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The music is depressing af

idk if it's just me but the lighting in Kmart always feels off

Kmart: *Closes* Spirit Halloween: Stonks 📈

rip my local k-mart... you never accepted my grandma’s gift returns but I’ll still miss your weird vibes and nostalgia

i used to work at a kmart. They told me to annouce a bluelight special. Problem is, I have lot of anxiety. lol I ended up fucking up by saying towards the end on the intercom, "...thank you for shopping at walmart."

this was really engaging. didnt think i'd watch the whole thing

When you said "the old ladies used to hang out all day waiting for those blue light specials to occur", I thought you were going to finish with "I know this because I used to be one of them".

The frozen food isle looks like a part of a Gmod map

All those alarm-like noises were the screams of the damned employees who never made it out of the store before they closed it.

Before you know it, the building will become a Spirit Halloween.

How Sears missed the online mail-order boat and didn't beat Amazon to the punch just floors me, because they were doing mail-order via catalogue since like the 50s. You used to be able to mail-order a pre-fab house from them even. All they had to do was move their catalogue online.

I remember when I was little my grandma would always get me an icee before we left

At the end I imagine the spirits of elderly women lost in the dark store searching endlessly for blue light specials for all eternity.

Kmart of 2016 felt and looked exactly like the Kmart of 1988.

Dan Bell showing interest in your shop's sign is the equivalent of vultures circling above your head when you are walking through the desert

I worked at a Sears for 8 years. I left in 95, and even back then management was telling us things weren't looking good. Sears used to be THE place to shop. Funny how time changes things.

*the 90 year old woman still hiding somewhere in the store waiting for their blue light specials*

Funny that you said there's no fun at Sears. I went to Sears yesterday and was looking at the kitchen appliances, when an employee came up to me and said, "If you are not buying anything you need to leave. This is not a fun store". he probably said it because I'm 17 an he knows there's no way I'm buying a $3,000 refrigerator, but still. I thought it was pretty rude, especially since I was probably one of three customers on the entire 2nd floor. Just goes to show how uninviting their stores are today.

K-Mart Manager: *"K-Mart is still a company. We're still very busy and we're still very much in business."* That had the same energy as a ranking officer to some dying regime saying _"Oh no, we still have control over the country, everything's perfectly fine!"_ as their capitol building is ransacked and burned behind them.

The biggest dagger to the chest for me was when they started closing vhs and dvd rental stores like blockbuster and the one me and my buddy went to called movie gallery.

if you watch the video in reverse, a discount retail chain decides to purchase an abandoned space in order to offer neat sweatpants

Are k-marts really stores, or just time-capsules of what retail looked like in the 90s?

I worked at the Auburn, California Kmart from 2014 to 2016 (recently closed). Once in awhile a guy would wander into the store, mesmerized, gazing around saying. "Wow, I didn't know Kmart still existed."

"here's an example of food" *lifts up a beverage*

Always thought K-Mart would be a good filming location for a zombie movie.

Adam Levine having a line of clothes at Kmart is the most Adam Levine thing I can think of.

"Don't Bring Me Down" but you're exploring a dead K-Mart

I remember eating the cookies and a slushy in the cafeteria and looking forward to it every time I went as a kid

Anyone else feel weird about the overly positive eerie pop music playing over the speakers

I always remember Kmart looking like a tired store.

Sounds like the liquidations guy was in complete denial!

This reminds me of one of those liminal spaces videos. I always liked the outdated look of KMart, it was somehow comforting to me and reminded me of childhood.

One time, when I was a young child, I turned one of those blood pressure machines on in our K-Mart then walked away. A few minutes later I heard this huge pop sound. I never went back to look, but I knew it was that BP machine and I never told anyone about what I did until now.

A slice of cheese and a cigarette. Part of a healthy breakfast

This is so weird this is like a spitting image of my Kmart in Lawton Oklahoma I managed until it closed. Exact same layout. I traveled the districts and not one resembled our store. It’s crazy how the aisles looked like that. I know it’s not the employees fault. They cut my employees hours down to 20 hours a week. So management had to do trucks mainly. Our team was amazing. We only had one Liquidater he was awesome. He treated it as if we weren’t going out of business. He taught us to straighten shelves and stripe them. It was a cool experience! I was supposed to move and take the Branson Missouri Kmart but our district manager told me not to and it was the end. I got the call on my vacation we were closing my whole team was sad! It’s sad my Kmart was sentimental to me because of family. Keep up the good work! Awesome channel!

