn’t super brutal as some people make it out to be. Just be punctual
I've been to a few former Super Kmarts where they blocked off the grocery since it was a failure, but left the rest of the store open. It was such a waste of space and money having an entire grocery just sitting empty.
So sad to see first Radioshack then Sears now Kmart and soon Toys R Us!!😥 Can we keep some open for posterity atleast? I remember riding the kids ride in front of Kmart in 89 then going in and eating in the cafe the blt was amazing. And if you were lucky the blue light special would be announced awe the 80s it was a great time stores were opening not closing! Thanks Anthony for documenting Kmart the wall paper and signage were rad that was a nice store Id shop there ,it shouldnt be closing!
Sears is still around but they not be too much longer. Out of all the stores you mentioned the only one I really care about is Sears. I could care less about Radioshack or KMart.
I loved going to KMart, but now since it’s closing, I don’t know what to do. It seems like all of the old stores are closing for bankruptcy or just closing out.
No offense but you know the Kmart is your savings store commercial: Kmart is a closing store! Where you can’t buy anymore! They won’t give you a helping hand. At Kmart they don’t understand!
I was in Kmart last April, just weeks before that store was torn down. The shelves were so disorderly and it was so quiet, I'm still going to miss that place however. In the toy section someone positioned spiderman to be butt-fucking wonder woman. Classic.
This looks very similar to the Super K that was in Amherst, OH except that store layout was reversed. The grocery was on the right side and the garden center was on the left. It opened in 1993 and closed in 2016. It was demolished in Jan. 2018. Meijer announced they were building a superstore there by 2020. We'll see.
GhostHost1969:Spot on info on Amherst.I live in Sheffield Lake and local radio said last week Meijer bought the property and are in the process of building a brand new store.Their plans are to move east and did hear their getting this one in vlog too.
Man must be nice to be around or soon to be Meijer. Here in Oklahoma all we have is Walmart and Target. I lived in Indiana for 15 years and Meijer is the place to shop for sure! Way better than Walmart!
lol I think I found my letter. I bought a big red letter R today for my office, and originally thought it was from the electronics label, but turns out that one was blue, so I think it must have come from the FRESH meats or DAIRY label.
I remember this store very well. It was the last Kmart in the entire Mahoning Valley. It was my little brother’s first job. It was located next to the back entrance of Eastwood Mall off route 46. The last item I ever bought there was an Ohio State t-shirt which I still have!
This looks like it was a nice store. Problem is, most people don’t even think of Kmart when they are looking to buy something. Not enough resources have been spent getting customers back in the store. I fear Kmart will soon be a distant memory.
So, Anthony. What was the deal with the two burly angry customers at the Super K-Mart? They didn't like you documenting the only Super K-Mart that existed right now?
Never been inside a super Kmart that I know of... Only a big K. But just the thought that this place had a bakery, meat department and a liquor area is mind blowing!
I was lucky to live near the Round Lake Beach Super Kmart. Miss them dearly... for a Kmart it was clean, well-lit, decently stocked, and one of the few stores I could go to at any time of the day, find what I needed at the same(ish) price as Walmart in the neighboring shopping center, it would still be dead half the time. Today the building is vacant except around Halloween, there's a Meijer at the old Walmart shopping center, and Walmart moved a short distance north. Meijer is an acceptable replacement, but Walmart has since become an abysmal shopping experience.
You talking about the one in Illinois? We used to have two Kmarts near by around that area but both closed. One Kmart was just turned into a high school/college prep school with new open ceiling lighting, updated front color design with tons of windows and a open interior space design.
The Super K-Mart that existed here used to have a smaller game room than this one in Ohio. But it was shut down about 10 years ago. It also had a sit down restaurant called the Islander, nice for the employees because of the discount. That restaurant shuttered during the bankruptcy in the early 2000's. It also had a bank, an Olan Mills Portrait Studios and a hair salon. The bank closed first, then the hair salon, and then the portrait studio the most recent departure. The super aspect of this K-mart was yanked 5 years ago, and it barely clings to life now. Store #4928, Queensbury, NY.
Yes, most Super Kmarts had a hair/nail salon. I remember the scent well. Most of my purchases at Kmarts were electronics and cosmetics. Undergarments too. lolz @ 4:15 "Mad Customers: Beyond Thunderbutt" Anyone else remember these jingles and ads? I do. lol
Awesome historical retail documentation, lol. Sadly, Utah never did get a Super KMART either, but that was pretty fun to watch. That's an awful lot of wine left for a closing store, lol! Nice with the Herb Alert Spanish flea,lol. Now I feel like visiting an old 70s rite aid, haha. 😁😁😁
After more than three decades that's the second time in a week that I heard Herb Alpert music in a YT video! Super K dies but the Tijuana Brass lives! :-)
I remember reading an article online about one that had a full-service restaurant you could sit down and order from a proper menu at. I wish I went there when it was alive, but just seeing place of my childhood makes me sad.
