I'm almost 53, and it blows my mind how many stores no longer exist, like K Mart, Sears, Montgomery Ward, Radio Shack, and many others. =/

Get rid of Walmart and bring back KMART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💔

America was a much simpler place when Kmart was thriving. Those were the good days and we just didn't realize how lucky we were at the time.

K Mart is where I met my wife of 45 years ! She worked in the delicatessen and gave me a large helping of macaroni and cheese I knew she liked me after that and the rest is history my three kids and my wife and myself have worked for k marts at one time or another so they are a big part of our life! Thank you K marts you were there when we needed you!

I miss the America i grew up in

Back when customer service was truly customer service

The workers at Kmart were always friendly, unlike many Walmarts.

Damn! Tearing up watching this. I'm 54 and KMart was a big part of my childhood.

Back when America actually made some goods

Kmart over here in Australia is going from strength to strength. They are as popular now as ever.

This video is a snapshot of the America we’ll NEVER get back! I’m a child of the 1980s, this brings back many memories of a Saturday spent with my mother at a K-Mart store…

I miss this version of America.

Oh the nostalgia. Truely better times. Take me back please. The future sux.

I LOVED K-Mart… I worked there when I was 16 in 1984 in the deli. I had full control over the blue light special for the deli. I could create any special I wanted and write the script I would announce over the loud speaker. It was such a blast. BUT… I wanted to get my ear pierced and had to get it approved with my manager because of the strict dress code. With manager approval in hand I got my ear pierced and promptly got fired by the store because of it, even after taking it out right in front of them to keep my job. The deli manager apparently didn’t have the power to approve such a controversial thing and was also fired. My mom told me I would get fired if I did it, but I had deli manager approval, I showed her!! I couldn’t bare to walk I the door when I was supposed to be at work and tell her I was fired. She was absolutely livid with me! Those were the good old days! 😂😂

Working at Kmart as a teenager bought me my first car. A used 68 Camaro. Was able to drive it for my Senior year in high school. I miss that place. Still have the Camaro in red.

Good old times when America was normal

We all should have rallied for Kmart instead of the greedy owners of wally world

I miss Kmart. I remember sitting in the diner with my grandparents, while my parents shopped in the ealy-1970s.

One of the things I miss about k mart is that if you tried to steal something they would run you down and tackle you. My friend was security and he threw an exorcize weight threw the front window to chase down a shoplifter. The guy was so surprised he stopped long enough for my friend to take him down. Cops showed up, took him away and my friend got an accommodation. That's how store security is done.

I've got many memories of Kmart, but probably the clearest one is when I got separated from my mom, and I went to the customer service counter asking them for help. The lady got on the PA system and announced, "Will the parents of a little boy wearing a Tom & Jerry t-shirt that says 'If you can't beat 'em, bite 'em" come to the customer service desk?" Of course, the rest of my memories are mostly begging my parents for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, cards, and books.

My wife and I met, both working at Kmart, she in advertising and I in automotive. That was 44 years ago. The manager said if a Walmart ever came to town, we would be finished. He was right.

I enjoyed the smell of popcorn when walking into the store.

I miss Kmart and Woolworths stores. I use to eat hamburgers and fries with a coke at Kmart as a kid.

Kmart was my first job. After it closed, I went into a depressed state for a while. I miss the store & how I was treated as an employee there.

My mother in-law worked and retired from Kmart in Albuquerque. She passed away in 2019 at 95. God bless you Syria we miss you.

I miss Kmart 😢

Kmart is still all over Australia! There are 325 stores in Australia and New Zealand.

Sure glad I experienced Kmart in its glory days.

Watching this really puts into perspective how far America has fallen.

I worked at Kmart while in highschool in layaway, making store signs, taking care of the fish and birds and occasionally announcing Blue Light specials. I loved working there and was sad to see it close.

❤We bought our wedding rings from KMart Lantana year 1984.❤Wonderful memories.❤Sadly my wife passed 2010.❤Love from Finland

Western Australian here, we have Kmart and love it. No Walmart anywhere in Australia

Never will forget the smell of KMart….freshly popped popcorn!

Kmarts cafeteria was the best. My friends and I would always walk or ride our bikes to Kmart and have lunch.

When I was in high school in the mid 70’s I worked at Kmart. It was my first job at 16 and I absolutely loved working there. I felt like a grown up wearing my turquoise smock. Back then we got paid in cash if you can imagine that. We received a pay envelope every Friday afternoon about 4:00 and inside was our net pay in cash with a stub showing all the deductions withheld. It was a smart move because we could spend it that day in the store. I have so many fond memories of working there.

