OMG! This warms my heart. My mother worked for KMart in Hialeah, Florida for 30+ years. She was the cafeteria manager for 15. She passed away last year at age 89. Thank you for these memories.
I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother. I am so delighted to know that she managed the cafeteria - the food and warm welcoming service she oversaw and provided was appreciated by man, I’m certain. All of the friends and acquaintances she met along the way. What a wonderful life. All of my best to yoy
You tapped into my childhood , lol ! I was in Junior High in 1973- 74 and used to loved going to K-Mart with mom. I used to look at the color TVs , tape cassettes , radios , toys , etc. We used to eat at the deli and I always left the store with a bag of hot popcorn and a Slushee. It didn't take much to make us happy back in the day , lol!.
I don’t see you have any videos but would you consider making content about your Kmart memories or are those personal question I think people would love to know about your experiences working there.
Kmart was a great place to shop. I remember when I was growing up in Chicago, there was a store a couple minutes away from my house in Norridge. I remember there was a snack bar in the store, and people would always be there enjoying a little snack. When I moved to the suburbs, there was one not too far from me, and there was a Little Caesars in the store. I ate there a few times, and it was good food. Just sad these stores are not around anymore
I didn't realize they carried so many name brands for a low prices. Then they replaced it with crap. Walmart seem to be all crap now but their store has low prices and up to date.
New Kmart song! As of 2020 and beyond! Kmart is the closing store, Most customers will spend their dollars where they can get more. The dreams they give us are only past memories of a helping hand. There's no more Kmart store's we understand!
Wow! Thanks for the memories! I worked at Kmart during the summers when I was in college in the late 70's and heard these jingles and announcements over and over. They brought back a lot of memories. Very nostalgic.
I'm not even american, I never went to K-mart before, but , for some strange reason the 1974 jingle makes me miss those years i never lived (born in 1980), sounds like a friendly moment, a happy place to be , why am I nostalgic of a time i did not live in??
OMG! This warms my heart. My mother worked for KMart in South Florida for 30+ years. She was the cafeteria manager for 15. She passed away last year at age 89. Thank you for these memories.
+M C Taylor They were fake. They had special public address codes for various situations - for fire, carry out, 'get carts', and, of course, 'security issues', among others. But this one was pretty well done; it breaks in over the music like a real announcement. The only 'flaw' is that it isn't half-garbled by the announcer practically deep-throating the mic like real store personnel would.
These played all the time when I worked there and they were fake. If there was a real shoplifter in the store the girl at the front desk would announce "Code one and a half please, code one and a half". Don't know if they used that code everywhere or not but it was always an exciting time at our store when it was announced. We'd make a mad dash to the front door to see what was going on. In one incident the security guy locked the front doors and when the shoplifter made a mad dash for the door he hit it like a brick wall and it knocked him silly. It was pretty awesome watching him run as fast as he could into a locked glass door.
My mom bought dresses at K mart in suburban Denver in the late 60's, 1970. We ate lunch at Kmart in the Santa Cruz area in the late 80's-early 90's. when she died in 2007, I couldn't enjoy sitcoms, so I found the Kmart jingle & listened to it several times.
When I look back at this, I see someone got paid to destroy Sears and Kmart with not updating and stocking stores or even relocating stores. It's sad, because I can't stand Walmart. So I shop Target and Meijer.
That's impossible, Because Muzak was a satellite/ tape service. Unless the power is still on and Kmart still pays for the monthly costs on all stores, even the abandon stores.
@@theninjahackermanguydude It was NOT "Muzak" or any other "subscription" service. (there was NO "monthly costs". They were custom-made tapes (reel to reel, later cassette) The tapes were physically delivered to each store and played over the P.A. system via a rather conventional tape deck... That it was NOT a "piped in" service is why these are still "floating" around, some workers took the tapes home. (To perhaps erase and reuse? or as a souvenir") They were actual (and very normal) tapes that were made for and owned by the S.S. Kresge Company (later K Mart corporation.) Source: Worked for Kmart.
@@TheLizardGuitarist Since it was NOT "Muzak" or any other service, but rather actual physical tapes, all you'd need is to go into an abandoned Kmart with a boombox and play the tapes!
The first jingle may have originated in the early 70's but it was still playing instore during the mid-80's when i worked for them. Never got it out of my head even all these decades later :)
That whole personal check approval used to really tick off my dad when we shopped at Kmart. We thought it was just our local store. It was a policy instituted during a really bad recession in the 1970's. The songs are awesome!! so many GOOD memories. Thanks!
Grew up in K-Mart in the 70's/80's. Bought most of my Beatles LPs there and my Commodore 64! In its last years the in-store Little Caesar's would have pizza buffet for a discount price.