That is a commercial clip from K mart in Australia apparently they had been around since the seventies I'm very surprised how old some of the commercials you can find on TH-cam from K mart Australia it's incredible
One of my local abandon Kmart buildings was just turned into a high school/college prep school with new open ceiling lighting, updated front color design with tons of windows and a open interior space design. I would have never thought of turning a Kmart into a high school.
when I was like 10 in the early 90s living in Asheville NC ,not only were their Kmart and wal-mart there were tons of other stores like them as well...Americans was a shoppers paradise in those days...
Great job as always Ace, our last Super K closed in 2002 as part of their bankruptcy reorganization. A few Kmarts survived outside of the Houston area, but now we are down to one location in nearby Lake Charles. All other stores are 6 hours+ away from us.
It's a shame to see this go. It looks like it was a really nice store. The "Angry Customers" break was hilarious. This is why I love your videos. Keep up the great work.
That's the busiest I've ever seen a Kmart since probably the 80s. Sad to see such an iconic store disappear, but also good riddance. They've been crap for years.
I used to live near a Super Kmart and the produce was surprisingly high quality. It was all fresh and tasted good. It closed a few years back and Meijer took over the spot. They get a lot more business than the Kmart ever did.
Reminds me a bit of the Super K I went to as a kid. We'd sometimes get pizza from the Little Caesar's on Fridays, and would pick up stuff for dinner on Sundays after church.
I used to work at Kmart back in the 1980's. Kmart was always crowded back then, and I actually did enjoy my job there, I worked in the footwear department (we didn't dare call it the shoe department) which was actually a company called MelDisco that sold shoes inside Kmart stores. I started working there in high school and quit when I graduated nursing school.
I was a late-night guard to a Wal-Mart on Black Friday in 2009 to a crowd of 200 shoppers. Walked into a Big K-Mart down the hill fully staffed with 8 cashiers up front and only 40 shoppers- no lines. It was then, I knew K-Mart would go downhill.
The Kmart near me closed last year. The building was falling apart. Ceiling leaked and the floor was even warped in spots. There was never anyone in there even before they announced it was going under. They ended up splitting it into 3 stores (harbor freight, Gabe’s, and petco). Only been in the harbor freight since but they did very little to the building. Still has the Kmart black and white floors (still warped and discolored in spots and you can still see evidence on the walls that it used to be a Kmart. Haven’t been in Gabe’s or petco but I imagine it’s the same. On a brighter note, the roof doesn’t seem to leak anymore.
My local Kmart (Jackson Wyoming) just closed Sunday 2/16/2020. It had been in town since 1991. On the same day our small Luckys Market (mid-price organic foods) closed for good as well. Two retail outlets in a small , albeit affluent mountain town closing on the same day is a blow to our economy and shopping options. We now have to drive 110 miles to Idaho Falls Idaho for a WalMart or Target type store.
The Kmart in my city was originally a super K but was converted into a regular Kmart in like 2008 and then the old grocery section became a Sears Outlet in 2013 and as of February 19th is just an empty section of the store. There was originally a gameroom by the grocery entrance but that is now home to a Little Ceasers pizza stand.
It is sad to see what has become of this once great Michigan brand that was a huge part of my childhood. I drive by the former HQ of KMart in Troy, MI all the time and would love to see that building in use again as it is such a huge building with a fairly interesting architectural presence slowly rotting away. My mom was a Kmart manager before I was born and she used to tell me it was her dream to work in that building before she became a stay at home mom.
That’s the jingle i remembered from when I was a kid !!!! Super k mart !!!! ❤️ so many memories ! That Kmart looks a lot like the Kmart from my town ... I felt like I time traveled . Thanks 🙏🏻
Wow that Kmart actually looked nice, ours moved into old run down Venture buildings in the 90's. This is the first time of me knowing they had a grocery store section too.
Aye I'm about an hour away from there. Came into town to visit the Eastwood Mall which is right in that area and I was surprised to see this Kmart still surviving. It appeared extremely busy when I was in town. This was May 2017. Makes me sad to see it go especially since it's the last Super Kmart. :/
Kmart is my favorite store. I grew up in the 80s and 90s going there primarily for all our shopping (other than groceries). Wal-Mart didn't hit my home state until I was a teenager, and I have never liked Wal-Mart as much as Kmart (though I've made my peace with it). My hometown had 4 very nicely kept up Kmarts. It saddens me that they are dying a slow death. None of our Kmart were Super. I only visited a Super Kmart once, in another county. I was impressed. I miss Kmart a lot. It saddens me.
My local Super K (Madison Heights, MI) like most K Mart stores in general was generally a ghost town toward the end. Still I have to admit that they had more check out lanes open than Walmart does on a Saturday afternoon.
If you're coming to NC soon, swing out to the Big Kmart at Kill Devil Hills, 1-1/2 blocks from the ocean beach (not far from the Wright Bros. memorial). Still operating as of Jan., but maybe you can get some "before" shots.
It's sad, I would rather shop at Kmart, and still was until my local store closed. I wish Kmart had continued updating/repairing their stores, this was needed in the first decade of the 2000's.
