Kmart, Sears, Venture, Montgomery Ward, Blockbuster, malls, all gone or almost gone. It’s just not the same shopping like it was growing up. Nice tour. 👍🏻

I really miss Kmart. So much less drama than Walmart and better for basics than Target. What a shame.😢

One of my favorite Aunts worked for K-Mart managing the sporting goods section. What a treat when I'd take my wife and two sons to see her and go to the snack bar and have a hot dog, a cheese pretzel, nachos, soda, and even meals. It was like a family picnic. My wife is now an EX, my sons have moved on and my aunt passed away from brain cancer. And even K-Mart is gone. All I have is the memories.

Working at that Kmart must be like being a crewmember on the Titanic!

I had no idea the last time I walked out of a Kmart that I was walking out of a Kmart for the last time.

I miss Kmart. I used to work for them years ago. The company has been going downhill since Eddie took over. We weren’t in great shape before he took over but we were still salvageable but instead he deliberately made it worse. He only wanted the stores for its real estate to sell, lease, or have land developers rebuild something on the land Kmart was on. Now it’s in ruins and out of business. He’s only keeping this store open till all the inventory is depleted more than likely. It’s just a matter of time before this one closes soon. So sad Kmart is out of business 😔

That store is a lot cleaner than any Walmart I've been to. I miss Kmart.

Ah man I miss the days when you could go to the store and actually find what you wanted

7 year employee here. Electronics, shoes and sporting goods were the first to go. The vendors jumped ship. Next was tools after Eddie sold Craftsman.

That is a spotless store. I would be shopping there just for its cleanliness.

When I was a little girl in the 80s, Kmart was actually an anchor store in our local mall, like you'd see a Macys, JCP, or Sears.

Thank you for the nostalgia trip. I lost my local KMart in 2018. The last thing I bought from there was my PlayStation 4. I'll never forget accompanying my grandma to Kmart on the weekends while she waited at the restaurant for one Blue Light Special after another. She really had a knack for getting me excited about it. Songs I heard: No Scrubs- TLC Uptown Girl- Billy Joel

Never thought I’d be nostalgic over ceiling air vents but here I am…

I miss the old K-Mart. I don't know if they all did, but ours had a cool little restaurant in it.

Maybe it was the calming music you put in, or maybe this was actually one of the most pleasant Kmart videos I've seen. I enjoyed the walkthrough!

Oh, boy! That poster flip through took me back! Definitely Kmart! Great trip down memory lane!

Thats a nice Kmart im over 50 lot of my clothes as a kid came from there remember the blue light special

The main thing missing is customers. That is what our local KMart looked like for years before it closed.

Oh man I'm old to remember that Kmart had a lotta of stores back in the late 80s, 90s and 00s. ❤️

That poster section looks like it hasn't been updated since 2011 😂 also the lady at the end sounds like Janine from Ghostbusters

Not just that but also the last full-size Kmart in the continental US. The one in Miami had to downsize as another tenant was going to take over the lease. There are also 4 other Kmarts in US territories.

Well, it has the old HVAC diffusers in the ceiling, so it “kinda” feels like Kmart! Shout out to all my East Brunswick, NJ Kmart shoppers! If you remember the days of the true old cafe with burgers and fries in the back of the store… and the old brown floor tiles in the entrance that made your shopping cart rattle like it was about to fall apart, let me know! 🎉🎉🎉😂

It is very well stocked.

That Kmart looks really nice the Aisles are very neat and fronted from what I can tell

I live near there and literally bought stuff at that K-Mart last week!

It should be noted that this is the last full-sized Kmart in the US. The other one in Florida is located in their former garden center, and it's less than the size of a Dollar General

When I was in highschool in the early 1990s, the popular insult going around my school was "You got your clothes at K-Mart". Ironically, I'm sure some of these same students later on ended up buying their clothes from K-Mart. The one near me where I was growing up in PA looked very dumpy, but the one in Penn Station in NYC looked real nice, no different from Target.

The expensive luggage sets, big appliances, five hundred dollar patio sets, and La-Z-Boy equivalent furniture is pretty much why Kmart went under. I worked for them for several years and I saw the decline happen firsthand. They basically did away with or downsized everything that made a profit (lawnmowers/trimmers, tools and hardware, toys, video games, men's apparel) and loaded the store with things nobody was goin to Kmart to buy. Our store at one time made so much profit we kept THREE surrounding Kmarts open due to how much we were bringing in, but one by one those stores closed as we lost more and more customers to Walmart because nobody could find the things they needed at Kmart so they stopped coming in at all. It's like they were determined to make each store a mini-Sears without caring that the market just was not there for that.