" Attention K mart shoppers, we have a blue light special going on now, a 3 pack of tube socks are now just 99 cents in the mens section, this sale will be going for the next hr. Thank You for shopping at K mart."
Yes sadly something you will never hear again. I truly cherish those days and believe we were blessed to have experienced them. Such a different time back then 🤔
People talk about how they missed KMart but didn't patronize them when they were open I DID😊. I went to Martinsville Indiana KMart. They were so friendly...RIP KMart.
I spent over $1,200 on products at Kmart in 2019, which was impressive since my closest store was over 300 miles away!! I'd make monthly trips spending roughly $100/mo, and am thinking of doing a Kmart collection- not this "look what fixtures I bought during liquidation" like you see others do, real Kmart stuff like my Basic Editions and Route 66 outfits, Essential Home laundry baskets, Northwest Territory coats, stuff that's exclusive to Kmart that I bought from non-closing Kmart's.
This is fantastic! Kmart in Burnsville, Minnesota (Store #3163) was my high school job. I swear, these announcements and jingles were still running when I worked there 1980-82!
"K-Mart is your savings store, where your dollar buys you more!!". I haven't heard that jingle in about 35 years, but it seems like just yesterday. It's so sad how far they have fallen. K-Mart used to be awesome when I was a kid, but no longer.
Just came across this I'm now 46 remember parents eating in cafeteria an me running through toys clothing racks ect brought back alot of good memories!
Many of these "improvements" killed the place! Started in the 90s with that Jacqueline Smith line, boring. Changed the sign, the cafeteria was no longer fun to go to, etc
i remember in college back in 2015 we got my first vacuum for my apartment dorm at kmart and the jingles were playing i always loved kmart even thought i was born in the 90's
My late mother use work at Kmart and Super Kmart stores . My favorite store were got my bike back 1998. . Those were good old days memories lane though yrs
Yes! the S.S. Kresge stores were smaller and often in town. KMarts were large format suburban stores. We had a local (McKeesport, PA) based chain that did this too: G.C.Murphy stores were the in-town version, Murphy's Mart was the suburban "big box" version.
The collection "Truly Tasteless Jokes" (by Blanche Knott) included one that went: "What are the first three words of the Puerto Rican national anthem?" "Attention Kmart shoppers!"
While listen this it made me emotional I miss Kmart so much than Walmart! Kmart made me happy memories as a happy child :) I was born in the 90s omg life was good then💖
The 90s? K-Mart was at It's best in the 60s-80s, then that Jacqueline Smith era started in the early 90s and the store changed! Even the old pretty turquoise "K-Mart" sign was relaced with a bland red sign, then worse came the Super Ks smh. As i said in a old post i miss the old days in the 70s-80s K-Mart cafeteria. I remember that smell, old K-Mart had that smell in the cafeteria lol. Nice memories. So much is gone now because of big brother, rich companies like Wallmart that put them out
When I was a kid, I had a hard time framing how I felt. It felt like the world was on a summit. I wondered how we would preserve this beautiful time, and how anything that came after could be as good.
I Love The Jingle At The Beginning! Has The Feeling And Charm Of The Old Days! I Wish Song Jingles Like This Were Still Around!❤️💛💚💙💜💓💞💕❣💔💗💖💘💝💟☮🕎☯☦⚛🚼🚺🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yo chill out kayley karr you're probably that bizzatch stealing stuff in Section 3 and smoking outside the snackbar so just take your ass to Walmart or something
Joey Cox I like that jingle at 1:30.. I remember hearing this at our K Mart on Dundee Rd & Rt 83 in Buffalo Grove, IL right across from Buffalo Grove HS! back in 1974.
It's hard to believe that Kmart was the second largest retailer in the U.S. just over 30 years ago when you look at the state they're currently in. It makes me wonder if Walmart will ever decline some day.
No offense to Walmart workers or anything like that, because I find a lot than very engaging and interesting people, but Kmart definitely had the best customer service when customer service was a priority for Kmart. I used to shop at the assembly Square in Massachusetts in the 90s And he had wonderful service. But when they rearrange things I think around that time may be in the late 90s I think that’s when they stopped actually develop anything in Kmart. They weren’t hiring enough people to work at the cash registers or anything like that. Maybe they were too busy trying to straighten up the store one customers came in and messed up all the tables. I don’t know. But it once was a wonderful place to shop, to dine at, and connect with others (since ours was connected to an old mall at that time).
If a Kmart like this closed 1995, The song is still on repeat and the Kmart satisfaction always sign has never saw the light of day until people discover it.
THE major difference between Kmart and Walmart: Kmart was designed to keep you in the store. (Hell, that was the whole point of the "Blue Light Special") Wally*World just MAKES you want to LEAVE. Shopping at a 7-11 is more fun than at Wally's.