We lost our K mart in Fayetteville NC last year. Two years prior was the last time I went in there. You could feel the decay of a dying corporation inside, but hey. I gotta good deal on storage boxes! I just found this channel yesterday and I subscribed. Good quality content, guys. Will consider being a Patreon in the future :) keep up the great work :D
It was sad when the 2 kmarts in my town shut down. I still have the original nintendo my parents bought for me from the maple ave. Kmart here in zanesville, OH. Those were the days when you cpuld take the system off the shelf rather than wait for an employee witb a key to remove it from a glass display. Thanks for the early morning video! Keep up the great work buddy!
I have great memories of going to Kmart with my family. I would say especially at the Pompano Beach, FL location. That particular location is now a Whole foods market.
This should have been one of the last stores to close it doesn't make sense that they closed all their super Kmarts and modern concept stores and left their old dilapidated stores open it's almost like they don't want to make money.
they cant compete of food prices considering they have to be buying from a independent food wholesaler as they cant run their own food warehouse for 1 store
They buy their food from supervalue which is basically based out of MN now with one of their last out of state store being the local cubs food in Freeport IL. U can only imagine the shipping it costed SHC to have supervalu ship the food to these stores. Cubs food used to be in indiana and Ohio but after Kroger has beat them on price for food. Edit: that cubs food is also one of the busiest grocery store in the surrounding area. especially after multiple people in Freeport got sick from the food at Wal-Mart.
In respect to Wallmart at that center, I've seen a anchor store refuse to open their mall entrance and only use their own outside entrance and what the end result was. In th end the mall closed and the anchor store was forced to relocate, in that case they ended up going to another suburb entirely. If they're interested in staying they need to open that entrance.
While not branded "Super Kmart", I think the Kmart that still stands in Manhattan is more super than most of the Super Kmarts ever were. It's pretty special.
Just sad! I'll be 46 this year,I've seen these department stores all go in my lifetime. Clearly the main reasons are the recession in the 80's,Walmart!!!,internet shopping ...but the main reason is those in charge of Kmart. Those that make decisions ,planning and more importantly...MERCHANDISING!!long ago as a child,Kmart had everything !..as he ge years went by,what Kmart failed to do ,was change with the times! The clothing is hideous,the shoes are so fucking ugly and cheap,there are no employees in departments,on the floor ... after I graduated high school,I even worked in one for a short time. The toy industry is also at fault as toys today fucking suck,but toys were always a huge attraction in stores like Kmart,Gold Circle,Zayers,Rinks,Hills,Ames etc. networks stopped Saturday morning cartoons which hand in hand with toys had parents and kids flocking to department stores. I'll never understand how Kmart couldn't compete ?
As a kid growing up in the late 60's and 70's, I use to ride my bike from home to K-Mart some 15 miles. K-Mart was king! Then in 1983 one of my college friends asked me if I wanted to go with him to Walmart. My response was what is a Walmart? Over the years, Walmart ate K-Marts' breakfast, lunch and dinner!
I just there for thanksgiving we were eating at a buffet place and afterwards we went shopping at Kmart but it was for Christmas shopping so it kind of sad to see it like this
It's very sad this last Super Kmart is closing for good this April 2018, I really don't like that big STORE CLOSING sign though. When this last Super Kmart closes, Super Kmart will be extinct for good, Go the way of the Dodo.
We don't have a "Super K-Mart" locally. Our last K-Mart was a 90's regular K-Mart that closed years ago, primarily to Wal*Mart becoming a "Super Walmart" and eating away at the customer base. I always liked K-Mart better than Wal*Mart.
This was the Kmart near me. I actually remember it as being a regular Kmart when I was a kid in the 90s, they revamped it into a Super K in the late 90s. Sad to see it go so far downhill, it used to be a really good place to shop when it was at its peak.
That Looked like the Super Kmart Center on Booklyn Ohio now houses a Menards. Last Kmart on North East Ohio was Berea Kmart. All Kmarts and Sears lots are being taken by Menards and Meijers
The one near my house closed down. I bought a car charger there during it's clearance, and it got stuck in the electric socket and fell apart after one use. I don't think I'd ever shop there again. The sooner it closes the better.
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Sad to say, but I think that K-Mart is destroying themselves with too many closures. They are destroying the brand, which is not something you do when popularity and familiarity brings in customers. Sure, they could have closed some of their underperforming stores, but now they are closing money makers for them to the point it doesn't make any sense.
