I Finally Made it to the Last (Full-Size) Kmart in America and Something Feels Off...
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- Join me as I take a look at the last full-size Kmart in the continental United States of America in Bridgehampton, New York.
This place isn't scheduled to close anytime soon, but something feels off about it. Let me know what you think about it!
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Most people don’t remember but I remember going into Kmart as a kid with my Mom & in the back they had a big cafeteria where you could get all kinds of stuff I remember getting the ham subs that had shredded lettuce in it. Also they layaway & no one had that back then.
Me too! I actually miss it; so many good memories.
Glad you filmed it. This may be the last store before it closes up but it's sad
This store survives because it has an effective monopoly on discount retailing in the area. Walmart and Target are in Riverhead, a drive that can be well over an hour at times of heavy traffic, and there would be insurmountable community opposition to building ones in or near Bridgehampton.
Yeah, I agree. They can probably charge those prices due to no competition in the area and the fact that it is a generally wealthy area. However, it's hard to still call it a "discount retailer" with those prices.
Eastern Long Island is insane
Good to know but they are still empty
I loved Kmart! I have in my home now, still in use, Martha Stewart bedding, towels, throw rugs, blow dryer, chest freezer, Craftsman tools, and a Craftsman lawnmower. Kenmore washer and dryer that is over 25 years old and never needed repairs. The products they sold were quality.. They had a layaway program for Christmas presents. They were wonderful and seeing this show makes me miss them more. I met my husband in that store 45 years ago. Blue light special raincoat for $2.00 lasted 2 Generations. 😢
Were there even 5 customers in that ENTIRE store? Absolutely unbelievable. The amount of excess inventory is astounding.
Buy some flatulence
The shelves are so full it is eerie looking. The shelves are perfectly fronted. I felt like an alarm would go off if you touched something.
There are camera bubbles everywhere as well. With so few shoppers and employees, I bet loss prevention is able to watch every single one of them, itching for someone to pick up a product and not put it back exactly as it was.
And this is the most well stocked store I’ve seen since before the pandemic lol
My boyfriend is a Kresge, related to S.S Kresge who founded Kmart. Super cool to learn about his family history, its sad to see how Kmarts are fading away.
You should ask them how the agreement for that other company in Australia happened to use the name Kmart, so many people think it's the same company as North America. I know the agreement to use the name overseas went way back and it's been a completely separate company for many decades.
Marry him
Has a North Korea dystopic feel: they set up the store to look good for patrons but the whole time you're thinking, "Why is this place open and what is its purpose?"
I was thinking the same thing!
It’s a privileged store for the privileged people or so that’s what they call their front facing shops for foreign tourists
@@AnotherTruthIt's true, foreign tourists and privileged locals of the government. You can find such tours on TH-cam and it's creepy.
You’d know because? You’ve been?
The North Korea presentation can’t be put any more accurate than that. The whole store is some sort of holgram
I used to enjoy KMART. My mom worked for Sears part time close to 30 yrs. Very sad to see what's happened to these once thriving stores. I don't shop on line I like to touch and see what I'm purchasing. The good old days will never be the same. Wish we could go back...Happy I was a part of it.
I miss Kmart. Been gone for several years up here. They tore it down last year and put up senior citizen apartments in the old spot.
I think it’s because it feels like a Potemkin village. It’s like they are trying to tell you “Look at this well stocked, decently clean, successful K-Mart still!” and it does look clean and like it could be that way, until you look a little closer. If you walked in and didn’t notice that a lot of the items are the same, or that there isn’t many customers besides you, then it could fool someone.
This reminds me so much of the Kmart in the early 1990s but it has like the ceilings from the early 1980s. The lighting looks a lot like the Kmart we used to have in my community back in like 1982 but it has that 1991 still there. I guess Kmart radio no longer exist because you would hear the music and the constant reminders over the intercom. That was an interesting feature of Kmart I miss. I also miss theK café.
Yeah, It’s on life-support right now. I don’t see anybody rushing to the stores for any of the stuff. What time of day did you go?
Thank you for giving us a glimpse of this relic.