Bridgehampton has a very high poverty level. The workers live out here year round. It is the only store outside of Riverhead for people to go to. Before it was Kmart it was Caldor. A couple of years ago we stopped there and it was bad. Smelled like mold. Then about a year ago it became what you see it now even changed the sign out front. The officials in the area asked Kmart if they were going to close. They got no answer. That store is vital to the workers and people in poverty out there as some don't have cars to go to the closest major retail area in Riverhead.

I still got my 1970's KMART boxfan & its still going strong & built like a tank compared to new modern ones that fail after a few years

I always loved K-mart. I frankly did not know there was one left. It almost makes me want to drive from MA to NJ. Thanks for the tour.

I miss Kmart! My family and I did so much shopping at the Super Kmart in the county seat, and you could find everything you needed there! A lot of the small items in my holiday light display (candy canes, spiral trees, etc.) are from Kmart (it was one of the first places where you could find LED trees, candy canes, and such) and I still have the house curtains and bedsheets we got there! Sadly ours closed down years ago, and the space is now subdivided-it holds a Grocery Outlet, a Boot Barn, and a Hobby Lobby (which moved from its location in the shopping center _across_ the street). RIP Kmart!

Back in the 70's and 80's, Kmart was my mother's favorite store. We used to go in there all the time. It was sad they declined so rapidly

Almost like going back in time. ❤

I actually love that Kmart! I’ve travelled there twice just to see it lol. I’m afraid we will soon be doing a video on its closing. 😢 nice video also!

Respect brother. Thanks for this.

Nicest looking Kmart in awhile, reminds me of the one we used to have in Bloomingdale IL just outside Chicago before it closed in 2017. That one was actually modernized and upgraded (by Kmart standards).

Our last K-Mart in the Louisville Kentucky area closed in 2018. It was at Outer Loop & New Cut Road and was opened in 1970. As far as I know it was never updated. When I was there in 2002 it sure wasn’t. There was an old Winn-Dixie store next to it at that time, likely opened in 1970 as well. Walmart moved in next door and that was the end of both. That is a nice K-Mart. It must feel weird to be able to still walk through one.

I have decent memories of going to my local kmart. It's where I got a copy of Call of Duty Black Ops. The store was decent, but dated. Now, it just sits abandoned, with the Plaza no longer being known as the Kmart Plaza. Now the building sits empty even after years. The Sears store up the road has also been abandoned. Man, what memories.

RIP K Mart. I had many nice times with you & my late grandfather. XXOO

Damn, that K-mart looks 100% neater than our Target store does.

It seems clean and well stocked

Wow and that Kmart is organized beautiful

I actually LIKED K-mart... I could usually find what I needed, it was affordable, and you didn't feel lost in the store.

The Kmart in Miami is only a quarter of the size it used to be. The other three quarter became At Home retail store.

oh man, watching this takes me back to my childhood in maybe the late 90s. walking to Kmart with my mom that was like 3 miles away to shop.

The Harborcreek Kmart building (east of Erie PA) was just recently demolished. I worked there from Dec 1984 to June of 92. It was built in the late 60's or early 70's and was my family's go-to place to shop when I was a child. The Millcreek location on the west side of Erie PA is still there but empty for years. The East Grandview location within Erie was the first to close when Walmart stated putting the squeeze on their business. When my dad passed in 2020 I found a huge folder of Master Charge slips from stuff my mom bought at Kmart and the Auto Care center for her cars.

Thank you for the video! I was only a kid when Kmart was still a relevant, solid store you could purchase from. Looking at Kmart now, it is honestly sad how it declined so rapidly.

Great video. I used to work at my local Kmart the last year they were open. The store closed in the spring of 2016. It was my first job in retail and even back in 2015 it felt like a store stuck in 1996. I remember after the holiday season in 2015 they announced the store was closing and I was there for the first month of liquidation. I ended up getting another job down the road. On my hour lunch breaks I would visit my friends who still worked there. It was sad seeing a fully stocked store when I left to just a couple months later being nothing but some empty shelving units. I have mostly good memories from my time there except for the holiday season layaway customers. I still keep in touch with a couple people who I worked with.