They opened a super kmart in my former childhood hometown. Tore down half a strip mall to put it in. Closed 5 years later in their first big round of closures. It has an Amish market in it and a bunch of various vendors strung all through it. Label scars throughout
We had a few K-Marts where I grew up. One in particular was very ICONIC for me. In Milwaukee, actually Greenfield, Wl. there was a Target on the South side of 27th and Layton Ave, and on the other side or North side of Layton right by the I-94, 794 freeway on ramps sat our K-Mart. This was before the "Super-K" and all that💩💩💩💩💩!! I can remember the Blue Light Specials, getting a big *ss pretzel, or a ICEE drink. Blueberry or Cherry. They had a little restaurant in the back. To the right side when you walked in was the Toy Department. The first thing you saw was the return desk and then the snack bar. Straight back was the restaurant. Left was automotive & hardware and again right was Toys and Sporting goods. I may be a bit off this was 1975-76+. It was a great store. I really like it. I do remember kids saying poor kids wore K-Mart clothes. So many memories!
I used to work at a KMart in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for two years and I wouldn't shop there, I shopped at Walmart because of price, pure and simple PRICE. I used to make fun of the saying "attention KMart shoppers" on the store microphone after we closed at night. I had fun working there but it was very depressing, after 7:00 pm there might be two customers in the whole huge ass store. I got to be really friendly with our store manager Brenda Epps and she was so understanding. Sometimes I miss working there!
I'm surprised this one didn't have an auto center. I think we had about 3 or 4 Kmart super centers with a few regular kmarts here in San Antonio, TX but they all closed down in the early 2000s
Holy crap, that's right down the road from me. Sad to see it going but it was time, the store got super run down and junky over the last few years. I'm so sad my Black Friday snack place is leaving.
I once got lost at Kmart. I cried and an old lady helped me find my mom 😭
I got lost in a Kmart to I was able to point my mom across the store. since me and her were the only ones in it 😂
I went into Kmart yesterday (Big Kmart, in MA), and it was like walking into a time warp. 80s looking and Madonna playing on the overheard
They all haven’t been updated and the buildings where decaying and their prices where lousy and sold mostly junk they should have bought into themselves instead of buying other companies that they sold in 1995
They're all outdated like that
Imagine what Kmart would look like today if they never bought out a bunch of companies that put them billions in debt. They would probably still be competing with Walmart, Target, and other retailers. A lot of people think it was Walmart, but not really. They kept buying companies out left and right, and Sears was the last one that they purchased. They thought since they were the second biggest retailer in 2000 that they would be able to make more money by purchasing other stores that were going bankrupt. Not a good idea. It lead to the big downfall for Kmart. They also had/has terrible customer service, making customers not happy. My childhood in the 90’s and early 2000’s was spent shopping at Kmart with my family. I used to act like the white floor was lava, and the blue tiles were safe. Good memories!
Opinion Nation They're also slow to keep up with the times. A lot of their machines are outdated, and the atmosphere is just dull.
Going into a Kmart feels like I'm stepping back to the early 2000s. I even found the same notebook I bought back then.
Commenter839 lol totally agree whenever I walked into it I felt immediately bored
@@Commenter839 The atmosphere is "elevator music". (Which they also happened to play.) It can be either the most boring thing in the world or the most relaxing. To me, even as a kid, it was always incredibly a relaxing feeling to walk around Kmart.
While in HS, working at this Super K helped me to pay for a 17 day bus tour of Europe! I still remember the Super K jingle!
When I worked in this area, I often shopped at this Kmart. It was kind of “upscale “ for a Kmart & was always kept meticulous! Hope their hard working employees are finding other jobs...
Karen McGuire I hope so too.
Walmart is hiring.
Fuck walmart. Its so fucking demoralizing to work there.
I was laid off from Kmart when they closed my store in Tampa, FL. I got a job at Best Buy full time within two weeks. The job market isn’t super brutal as some people make it out to be. Just be punctual
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@Donavan Cauldle - This is one of those comments that deserves BOTH an upvote for honesty and a downvote ‘cause Walmart. This made me chuckle.
Your “angry customers” compilation cracked me up!
Da Cheet other people should mind their own business
At 1:05 you'll see LOTS of cashiers! I've never been in any kind of Kmart that ever had more than 1 or 2!
Hey man, thank you for all your free content and your hard work you put on all your videos.
I've been to a few former Super Kmarts where they blocked off the grocery since it was a failure, but left the rest of the store open. It was such a waste of space and money having an entire grocery just sitting empty.
I think Kmart will make a strong come back in the year 2070 .😁
2070? That’s an awfully long time, and no one will probably know what Kmart is by that time.
Kmart, what's a kmart? Hahahha! 😂😂😂😂😂
In 2070 I’ll be 82. If I’m still alive I might be telling people about it.
Isn't KMart still around in Australia?
Kmart will be ancient history by that time.
So sad to see first Radioshack then Sears now Kmart and soon Toys R Us!!😥 Can we keep some open for posterity atleast? I remember riding the kids ride in front of Kmart in 89 then going in and eating in the cafe the blt was amazing. And if you were lucky the blue light special would be announced awe the 80s it was a great time stores were opening not closing! Thanks Anthony for documenting Kmart the wall paper and signage were rad that was a nice store Id shop there ,it shouldnt be closing!
Yeah it's kinda sad seeing a part of our history go away for good.
Sears is still around but they not be too much longer. Out of all the stores you mentioned the only one I really care about is Sears. I could care less about Radioshack or KMart.
