Imagine being that baby in the video and seeing this video on KZfaq that must be really cool

Yeah hard to believe. She’s so cute 🥰

My sisters age lol

Or ☠💀who knows

I was just telling my wife the same thing. I didn't even see your comment. How funny.

Looks like she was breaking in a new card, she hadn't even signed the back of the card yet! I'm kinda suprised that nobody complained about the person filming zooming in and holding on the shot of their credit card info being recorded.

We where make wages like $5 In dose days.

@@jared4walsh some places still have close to $5 wages, the minimum wage in some states is 7.25

The pay was different they got paid less

Minimum wage was like $5 per hour back then

Facts

The 4683 Model 2 printer sounds are music to my ears.

Bradlees ran a pretty standard version of IBM's General Sales Application, though I see a few user exits programmed in for their sale and exception pricing. Those machines were very sturdy.

⁠Indeed. John Lewis Department Stores used them up until around 2008/2009 with their original printers intact, even having C&P added when the UK was phasing out swipe. Then they went to SurePOS systems before replacing them with DN to standardise with Waitrose, who switched to Wincor Nixdorf/DN after decades of Fujitsu ICL.

@@snotloutisagod2956 These printers are also used in some Soriana stores in my chilhood, as well, in Cimaco (a local department store in my city.).

Holy crap. Where were the Bradlees, ames and caldor? Clover was well in the clover center in bodentown and that's all I remember. There was a something next to quakerbridge mall. I think now it's a fitness center. I recall all these names but can't put my finger on it.😂

​@@ToMaToEsGrOwThere was a Clover on Route 130 South in Cinnaminson NJ, became an Ames store in the 1990s.

Why, so he can diddle your kids?

That is a long time Jane. Lots and lots of memories for sure. Obviously you were sad to see it close of course but at least something moved in it's place.

@@vampirerobot Yes, thank you for your kind response. Sadly, today at nearing 70 so many friends have passed. So many stores went out of business due to Massive Walmart influx. Two Guys, Caldors, not to mention small businesses. Sad.

Hey Jane. Bradlees was one of my favorite stores growing up. The amount of memories I have there is incredible. Particularly the one in Stratford, CT on The Dock. We went there multiple times a week. I could tell you the exact layout of the store. That's how well I know that place. Mind you.. I was between 1-15 when I went there. It's just not the same anymore. I stopped by it yesterday for the first time since 2003. So 19 years since I been in that parking lot and it's a shame. All stores completely different. They knocked down Bradlees and built a BJ's Wholesale. So the entire store is not even the same shape or anything. Completely different structure. They had a water fountain ⛲, knocked that down for addition parking. Walmart across the street. Gym. Storage facility. I'll never go there again. Just curious, since you worked at Bradlees. Do you have anything from there with the Bradlees name on it? For example a vest or shirt? Bags? Anything really.

@@bL3dbL4k No I got rid of all the blue coats. I do have masses of th slide cutters we used to open boxes...and "somewhere" I have a "Bradlees "B" button that were passed out for excellent customer service. Take Good Care

@janedoe09 I worked at Bradlees store #841 in Lewiston ME for nearly 15 years! I was quite young when I started at 20 yrs old. I was hired part time then offered a full time position not long after. As you said, we were like family! We had many long term employees of which I became one. I was a cashier and also helped with layaway, service desk, training new hires, some supervising and cash office with an occasional short period helping in ladies fashions. Our store sadly closed in early June of 1996. The end of an era 😢.

The dot matrix receipt printers 😀

Oh me too! ❤

People had beepers/pagers back then 📟 it was clipped to their pants.

@@luxuryqueen42 True but people weren't staring at their beepers 24/7

That software IBM General Sales Application now owned by Toshiba is still in use Today by Walmart and Academy Sports all tough heavy modified and with a touch screen GUI on top

Hmmm...I don't know about Caldors. If I do, I'll upload them for you.

i would love to see caldor too i grew up shopping there i hope you got something.

Damn caldors is throwback

Yea we had a Caldors plaza right next adjacent to a Bradlees plaza. Weekends were always packed

I was born December’95 was probably still baking in the wound when this was recorded

Yes very similar

She's got warrants.