I really miss K-Mart. From when I was a little and they had the coin operated rides out front, to the basics (that lasted forever) the school supplies, the houswears (variety of designs that no one else had) to the garden and the the Holiday and collectables. They carried things no one else had. Loved them! And it was enjoyable to shop there, wherever I stopped at one. Traveling or local. They didnt have all the agression and drama that WM has.but maybe that drama is just the times we live in now?

I used to work at this location, and it's changed. Where the furniture is at the front, used to be the electronics. And the person who is saying, "When you make a page through the system". was the worst person to work for. She's one of the four assistant managers left there. And I see they still have the blue shirts.

I love hearing the strong New York accent at the end! The loud, forceful way of speaking is so different from the suburban midwest.

I remember when I lost all of my Kmart stock ... thanks, Martha Stewart! I used to love that store.

Mid 80s, I worked summers during college in a Kmart distribution center. We shipped all through the Midwest and east coast. The warehouse was huge then, then the expanded it in the 90s. Now it’s all gone, what a shame.

That's a nice store. I see they're still using RES (Retail Enterprise Suite) for their signage, I was the lead for that at my store in 2008. I served 7 years working at mine as my first job at 16 years old. I had the best co-workers and boss, it was a great start to my working life.

There is a single K-Mart left on St. Thomas Island. It is bi-level and full of products. I made sure to go at least once while I was there.

I live about 5 mins away from this KMart in sag harbor and haven’t been in the place in probably 5+ yrs, I’m actually shocked to see how well stocked it is considering most of us around here think it’s basically empty and are waiting for a target or whatever to move in. Thanks for the tour

I've been to this exact store many hundreds of times. I live locally. This is a very working class community. It takes alot of people to keep the East End alive and well. My son likes the toy selections and I like to get my basics here. The managers are good people too.

Up here in Canada, our local Kmart closed back in1997. So you could image how excited I was to fine one in Water Town, New York back in 2014. I was also pleasantly surprised to see that they sold men's tall sizes for the same price as regular sizes. Up here in Canada, they use that as an excuse to charge extra . WE MISS KMART : (

It certainly looks nicer than I expected.

We had a nice Super K in Fairbanks Alaska, I still remember smelling the Little Cesar’s Pizza as you enter the store.

I worked for Kmart for 7.5 years, back in the late 1980's, into the early to mid 1990's. It's so sad to me to see the demise of the company, due to poor management decisions at the corporate office level. Back in the 70s and 80s in south central Kentucky, Kmart was hugely popular. In Bowling Green, KY, we had two Kmart stores. Little by little, you could see them fade away. So sad. Glad I watched this video to remember past events.

The KMart here in Cromwell, Connecticut closed in 2017. I remember shopping as a kid in the early 2010s. So many memories

This one reminds me of the Kmart near my house when I lived in Las Vegas. Almost everything I bought from them is gone, now that I think about it. I still have a laundry rack and a little plastic drawer organizer. We had a portable closet for a long time from them, it finally gave up the ghost - man, almost 15 years after we bought it? I hate what they did to that place. I wish bad things on them. Sure, market forces, whatever. But we just can't have nice things, I guess. I'm so tired of fighting like hell to stay in one place.

The only reason i am missing kmart is that it's part of some memories of my childhood. My friends and i would hang out at the Packer stadium on our bike and after i would bike to kmart near by to get a few thing before heading home. That was back when the stadium was just a structure of sheet metal. That whole area doesn't even resemble what it once was. I forget how old i am some times. 😅

Lol with the diaper section! You were in the thick of things, for sure!

Thanks for the explore.. my Mom worked for K Mart in the 80's.. she really loved it... If not for K Mart, there would be no Walmart...

I lived near one in Waynesville, NC and then Covid killed it. I used to brag that I shop at Kmart but no one thought it was cool😢

I live in Southampton, the adjacent town to Bridgehampton. The reason why this kmart works in this area and is still up and running is because the nearest big box store is about an hour away when you account for summer traffic. If you're coming from as far as Montauk, that would be 2 hours in summer traffic. Beyond that, there's absolutely no where to buy any kind of electronics in the Hamptons after all the Radioshacks went out of business. I used to work for the Radioshack in Bridgehampton that used to be located right next to this kmart and I also worked for the Verizon retailer in the same plaza. These stores do crazy sales numbers in the summer time and I'd often check our sales figures in comparison to the other stores in the same district. I'm old enough to remember when this Kmart first opened. Before that it was a Caldor. When Kmart opened I hated it because it was fancier and bigger than Caldor. I'm sure something like a target is going to open in its place and I'll hate that too because it just reminds me that these big businesses keep getting bigger.