Ikr. If Toy's R us wasn't expensive AF, then it will still last...but too late....we got new High tech toys today.
hopefully McDonalds will be next. they ruined their own product so bad, only a complete IDIOT would eat their poison
I loved going to KMart, but now since it’s closing, I don’t know what to do. It seems like all of the old stores are closing for bankruptcy or just closing out.
It is a shame. I’d go to Kmart before Wal Mart if I could sometimes, but my closest K mart is half an hour away.
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No offense but you know the Kmart is your savings store commercial:
Kmart is a closing store! Where you can’t buy anymore! They won’t give you a helping hand. At Kmart they don’t understand!
Wal Mart isn't going anywhere.
no one said it was...
4:02 I KNEW they would be a problem..Lmao
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This store is supposed to last until the 8th? From what I saw in the video I'm not sure it will make it to the end of March.
I was in Kmart last April, just weeks before that store was torn down. The shelves were so disorderly and it was so quiet, I'm still going to miss that place however. In the toy section someone positioned spiderman to be butt-fucking wonder woman. Classic.
This looks very similar to the Super K that was in Amherst, OH except that store layout was reversed. The grocery was on the right side and the garden center was on the left. It opened in 1993 and closed in 2016. It was demolished in Jan. 2018. Meijer announced they were building a superstore there by 2020. We'll see.
GhostHost1969:Spot on info on Amherst.I live in Sheffield Lake and local radio said last week Meijer bought the property and are in the process of building a brand new store.Their plans are to move east and did hear their getting this one in vlog too.
Man must be nice to be around or soon to be Meijer. Here in Oklahoma all we have is Walmart and Target. I lived in Indiana for 15 years and Meijer is the place to shop for sure! Way better than Walmart!
Greg Spradlin - Meijer is only in the Midwest.
lol I think I found my letter. I bought a big red letter R today for my office, and originally thought it was from the electronics label, but turns out that one was blue, so I think it must have come from the FRESH meats or DAIRY label.
I remember this store very well. It was the last Kmart in the entire Mahoning Valley. It was my little brother’s first job. It was located next to the back entrance of Eastwood Mall off route 46. The last item I ever bought there was an Ohio State t-shirt which I still have!
This looks like it was a nice store. Problem is, most people don’t even think of Kmart when they are looking to buy something. Not enough resources have been spent getting customers back in the store. I fear Kmart will soon be a distant memory.
So, Anthony. What was the deal with the two burly angry customers at the Super K-Mart? They didn't like you documenting the only Super K-Mart that existed right now?
JuniorfanTheEnlightment lol they just asked what i was doing and i decided to have some fun with it
Ace's Adventures LOL!
How so?
Now I feel like listening to one of my Herb Alpert albums.
puffnstuff4004:More like Grand Funk Railroad.🎸Think,We're an American Band album🇺🇸naked,very hairy band photo inside album jacket.
Never been inside a super Kmart that I know of... Only a big K. But just the thought that this place had a bakery, meat department and a liquor area is mind blowing!
I was lucky to live near the Round Lake Beach Super Kmart. Miss them dearly... for a Kmart it was clean, well-lit, decently stocked, and one of the few stores I could go to at any time of the day, find what I needed at the same(ish) price as Walmart in the neighboring shopping center, it would still be dead half the time. Today the building is vacant except around Halloween, there's a Meijer at the old Walmart shopping center, and Walmart moved a short distance north. Meijer is an acceptable replacement, but Walmart has since become an abysmal shopping experience.
You talking about the one in Illinois? We used to have two Kmarts near by around that area but both closed. One Kmart was just turned into a high school/college prep school with new open ceiling lighting, updated front color design with tons of windows and a open interior space design.
The Super K-Mart that existed here used to have a smaller game room than this one in Ohio. But it was shut down about 10 years ago. It also had a sit down restaurant called the Islander, nice for the employees because of the discount.
That restaurant shuttered during the bankruptcy in the early 2000's.
It also had a bank, an Olan Mills Portrait Studios and a hair salon. The bank closed first, then the hair salon, and then the portrait studio the most recent departure.
The super aspect of this K-mart was yanked 5 years ago, and it barely clings to life now.
Store #4928, Queensbury, NY.
Yes, most Super Kmarts had a hair/nail salon. I remember the scent well.
Most of my purchases at Kmarts were electronics and cosmetics. Undergarments too.
lolz @ 4:15 "Mad Customers: Beyond Thunderbutt"
Anyone else remember these jingles and ads? I do. lol
This brings back memories I use to work at this store. I was there on 9/11 working. I loved working 1hr. photo that.
Awesome historical retail documentation, lol. Sadly, Utah never did get a Super KMART either, but that was pretty fun to watch. That's an awful lot of wine left for a closing store, lol! Nice with the Herb Alert Spanish flea,lol. Now I feel like visiting an old 70s rite aid, haha. 😁😁😁
After more than three decades that's the second time in a week that I heard Herb Alpert music in a YT video! Super K dies but the Tijuana Brass lives! :-)
I remember reading an article online about one that had a full-service restaurant you could sit down and order from a proper menu at. I wish I went there when it was alive, but just seeing place of my childhood makes me sad.
