I remember when I was a toddler and they gave out their smiley face logo stickers to kids and put a sticker on my hand. The employees were so accommodating and the environment was more family oriented and friendly. One time I got lost in the store and there was a whole team of employees looking for me with hand radios and the store was always clean, open 24 hours and had good security. Nowadays the vibe feels depressing and unsafe.

A lot of Walmarts (or Wal*Marts) in rural middle-of-nowhere towns weren't remodeled until around 2012, and even that was crazy. Seeing one in 2022 is just legendary.

When Walmart had coffee bean dispensers, smiley face stickers, fish tanks, & ready to play games in the electronic section. I just wish we could go back to the 90s😢

One thing I miss from walmart growing up was the live lobster tank. They took them out years ago, but the Brookshires I live near now has one and I always get so excited when I see it!

One thing I’ll never forget about the early 90’s stores was the electronics section had hours and they would put buggies in front to block it off.

I remember when the employees at the door actually greeted you rather than act as checkpoint guards asking for your receipt because something isn’t in a bag.

Walmart in the early to mid 2000s was something special. This Walmart reminded of how special and unique Walmart use to be and feel. We had a Walmart growing up in Orange Park, Florida that looked very similar. I still have fond memories of the giant McDonald's arc and classic Walmart McDonald's, the the blue and red borders along the walls, and of course for quarter getting sam's choice soda can. It was a go to shop for most of my life until the store was closed and a new modern supercenter down the road replaced it. Never will forget the classic Walmart at Blanding Boulevard and Bolton Avenue.

I really miss Walmart before they rebranded in 2008. I wasn’t born in the 90s so I’m too young to remember everything with my store, but this honestly feels more inviting compared to how it looks today. And this is coming from someone who got really excited to see an entire new grocery level with ESCALATORS being added. Watching this, I can’t help but feel like that’s a bit much now. I miss the simpler discount store. I miss WAL☆MART.

Do you guys remember when Wal*Mart had whole bean coffee dispensers in the coffee aisle? You could fill a plain white coffee bag with different flavours of whole bean coffee. I think they had a bean grounder too. Those were the days. 😌☕

That Walmart Signage needs to be in a museum. That old Walmart sign is a piece of history

gotta say looking back i could have edited this better... i also sounded sick haha. thanks again for stopping by to hear me ramble maybe i'll revisit it someday.

You can still find plenty of old-style WAL*MARTs in remote areas, at least in Canada. My guess is that remodelling them is just not a high priority given their remote location, certainly not what the majority of people will see or know about. But for people who have nostalgia for the 90s and 2000s, like me, they are the jewels in the wilderness.

That's friggin awesome. Looks like it's straight out of 1990. I really liked Walmart's 80s-90s architecture and design. You know, the star logo, classic white tiles which make the stores look nice and bright, the dark blue, red, and grey, the trademark Always used in their slogan: "Always low prices. Always." And of course, Smiley.

I know there may be some Walmarts in the United States that were from the 90's, but most of them were remodeled/repainted, I've never seen a true, 90's Walmart location that's still open, Incredible.

THIS COMMENT IS USELESS AS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. I was born in the 2000's, (2003) so I've never seen Walmart look like this before. From my research, it looks like the store has been around since the 60's, but didn't really surface into a chain until the 90's where it competed with K-Mart. I miss what my local Walmart looked like when I was a child. I remember the "Always" logo, along with that iconic yellow smiley face. Nov 19 2023 The hell was I going off about.... I was raised in the middle of nowhere with the closest "childhood" Walmart miles away. Never getting out much as a child. Born in 2003 to be exact. Don't know why I was being so cryptic. I don't know the first thing about Walmart PFFT.