RIP Kmart ❤
"Service is needed in layaway........Service is needed in layaway....."
in the 90's kmart was always so busy. By 2005 you could see that they wasn't going to survive much more longer after that, ours closed in 2007.
The Moths in the aisle pet food likely burrowed into the bags at 16:06 . Often the trucks that deliver them don't clean out in time for the next load, and the moths can wait in corners and burrow into the seams and lay eggs inside the bags, or burrow through the tough material sometimes. Other times, from the warehouses they're stored in. An unfortunate issue with dry pet foods at stores.
Gross. I had no idea.
🤯 mind-blowing here, like for real. I thought every Kmart stores had closed down. One of my favorite cologne, gravity for men to buy during the holiday shopping. This is great to see thanks so much.
This is insane. I remember going to Kmart stores as a kid. They shut down around the time I was 12 or 13. I really miss Kmart. :( Heck, I miss the old "90s" look of stores like how Walmart used to look, too.
The reason areas looked dark is the carpet! This is because it is a dark color that absorbs light from the fluorescent troffers above, and there is pretty much zero reflection off the floor there, back up to the ceiling, making it dark as well, so this poor choice of carpet is literally sucking up all the light from above. You can clearly see the areas that have shiny, light color tile are bright and so is the ceiling from reflection back up to the ceiling. Also, some of the shelves in tiled areas are directly centered under troffers, which loses most of the light on the top shelves, and since the fixtures aren’t wider than the shelves, shadows are cast on all the lower shelves and on the floor, getting wider as the light gets lower and lower, making wide shadows on the floor and also reducing reflection off the floor, making the area look a bit darker as well, also leaving shelves dark, especially ones not full and items in the back. Also, was there a lighting section in this store for purchasing bulbs? As a bulb collector, I am curious to know what brand, types, prices etc were there, since light bulbs are almost always WAY overpriced! Just curious! Cheers! 😊
It's bizarre to me that a wealthy area like the Hamptons would still have a Kmart, of all stores.
Yes, it does seem out of place.
Not so odd when you consider people there have maids, and house keepers. Some of them live in housekeepers who live in the houses year round when owners aren't there. Also the maids probably go there for cleaning supplies, paper towels, toilet paper and other essentials.
Kmart, Walmart & Target all opened 62 years ago in 1962. It's sad how Kmart failed.
So true and notice how Walmart and Target have always spent millions on store development, renovations and technology unlike Kmart and Sears ( continental United States ) that nearly all looked like they had never been modernized.
( I happen to live near a Walmart prototype store so the dang place is either being renovated or getting approval to start lol )
It was all self-inflicted. They failed to grasp the data revolution in the 90s while Walmart embraced it to know what was selling, where inventory was, etc. Kmart never had any idea where inventory was or what was selling. Walmart leveraged data to offer lower prices on things people actually wanted. Kmart had no answer for it and never did figure it out. Even this store reeks of having no idea what people actually want to buy or the prices they will pay.
The moths are coming from the pet and / or bird food you're walking by. I used to service all the Kmarts in my area, and that's a common problem with the pet food. It's time for the pest control guy to change or add more pheromone traps within that section.
Gross.
The store probably had stock from all the closed Kmarts and Sears in the area so they had to spread out stuff to make it look full. I don't think their suppliers trust them to pay on credit so the non-perishable items might been there for months if not years. Strange that their detergent isn't all locked so but I guess that's only an urban thing in New York.
True, it's an urban/New York City thing and you are exactly right finding suppliers is going to be very difficult and they most likely have to pay prior or upon delivery as very few would issue them standard Net-30 or 90 day terms.
Saw it in Walmart upstate too. Who is stealing giant bottles of detergent (and how)? If they can steal a giant bottle they can probably steal a giant bottle in a plastic box.
Since this is near the Hamptons, many staple items may be much more expensive because the affluent/high property tax district. Regarding the huge inventory, since this is one of only 2 Kmart stores remaining in the continental USA, this location may be acting both as a store and also as a warehouse. Kmart has online ordering on their website. So this may be acting as a distribution center as well for sending out items purchased online. Thanks for filming! I was surprised any still exist. I was surprised a comment below mentioned hundreds of Kmart remain outside the USA, especially in Australia.