S.S. Kresge Co. was the original name of the K Mart Corporation, they were originally something like Woolworth...more of a five and dime and then morphed into a super discount center like we know today in the early 70s and beyond. The company symbol in the upper right hand corner was SS Kresege's .
I forgot all about the check approval counter at the back until I heard this! Kmart was the only place that did that. You also had to give your other shopping bags from the grocery store next door to the security guy, and he’d staple it shut with a tag.
I am a millennial that was born after the 70s, man i wish i could have lived through the golden memories that my parents and grandparents had. Better than anything on the radio or the charts today. I wish i was alive to see when AM Radio was King, actual good songs on the hot 100 and not all the mumble rap and kpop garbage... Nothing more relaxing than old muzak, move out of the way lofi and chopped up oldies, coming from a millennial.
watershed44 yes! I was in 4th grade that year, a connoisseur of grilled cheese. Or the spaghetti special. You could also pump the old style coke machine to get extra shots of coke syrup. But the cashier at the end always heard us and told us to knock it off. :)
... what? Is this some sort of sarcasm? Kmart doesn't care about anything. They were around to make money. Poorly paid employees and cheap crap along with stores that they stopped maintaining decades ago.
@@orangejjay ALL businesses exist to make a profit. (They are not "social welfare programs". )I worked at a few retail places, but KMart (Pre Lampert) was one of the better places I worked at. Of course the CUSTOMERS sometimes sucked, but The company and my co-workers were decent. I can only say that about 1/3 of the places I worked "retail" in.
Worked there in SoCal during my sr. high school and college years, and so did many long ago friends. They were great when it came to hiring part-time students who needed extra income and didn’t want to work fast food. Very good influence on all of us while there.
Ok, so the call for security... was that randomly put on the background music tape to make shoppers feel secure and shoplifters paranoid? (i.e. a pre-recorded security bluff)
There's an auto parts store where I live in Australia which does the same security calls over the central radio system between music tracks. You'd have to be a fucking idiot to actually fall for it. They even used the same announcer as the one used for the in-store ads.
They are bogus. Every Kmart had them on the tape. The one I worked at always said "Security scan section b" or "scan section 3". We had no section B or C. Most of the time the security guy spent his time looking out the black windows. Sometimes he would ask me to watch certain shoppers.
I wish that I had all of the $$$ which I managed to deposit into Kmart's account! I really enjoyed this!! "WILL SECURITY PLEASE REPORT TO SECTION THREE??"
While I do remember the music playing in the background of stores, it was constantly interrupted over the PA system with the endless annoying cacophony of paging calls and of course the occasional blue light special. This was done to the point that any message that was being transmitted over the corporate feed was drowned out and rendered meaningless. I also remember a pre-recorded blip that something like "this is the Kmart radio network."
The PA announcements always took the form first name, department, first name, like "Suzie to Domestics, Suzie," followed by "Sam to Hardware, Sam." Of course Suzie and Sam never seemed to respond immediately and had to be paged over and over again, meanwhile other pages would be interspersed to the point that I don't think you never went more than 15 seconds or so between pages constantly interrupting the background music or message. Given the crackling nature of the PA, sometimes hearing feedback and along with the fact that most people really do not have good announcing voices all would drive you up the wall and made the store experience feel more like an institution that you wanted to escape. Back then it was like an unwritten rule that department stores used gentle signaling bells and discount stores used the obnoxious PA system. Target being born out of the Dayton Hudson Corporation which owned department stores broke this rule and made the discount shopping experience more dignified. I'm sure that Kmart upper management saw the PA system as efficient, but in the end may have actually been a contributor to their downfall.
"Will security report to section 3, please?" Brings back memories. When I worked at Target in 1979-80, they had a code for when they needed all available male employees up front to help out security, something like 'Mr Jackson to register 4, please," otherwise paging for security would alert the shoplifter(s). It could get physical and rowdy at times, not sure what store policies are these days - probably changed a lot.
I wonder if the singer in the first jingle is Linda November. She did tens of thousands of them back in those days. Also did "have you driven a Ford lately?"
The "Security to Section 3" thing was used as a deterrent of theft or illegal activity. When I worked at Kmart from 2011-2013, they used to call things like this over the paging system if they were away of shady things going on in the store. I didn't know they had it pre-recorded on tape like that.
What's tough as nails and pretty too, what makes your home look spanking new come to Kmart ... the Performer, the Performer has much colors and is bright.....Kmart's beautiful latex house paint, a premium paint at a Kmart price. :-)
Wish I could go back. I hate this time right now. My mom and dad were young. My grandparents were alive I actually had a relationship with my brother. My grandmother bought me many barbies from kmart. This now is terrible. Men want to be women. Women want to be men. Violence everywhere. Pandemic, just a terrible time now w social media. Take me back please
The Kmart stores I've been to in the States were in Bangor ME, North Conway NH and Manchester NH between 1991 and 1992...I haven't been to any U.S. Kmart store since then! Kmart exited Canada back in 1998...the Canadian Kmart stores I've been to were in Sydney NS, Charlottetown PEI and Corner Brook NL! No wonder Kmart is still dwindling after all these years!