It's so weird seeing this as an Australian. Here Kmart is really popular and isn't showing any sign of closing any time soon.

You are correct. Stepping into these stores is like stepping back into 1990. It's kind of creepy, actually.

The juxtaposition of the upbeat music they play on the intercom and the depressing atmosphere lingering over the store makes the whole thing even more bleak.

Bathrooms, cooking facilities from the snack bar/Little Cesar’s, a LOT of homeless people could live in this building with very little remodeling.

Something about seeing an empty K-Mary while “Don’t Bring Me Down” plays in the background is both hilarious and depressing

K-mart looks like an expensive Good Will.

Awww, the liquidator team member who wouldn't sell you the sign was in denial about K-mart dying :(

3 alarms: blaring these guys: lol anyway look at these health code violations huh

“We’re still very much a company. We’re very busy!” “ I can’t sell you any signs”😂

looks like every zombie game ever when they have to search for meds or supplies and all the shelves are ransacked

Just looks like they stacked the shelves in 2000 and forgot to restock since. Simple mistake

Big lots, Sears, JC Penney they feel like they're on their last legs. The eerie sounds felt like visiting what is left of the 80s and 90s on life support

“I cant sell you any signs” 2020: 37 stores left

I love the smell of a dead, decaying shopping center in the morning

who else can smell the store?

I love this episode, it brings back so many memories. I grew up going to Kmart as my grandmother worked there and I also worked there myself at both a Big K and a Super K. I miss Kmart SOOOO BAD!!!

Kmart was always stuck in the 80s, and Sears couldn’t grow out of the 90s! SMH

The lighting of these stores really strikes me: they are very old, outdated "endless lighting" tunnel of bright, white lights. Unflattering and uncomfortable to look at: feels like a very artificial place to be.

Kmart makes me uncomfortable. every time i enter one i feel an overwealming sense of dread.

I remember about a month ago I thought to myself, "It's been a while since I've gone to Kmart. Might check out and see if they have any items on sale.". But when I went to where it was located, it was closed. "Huh... Guess they closed early." I thought, not knowing they closed two years ago... Depressions a b****!!

I was smiling at your recounting of childhood memories,then out of nowhere my eyes welled with tears. KMart was a piece of my childhood and seeing it go is the closing of a chapter.

*This looks like where all vapourwave tracks are produced*

That almost empty Kmart would seem like a great place to go roller skating, like if I was in charge I'd put a roller rink there and probably also a laser tag arena

I find myself returning to this video when I just can’t sleep- One of the best things on KZfaq

Even as a kid, Kmart always had more of a thrift store feel to it rather than a Walmart competitor

K-Marts were always so dreary, the ceiling always seemed lower and they sold fake jewelry, lots of polyester, ice cream shop, and smelled like rubber.

Did this make anyone else cry? KMart was such a big part of my childhood, I was always so excited to go with my parents.

I remember even in the early 80's how Target felt much more modern and fresh. I would cycle 5 miles to shop at Target rather than the KMart just down the street.

pov: you’re in an abandoned k-mart and you see a blue light special

When I went to a Kmart going out of business and they had moved the shelves, I found an old Nickelodeon magazine from the 90s. It was crusty and brown, but it had Arnold on the cover, so that's a plus.

FYI Dan Bell, this was my first vid of yours that I had recommended, and I love it, and have pretty much watched all the dead mall, abandoned places, thrift stores, abandoned hotels and ADRs to date! You are a great film director!

I worked at a Kmart and it was one of my favorite jobs ever. The coworkers were like family, the work felt productive and we always had meals in the break room. The store closed years ago and it still hurts my heart.

I'm surprised K-Mart didn't go out of business years ago to be honest.

this will get lost but my parents meant at kmart together when working then eventually had me. if kmart never existed i wouldnt be here. i tell people im a kmart baby

Literally looks like a store in the apocalypse would

Just hearing K-Mart cafeteria brings back so many nostalgic memories.

Sorry, we only carry sizes 1,3 and 5...you could try Sears...