That is a commercial clip from K mart in Australia apparently they had been around since the seventies I'm very surprised how old some of the commercials you can find on TH-cam from K mart Australia it's incredible
Oof. Last Kmart near me in Orlando was a dump. No one bothered moving it somewhere better.
Which is why KMart went out. Their stores were dumps and they never replaced them.
Thank you for another quality video. keep up the good work.
Thank you James
Thanks Ace for video , awesome as usual . Be safe in all your travels. You always do great content. Thank you .
Excellent! I just love that little cafeteria area. The black and white tile with the pink cushion of the seats, beautiful.
One of my local abandon Kmart buildings was just turned into a high school/college prep school with new open ceiling lighting, updated front color design with tons of windows and a open interior space design. I would have never thought of turning a Kmart into a high school.
when I was like 10 in the early 90s living in Asheville NC ,not only were their Kmart and wal-mart there were tons of other stores like them as well...Americans was a shoppers paradise in those days...
Great job as always Ace, our last Super K closed in 2002 as part of their bankruptcy reorganization. A few Kmarts survived outside of the Houston area, but now we are down to one location in nearby Lake Charles. All other stores are 6 hours+ away from us.
It's a shame to see this go. It looks like it was a really nice store. The "Angry Customers" break was hilarious. This is why I love your videos. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the video Ace. I am going to miss K-mart.
as long as I can go to Woolworth 5 and Dime I'm all set !
This store has always been beautiful from the videos I've seen it looks like it could have easily outshined any walmart Supercenter I've been in.
That's the busiest I've ever seen a Kmart since probably the 80s. Sad to see such an iconic store disappear, but also good riddance. They've been crap for years.
Adam Porter you should’ve seen the Kmart in Frankfort Kentucky, when it was closing soooo many people came.
I used to live near a Super Kmart and the produce was surprisingly high quality. It was all fresh and tasted good. It closed a few years back and Meijer took over the spot. They get a lot more business than the Kmart ever did.
Reminds me a bit of the Super K I went to as a kid. We'd sometimes get pizza from the Little Caesar's on Fridays, and would pick up stuff for dinner on Sundays after church.
I used to work at Kmart back in the 1980's. Kmart was always crowded back then, and I actually did enjoy my job there, I worked in the footwear department (we didn't dare call it the shoe department) which was actually a company called MelDisco that sold shoes inside Kmart stores. I started working there in high school and quit when I graduated nursing school.
I was a late-night guard to a Wal-Mart on Black Friday in 2009 to a crowd of 200 shoppers.
Walked into a Big K-Mart down the hill fully staffed with 8 cashiers up front and only 40 shoppers- no lines. It was then, I knew K-Mart would go downhill.
So sad seeing Kmart like this. The Kmart in Fresh Meadow, NY was my favorite store to hang out on weekend when I moved to the US in 1995.
The Kmart near me closed last year. The building was falling apart. Ceiling leaked and the floor was even warped in spots. There was never anyone in there even before they announced it was going under. They ended up splitting it into 3 stores (harbor freight, Gabe’s, and petco). Only been in the harbor freight since but they did very little to the building. Still has the Kmart black and white floors (still warped and discolored in spots and you can still see evidence on the walls that it used to be a Kmart. Haven’t been in Gabe’s or petco but I imagine it’s the same. On a brighter note, the roof doesn’t seem to leak anymore.
My local Kmart (Jackson Wyoming) just closed Sunday 2/16/2020. It had been in town since 1991. On the same day our small Luckys Market (mid-price organic foods) closed for good as well. Two retail outlets in a small , albeit affluent mountain town closing on the same day is a blow to our economy and shopping options. We now have to drive 110 miles to Idaho Falls Idaho for a WalMart or Target type store.
I had a super k mart where i live but it closed in 2014. i rember going there as a kid shopping with my family.
The Kmart in my city was originally a super K but was converted into a regular Kmart in like 2008 and then the old grocery section became a Sears Outlet in 2013 and as of February 19th is just an empty section of the store. There was originally a gameroom by the grocery entrance but that is now home to a Little Ceasers pizza stand.
It is sad to see what has become of this once great Michigan brand that was a huge part of my childhood. I drive by the former HQ of KMart in Troy, MI all the time and would love to see that building in use again as it is such a huge building with a fairly interesting architectural presence slowly rotting away. My mom was a Kmart manager before I was born and she used to tell me it was her dream to work in that building before she became a stay at home mom.
That’s the jingle i remembered from when I was a kid !!!! Super k mart !!!! ❤️ so many memories ! That Kmart looks a lot like the Kmart from my town ... I felt like I time traveled . Thanks 🙏🏻
It had a Bo-Rics hair salon. It closed when I worked there back in 2004. The bank was closed before I started working at this location in 2003.