OMG! This warms my heart. My mother worked for KMart in Hialeah, Florida for 30+ years. She was the cafeteria manager for 15. She passed away last year at age 89. Thank you for these memories.
Sorry for your loss.
There were never any black employees working in the K-Mart cafeterias...I hope your mom got a pension.
Sorry for your loss
I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother. I am so delighted to know that she managed the cafeteria - the food and warm welcoming service she oversaw and provided was appreciated by man, I’m certain. All of the friends and acquaintances she met along the way. What a wonderful life. All of my best to yoy
Sorry for your loss
You tapped into my childhood , lol ! I was in Junior High in 1973- 74 and used to loved going to K-Mart with mom. I used to look at the color TVs , tape cassettes , radios , toys , etc. We used to eat at the deli and I always left the store with a bag of hot popcorn and a Slushee. It didn't take much to make us happy back in the day , lol!.
they had the best submarine sandwiches
34 years of memories working there. How many times I heard this music and commercials during the workweek.
I hope you got a pension.
I don’t see you have any videos but would you consider making content about your Kmart memories or are those personal question I think people would love to know about your experiences working there.
Makes me cry. Such a happy carefree time it was, when I was 7
I'm a lonely guy of nearly 60. I'm often depressed and still dream of my departed parents a lot. Those old Kmart jingles are tapping my emotions also.
Kmart was a great place to shop. I remember when I was growing up in Chicago, there was a store a couple minutes away from my house in Norridge. I remember there was a snack bar in the store, and people would always be there enjoying a little snack. When I moved to the suburbs, there was one not too far from me, and there was a Little Caesars in the store. I ate there a few times, and it was good food. Just sad these stores are not around anymore
This brings back great, old memories. Sad these days are gone.
When Kmart was a great store that cared about it's customers. What's left is a shell of it's former self.
Ted yellowstone They use to make. Great Christmas Carols and commercials they use to be made with so much emotion now they don't even care.
Sebastian Kresge would be spinning in his grave right about now.
@@laureljade3476 Just the fact that Kresge's was destroyed probably would have broken his heart.
I didn't realize they carried so many name brands for a low prices. Then they replaced it with crap. Walmart seem to be all crap now but their store has low prices and up to date.
I guess it has to do with all of corporate America right now
KMart is your saving store, where your dollar buys you more. They give your dreams a helping hand. At Kmart stores they understand.
New Kmart song!
As of 2020 and beyond!
Kmart is the closing store, Most customers will spend their dollars where they can get more. The dreams they give us are only past memories of a helping hand. There's no more Kmart store's we understand!
@@RyGuy0520 hah hah...great when folks lose their jobs huh?.
My dad still sings this jingle, but he sings "Kmart is the savings place. Shop here or we're slap your face!" 😂
I think Kmart and Sears are out of the picture now. 😞😢
Sadly😢
Wow! Thanks for the memories! I worked at Kmart during the summers when I was in college in the late 70's and heard these jingles and announcements over and over. They brought back a lot of memories. Very nostalgic.
Kmart is such an amazing store
** was ... it was garbage by the 90s. Guessing before then too.
Mfs got kmart as their pfp 😭😭😭
@@Kdenq3mf should make their name Kmart iz Cool 💀💀💀
I'm not even american, I never went to K-mart before, but , for some strange reason the 1974 jingle makes me miss those years i never lived (born in 1980), sounds like a friendly moment, a happy place to be , why am I nostalgic of a time i did not live in??
It happens, we Americans get this way about Japan, too
same. i'm from chile.
@@antenachile At least the UK got to know Woolworth's.
I loved the Christmas music they played at holiday time.
Yes, But as an employee, One was just about about "Christmassed out" by December 10th, LOL (I am a former K Mart employee).
I’ll bet!😳😬
Thanks for posting! Brings back a lot of good memories shopping there and eating in their cafeteria.
Yeah, I liked their hamburgers.
It was the Grill
OMG! This warms my heart. My mother worked for KMart in South Florida for 30+ years. She was the cafeteria manager for 15. She passed away last year at age 89. Thank you for these memories.
@@creationsbybarb5628 Sorry for your loss. I miss the days of kmart and smelling that yummy cafe food!! Blessings 🙏
@@NickL951 The dirty/old cooking oil made the burgers taste good.
I love the sense of urgency in the announcer's voice when he calls for security.
yeah, those were actually fake, I'm guessing..
