Kmart is DEAD to US!

My first job was stocking shelf's at Kmart in the summer of 1998.

[quote] shelf's

Shelves!

I can't believe I lent my name to some crap they sold in these dumps.

Shirley Q saw it comin

Garanimals child. RIP

The blue light has been turned off.

I believe this is a good time to link to one of my all-time favorite DL threads!

Where my New Yorkers at? Yall remember the Kmart at Astor Place? Lawd that place was a mixed bag of rich white hippies, NYU kids, and crazy ass eccentrics .

^Hi, there, Teacake!

R9 Hi. Who are you. 😼

I love that clip too R7, I've posted here at least once or twice myself.

Why did Michael Jackson go to Kmart?

Little boys' underpants were half off.

Thank God I pulled my collection out of there!

What are the first words Redneck babies learn to say?

Attention K-Mart shoppers.

Kmart is probably the story that I shoplifted from most growing up because it's where my mom usually shopped when we were usually allowed to go run around and look at toys and I had inevitably take usually a transformer or something else. I remember when we lived in this duplex down the road from the Kmart and the girl next door stole $20 from her dad and we took it down there one of the things we bought was a gumball machine like the little plastic ones but you put fake money into but they had actual gumballs.

When I was 11 and we lived at our dad's trailer court every night him and my step mom would go play bingo and on Fridays after we get our $5 a little hour me and my brother would ride our bikes down to the shopping center that had a comic book shop and also a Kmart across the street. We spent quite a time in that Kmart just playing in the aisles.

In junior high they had a class where they would send us to local businesses to work for a couple of hours to get experience I guess. I did a three weeks stint at one of the same Kmart that I had shoplifted at for years. The manager Fred told me that after I left school I could get a job and have a career there. this would have been like in 95 and I wonder what he's doing now that all the Kmarts are closed.

My best friend and I also made a parody song of TLC's Red light special called of course Blue light special and Kmart specific lyrics.

I remember Kmart being one of my first cruising experiences.

Shopping with some family member (I can't remember exactly who), went to pee....I'd cruised before but wasn't thinking about it at all at that moment.

Everybody went to the Kmart on Astor Place, even if they never would admit to it. That place was always packed in the 90s/2000s.

Fuck you and your fucking bullseye, copycat Target 🎯

They should have renamed themselves Martha Mart perhaps they would still be afloat.

[quote]Where my New Yorkers at? Yall remember the Kmart at Astor Place? Lawd that place was a mixed bag of rich white hippies, NYU kids, and crazy ass eccentrics .

Oh yeah – I lived nearby for a while. I know it's now a Wegmans, and the area is MUCH better off!

Btw I was surprised to see this thread only because I thought every Kmart (and Sears) store had already closed. Apparently not, but ... well, good riddance. Can't say I ever shopped at either.

Funeral on Aisle 7!

For some strange reason, I was a fan of those ‘ sack of ham sandwiches’ they sold the deli. It consisted of plain white bread, sliced lettuce, slice tomato and a slice of boiled ham.. sound icky now. But still longing for the Celebrity brand (made in Hungary) canned bacon. It was shelf stable and so good. Wish someone would sell canned bacon again.

Awwwww, R7. BILL AND RUTH TAYLOR made appearances in that thread! 2018 was a long time ago.

I think there might still be a few Sears left......less than a dozen, apparently.

The badly timed launch of their problematic Merry Hammas Bag....

Remember the days when you could get a baked chicken platter for $1.77?

I bought my first DVD player and my first boombox at KMart. Also, I loved their deli ham.

The hot dogs at Kmart were a bit of a treat when I was a kid, but our Kmart was next to an A&W, so ultimately it was more disappointing when we wouldn't stop there instead.

Can I have its things?

It had a hot cashier but it could not live forever.

No more blue light specials, I guess.

Not dead, murdered. Eddie Lampray committed a 20 year plunder of its assets.

Murdered along with Sears.

Where will Simply Sara get her sub inspirations from now? So sad.

What happened to all of the Little Caesars

I read in the Times today about two sisters who drove 1300 miles to bear witness.

Another piece of history fading away - hard not to feel a bit of chill wind around one's feet.

I'd be worried if food stores closed. That would get ugly.

R15 Your narrative got to me somehow . There was a Kmart in Long Beach I wandered in often. During heat waves , I would walk the aisles with ear buds. Now I occasionally go to Target for those walks. But it’s not the same. K mart has that weirdo delicious ambiance where you might find something to buy ( or shoplift. )

[quote] Still, the Long Island store closing will close one more chapter in the disastrous 2005 merger of Sears and Kmart, one of numerous iconic retailers killed after purchases by hedge funds and private equity firms

[quote] one of numerous iconic retailers killed after purchases by hedge funds and private equity firms

That shit should be forbidden.

My hometown used to have 3 large grocery stores and a couple clothing stores. It still has the same population but only one grocery. My mom says she sees lots of Amazon and other delivery trucks now.

Now do Walgreens.

At first I misread this as in Binghamton.

This is a bridge too far!

I always felt it was the name "Kmart" that killed it. They tried rebranding by bringing in Martha Stewart, Jaclyn Smith (etc.) and cleaning up their stores, but they never changed their stupid name. As mean, awful, judgmental kids, we'd always make fun of the other kids wearing Kmart shoes or jeans. "Kmart" was always a punchline for cheap shit.