We've still got a "Big Kmart" where I live and it doesnt seem to be struggling so its sad to see all these other ones closing and being abandoned
Sadly for a store going under, it's really Clean
Wow that Kmart actually looked nice, ours moved into old run down Venture buildings in the 90's. This is the first time of me knowing they had a grocery store section too.
Aye I'm about an hour away from there. Came into town to visit the Eastwood Mall which is right in that area and I was surprised to see this Kmart still surviving. It appeared extremely busy when I was in town. This was May 2017. Makes me sad to see it go especially since it's the last Super Kmart. :/
Kmart is my favorite store. I grew up in the 80s and 90s going there primarily for all our shopping (other than groceries). Wal-Mart didn't hit my home state until I was a teenager, and I have never liked Wal-Mart as much as Kmart (though I've made my peace with it). My hometown had 4 very nicely kept up Kmarts. It saddens me that they are dying a slow death. None of our Kmart were Super. I only visited a Super Kmart once, in another county. I was impressed. I miss Kmart a lot. It saddens me.
My local Super K (Madison Heights, MI) like most K Mart stores in general was generally a ghost town toward the end. Still I have to admit that they had more check out lanes open than Walmart does on a Saturday afternoon.
If you're coming to NC soon, swing out to the Big Kmart at Kill Devil Hills, 1-1/2 blocks from the ocean beach (not far from the Wright Bros. memorial). Still operating as of Jan., but maybe you can get some "before" shots.
I worked for Kmart. This is an early 90's era building. It opened in 1990-1992
That ad in the end hits different when your watching this on easter😢
Idk why but seeing vids like this makes me feel so depressed and lonely like I'm stuck in
Did you buy anything? I really miss Kmart.
As a current employee of Sears Holdings I can confirm there are 42 Super Kmarts that remain open and operating around the country.
I wish you the best of luck holding on to your job yours will be gone in time the CEO don't care about employee's or the customers just themselves
DeAnna Meske are you sure? where are they? because from what I have seen there aren't any super Kmarts left in America.
@@MrZEEsterious she means outside the US.
@@josecontreras2997 She said "operating around the country". It looks like she was talking about America
It's sad, I would rather shop at Kmart, and still was until my local store closed. I wish Kmart had continued updating/repairing their stores, this was needed in the first decade of the 2000's.
We lost our K mart in Fayetteville NC last year. Two years prior was the last time I went in there. You could feel the decay of a dying corporation inside, but hey. I gotta good deal on storage boxes!
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It was sad when the 2 kmarts in my town shut down. I still have the original nintendo my parents bought for me from the maple ave. Kmart here in zanesville, OH. Those were the days when you cpuld take the system off the shelf rather than wait for an employee witb a key to remove it from a glass display.
Thanks for the early morning video! Keep up the great work buddy!
I have great memories of going to Kmart with my family. I would say especially at the Pompano Beach, FL location. That particular location is now a Whole foods market.
This should have been one of the last stores to close it doesn't make sense that they closed all their super Kmarts and modern concept stores and left their old dilapidated stores open it's almost like they don't want to make money.
they cant compete of food prices considering they have to be buying from a independent food wholesaler as they cant run their own food warehouse for 1 store
They buy their food from supervalue which is basically based out of MN now with one of their last out of state store being the local cubs food in Freeport IL. U can only imagine the shipping it costed SHC to have supervalu ship the food to these stores. Cubs food used to be in indiana and Ohio but after Kroger has beat them on price for food.
Edit: that cubs food is also one of the busiest grocery store in the surrounding area. especially after multiple people in Freeport got sick from the food at Wal-Mart.
In respect to Wallmart at that center, I've seen a anchor store refuse to open their mall entrance and only use their own outside entrance and what the end result was. In th end the mall closed and the anchor store was forced to relocate, in that case they ended up going to another suburb entirely. If they're interested in staying they need to open that entrance.
While not branded "Super Kmart", I think the Kmart that still stands in Manhattan is more super than most of the Super Kmarts ever were. It's pretty special.
Just sad! I'll be 46 this year,I've seen these department stores all go in my lifetime. Clearly the main reasons are the recession in the 80's,Walmart!!!,internet shopping ...but the main reason is those in charge of Kmart. Those that make decisions ,planning and more importantly...MERCHANDISING!!long ago as a child,Kmart had everything !..as he ge years went by,what Kmart failed to do ,was change with the times! The clothing is hideous,the shoes are so fucking ugly and cheap,there are no employees in departments,on the floor ... after I graduated high school,I even worked in one for a short time. The toy industry is also at fault as toys today fucking suck,but toys were always a huge attraction in stores like Kmart,Gold Circle,Zayers,Rinks,Hills,Ames etc. networks stopped Saturday morning cartoons which hand in hand with toys had parents and kids flocking to department stores. I'll never understand how Kmart couldn't compete ?