I'm a manager at Walmart, and it's awesome to see vintage-style things like this. Growing up, there was only one Walmart in the near vicinity (wasn't a SuperCenter at the time, just a regular discount store). They had to compete with K-Mart, Ames, and Target, the latter was in the process of being built. Out of the four choices, my parents always chose Walmart first due to their friendly atmosphere, prices, and convenience. Ames was cheaper and also had kind employees but felt dated even in the 90s, and they weren't familiar with Target. K-Mart flat out sucked. Walmart was really living up to its old motto "Satisfaction Guaranteed" which technically still does exist, but no one preaches or practices it now. The Walmart in the video was likely built and styled in the interim period between 1990-1992, with the 1992 font but the 1990 hyphen. Gotta love the navy and burgundy, low ceilings, classic registers, and classic interior design. Kinda wish they all still looked like this!

I wish Walmart never abandoned this design.

As a Walmart employee, I can see EVERY little difference. Walmart here looks low key like a Lowe’s going through an identity crisis. There’s red in the color scheme. At mine it’s ALL blue. And some yellow. The lighting is bars of fluorescent lighting. Ours look like those heat lamps or what you’d see in offices. Not a few continuous bars that go from one end to the other. Idk I don’t exactly look at the lights much. But I’m gonna now… The shelf tags all look completely minimal and worn, and I’m oddly loving it. We have a couple actually like that still. Idk if they got printed like that or if old.. but it was interesting. Still seeing red in it at all like that gave me flashbacks to childhood. It’s def changed. I like the 90’s version but don’t at the same time. Maybe I just like the nostalgia of it.. maybe I don’t bc I work there… I don’t love it or hate it. It’s decent. Lol

I like how the narrator at the start says he's gonna stop talking like 3x and then just keeps on talking anyways lol

I don't think Walmart should've remodeled imo. I loved when it looked like this

Good video, I honestly missed the 2000s Wal-Mart when there used to be greeters at the door and they’d hand out colorful smiley stickers which’d be on the employee tags and all the cardboard inserts for the sales had that smiley face on them. I wanna see you find a Wal-Mart like that

This is so nostalgic and everytime I see pictures even of this version of Walmart I get hit with so many great memories. Walmart made grocery shopping with your mom so much fun, these days it’s boring

the 90's and early 2000's truly felt like a different, yet wonderful and an amazing time just with the vibe and atmosphere, the music just brought those memories back along with the entire intro. and its the fact we will never experience that feeling again..

Man I really miss the old 90’s Walmarts, seeing this was nostalgia as heck. I used to love how they would have arcade games at the entrance back then, and how the electronics section had actual kiosks where you could play video games. I remember playing the PS1 and N64 games there all the time, I’d literally just be there the whole time playing games while my parents shopped. Lol.

What a blast from the past. My parents were never big on Walmart, but they would shop there when my siblings and I were little because it was affordable and it enabled them to take care of us. It looked just like this. My partner and I were in Vegas recently, and we walked into a 90’s target there. Had the old neon, signage, floors and everything. I felt the same way I did when I’m watching this video.

I love the way you have put this all together ; I’ve subscribed and can’t wait for a new video . This is truly wonderful !

Aww this gives me flashbacks to when my mother and siblings went to go grocery shopping. The vibes were always good. It was a sad day when they announced that they were relocating that Walmart. That's when they started to remodel the walmarts. The cool thing is that the infrastructure is still there but now there are different stores using it. Kinda like a plaza.

I haven't seen a 90's styled Walmart since I was a kid and teenager good times lol.

So it wasn't just me, walmart really has become an anxiety inducing experience lately since the remodeling. How simple the design of walmart was back then ; so easy to navigate and find stuff. Now it's all over the place and confusing. Too much signs yet also lacking them at the same time. I don't know... I just find my anxiety disorder gets severely triggered in walmarts recently. Seeing this video answers my question. The most recent remodeling truly was the worst one. And it's so weird how they place all the aisles and where things are. Just so messy and it takes forever to find something as simple as orange juice, or mayo. Where you usually find items you can't anymore. I try to avoid walmart as much as I can.