+M C Taylor They were fake. They had special public address codes for various situations - for fire, carry out, 'get carts', and, of course, 'security issues', among others.
But this one was pretty well done; it breaks in over the music like a real announcement. The only 'flaw' is that it isn't half-garbled by the announcer practically deep-throating the mic like real store personnel would.
what,s going on in section three let me guess justin bieber ran naked through the womens department lol
These played all the time when I worked there and they were fake. If there was a real shoplifter in the store the girl at the front desk would announce "Code one and a half please, code one and a half". Don't know if they used that code everywhere or not but it was always an exciting time at our store when it was announced. We'd make a mad dash to the front door to see what was going on. In one incident the security guy locked the front doors and when the shoplifter made a mad dash for the door he hit it like a brick wall and it knocked him silly. It was pretty awesome watching him run as fast as he could into a locked glass door.
My mom bought dresses at K mart in suburban Denver in the late 60's, 1970. We ate lunch at Kmart in the Santa Cruz area in the late 80's-early 90's. when she died in 2007, I couldn't enjoy sitcoms, so I found the Kmart jingle & listened to it several times.
When I look back at this, I see someone got paid to destroy Sears and Kmart with not updating and stocking stores or even relocating stores. It's sad, because I can't stand Walmart. So I shop Target and Meijer.
Target was also the killer of K-Mart and many other ma & pa small stores
@@cactusjackNV Right kid, now get to bed it's late
Imagine a abandoned kmart play this music and announcements.
This song was in my head when I was watching the demolition of my local Kmart store
That's impossible, Because Muzak was a satellite/ tape service. Unless the power is still on and Kmart still pays for the monthly costs on all stores, even the abandon stores.
@@theninjahackermanguydude hence why they said : "Imagine"
@@theninjahackermanguydude It was NOT "Muzak" or any other "subscription" service. (there was NO "monthly costs". They were custom-made tapes (reel to reel, later cassette) The tapes were physically delivered to each store and played over the P.A. system via a rather conventional tape deck... That it was NOT a "piped in" service is why these are still "floating" around, some workers took the tapes home. (To perhaps erase and reuse? or as a souvenir") They were actual (and very normal) tapes that were made for and owned by the S.S. Kresge Company (later K Mart corporation.) Source: Worked for Kmart.
@@TheLizardGuitarist Since it was NOT "Muzak" or any other service, but rather actual physical tapes, all you'd need is to go into an abandoned Kmart with a boombox and play the tapes!
Great hearing these old jingles again after so many years. Boy, I sure feel old!
The first jingle may have originated in the early 70's but it was still playing instore during the mid-80's when i worked for them. Never got it out of my head even all these decades later :)
Code 1000 deli.
M-5 line 2.
=)
That jingle is a really fantastic piece of music. The singers were great and I still remember it from my childhood.
Mike Edward still playing at the store in my neighborhood at Thanks giving time great to hear security jet call code red
You make it sound like 60 year's ago lol
@@m42037 The mid-80s is nearly 4 decades ago. that's a fair bit of time.
This brings tears to my eyes
That whole personal check approval used to really tick off my dad when we shopped at Kmart. We thought it was just our local store. It was a policy instituted during a really bad recession in the 1970's. The songs are awesome!! so many GOOD memories. Thanks!
Grew up in K-Mart in the 70's/80's. Bought most of my Beatles LPs there and my Commodore 64! In its last years the in-store Little Caesar's would have pizza buffet for a discount price.
Your dad should've refused telling them that he was a white man and shouldn't have to get pre approval for his checks
" Attention K mart shoppers, we have a blue light special going on now, a 3 pack of tube socks are now just 99 cents in the mens section, this sale will be going for the next hr. Thank You for shopping at K mart."
Yes sadly something you will never hear again. I truly cherish those days and believe we were blessed to have experienced them. Such a different time back then 🤔
People talk about how they missed KMart but didn't patronize them when they were open I DID😊. I went to Martinsville Indiana KMart. They were so friendly...RIP KMart.
I spent over $1,200 on products at Kmart in 2019, which was impressive since my closest store was over 300 miles away!! I'd make monthly trips spending roughly $100/mo, and am thinking of doing a Kmart collection- not this "look what fixtures I bought during liquidation" like you see others do, real Kmart stuff like my Basic Editions and Route 66 outfits, Essential Home laundry baskets, Northwest Territory coats, stuff that's exclusive to Kmart that I bought from non-closing Kmart's.
I did until they changed the sign and turned into a "Target" The old Kmart was cool like you see ^^
This is fantastic! Kmart in Burnsville, Minnesota (Store #3163) was my high school job. I swear, these announcements and jingles were still running when I worked there 1980-82!
I still have my SANDLES that I purchased there in 1994 😊
K-Mart, a division of the S.S. Kresge Company, Troy, Michigan.