It’s almost like a Walmart that was clean and nice, slowly turned into a really big dollar tree

United States, Czechoslovakia and Canada: Kmart is closed. Australia: *excuse me?*

This is what I would expect a store to look like 5 years after the apocalypse started.

Me and my grandpa went to Kmart together. It was the only store I ever went to with him ever and I only went once. He bought me a shirt. I miss him. Rip gramps and rip Kmart.

This is what happens when you look like a dollar store but you aren't.

Anyone remember the “I shipped my pants” ad?

4:52 Dude turns the camera like "Oh shit that child's coming right at me! If I stand completely still they cant see me. Their eyesight is based on movement." 5:02 "Whew, dodged a bullet there."

"Don't Bring Me Down" blasting on the last day open...

Feel like I just got catapulted back into 2003 as a kid shopping with my mom.

You should see K-mart in Australia it’s so much sexier

i used to get christmas decorations & halloween costumes from there when i was 7, i miss the days when this store was filled up & cheery

Whenever I went to Kmart I felt like I was gonna get murdered

When the store doesn't look nice, it's very tempting to just shoplift. People treat bad-looking public bathrooms with less respect than good-looking public bathrooms. the same goes to stores

Remembering working at the first K-mart both with weird nostalgia and "Thang god it's gone" but seriously this is almost the exact layout as my store, I can almost by the step remember stocking from outdoors to arts and crafts.

There's just something about this video, come back at least twice a year to rewatch it.

So weird seeing this, In Australia K-mart is still around and has modernised.

when he said that kmart just looks tired, i felt that on such a level man. at the beginning of this vid i was like “i don’t really like kmart. i always hated the vibes it gave off” and he nailed exactly what those vibes are.

One of our closed K-Marts in Greenville, SC became a COVID vaccine site last year. Used to take my kids there to get pictures made in the 90’s. How the times have changed! Love your dead mall series

Thank you so much. you have very quickly became my favorite youtuber. Thank you for reviving memories from a simpler time, my friend!

When I was in High School (2003-2006) I remember there was a K-Mart we would stop at sometimes about an hour away while passing through and not only did the electronics department look like this, but it still had a demo station set up for a motherfucking NINTENDO 64.

Lowkey it gave me chills when “don’t bring me down started playing” it sounded like one of those “x song is playing but you’re in x place and you’re sad”

Thank you for this, this gives me so much nostalgia. My mom (who is now passed) used to bring me here all the time as a kid up till my late teens when it was nearing shut down. And yes it was always much more expensive than it should have been lol.

I’m so late to the party but i’ve been loving your dead mall series !!! Watched nearly every single one of them one night when I couldn’t sleep.

You nailed it when commenting how Kmart did nothing to stay exciting or keep up with competition. The Kmart in my town still has 20 year old cash registers that break down, and the atmosphere is dreary. They are having a sale "30% off store wide" and I think its the beginning of their end.

I worked at Kmart about 14 years ago, many of the people I worked with there had been there since the late 1970's, they said the store never changed and even until that store's closing in 2010, it never changed. One of the most common things people said was there was never any advertised items in stock, which always pissed people off causing them to go elsewhere. Kmart was a very depressing place in general, I can remember getting there about 6:30 in the morning to prepare everything before it opened, by Noon the store was lucky if it had 10 customers total, by 4:00pm, maybe 30 people and mostly senior citizens. It was a fun place work wise at because you could get away with so much, but workers positions were very odd. Oh you think you're a cashier? Hell no, you're going to unload trucks too! You unload trucks? No, you clean shit off of floors, pick up dead birds, fix icee machines, get carts, stock shelves, organize metal shelves in a 100+ degree attic, all while you try your best to hear the intercom just in case you get summoned for another duty because you're only one of 7 employees in the entire store. LOL

I worked at a kmart in the early 90s. It wasn't incredibly bustling then. Toward the end you went in the storage area and went up to the loft. That's where I used to hide and find all the "damaged" bags of M&M's that we couldn't put on shelves. Oh and I got to run the blue light around one day and made the "attention kmart shoppers" announcement.

Toward the end, they actually had some decent looking clothing. So many memories in the electronics department at K mart looking at keyboards and commodore 64 computer stuff.