I'm surprised they haven't forced to remodel like every other Walmart. Every Walmart I've been to, including the one I currently work at has been remodeled multiple times...my store is actually in the middle of the latest remodel as I type this. The remodel is a corporate decision and every Walmart now looks the same with the latest remodel. So I'm really surprised corporate hasn't forced this store to remodel or even update from the old style signage, registers, tile floor...etc. Almost makes me think this might be privately owned or something to that effect by someone keeping the vintage look alive instead of being run by corporate. Either way it's a really cool store and I do love the vintage look they kept...right down to the red stripes on the white tile and old school paint job. Just a reminder of a simpler time before it was all about money.

Loved this video !! Brings back that nostalgic feel things used to have 💕 thank u for filming this !!

“You can only make a video about an old Walmart for so long” You could have made this hours long and I would have kept watching lol

I cant thank you guys enough for stopping by! what's your favorite thing about the older design? I miss the old design McDonalds they had inside the Walmart's which you can kinda see at 0:03 through the window, also meant to say checkouts instead of cashiers, small mistake haha, thanks for watching!

Immediately liked the video as soon as I heard the familiar sound waves of HOME. Good shit man.

THIS is a proper Walmart… a Walmart style that I miss oh so much…

Just wow! I never thought I'd feel nostalgic towards Walmart of all places. I miss the floor tiles most of all. I've noticed this trend lately with not just Walmart, but almost every other larger store in town, like Fred Meyer/ Kroger, where they're ripping out their floor tiles and just polishing the concrete underneath. It's really weird and gives the buildings a totally different vibe! And not a good one either.

The Walmart in Barboursville, Kentucky, store 1189 is actually much older and still in use today, opened in September 1988. Never got upgraded to a Supercenter yet, but it was very small, about the size of a large Family Dollar or Dollar General today. Looks much like that one in Northern Ontario you visited, but the outside got remodeled and never got expanded.

Wow. I wish I had taken some video of the old school stores around a few years back. I really miss them. K-Mart, and Walmart and a few other places that either moved to a new location or went out of business. Thanks for the groovy trip down memory lane.

I miss the older Walmart. Simple and no frills. Would love to visit that one some day.

I remember I was going to the beach , and drove in the middle of nowhere , and stumble upon this kind of Wal-Mart . Nostalgia!

One of the biggest things that a 90s Walmart had was the electronic department in the middle of the the store .. will never forget that I remember getting nes and super nes games form there back then

I can't help but notice that it used to be red, white, & blue. I remember it though. Something about this Walmart is very welcoming. Now days going to Walmart feels like a chore and you only go strapped

thank you! great video and mostly love that you kept it short and sweet!

This is newer than the 90s Walmart I remember, it’s been updated. The ones from the early 90s were brown and orange relics of the 70s & 80s. They didn’t have a grocery section, they just had home goods and lawn and garden. The grocery section additions made them “super Walmarts”. They did this to out compete stores like Kmart. Mine had a food court with pop corn and those curved plywood booths with orange and brown laminate tops. I still remember the pop corn and eagerly searching for the Lego isle 😔

This Wal-Mart should stay the way it is, it's the glorious vintage symbol of fhe last millennium, I mean is everyone just thinking the 90s never existed

this unlocked memories I didn’t know I had. I was born in ‘01 but for some weird reason before this video, I only remembered Walmart looking how it does today but seeing this video made me realize, I do remember the Walmart logo looking that way. Crazy

Super wholesome video! I love the old look. Brings back memories. Good prices there too!

There used to be an abandoned 90's style Walmart in a town about 30 minutes from me. Was truly unsettling like the parking lot had weeds and little trees growing up through the cracks and the lights were always off. Looked apocalyptic and shit. I think some company bought it as a warehouse recently though

My biggest memory of old Walmart would be the times my mom would go shopping towards midnight/early morning, before the holiday to avoid long lines during the day (; running around an empty Walmart was one of my greatest sense of freedom. Thanks for sharing

This brought back memories from when I was a small kid going to Walmart with my mom in the early 2000’s

So cool man. I visited my old Kmart before it shutdown in 2017. It still had that 90's feel when I was a kid. Sad to see our past fade away slowly.