I so loved the Kmart jingles during this time. I remember this music playing constantly on the Kmart intercom and it warmed my heart.
Wow! These jingles bring back so many wonderful memories growing up! Gee I feel so old!
"K-Mart is your savings store, where your dollar buys you more!!". I haven't heard that jingle in about 35 years, but it seems like just yesterday. It's so sad how far they have fallen. K-Mart used to be awesome when I was a kid, but no longer.
Just came across this I'm now 46 remember parents eating in cafeteria an me running through toys clothing racks ect brought back alot of good memories!
I'll always like the old logo better than the current logo.
Many of these "improvements" killed the place! Started in the 90s with that Jacqueline Smith line, boring. Changed the sign, the cafeteria was no longer fun to go to, etc
Wow! Thank you for sharing this.
i remember in college back in 2015 we got my first vacuum for my apartment dorm at kmart and the jingles were playing i always loved kmart even thought i was born in the 90's
At least you had a taste.
The Kmart that I worked for in Torrance, CA is now a Walmart.
My late mother use work at Kmart and Super Kmart stores . My favorite store were got my bike back 1998. . Those were good old days memories lane though yrs
My mom worked the VICTORVILLE, CALIFORNIA Kmart 😊
Who remembers the old Kresge stores?
Yes! the S.S. Kresge stores were smaller and often in town. KMarts were large format suburban stores. We had a local (McKeesport, PA) based chain that did this too: G.C.Murphy stores were the in-town version, Murphy's Mart was the suburban "big box" version.
Rest in peace Kmart, you will be missed!
Kmart was a dump. Good riddance.
@@m.r.keller9642🤨🤨🤨
@@m.r.keller9642Kmart was my childhood
@@matexplores32 It was mine, too. But I still hated Kmart. I remember my brother got hurt badly while tripping over a display there when we were kids.
The collection "Truly Tasteless Jokes" (by Blanche Knott) included one that went: "What are the first three words of the Puerto Rican national anthem?" "Attention Kmart shoppers!"
While listen this it made me emotional I miss Kmart so much than Walmart!
Kmart made me happy memories as a happy child :)
I was born in the 90s omg life was good then💖
The 90s? K-Mart was at It's best in the 60s-80s, then that Jacqueline Smith era started in the early 90s and the store changed! Even the old pretty turquoise "K-Mart" sign was relaced with a bland red sign, then worse came the Super Ks smh. As i said in a old post i miss the old days in the 70s-80s K-Mart cafeteria. I remember that smell, old K-Mart had that smell in the cafeteria lol. Nice memories. So much is gone now because of big brother, rich companies like Wallmart that put them out
When I was a kid, I had a hard time framing how I felt. It felt like the world was on a summit. I wondered how we would preserve this beautiful time, and how anything that came after could be as good.
I remember that commercial, those commercials back then made you feel happy.
I Love The Jingle At The Beginning! Has The Feeling And Charm Of The Old Days! I Wish Song Jingles Like This Were Still Around!❤️💛💚💙💜💓💞💕❣💔💗💖💘💝💟☮🕎☯☦⚛🚼🚺🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Joey Cox chill out its literally there to brainwash you
Yo chill out kayley karr you're probably that bizzatch stealing stuff in Section 3 and smoking outside the snackbar so just take your ass to Walmart or something
dont you dare snitch
I love those K-mart jingles, don't you?!
Joey Cox
I like that jingle at 1:30.. I remember hearing this at our K Mart on
Dundee Rd & Rt 83 in Buffalo Grove, IL right across from Buffalo Grove HS!
back in 1974.
It's hard to believe that Kmart was the second largest retailer in the U.S. just over 30 years ago when you look at the state they're currently in. It makes me wonder if Walmart will ever decline some day.
We can only hope so...
No offense to Walmart workers or anything like that, because I find a lot than very engaging and interesting people, but Kmart definitely had the best customer service when customer service was a priority for Kmart. I used to shop at the assembly Square in Massachusetts in the 90s And he had wonderful service. But when they rearrange things I think around that time may be in the late 90s I think that’s when they stopped actually develop anything in Kmart. They weren’t hiring enough people to work at the cash registers or anything like that. Maybe they were too busy trying to straighten up the store one customers came in and messed up all the tables. I don’t know. But it once was a wonderful place to shop, to dine at, and connect with others (since ours was connected to an old mall at that time).
down with walmart once and for all.
bring in too much rift raft
Gawd let's hope so. Place is a chit hole.
I'd rather see Target decline.
K-Mart, a magical place in my younger years!
I better not shoplift now because I could be in section 3.....
I love the jingle beautiful!.