As a kid growing up in the late 60's and 70's, I use to ride my bike from home to K-Mart some 15 miles. K-Mart was king! Then in 1983 one of my college friends asked me if I wanted to go with him to Walmart. My response was what is a Walmart? Over the years, Walmart ate K-Marts' breakfast, lunch and dinner!
What would be cool Ace is to walk through it after it closes down. It would be like walking through a ghost town.
I bet the workers are a joy to deal with.
"My job is shutting down, I don't give a rip about customer service."
I miss KMart. We went there as a kid. All gone around here.
I just there for thanksgiving we were eating at a buffet place and afterwards we went shopping at Kmart but it was for Christmas shopping so it kind of sad to see it like this
My local Kmart was a big K.. In Fairlea, WV..it closed a few months ago.. Had a cafe that was shut down years ago but had olan mills. Etc
It's very sad this last Super Kmart is closing for good this April 2018, I really don't like that big STORE CLOSING sign though. When this last Super Kmart closes, Super Kmart will be extinct for good, Go the way of the Dodo.
Good video, sad to see Super Kmart gone. I went to one in the late 1980's in Greensboro NC with my Grandparents .
Excellent work as usual, Anthony!
We don't have a "Super K-Mart" locally. Our last K-Mart was a 90's regular K-Mart that closed years ago, primarily to Wal*Mart becoming a "Super Walmart" and eating away at the customer base. I always liked K-Mart better than Wal*Mart.
I remember Kmart opened a store called American Faire in Stone Mountain, Georgia. It was pretty cool, but it didn't last very long.
This was the Kmart near me. I actually remember it as being a regular Kmart when I was a kid in the 90s, they revamped it into a Super K in the late 90s. Sad to see it go so far downhill, it used to be a really good place to shop when it was at its peak.
That Looked like the Super Kmart Center on Booklyn Ohio now houses a Menards. Last Kmart on North East Ohio was Berea Kmart. All Kmarts and Sears lots are being taken by Menards and Meijers
I don't live to far from there. I actually live in Youngstown Ohio. We had a Kmart here, on 224 but alas, it was closed a few years back.
The one near my house closed down. I bought a car charger there during it's clearance, and it got stuck in the electric socket and fell apart after one use. I don't think I'd ever shop there again. The sooner it closes the better.
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So sad to c them close thanks for the videos
Kmart was the best place to go in the 70s as a kid just to be with my broke family trying to find stuff for day to day life.
Sad to say, but I think that K-Mart is destroying themselves with too many closures. They are destroying the brand, which is not something you do when popularity and familiarity brings in customers. Sure, they could have closed some of their underperforming stores, but now they are closing money makers for them to the point it doesn't make any sense.
our kmart in our town had a little ceazers pizza inside...ill never forget that
They opened a super kmart in my former childhood hometown. Tore down half a strip mall to put it in. Closed 5 years later in their first big round of closures. It has an Amish market in it and a bunch of various vendors strung all through it. Label scars throughout
All of the supermarket functions have been taken over by Walmart. They've pretty much cornered that aspect of the retail market.
We had a few K-Marts where I grew up. One in particular was very ICONIC for me. In Milwaukee, actually Greenfield, Wl. there was a Target on the South side of 27th and Layton Ave, and on the other side or North side of Layton right by the I-94, 794 freeway on ramps sat our K-Mart. This was before the "Super-K" and all that💩💩💩💩💩!! I can remember the Blue Light Specials, getting a big *ss pretzel, or a ICEE drink. Blueberry or Cherry. They had a little restaurant in the back. To the right side when you walked in was the Toy Department. The first thing you saw was the return desk and then the snack bar. Straight back was the restaurant. Left was automotive & hardware and again right was Toys and Sporting goods. I may be a bit off this was 1975-76+. It was a great store. I really like it. I do remember kids saying poor kids wore K-Mart clothes. So many memories!
I used to work at a KMart in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for two years and I wouldn't shop there, I shopped at Walmart because of price, pure and simple PRICE. I used to make fun of the saying "attention KMart shoppers" on the store microphone after we closed at night. I had fun working there but it was very depressing, after 7:00 pm there might be two customers in the whole huge ass store. I got to be really friendly with our store manager Brenda Epps and she was so understanding. Sometimes I miss working there!
I'm surprised this one didn't have an auto center. I think we had about 3 or 4 Kmart super centers with a few regular kmarts here in San Antonio, TX but they all closed down in the early 2000s
They actually had a little restaurant. This Kmart seems bigger then some Walmarts.
This Kmart is bigger then some Walmart’s! The cafe hasn’t been open, but the employees would buy food and sit over there on break. Sad to see it go 😔
That was Little Caesar’s
Most Kmarts did.
Our Super K closed and became a massive Home Depot AND the biggest Bon Ton I've ever seen.
Ashley Sayers what is a Bon Ton? I live in the south and have never heard of that store.
Holy crap, that's right down the road from me. Sad to see it going but it was time, the store got super run down and junky over the last few years. I'm so sad my Black Friday snack place is leaving.
Didn't know they still had these. The one in my hometown closed in 2003. Last time I saw a Super K was in 2005.