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I remember when Walmart used to have a snack bar inside of it.

I re renovate these for a living. They take 6 months to a year to complete... We have done a few of these older ones... The one in Northlands Calgary that we did 2 years ago hadn't been re renovated since the early 90s when it got its switchover from Wilco The MacDonald was especially old lod looking and they had very old coin only payphones!!! I'll have to look and see if we have this location coming up for us!

That’s actually really interesting, it really gives you a throwback of the 90s.

Pretty rare. After Walton died, the kids started pushing converting/relocating many across the country into Super Walmart's. That Super Walmart is why their sales just exploded in the 90's. You look at when they passed Sears in 1991, they were at $30 billion in sales. By the end of the 90's, that had ballooned to over $200 billion!

Although this older Walmart may have more of an aesthetic appeal, the newer ones are soo much more efficient.

1.5k subs and a video like this. 👍 must feel great! This day you were firing on all cylinders using the other half of your brain! This was a good idea for a video. Great job brought me back to my day

This brings back memories of the Walmart I use to go to as a child with my family

Oh my god. I remember this design. The First Super Center in my city opened back in 1995 and my mom was one of the first group of associates to work there it had this design but was much bigger with 3 sets of doors grocery, non grocery and lawn and Garden. I remember the Arcade that was in it and the McDonalds that was in the back. this was back when I was 4 years old turning 5 when it first opened up and it kept that design throughout the Early to Mid 2000s. Good memories and Good times. I still have dreams of going back to that Walmart in its mid 90s design.

Retro gaming is cool and I think society will start appreciating more “retro” looking stores too. I think that would be a cool marketing initiative with these big brands.

It's neat that such a place still exists for people like me to experience something that is beyond our time.

wow this brings me back. i remember always looking at both of the As on the main sign for bird nests, and usually being there lol

These kind of videos makes me feel like I’m still there even though time has passed on I could tell my mind and feel that I’m in the exact locations of the old Walmarts from the 90s. If i was there at any 90s moment at my local Walmart this what you would go through. First off the Walmart sign just makes you feel like you’re at a playground for kids. As soon as you open the doors to the right are the arcade games. The main entrance when it would slide open you would get this hard whiff of popcorn because every day this man would stand literally next to the main entry door to give popcorn to kids and families they never charged I guess it was just out of gratitude they would give us popcorn. To me that was already a great feeling as a kid along with playing a little arcade games before meeting the popcorn man lol. And of course I had to roam every aisle until I reach the best aisles. One of them was the aquatic aisle. You could see over 20 mid size aquariums filled with different type sized fish. And It always brought joy to me as a kid cause one of the guys there would let me feed it sometimes when I would go there when he wasn’t busy. now I’m walking to the sports section of course everyone as a kid had to at least bounce those big bouncy balls at least once they would sell back then I believe they still do lol. Dribble the basketball kick the soccer ball the typical things kids will do lol. Now I make my way to the toy section. Oh it was always fun there I would last like 20minutes there looking through every single toy and at that time power rangers were the big hit along with all the Disney characters and others. but I always chose power rangers I could never get enough of those toys. cars and trucks were the best toys to buy as a kid for me I just had so much imaginations with them. Idk who else did this but I always poked a hole inside the bubble bottle and start blowing bubbles out in the open it never failed for me to do that when I would go lol. Now this was the best part of me The Movie Section! The thrills of looking at all these movies ranging from Disney movies to horrors lol for me movies as a kid made me feel some type of way as if I was in the movies call me weird lol. I still remember the releases of Toy Story Toy Story 2 Lion King Lion King 2 Little Rascals Flubber Free Willy Hercules 101 Dalmatians cartoon and the real life movie home alone omg that was a treasure and part 2 everyone was going wild for those home alone movies lol even part 3 I loved. So many movies to pick but it always brought me the best joy because when I got home I’d play the hell out of all of them home alone was always the best along with Toy Story.all those times at the 90s Walmart was always paradise for me as a kid I always had fun and Walmart made my childhood cause I could take from Walmart to take it home to even have more fun. I miss it so much I wish I was a kid again! So me looking at this old 90s Walmart video made me go back in time and feel everything I felt as a kid. I miss the 90s I’m 31 yrs old now man I miss being a kid where you never did nothing but play and have fun. Sorry y’all for this long maybe boring story. Walmart made a childhood for kids!

