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My mom would take me outta school just to go to K mart in 4th grade!!!

"4000 out for carts, please!"

The best part about K-mart was the people and atmosphere. We avoid the Great Wall of Mart, as we refer to it, at all cost. Just not the same.

The blue light special

Eagle on Airline Dr. Houston Tx.......became Fiesta.

If I was good and let my Mom look at her clothes in K-Mart, I was rewarded with a “GiJoe man” of my choice. Good times.

I never thought I would see Sears fail in my lifetime. It was an excellent store with quality products at good prices and everyone shopped there.

Looking what I wanted for Christmas in that Sears Catalog was so fun.

I miss the popcorn smell and the grilled hamburgers

Not in Australia! Kmart is alive and well here and has been since the 80's, it's almost a way of life here! you need something for home?, you go to kmart! kids going to school? kmart! kids moving out? kmart? going to a festival? kmart? bored and nothing to do? kmart!

I could really appreciate that clip around the 3 minute marker of every checkout lane OPEN, every light on, and with a human cashier. I loved Kmart and worked there in the late 80s, right after graduating high school. Those were the days.🥰

My friends use to make fun of my Kmart underwear.......

You completely chalk up the failure of Sears to “making wrong decisions”… lazy much? It was Venture Capitalists (also known as Vulture Capitalism) that destroyed (and are destroying) Sears and MANY of the retail giants in this country. Stop pretending it was just “bad decision making” instead of greed that sucked the life out of this giant.

Everyone looks the same

I remember the decorative oil lamps that had the statue in the middle with the threads that carried the oil down the sides. We had a friend who owned one which I loved sitting, watching and relaxing as a child.

2 things: Atari and Star Wars figures

Talk about kits, Heathkit & Dynakit if you were the least bit into electronics

I still remember the smell and taste of those Ham Sub sandwiches from there when I was a kid, and hiding from my my when I was a child under the clothing racks.

"Sears Best" , "Lady Kenmore" and "Craftsman" tools

I love the conversation pit and wallpaper

Aviation changed, shopping changed. Everything changed. Society worldwide is spiralling down into an abyss. I am 47 and have seen both the East and the West. It might sound a bit extreme but societies across the world now seem to be bereft of manners and compassion leading to nasty behaviors all the time. That's why I don't talk to most now. I can still text or talk with like-minded folks a lot. Yahoo Messenger is something I miss a lot. I believe we need to create a group of like-minded folks somewhere online. Texting or talking to nice folks surely helps in taking some stress off the shoulders. I would highly appreciate replies. Thank you.

Funny how the uniformity of the 1950 style homes are back in style.

There's lots of Kmart in Australia still have the old blue 'K' red 'mart'. Some are open 24hrs.

When I came 1981 to the United State it was around Christmas time. It was December 6th when we came refuges from my country Iraq and was my first shopping store was in the Kmart and I went crazy. How beautiful it was the store. It was the store

4:22 Mannequin on the right, live mannequin on the left. Yup, that was a paid job.

Walmart is the old K Mart with less character and less variety !

I like how you pronounce "shag" as "shayg". That's definitely a Wisnessota thing. 😅🥰

My dad worked at LAX. That terminal is unforgettable. We always flew on passes and so we had to wear business or business casual.

Loved it? Got bullied for wearing clothes from it. Get real.

I guess I'm going to have to go find that Red Owl.

K Mart is still open and going strong in Guam

Man do I wish I was there

this is how you made America great again showing old history of failed Business on RUclips

is it me or is all the customers in the first K mart all white?

I have such fun memories of Kmart's ❤️ both of my parents have passed away now. My father died in 1979 he love the shaved ham from the deli and the popcorn. I remember my mother my younger brother and I going there every weekend shopping. we had a Kmart about 15 minutes from our small town. It's always the small thing's in life that make the big things. I also miss TG&Y

Fond memories of Sears. Mother would let us pick out school clothes and Christmas presents. They had a great toy section. I remember ordering a rock tumbler . I had alot of fun with that. Everything good goes away. Cutomer service went with it.

My husband and I worked at Kmart and there were two major things that contributed to its demise, that were constant complaints of the employees. First Walmart loved moving in right next to Kmart, they did in my town. When a Kmart would close, Walmart would throw a party to celebrate. Two, that idiot billionaire, Edward Lampert, did them and Sears in. He had no idea what made businesses successful and made the dumbest cuts, which actually lost the company more money. As soon as employees started qualifying for pay increases or benefits, he would have management cut their hours to the point they would give up and quit. Then every couple of months were hiring groups of 10 or more fresh bodies at minimum wage. He didn’t realize you lose more money training all those employees. Towards the end were were working on practically skeleton crews. One night I had to run soft lines, hard lines, and register, because there were three of us working in the whole store and one was still in training and didn’t have register access! I asked my boss how am I supposed to get a price check when I’m the one supposed to be doing the price checks! It was a nightmare, and I was only there 2 months! They closed a few years later. Such a shame.

Back when our country was great; when things actually made sense 🥺

I remember going to K-mart with my mother when I was little in the early 80s. In grade school, you didn't dare admit shopping at k-mart but by high school graduation, I remember getting some well-made products from there that had me wondering why I was even embarrassed. lol

Great Video, Great Picture collection, I am 57 grew up with K mart. I miss them so much, My Mother worked in the Cafe the whole time I was in grade School, Thanks for great memories.

I worked full-time at the local Kmart for a couple of years in the mid 90s. All the full-time employees knew that Kmart was heading for bankruptcy even back then. The biggest problem was corporate, basically everyone from the district manager level and up. Corporate would roll out some new program, only to kill it in a few months. The one I remember most was a Big Deal™, so big that they had all the full-time employees come in on Easter to have a meeting in the garden center to tell us about it. (At the time Kmart, like most stores, was closed on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.) It was actually quite a good plan, with the keystone being an employee whose whole job was to wander around the store looking for customers that needed assistance and giving them that assistance. The employee had a binder full of pretty much everything they could possibly need to help customers out. Customers _loved it_ and it was increasing sales. But then corporate cut payroll at all stores a few months later, forcing stores to get rid of the roving assistance employee, killing off the new program entirely in under six months. It was a shame, Kmart deserved better (and actually competent) management. I enjoyed my time there, the other full-time employees were all nice people and we got along well. I really liked the K-note system which you could earn for doing things above and beyond the baseline. I ended up with around $100 worth of gift certificates from those!

Eat a can of k mart chile and you’ll experience a blue light special.

Went to Walmart once, Hated it, and Target sells junk. I miss K-Mart.

As a kid I used to love going to K mart with my mom. As soon as you'd walk through the front doors you were blessed with the smell of fresh popcorn popping.🍿My absolute favorite was their submarine sandwiches.😋 I was sad to see K mart go away. They don't make em' like this anymore. Walmart may have won but it will never be as awesome as K mart was.

My firts job was at kmart in Gillroy Ca In 1982

most the K mart stores that I visited had a counter in the front just inside the front doors , I would get the 3 pack bag of Ham sandwiches for a cheap quick lunch .

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

Actually most of these photos look like they are are from the 60's. High end component stereo systems were very much a common 1970's item. The1980's introduced the compact disc.

The blue light specials..

I found my first K Mart in the 1980s!