The Bradlees in this video was the Jersey City/Newport Bradlees and, just like the one you have the photos of in Bridgewater, both stores were built by Kmart as Pace Warehouse Clubs and were only a year old when Kmart closed this business. The store in Jersey City never actually opened as Pace. It was built and outfitted but Kmart pulled the plug before it could open. The Bridgewater and Jersey City stores were identical-and there were others in Paramus and East Hanover. All became Bradlees for a short period.

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Northeastern chain of discount stores along with ones such as Ames and Caldor. Bradlees was like a nicer kmart.

I grew up in Massachusetts and bradlees use to be my favorite store I mother would take me too

I’m from Connecticut. I remember my mom used to take me to bradlees quite a bit. I think it was mainly a northeastern store

@@cabuco2006 I grew up in Chelsea (late 80s to 90s), there used to be a Bradlees in what is now called the Parkway Plaza Shopping Center. It was off Revere Beach Parkway. Miss those times!

So you missed out on this glorious store 😢

Honestly i feel K-mart buried Bradlees more than those other two stores....Walmart and Target didn't really start entering New England until Caldor and Bradlees were already falling apart. I don't believe there was ever a town that had a Walmart and a Bradlees at the same time. Target didn't come to New England until 1999, and Bradlees announced the chain was closing a few days after Christmas 2000, not 2002, I remember it well because I had classmates who worked there and I remember coming back to school after Christmas break '00 and they were upset they were losing their jobs. It was Ames that closed in '02. But really through the entire 90s, the northeast was K-Mart country with a bunch of regional chains fighting for the scraps. Then Walmart & Target swooped in and crushed K-Mart.

Most Bradlees had a Stop & Shop very close by. The ones I went to, they were both in the same plaza. I never knew they were connected until I got older, and it made sense to why they were always located near eachother.

​@@TRJ2241987 Yeah, Target started coming in 1999 at the end of Caldors & Bradless shutting down. But Walmart came around 95-96, so I could see it playing a part. I liked K-Mart as well, but I shopped much more at Bradlees and Caldors. Whatever the case was.. It still upsets me til this day. Wish they were still open.

​@@TRJ2241987My town absolutely had Bradlees, Walmart and Target all at the same time. Your dates are off on a lot of this.

Never heard of it. Where and what was it?

My family shopped at that same Bradlees store in Toms River.

It's 2023 and I still have one. I only have a landline phone because I need it for the internet package with my provider for my home

Prank calls on the house phone.. Never did it?

If I see any I'll definitely post it. Thanks Mabel!

Those were great stores! 👍

What’s DSW?

@@TravisAndArchersAdventures Designer Shoe Warehouse

@@Satoshi9801 oh okay

⁠@@TravisAndArchersAdventureshow do you not know dsw

@@j6282 because there are no Designer Shoe Warehouse stores in my state at all.

Not so! I worked at a Bradlees and we were trained (and reminded frequently) on providing excellent customer service! None of this "Sorry it's not my department " as the clerk walks away. We were trained on greeting the customer, making eye contact, smiling, offering assistance proactively, and thanking them for shopping in our store. I also remember multiple instances where one of us went "above and beyond " for our customers. Sure, there were a few complaints over the years but to this day, I run into former customers who long for Bradlees to return!

Loved me some Caldors! Caldors and Bradlees were my 2 favorite growing up.

As you said, they competed in the same area.. Very similar to what Walmart & Target is now. Although I don't like Walmart or Target. Bradlees and Caldors were great!

I wish! No I don't believe there is.

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Great sound, right? 😉

Lmao

If they're anything like my mom they paid their credit card bills using other credit cards lol

Neat idea, huh?

@@vampirerobot just more cost efficient that way. Seemed like companies then were looking out for its customers. Single toothbrush can cost $3.99

More like grusome

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You mean Reagan?

@@laurenlongfellow9714 This was in 1995 Reagan wasn't president then.

@SupaNami Reaganomics had already been put into place before this. And it's only gotten worse in the decades since. Reagan was the worst president for the economy and making corporations rich while stealing from the middle class. We're still suffering from his trickle-down bullshit today.

Bradlees paid their employees well and offered full medical benefits. They were a union store.

Vampire Capitalists who extracted the money and left the smoking pile for the creditors and employees to take care of.

They went bankrupt in 2001 if I’m not mistaken

Bradlees, K-Mart, Walmart, Ames & Woolworths were basically almost the same stores but seems like Walmart had won the compaction.

lol wtf

Lmfao 💀 wtf

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WTF would yousay something like that??

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