I spent many days browsing my local K-Mart in Miami in the 1970s and very early 80s. It's where my dad bought me my first .22 rifle and my first Atari 2600. Incredible memories.

I loved Kmart as a kid in the 70s. Ours had the cafeteria, but right next to it there was ten cent Skee Ball! I was a hyperactive child so it was either money for Skee Ball or I would hide inside those round clothes racks and make my mom try and find me. Then there was setting all of the kitchen timers to go off in one minute increments and putting random items in peoples carts. I really should have been beat more as a child.

I miss it. I miss the 70s. Take me back.

The Kmart era represented some of THE best years in American history. I'd go back in a heartbeat.

Childhood nostalgia from the 80’s. I loved the little restaurant inside. My cousin was high functioning autistic and the fact that the little restaurant was brown with low brown lighting was so calming to him and for me too. I remember falling asleep on the long seats while the adults sat and talked after eating.

What a huge hit of nostalgia. Was a loyal K-Mart shopper into the early 2000s. You know, seriously, I never once dreaded driving over and going into K-Mart. I absolutely dread parking and shopping at our local Walmart today.

The popcorn smell when you walked in the door❤️

I remember the mechanical horse out front. 😂

I miss KMART

I would love to go back in time!

Getting an icee there is one of my favorite 80s memory😊

Saturday at Kmart back in the day was the best.Bring it BACK!😂

Boy do I miss Kmart. School clothes shopping, Saturdays with my grandma shopping, then as a mom then a grandma. I also shopped at kresgees as a child. The wooden floors, and all the fun stuff you could buy. Sure miss those days.

I loved going there with my parents for good shopping and the hot dogs and chocolate shakes. I can still hear and smell the popcorn.

I remember Kmart, we would always shop there when I was a kid. It was the go to store.

I remember going to Kmart with my mom and getting a toy and having little Caesars pizza. I miss the '90s

My grandmother and aunt both worked at Kmart from the 60s into the early 90s. I practically lived in there at times. Such a huge part of my childhood.

Clothes and shoes that fit proper and last. Excellent store in all other items, and friendly.

Kmart offered the best lay away program allowing many families to buy back to school clothes for their kids especially since many larger families with several kids would struggle to make such a large and needed purchase elsewhere. ❤Kmart

I worked at a k-mart in Utah for 11 years ( I started in 1979) , I remember wearing that mint green smock & doing blue light specials 😂 ThankYou for the trip down memory lane 😊

I worked as a teenager for Kmart in about 1983 as a cashier. TYFSOK (Thank you for shopping our kmart) - ahhh, memories!

This brought back a lot of memories from my childhood. ❤️

My grandma bought my first transistor radio here at the store in Surrey BC Canada. One of the greatest things ever given to me. 1968 was the year. The Wonder Years.

Aw, my parents took my sisters and I to K-Mart all of the time! We stayed shopping at KMart! Our favorite department store. Mom used their layaway plans during Easter and Christmas to buy us our Easter dresses and Christmas our gifts. What beautiful memories ❤I will always remember ❤️ 😊

I miss Kmart..🥺😢

I worked at Kmart for 5 years in the 90s. 💜 I was paid in cash until my final check, when they switched to actual checks, which we took from the cash window at the back, to the service desk to cash. 🤣 (The cash envelopes included a slip spelling out hours, pay rate, deductions, PTO available and used, etc) I loved shopping there and working there.

The good days are gone forever!!

I grew up in the K-Marts. My dad was a store manager for 30 years. The Kresges were even at my parents wedding. My grandfather was a manager of the Kresges store as well, so my dad grew up there as well. It was the best times! My sister and I got to play in the stores on the holidays when they were closed. We'd ride bikes, skateboards and rollerskate. We'd play with all the toys, get on the store microphone and play hide and seek in the stockrooms. We'd eat the leftover popcorn and help ourselves to the ice cream at the deli. We would even play at the service desk and pretend to be a recording saying the store was closed but would reopen the next day. Twice a week we would go to the store after dinner with my dad and play in the offices and help the cashiers roll coins with a huge counting machine which were brought back at the close of the night. The entire store was our playground! We were very fortunate to have experienced such a wonderful childhood there. I miss those carefree times when we ruled the K-Mart.