What's really weird are the Walmarts down in Bentonville. You would think being the headquarters, they would have expansive and really nice Walmarts. I didn't go in any, but what I saw instead were tiny specialized Walmarts. Like neighborhood stores, probability just groceries inside.

going shopping at walmart at 3 in the morning when it is empty and quiet was a real treat we may never get to experience ever again

I was born in 1987 and this brought back memories and got me thinking a lot about the past. ..gotta love a party mix

I liked the Walmart with the snack counter where you can get hot dogs or nachos and fountain drinks.

I actually went to 5th grade in an old Walmart building after the school was flooded. The general design, especially those big red lines on the floor, brings back a lot of memories.

Wow… suddenly I’m taken back in time where I’m six years old in the early 2000’s.. thanks for sharing.

Using 80s type music for a 90s video, easy way to make me feel ancient, thanks alot

Loved how wholesome the video is , you should make more content like this

That’s crazy this was recommended to me because today I was just thinking about an old video on here where this group of friends went into a Walmart back in 95 in Panama City . I think the video is still on here under that name . It’s interesting to see

This was actually extremely cool. Thanks for sharing!

I love how you said vintage cashiers instead of vintage cash registers 😅 like wow I guess we got the same old ladies checking people out since 1997 😂

These smaller walmarts were everywhere when I was a kid in the 90s but in the 2000s they started phasing them out for supercenters. We lost the one in our town in 2009 and they built a supercenter in its place. The interior of this one reminds me of it.

I was living in Montana in the 1990s and when the first Walmart opened in Billings in 1993, it looked exactly like this. It was then remodeled into a supercenter in 2000 and renovated again in 2013, removing any and all traces of what it looked like when it originally opened. This must ahve been a total trip walking through a Walmart with the old 90s decor!

My favorite Wal-Mart memory as a kid was seeing the Primal Rage arcade machine for the first time. I was blown away by the game, the sounds, and the look of the cab itself. Truly an unforgettable experience.

The fact that it's rainy really adds to the aesthetic of this video

One of the last Kmart in my area that closed a year ago was straight from the 90s. Everything from shelves, cash registers, price scanners were all unchanged from the mid 90s.

My town has 2 Walmart’s. Sometimes I wish they didn’t convert the 2nd one into a super center back in 2004 . I know currently it’s my favorite Walmart to go to because of how less congested it is than the other one and how kept up it is but I hate walking in the super centers ; my legs hurt after walking around 30+ minutes to grocery shop ( I wish they kept the benches and the grocery baskets). Also I hate how I still have to go to another store because Walmart ironically doesn’t have what I’m specifically looking for. They never should’ve made half the cash register section into U-scans ; some of the self checkouts don’t work right plus they only keep like 1 or 2 employees nearby to help. They have like 20 manual checkouts but only keep 3 or 4 open. They also don’t put any urgency to fix the vending machines. Also don’t get me started on the app or website saying they have an item in stock only for it to not actually be there. Another gripe is that I’ve come into the store sometimes only for the grocery carts and the mobility scooter carts to not even be in the store to use

I remember this style of Walmart when I was 4-7 years old. They reminded the location into a modern Walmart later on

Wow...I had no idea any of those were still around. This brings back some rather scant memories.