There are but those ones aren't the same
My Mom went home to Jesus over 2 years ago. We always would shop at our 2 K'marts in 80's 90's.. until they finally bellied up in Pueblo Colorado around 2017-2018. So seeing you and your Mom shopping at K.. really brings back memories😢. You surely realize how blessed you are to still be able to shop at the last K.. with your Mom. It was haunting when they closed ours. But seeing this.. really is sobering about our nation. Spooky eerie...lol
Hi, I remember when a small farm field in Des Plaines, Illinois sold for $997,000.00 and it was to become a K-Mart and it did. Many happy memories of shopping there with the Blue Light Specials. People would almost run to whatever department it was. I remember my Grandpa buying me a 45 RPM record there of The Beatles "Hello Goodbye" and He got such a kick out of the title. I think it cost $0.88.
Great video! Thanks for doing this one. Most of those prices are way too much- at least for most of us. The men's casual short-sleeve shirts were a good price. I wonder if those are grain moths which would indicate food spoilage somewhere. This place looks frozen in time with those iconic Kmart circular AC/heating vents and tiles flooring.
All their laundry detergent and their toilet paper/paper towels is Proctor and Gamble. They are probably the only folks who will do business with them.
The prices on the tide is absolutely crazy expensive 😂
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's 2-3 times more expensive than my local Walmart.
For the record, Kmart is not the only place that had the large diffusers. Just the only place that never bothered to modernize a lot of things, including HVAC.
Wow its wierd how this Kmart has no electronics.
Sears Holdings TransformCo removed that department long ago unfortunately at all its stores nationwide along with the pharmacy, auto repair shop, restaurants/snack bars. They also had small grocery sections in many locations ( Big Kmart ) and those got removed ( as seen in this video ). They also operated Super Kmart that was just like super Walmart with a full grocery store, not many existed but have all shut down ( you can find videos online ).
@@danasion4349 so essentially it's become big lots or Sears essentials in a way.
The sticker shock is hilarious: welcome to the Hamptons. It's a tourist trap, they use zoning laws to keep out big box competitors (KMart snuck in probably to supply the service class), and the wealthiest people in the world summer there so you're lucky to only pay twice regular retail!
Guess I can't afford to live there.
@@fleabittenadventures The average home price was $3.1 million last year, so most of us can't.
Its so surreal to watch the death of retail. When I was a kid even in the early 2000s stores and malls were packed with people and I'm sure that was just a shade of what those places were like in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
It's sad, no other way about it. I was the same as you. Used to go to the mall with my mom every weekend growing up until the mid 2000s. Now? I haven't walked around a mall in almost a decade.
I agree! Thanks for watching!
I guess it depends on the area. Malls and stores in Texas are still packed year round.
Retailers still a thing in places where people have money. There were a lot of malls built in the rust belt when there were factories there. With all the factories gone and poverty setting in the malls disappeared.
@@Perfidious_Hollow Walnart and Amazon killed everything..
The picture above the price scanner was how the store was set up before
Thanks for the info and for watching!
The store looks MUCH better than I thought it would.But wow,the prices seem high.
Those prices are a steal but from the consumers! 😂😂😂😂
I guess if you REALLY need some Bounty paper towels on short notice someone will pay that much. Maybe...
I worked for Sears around its demise and it deserves to go away. Horrible place to work, every salesperson scammed the elderly for credit card applications and needless up-sales. Also directed to spray paint over mold among many other laughably awful things.
I agree with you on being horrible place to work. I worked in the office part of Parts & Service. We had a manager who would call employees spouses and tell them that the spouse is having affairs with other people. He would listen into our calls with customers. Make up stories to customers also. He called my home and told my hubby who already knew I had been talking to my sons T-Ball coach about meeting and payment for my son to play. My hubby recorded their call, took him to his managers and to higher ups. He was transferred to Louisville Ky. We could not figure why he was not fired..Sears would lie to customers about their appliances and overcharge for repairs. When closing stores, they would raise the prices then take the % off from the highest price. Glad they are closed also.