I'm waiting for the flashing blue light! 😂👍❄⛄💙
"Attention K Mart shoppers, there is a Blue Light Special in our Housewears Department. Right now, a 4 piece melamine dishwear set is just $4.99"
If a Kmart like this closed 1995, The song is still on repeat and the Kmart satisfaction always sign has never saw the light of day until people discover it.
THE major difference between Kmart and Walmart: Kmart was designed to keep you in the store. (Hell, that was the whole point of the "Blue Light Special") Wally*World just MAKES you want to LEAVE. Shopping at a 7-11 is more fun than at Wally's.
True.
S.S. Kresge Co. was the original name of the K Mart Corporation,
they were originally something like Woolworth...more of a five and dime and then
morphed into a super discount center like we know today in the early 70s and beyond. The company symbol in the upper right hand corner was SS Kresege's .
What ever happen to those rides outside stores? Do those just fell out of favor? Remember seeing them growing up in the 90s
I forgot all about the check approval counter at the back until I heard this! Kmart was the only place that did that. You also had to give your other shopping bags from the grocery store next door to the security guy, and he’d staple it shut with a tag.
I am a millennial that was born after the 70s, man i wish i could have lived through the golden memories that my parents and grandparents had. Better than anything on the radio or the charts today. I wish i was alive to see when AM Radio was King, actual good songs on the hot 100 and not all the mumble rap and kpop garbage... Nothing more relaxing than old muzak, move out of the way lofi and chopped up oldies, coming from a millennial.
I Remember Going To Kmart In Cullman, Alabama Heard Music Like This In 1979 Good Days Back Then Now These Days Are No Good I Miss Kmart
I used to love going to Kmart when I was a kid.
I love that song
I sure miss my kmart..their submarine sandwiches, popcorn, and cherry icees...and of course the blue light specials..
Worked for Kmart the 3 years of high school.
Light it up at the snack bar👍👍😂
+Cynthia Crowley
K Mart Grill had some AWESOME grilled cheese sandwiches back in 1973-4.
Cynthia Crowley light a joint lol
watershed44 yes! I was in 4th grade that year, a connoisseur of grilled cheese. Or the spaghetti special. You could also pump the old style coke machine to get extra shots of coke syrup. But the cashier at the end always heard us and told us to knock it off. :)
watershed44 70s-80s that was the real snack/ cafeteria bar days
We love shopping at Kmart there was a k mart right by our house now it’s a u haul place now I really miss k mart I wish they would bring it back
I fondly remember this Kmart jingle
gda44256. Yip me 2...
It's tough to make ends meet, but I know that Kmart CARES! I'm going to shop there!
... what? Is this some sort of sarcasm? Kmart doesn't care about anything. They were around to make money. Poorly paid employees and cheap crap along with stores that they stopped maintaining decades ago.
@@orangejjay ALL businesses exist to make a profit. (They are not "social welfare programs". )I worked at a few retail places, but KMart (Pre Lampert) was one of the better places I worked at. Of course the CUSTOMERS sometimes sucked, but The company and my co-workers were decent. I can only say that about 1/3 of the places I worked "retail" in.
WOW THAT IS SO COOL 😀😀😀 IT PUTS A TEAR IN MY EYES
Eddie Lampert and Charles Conaway killed Kmart sad to see how many stores are left
Eddie did a great job of running it into the ground, but the store has been floundering since the mid 80s. He just finished the job.
@@timfischer there's only 11 Kmarts left and 6 in territories making it 17 locations left :(
Speaking for myself, it's not just nostalgia, but KMart really WAS a great store in the 1970s, along with Woolworth's and Grant's.
Worked there in SoCal during my sr. high school and college years, and so did many long ago friends. They were great when it came to hiring part-time students who needed extra income and didn’t want to work fast food. Very good influence on all of us while there.
Thank you for shopping BIG K(mart)
I worked at Kmart from 1998-2019 due to my store 4728 closing
At the first time I read 1938 😅
I remember as a kid thinking "security please report to section 3" was a ruse to keep shoplifters on their toes.
I miss KMart.
I miss going there with my mom and the awesome grilled cheese sandwiches they had at Kmart when I was a kid. Boo Hoo.
Please don’t smoke! Unless you’re at the snack bar😂😂
Ok, so the call for security... was that randomly put on the background music tape to make shoppers feel secure and shoplifters paranoid? (i.e. a pre-recorded security bluff)
or deter shoplifting, making people think that they're acting suspicious.
There's an auto parts store where I live in Australia which does the same security calls over the central radio system between music tracks. You'd have to be a fucking idiot to actually fall for it. They even used the same announcer as the one used for the in-store ads.
They are bogus. Every Kmart had them on the tape. The one I worked at always said "Security scan section b" or "scan section 3". We had no section B or C. Most of the time the security guy spent his time looking out the black windows. Sometimes he would ask me to watch certain shoppers.
Not all that long ago I was in Walgreen's (I think it was, or one of those) and heard it, too.