I remember when my Walmart had a whole cafe area you could order food and drinks at. They had like the colorful 90s seating and everything by the deli section. The photo counter was a huge square area where they had big machines that you’d give them film out of your camera that theyd run through and print within an hour or two. once they upgraded years ago, all of it went with it as well.

Honestly this was cool. I would love to be able to see a Walmart like this again.

GOOD CONTENT I MISS OLD WALMART

I miss the old ones so much, they were the best, they have to come back like that!!

Perfect song for the opening! Love Home!

I remember the old layout of the 90s era Walmart. What the newer layouts did was make them look more like Sam's but with more organized sections though there are some in my area that ditched the gray, warehouse look and look like what an actual updated 90s version would look like with a cleaner feel, much much less green feel.

Yoooooo that intro just hit me so hard. Before the Night is one of my favorite songs!!!!

When life was good and simple. I still remember the hot dogs, the door greeters that would give out the smiley face stickers, the photo center, etc. Good times

I completely forgot Walmart got a redesign. Thats crazy, you unlocked a memory i didn't even know i had!

The first Walmart in Kapuskasing ON was in the Model City Mall and was converted from a Woolco store in 1994-95. Walmart bought out around 120 Woolco locations in its entry into Canada. It was only in the mall for a short time before moving to its present location. I can't remember the exact year but I'm guessing 1998 or 1999. I live in Timmins and will stop into the Kapuskasing store when I'm up that way. Kapuskasing and its surrounding areas has had a declining population for awhile and I can kind of see why Walmart has left this location as being one of the last to be renovated as there really isn't any competition or growth potential.

Watch "Christmas Vacation" and you'll see a true 80's WalMart....with it's browns and yellows....more natural colors. I then remember this style....the 90's patriotic "Buy USA" red white and blues! Slowly adding in the grocery sections. Someone mentioned the electronics section being almost it's own entity. I had totally forgot about that!!! Nostalgia is a very powerful drug. Especially for someone like me that was born in the mid 70's and grew up in the 80's - 90's! I guess since there was so much change in short amount of time and feeling the need for time to "slow the eff down...." LOL!

I remember going to a Lowe's when I was a kid and being so excited thinking it was a Wal-Mart so I could look at the toys, and being so disappointed... bewildered.

As a '90s kid, I definitely miss seeing stores such as Wal Mart with their old logos back in the day. It's never the same, nowadays.

The front of this Walmart reminds me of how the one in Wausau Wisconsin used to look, up until about the early 2000s or so. They remodeled that store into a Super Center, by adding onto the left and right sides of the building complete with new entrances on both ends and blocking in the original entrance that was in the middle and adding a couple of emergency exit doors there, you can still tell where it was by looking at the front of the store. On the inside they kept the drop ceiling in the original part of the building but have the raised ceiling on both ends that they added on. This location is a time capsule for sure.

The Walmart store #760 @ 1002 BUS US 60 in Hardinsburg, Kentucky is actually older than the Barbourville store mentioned here in the comments. It's also been renovated but the store is too small to upgrade to a supercenter, just like the Barbourville location. The Walmart store #1170 @ 10445 Dixie Hwy in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the oldest in the area as well. However, the leased space for this location was large enough to upgrade into the supercenter format and there are no large enough undeveloped parcels nearby to construct a new build. This store was also just recently renovated as of this year.

Walmart in my small town in Virginia was just shut down in the 90s... and the Supercenter was opened in 1995 or 96, so yeah thanks for the vid... Nostalgia feeling indeed 😌

I live in a pretty rural part of Kansas and the closest Wal-Mart to us is about a 20 minute drive. That Wal-Mart looked very similar to the one in this video up until 2018, when the entire store was completely overhauled and made to look essentially brand new. I will say, however, that our Wal-Mart had a much better upkeep than the one shown here, as the floors never looked like that and the lights on the outside signs were never burnt out. Those red checkout lane indicators bring back a lot of nostalgia, as during Christmas they would always decorate them with all sorts of green ornaments and it would make them look so cheerful. They still do that with the blue ones now, but it's just not the same.