@@Mustang5458 Not to mention the standard " buyers premium " on fixtures. So much was never sold and left at closed locations.
@@danasion4349I lived across a parking lot from Sears in St. paul MN and went there the week it closed, they emptied ours out. They even removed the fixtures and racks. Then left it vacant for the past 6 years to rot. Our Sears had the DMV inside it too. They moved the DMV to the building next to it, closed the Sears and no one has ever taken over the old space.
Those old style hvac vents in the ceiling were commonly used in commercial buildings built in the 1950s and 1960s. Sears, Penneys, Macy's, etc, all had them.
Wow, those prices are outrageous.
Except Kmart made those vents infamous as most retailers kept up with the times and efficiency updating HVAC systems lol. Kmart had some nicer modern stores but gave up trying or caring especially when they let Eddie Lampert take over and run the company down for the real estate 😢
Craftsman has nothing to do with Sears anymore. They were bought by Stanley in 2017. Also many of the holding companies are hedge funds that are owned by Chinese parents hence the bikes you never heard of
Exactly....I love the main holding company " TransformCo ".... transformation into a wasteland
The K Mart I visited in Texarkana in 2016 was dark and creepy like this one. Very dead looking store. It's no wonder they are out of business now. But the store looks very clean and zoned compared to Walmart. Thanks Tom.
It's easy to keep clean when there are no customers to get it all dirty! Ha ha! Thanks for watching.
Oh wow i visited Texarkana after the eclipse
Kmart started selling Kenmore & Craftsman items about 20 years ago. I know my Big K store had them until it closed about 5 years ago. However, I do not remember my store having tons of the same item on the shelves like this one does. Plus, the prices in this one are insanely high. BTW, those little moths are caused by expired food (usually cereals). Bet a lot of their cereals in the food isle are out of date. Our Sears just before it closed brought in those Diehard branded boots. Basically, cheap Chinese knock offs.
OK, I didn't know that about Kenmore and Craftsman. Other than this Kmart and the one in NJ that closed last year, I haven't been to a Kmart since the 1990s.
@@fleabittenadventures after Sears bought Kmart, many of the Sears brands were sold at Kmart as well. I remember seeing a lot of Kenmore and Craftsman products at the Lowell, MA Kmart in the mid-90s. The Craftsman brand is now owned by Stanley/Black+Decker, and Kenmore is its own brand, so you can find those branded products at a number of home improvement and appliance stores.
I remember the Sears catalog and Kmart being the go to when I was young. I later worked at Walmart for many years . I always compared the two stores . Walmart would have the shelves over packed with tons in the stockroom and Kmart would have the shelves faced out with one shampoo bottle deep. There would be 3 or 4 customers in Kmart and Walmart would be a crazy mad house. I Remember once when they were cutting hours that they were giving one of their long time assistant managers 12 hours a week .
Lands' End was spun off from Sears Holdings several years ago and is it's own company. Bridgehampton Kmart, within the past couple months, began carrying some of their products.
Oh ok. I didn't know that. I always associated them with Sears.
Lands' End headquarters is in Dodgeville, WI. When they did the printing of their first ad, the apostrophe was mistakenly put in the wrong place. They decided to just go with it
Thanks Tom, and Keep em Rolling!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
@@fleabittenadventures No problem!
that store is like being in a nightmare and going into a KMART .. its like nothing is real.. you're in an alternate universe
I miss kmart it was my favorite store
Me too...
The electric bill has to be more than they make in sales.
It is sadly and a write-off 😢
I believe this particular store was originally a WT Grant before Kmart took them all over long ago.
It's a shame the last full size ( Sears Holdings/TransformCo owned and operated ) Kmart in the continental United States could not have been one of the nicer " newer " purpose built Kmart " essentials " or even super Kmart with a full grocery store/bakery and deli etc.