We haven't had a Kamart in the Dnever read for almost a decade! Cool to see. Pretty well stocked for a dying store.

There is still a Kmart in West Kendall Lakes in Miami-Dade County. Its size is 1/4 of what it used to be and when I went inside to purchase some Liquid Plummer at 8:00 p.m. the place was practically desserted.

My surgery required me to wear those. Unpleasant but the alternative was more grim.

I was in a k-mart a little over 8 years ago, it had nothing but sales, and I saw more employees than customers. Fastest shopping trip I ever.

Thank you for the great video!!.I worked for Kmart in the early to late 80's in Ithaca NY. Good memories!!

Blast from the past here. I haven't been in a Kmart probably since I was growing up in the 90's. My memory of going there was going to Little Ceasers which used to be in every one I think in my area. Then Walmarts started popping up in the late 90's and Kmart was done for.

Ohhh, those old ceiling tiles that is so pre-2000's. And the mirrors on the ceiling do they still use those for security? Yes, they can certainly turn the music down. I worked for Kroger for 25 years and before we moved to a new store, we had those tiles they used to leak and one time I was changing one and it burst, and all the water and tile Pices fell on me.

Thank you for sharing this!! All the memories of all the times walking into Kmart just came flooding back, since my local Kmart had the same departments arranged in almost the same layout as this store. Today my local Kmart has been converted into Target, and while still a decent store, it's not quite the same experience.

Surreal to see what's left of one of the stores I grew up with (not this one in particular). Stores like Kmart, Sears, Montgomery Ward, ShopKo (for those of us living where they operated)... all to be just a memory. Going to these stores could be more than just shopping, it could be an entire experience.

Besides Kmart going under a lot of the malls on Long Island are dead malls. I was at the mall recently and 90% of the stores were shuttered. All of the kiosks were closed too. I couldn't even get an Auntie Em's pretzel.

That's probably the nicest looking Kmart I've ever seen. There was one near Amityville.

Man I was getting all the feels wishing I could visit since it's almost a time capsule

10:05 mannn that poster display hit my nostalgia bone

Your channel has grown!

I grew up in a kmart town and I miss it. Things like the cluttered isles and the slightly yellow tint to the lighting you just can't find in a walmart or target.

Should have asked an employee to pull that Beiber poster for you. I would have loved that GO AWAY Grumpy Cat! (RIP Grumpy 😿)

Bridgehampton is located close to Eddie Lampert’s vacation home- which is why it is better than any other Kmart

That’s such a nice one. Ours was also really nice and then it went out in 2019.

Omg I have to go there soon never knew it was there 😊

My favorite dress is from Kmart is a route 66 dress. ❤❤❤

I tried to buy something at the last Kmart opened in Louisville a few weeks before it closed, just to say that I shopped there one last time. It was a few days before Christmas. There was a long line, only one cashier, and no self-checkout. And the cashier just straight up walked away and didn't come back.

It's like watching an urban explorer's video. Ty 4 sharing!

I worked in the King Kullen in the same shopping center 35 years ago. That KMart was a Grants store in the early 70s, then a Woolco, then Caldor and finally Kmart in 90s.

I always liked K-mart the one near me closed 9 years ago. I can't believe there is literally like No One in that Store what ashame doesn't look good at all

I had went to K Mart for so many years that I do miss them. I did know that their prices were higher than Walmart for identical products. For example - Edge shaving cream and Tuff Stuff car upholstery cleaner. The beeping you hear at the exit door is a keypad trouble sounder for the Radionics/Bosch Fire alarm and intrusion system. A leaking roof is one thing to neglect but fire/life safety systems are very important and violates NFPA 72 fire codes. The Fire Marshall could make an order to repair the trouble or face temporary closure of the business.

We miss Kmart. Kmart and Sears 😢😢oh and Woolworths. Bur Kmart will always have a special place in our hearts ❤️🥰🙏😭

Looks better than my local Walmart.

man i remember kmart as a kid in late 90s early 2000s i got alot of toys from there since my mom worked in the noble romans or lil ceasers that was in it

Here in Australia we still have K Mart, my husband works at the local store, he has been working there for nearly 30 years.

That ceiling is fortune telling

I miss Kmart, grew up going to the one in East Brunswick, NJ all the time. I remember towards the end before it closed for good I would buy the the store brand mac & cheese. Wasn't bad tbh and I think it was under 1 dollar a box. Hard to believe that was like 8 or 9 years ago already. Thanks for bringing back the memories.