@@mubd1234 Wish we had your weather mate! From Michigan US. Cold
I love Kmart
It saddens me to think that there is an entire generation of kids out there that will never know the joy and wonder that was K-Mart.
Attention KMART shoppers...there is a blue light special in isle 7....
I remember that! Love it!
I remember being a kid and having the worst excuse for a strawberry shake at the lunch counter in the K-Cafe....
The way the announcements come in are kinda creepy but also pretty cool since they are incredibly rare pieces of media
I wish that I had all of the $$$ which I managed to deposit into Kmart's account! I really enjoyed this!! "WILL SECURITY PLEASE REPORT TO SECTION THREE??"
attention k_mart shoppers today's blue light special is Levi's jeans three pairs for a $ 2'95 thank you for shopping at k _ mart and have a nice day!
While I do remember the music playing in the background of stores, it was constantly interrupted over the PA system with the endless annoying cacophony of paging calls and of course the occasional blue light special. This was done to the point that any message that was being transmitted over the corporate feed was drowned out and rendered meaningless. I also remember a pre-recorded blip that something like "this is the Kmart radio network."
The PA announcements always took the form first name, department, first name, like "Suzie to Domestics, Suzie," followed by "Sam to Hardware, Sam." Of course Suzie and Sam never seemed to respond immediately and had to be paged over and over again, meanwhile other pages would be interspersed to the point that I don't think you never went more than 15 seconds or so between pages constantly interrupting the background music or message. Given the crackling nature of the PA, sometimes hearing feedback and along with the fact that most people really do not have good announcing voices all would drive you up the wall and made the store experience feel more like an institution that you wanted to escape.
Back then it was like an unwritten rule that department stores used gentle signaling bells and discount stores used the obnoxious PA system. Target being born out of the Dayton Hudson Corporation which owned department stores broke this rule and made the discount shopping experience more dignified. I'm sure that Kmart upper management saw the PA system as efficient, but in the end may have actually been a contributor to their downfall.
The best to you, from Kmart Radio - KMRT
Sounds just like Kroger!! Except Kroger is more irritating!! The interruption's are more frequent! Like it's calling for idiots!
"Will security report to section 3, please?" Brings back memories. When I worked at Target in 1979-80, they had a code for when they needed all available male employees up front to help out security, something like 'Mr Jackson to register 4, please," otherwise paging for security would alert the shoplifter(s). It could get physical and rowdy at times, not sure what store policies are these days - probably changed a lot.
I was born in 2001, I feel so sad that I missed this wonderful time in American history
I want them back.
Me too Judy
Sears Corporation wrecked K-Mart
Oh they did, Kmart also ruined Sears as well.
1960sRICH Kmart wrecked sears because Kmart bought sears why you think Kmart had Kenwood only sears had it
Agustin Jaime Seeing shopping carts at Sears is what killed it for me.
Or vise versa
1960sRICH Section 3 wrecked K Mart.
RIP KMart... Now replaced by Walmart. (Another really good store)
I wonder if the singer in the first jingle is Linda November. She did tens of thousands of them back in those days. Also did "have you driven a Ford lately?"
Merry Christmas 2022! ⛄️🎄🎅 🎁
Officers, please, for God’s sake, they’re looting the Kmart
I love that jingle so catchy.
This was playing in the store when my wife worked at Kmart when she was in college.
"Attention! Attention! There's is no smoking Cannibus on the sales floor, for your convenience you can smoke marijuana in the tea room only"
The "Security to Section 3" thing was used as a deterrent of theft or illegal activity. When I worked at Kmart from 2011-2013, they used to call things like this over the paging system if they were away of shady things going on in the store. I didn't know they had it pre-recorded on tape like that.
8 people were ready to bounce a check
I can even remember the way old department stores like kmart always smelled.
What's tough as nails and pretty too, what makes your home look spanking new come to Kmart ... the Performer, the Performer has much colors and is bright.....Kmart's beautiful latex house paint, a premium paint at a Kmart price. :-)
Wish I could go back. I hate this time right now. My mom and dad were young. My grandparents were alive
I actually had a relationship with my brother.
My grandmother bought me many barbies from kmart.
This now is terrible. Men want to be women. Women want to be men. Violence everywhere. Pandemic, just a terrible time now w social media.
Take me back please
PLEASE LET US HEAR THE ENTIRE TAPE!!!
The Kmart stores I've been to in the States were in Bangor ME, North Conway NH and Manchester NH between 1991 and 1992...I haven't been to any U.S. Kmart store since then! Kmart exited Canada back in 1998...the Canadian Kmart stores I've been to were in Sydney NS, Charlottetown PEI and Corner Brook NL! No wonder Kmart is still dwindling after all these years!
I♥️ Kmart