One of the Kmarts near me years ago was a very nice newer one that was clean, very bright with high ceilings ( none of those odd big Kmart ceiling vents ) but it closed because the landlord ( grocery store ) needed to relocate in the same plaza.
I miss that store with the Little Caesars pizza station 🍕 in it.
It was a WT Grant before it was a Woolco before it was a Caldor before it was a Kmart.
They have gotten high! I don’t remember my store in Gulfport, Mississippi being this high if you were to compare it today’s prices. Mine closed on March 10, 2019 and it was the last one in Mississippi.
2:16 I distinctly remember those massive oversized HVAC vents in certain Ames locations as well, particularly my hometown Ames that used to be in Enfield CT (now currently a Dollar Tree and sadly no longer sporting those huge vents).
Economies of scale is playing a part in the prices here. Walmart buys in bulk so the prices are reasonable. Since this is one single store they are paying essentially full wholesale price. They also probably can't buy on credit for most things which plays a part in the prices. Sad I loved Kmart I went to my local one until the end.
The reason why the store appears dark even though the lights are on is because of the floor; everywhere there is dark carpet the light is absorbed by the carpet, where as the areas with white vct reflect the light back on the ceiling.
That's what my spouse was thinking too, makes sense but also poor lighting plan...or lack of any plan.
I didn't even think of that. Makes sense.
Craftsman is actually now owned by Stanley Black and Decker, sold mostly at Lowe's and Ace hardware.
It’s like Kmart is trying one last time to save their business. “If we could just sell everything inside of this store then we can survive and open up multiple stores again!”
Talk about an absolute ghost town. Something about this Kmart reminds me of Big Lots or an Ocean State Job Lot.
I think I counted 4 or 5 other shoppers. It was kind of eerie.
Probably the building itself. Ocean State reuses old existing buildings. My local Ocean State is often pretty busy. Best place locally for some food items.
Ocean State Job Lot is a quite different place than Big Lots. OSJL is also just regional in the NE, while BL is national.
We always liked OSJL while we lived in Connecticut. Big Lots never has been as good and they've deteriorated over time, especially in customer service. Curbside pickup only exists on paper for one example. I don't want to shop there anymore. I have other choices.
I've found Kmart stuff there
Wow... this is a huge store.
It is sad to see stores closing. I grew up in the 70s, and I've already seen hundreds of stores and restaurants' closings...sad.
It's kinda sad they removed the blue signs from the store
I agree! The blue tags are NOT blue lights!!!!
Hello ! Thank you for the adventures. Have a Great day...
Thanks for watching!
This looks like something you would see in a sci fi movie. This would be the store museum in the future. Sample store of what they looked like back in time.
I noticed like you said the lights are all on but seems dark. I noticed the dark areas are when there is carpet on the ground vs the tile areas where it reflects and is brighter.
I couldn't help but notice how bad the floors looked . Also our old K-Mart didn't sell appliances .
The floors and the ceilings. I doubt they are doing much maintenance.
My area sold appliance. I really, really miss Kmart. It was so nice when I first moved to this area, about 30+yrs ago. My daughter and I used to love
going to Kmart.❤
@@fleabittenadventures When I buying fixtures and supplies from Kmart/Sears liquidation sales near me the liquidator could not give away much of the stuff since it was so old, furniture was from the 1970s etc and wrecked, maintenance items leaking and or decades old...it was bad.
Yes, Sears carried Lands End.
True and Eddie Lampert carried Sears and Kmart to the grave 🪦 in North America.
Meal moths (contaminated flour products, pet food etc), no selection, no-name brands and crazy high prices. They're priced worse than my not cheap grocery store. They're as bad as my $tupid money HECKNO CVS. No wonder it's empty!
I had no idea about the moth thing! And yes, the pricing is ridiculous and probably why they have some much of the same item. No one's going to pay those prices.
Kmart still has a great name and could relaunch online only or with a smaller store. But, I guess it had to end sometime.