I started working for K-Mart in 1977. We now call it the "good ole days". After 26 yrs. with the company my store closed in 2003. It was sad but many of us made life long friendships that we still share to this day.

ICEEs and soft pretzels, Trax sneakers, the turquoise smocks and logo. Blue light specials. Good times.

My family still shop at Kmart every week. We love our Kmart 🎉

As a child, I used to go to K mart on Saturdays for their $1.99 full breakfast.

I worked for Kmart back in the eighties in the Toy department. Fun fact, Kmart paid you in cash, no pay check. The ressson for this was you would spend your money before you left the store. Now that was smart thinking back then. We also got our first pet Tigger, the cat, some one giving away kittens in front of the store. That cat lived to 17 yrs old also a big part of my childhood and teen years

I worked for Kmart for 13 years before my store closed in 2002, in Gautier, MS. I loved working for Kmart.

I miss Kmart. I can't believe it's gone.

This makes me sad and nostalgic. Thanks for sharing!

I grew up loving K -Mart and I miss it terribly.

Kmart was great, shopped there regularly, it was the 'go to store'

I remember going to Kmart in the 80’s when I was a kid. I loved the cafeteria we got to pick out our lunch. I loved picking out my favorite toys which was the fake makeup that was plastic and the plastic handbag. And my Mom paying with a Personal check ❤

Almost nothing today has the charm of the 20th century.

I still have a couple things I bought there in the 1980s. Really miss that store. ♥️

i still remember the smell of k-mart when i walked in. K mart brings back positive memories for me.

I loved shopping at Kmart. That's my childhood right there. A bygone era.

As a kid I always loved looking at the fish in the aquariums in the back of the store 🐟

I remember my mother bringing me there in the 70s to shop. I was fascinated by the blue light specials, layaway department and instore restaurant. When I finally got my Independence in 1980 when I turned 18, I loved going there to do my own shopping, the blue light special giving half off different department for 10 minutes being very cool. Layaway for larger items that were on sale and hard to get was super. The store even had an automotive department, oil changes, shocks and tires changed while you waited. Go get a hamburger and fries while you wait.

There is a Kmart on Guam(USA) in June 2024. It's exactly like you remember the store 30 years ago complete with blue light specials.

I really miss Kmart. This video brings back fond memories.

I miss k mart

Just miss them,tons of great memories.

made me miss my Mom, just passed this year. she used to take us there all the time.

I grew up going to KMart. My first albums were purchased at KMart in Sterling Heights,Michigan! Partridge Family!

I miss Kmart, I used to work at Kmart back in the 80's. Thanks for sharing. 😊

grandmother worked at Kmart. We'd meet her in the cafeteria sometimes for lunch.

What a wonderful tribute. I remember!

I worked at Kmart in 1979, specifically in the shoe department. It was a fantastic experience. During my breaks, I would relax at the in-store food grille, enjoying the lively atmosphere. It was such a different time; customers would spend hours shopping, often stopping to get something to eat. There were no self-checkouts; instead, there were places to sit and relax. I always loved doing the blue light specials, using my handheld price stamper to mark the sale prices. I would love to go back and experience that simpler time in history again.

I was THE shyest kid in my large high school of 2000 kids, but guess who announced all those Blue Light Specials?...Me! 😂😂 I did so well, that the other departments wanted me to announce theirs. Doing those got me out of my shyness, and at my next job was doing 2 min. commercials! I miss those days!! I miss K-Mart and Service Merchandise And Carson Pirie Scott.... oh, and Woolco too! I miss the 60's, 70s, and 80's!! THANKS for this Video! ☺ ps...the pic of the one w/the water tower in the back (@ 11:18) looks identical to the Terre Haute, IN store w/a water tower behind it. 25th & Wabash.

Kmart back in the 80's had a good selection of toys and models that other places simply didn't have.

2:50 Look at all of those well-behaved non-shoplifters.

I miss this store!

If I needed something, KMart had it! I will forever miss it.

My mom always got me fruit striped gum at Kmart anytime we went there. Thanks mom for all the great memories you gave me growing up. You did the best for us with whatever you had.

Halloween and Christmas seasons at Kmart were the best!

My dad use to wait in the car while my mom would take HOURS looking at EVERYTHING shopping 🤣 What a smart man my dad, God i miss him 🙏❤️

I still have a box fan my father bought there in the early 60's. It still works great, made in the USA!

We had a nice Kmart here in Farmington, NM! I miss Kmart and I miss my grandma!!!