At least there was a couple Masters of the Universe origins figures there. That would be enough to make my last Kmart experience seeing as I have a couple fond memories picking out Masters of the Universe figures from my local Kmart back in the mid 80s. I can even recall that I got my original Evil-Lyn from a Kmart, cant remember yesterday though! lol Those were the days, love the old school stuff!
It was good to see Masters of the Universe. They didn't have much of a selection though.
The way you caught that bug 😂😂the prices are insane and that place looks creepy
Its sad to see kmart pretty much dead I grew up going there in the 80s browsing around there all day with my mom and going to the eatery and also worked there for a short time around 1994 when I was 17..
lov❤ With love and care I hope it stays open forever
Fingers crossed.
It reminds me more of a Sears than a Kmart.
Yeah, the stores are pretty much interchangeable at this point.
Well, now you know why there's only 6 shoppers in that store. 12 paper towels for 50
bucks!
Who is buying any of this stuff? Do the workers just walk around like zombies? How does this place exist? It’s crazy!
I don't think anyone buys much of anything. I don't think I could deal with the boredom of working there.
@@fleabittenadventuresexactly! Back in my early 20s, I worked at a retail store that was full of staff doing nothing all day… I walked into the owners office and said I can’t work here. This place is beyond boring and no one is doing anything productive.
The same product just filling space on the shelves makes this place look like a virtual reality retail walkthrough… or the matrix… when there’s an open space, it’s a glitch and you better get out!!!
🤣🤣🤣
Yes. I was thinking the same thing!
The gray paint job around the store is new because if you look at it in past video of other and the wall was blue and white
Interesting!
They're stocked for Christmas. I believe many items seen will be their hooks for the black ledger days of December.
Kmart had a great layaway Xmas plan. You just had to get someone there that worked in layaway was the trick 😊
this kmart used to be a caldor
Really? When did it became a Kmart?
@@fleabittenadventuresyes! the caldor opened may 26th 1983 and closed around may 1999 then became a kmart in november the same year according to google!
I don't know i see some okay prices. 12.99 lawn chairs are good. Some nice metal fans. All my walmarts around here are trash 1/2 the shelves are bare. Those paper towels are a little ridiculous at $50.
Yes, there were some good prices mixed in with some insanely high prices. It's all very confusing.
In September, in the NorthEast, those chairs should be $5 each to make room for new seasonal merchandise. But the only deliveries I imagine they get, are from closed Sears stores and warehouses. Plastic stuff is usually used to take up space in dying stores. If it's cheap and the manufacturer gives good terms,, they'll fill a quarter of the store with stuff that will sit for many months to make it look stocked.
@@jimkear6749Exactly 💯, it's filler like all the tissue boxes and coolers.
I miss shopping old school.
I wish we still had Kmart I miss thst store
I know paper towel was a big seller during the past few years of 2020 to 2023, but $47.99 for Bounty paper towel at 10:33 in 2024 is expensive! ;) Nice tour of this unusual Kmart still around. Last one I was in was about 2019 as it was closing. Thanks.
The price of the Bounty paper towels was insane! Thanks for watching!
@@fleabittenadventuresI agree, the geographic area as a possible reason.... partly but far from fully. I remember when the Kmart nearest me was "open" the prices had also been out of line thus another reason it was nearly always empty along with being a horrible shopping experience in an old run down store that was never renovated except for the bathroom that the local government made them fix do to plumbing/unsanitary conditions.
I know awhile back both KMart and Sears had issues with paying suppliers, so a lot of them weren't sending them anything. So this KMart is probably buying lots of merchandise from anyone they get to sell to them. it was interesting to see a KMart again because their hasn't been a KMart in the Omaha, Nebraska area for a few years now.
What is with all the complaining? The store is neat, clean and well-stocked. I would shop there.
Bridgehampton, NY is in the middle of Long Island and it’s in the Hamptons things are super expensive.
They are not in the middle of Long Island...they are at the East End of Long Island 🙃
@@tiffanykahn2535 Thanks for correcting me Tiffany. My bad. Looking on GPS it seems more central LI but also now I think about it. It is East end.
@MetalGreggNY75 I mean if you are talking about the Hamptons section, it could be in the middle....I have to check that out myself.
I've never known kmart to sell major appliances. So between the refrigerators, Lands End, and Craftsman tools, it looks like they're using KMart as a clearance center for the closed Sears stores and warehouses.
They did when Sears and Kmart became one company as they started to go under. It was a way to bring a little of Sears into Kmarts with Kmart offering entry level appliances with no sales team that you could bring home that day yourself ( like big lots furniture ).
NOW....who knows what's going one with only one full size Sears Holdings / TransformCo owned and operated location in the continental United States lol.
So much 90s stuff here i would be going crazy. 28:48 you don't see those toilet covers and rugs anymore.
I always thought fabric near a toilet was a bad idea.
@@fleabittenadventures I would think it's not hygienic but people (my parents included) did it.
I just checked Walmart in my area on those Bounty paper towels. They didn’t have the 12=30 that KMart had for $47. They had the 12=36 for $33.18. So more towels for way less.
I guess for some reason people now prefer the ugly slate cracked home depot type floors & unfinished ceilings in most WALmarts.
This KMart is an old store with such low ceilings - i know of the last kmart built from the ground up in 1996 with tall ceilings & it was beautiful inside, but of course closed many years ago. I remember getting 5 gallon jugs of motor oil there on sale for only $7.49! Try finding that at Walmart. They also sold washers & refrigerators at that kmart.
Too funny, I was just commenting about the "newer" late 1990s kmarts. I heard the company had concerns but wanted to modernized and better what it was offering guest, however it was sadly short lived. Super Kmarts with full grocery stores and new modern stores had been some of the first to be shut down.
I shop at Walmart due to the prices, but they are god-awfully ugly stores
Maybe it is dark due to the black carpeting on the floor
Makes sense.
I think the reason this Kmart remains open is the fact this community its in its very wealthy so that's why they supposedly remain open here at least and also combined with the fact their Doesn't seem to be any competition like walmart or target near by
They are trying to make it look like they are fully stocked. Even Walmart & Target shelves are not the full with the same product. I don't know why they keep this Kmart open when they have no shoppers. Walmart & Target always very crowded specially on the weekends
The last time I visited *_K-Mart_* was back in the year nineteen hundred and ninety two.
Too bad you did not look at the use by date on some more perishables in Food section. Very strange looking.
I should have.... Next time.
Thats crazy those prices and you wonder why they're all but out of business.
This is like a parallel universe - backrooms fake front of a store. I wonder what's really going on there😳
Because if you go on Google and see the store map from the store that is above the price scanner it's says that the furniture was next to the baby the furniture was the electronics section and greeting card was next to electronics and in front of the woman's section and by the fitting rooms was were land end stuff was sold at
Thanks for the info and for watching!
I understand Lands End is also not doing well these days, the standalone store in my area recently closed
I don't think I've ever seen a Lands' End store.
There is no washing machines or fridges in our Kmart and they are full with cooking applainces, crockert, sheets......Our other departments stores like Target are quiet in Australia and everyone heads to KMart.
This was interesting. I just googled K Mart in Australia and apparently we still have 325 stores across Australia and New Zealand. K Mart group also owns and operates Target Australia.
There’s even one in Guam that’s still going strong and it’s open 24 hours.
Interesting however in full transparency it is far from the company in the continental United States called Sears Holdings - TransformCo ( Seritage Real estate under CEO Eddie Lampert who took Sears and Kmart to its grave in North America )
The Australian Kmart name and elsewhere globally is separate from the USA and operated by completely different ownership under a IP license from many decades ago and remained sheltered from what happened to Sears/Kmart in the USA and Canada.
I miss Kmart ❤
And the land end was Putin the spot new last year and the furniture was the old electronics section and the greeting card used to be next to the old electronics section
Thanks for the info and for watching!
Those little moths are a Big problem. That means the dog & cat food is contaminated with boll weevils ! I wouldn't be buying any pet food from that K-Mart !!! I think I'd find out who their distributer is, an then find out what other stores they distribute to. So that I wouldn't be buying from those stores either !
Really? Good to know!