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.
Radio Shack 1992, Tandy 1000 RLX computer, I loved Desk Mate, an early graphical user interface, worked with Windows 3.1, DOS 6.22 and had a version of BASIC(programming language)!
1995 age 23. Mom and I shopped at Bradlees in Burlington and Bordentown NJ. At the Burlington Bradlees in the late 80s, Mom bought a 4 set of wooden chairs that she kept for many years. She still has one left. I was very sad when Bradlees closed. This was a very nice store.
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.😂
I was 15 in 1995 and my parents shopped at the Bradlees in Union NJ on Rt. 22 where CostCutters, JobLot, ToysRUs, and KidsRus all shared the same shopping complex. Rt. 22 had every store. I miss NJ, FL sucks.
OK I just have to say this. Michael Jacksons you are not alone playing in the background is the saddest, but happiest vibe ever! Rest in peace, Michael hope to see you again one day
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.
I worked at the New London CT store for 27 years, The First Bradlees #880. My co-workers they were my family. Our store closed in 1999. As an after thought, today the store still is a retail store, Burlington Factory Coat Store.
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 😢.
OMG!! I've been looking for Bradlees or Caldors footage like this! This is incredible! Those 2 stores were my favorites as a kid, and footage is extremely scarce. Brings me back to the 90s. Thank you!! Is there anymore Bradlees or Caldors footage? Immediate sub!
i was born in 93 that baby prob a year younger then me i wonder whats shes up to these days. wonder if she even know this video of her and her mom exist
This video reminded me that Bradlees used two different keyboard configurations on the IBM 4683s, depending on where the register was located. Front end checkouts used the standard POS keyboards and two line display, jewelry and electronics used the full alphanumeric keyboard. They probably had some GSA user exits that prompted for alphanumeric entry in these departments, so they needed the full keyboard. Also, Bradlees was one of the few big chains I was in that used the LCD customer displays; many chains used the double-sided alphanumeric display (Ames) or had two single alphanumeric displays (Hills). I'd love to see what user exits they incorporated into General Sales Application at the time.
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
They had cell phones at that time and pagers 📟 you didn’t see people with them out chatting away because it was expensive to use them. We use them much more now because it’s far cheaper. Unlimited calls and texts these days and it also contains our entire lives in it. Don’t be fooled though, long before cell phones people still had their heads down be it through music players, newspapers, computer usage (obviously not in a store) and books. Those fortunate enough to have a cell phone were able to get important messages from their loved ones or work, rather than roaming around all day and having no way to contact anyone without tracking down a pay phone.
What sucks is that I remember buying things in 1995... I was really young but I remember it. It doesn't seem long ago until you see commercials and videos from that era. The big desktop computers and screens, the old blue screen DOS systems running on them, the lady Diana hairstyles, clothes, cars... just everything in those shots scream "This was a very long time ago!". It really makes me feel old - The world felt safer and better back then though - It's gotten absolutely crazy bad since.
I forgot cash registers made that noise when ringing up items. I also remember my mom writing checks and writing her purchases in the checkbook and no one was rushing anyone out.
I have about 40 of the physical film photographs from the grand opening of the Bradlees in Bridgewater, New Jersey in 1994 and it looks almost identical to the store in this video other than the food court having a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut (the Haagen-dazs and overall style of the snack bar looks exactly the same though) and the dept banners hanging from the ceiling are exactly the same and even the ceiling/light fixtures are almost exactly the same. I would imagine that this location opened at almost the same time and was fairly new when this video was shot. It is strange to see such nice Bradlees stores built in the mid 90s compared to the majority of them that opened in the early/mid 70s that most of them were. The chain was starting to fail by this point but the newer locations were good looking stores. Reminds me of the Ames in West Lebanon, NH that opened in 1997, that was also an extremely nice store compared to most other Ames
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.
I was 9 years old in 1995 and although we didn’t have Bridles in my area, I feel right at home. Cool sounding IBM cash registers, cool people, no smart phones and a calm demeanor from everyone!!! I miss these days.
I remember when this store was in Saddle Brook, NJ and me and my Aunt Julie went there a long time ago. The Bradlees in Saddle Brook, NJ became a Walmart.
My family and I used to shop at Bradlees in Toms River, NJ all the time when I was a kid. Funny enough, it was right across the street from Caldor🤣🤣🤣. I miss the old retailers 😔. Seeing this brought back some good memories. Thank you for putting this up! Just out of curiosity, do you have anything from Caldor or Jamesway? I've yet to find any footage from there
I've never heard of Bradlees. Must've been a regional store. Almost reminds me of the small Walmart stores we had in my neck of the woods years ago. It even had a little food court/cafe like shown in this video. But not the good places like Taco Bell and Pizza Hut though lol
@@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!
Bradlees existed in the Northeast from 1958-2002, and was once owned by the Stop and Shop grocery chain. Another smaller store that was shredded by Walmart and Target.
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.
I wonder if these kinds of videos were filmed by the stores themselves or by customers. Because other than just simply documenting what other purpose do these serve?
Got any Venture Stores footage? I don't think I've ever seen any online. I was born in 90 and I went there with my mom semi-frequently until they closed. Always loved the atmosphere of that chain!
@@13ranzz Venture was a chain by former Target founder John Geisse with stores mostly in Missouri but also Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Indiana, and Kentucky. The stores had a unique black & white stripe aesthetic. They operated from 1968 to 1998.
I was 2 years old in 1995 i miss 90s amazing back then everyone was kind hearted and respectful the social media today of generations destroying mind kids today nowday evil get a angry look why walking attitude problem . Back then people say excuse be polite to me I wish I can go back.
Where is Mrs. Bradlees from 3 men and a baby movie? Btw I still have my Bradlees store credit card 💳 ( 4 which I still owe them and along with the creditors collection agencies )1995 locked 🔒 up in my security chest along with other store charge cards. And Idk why I still have them @fter all these years later. I guess 4 memories?
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!
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!
@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.
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I love seeing old retail videos like this, and especially the technology that was in use at the time. Those IBM 4683s bring back memories!
Facts
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.).
Radio Shack 1992, Tandy 1000 RLX computer, I loved Desk Mate, an early graphical user interface, worked with Windows 3.1, DOS 6.22 and had a version of BASIC(programming language)!
Im 42, the atmosphere, the SOUNDS really bring me back in time. I loved going to Beadlees and Caldor with my family in the late 80s ad 90s
KMART, THE REAL SEARS, WOOLCO, WT GRANTS, KORVETTES, KIDDIE CITY, AND DISCOUNT HARRYS
1995 age 23. Mom and I shopped at Bradlees in Burlington and Bordentown NJ. At the Burlington Bradlees in the late 80s, Mom bought a 4 set of wooden chairs that she kept for many years. She still has one left. I was very sad when Bradlees closed. This was a very nice store.
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.
Everyone pays with a credit card nobody pays the bank back 😮
I was 15 in 1995 and my parents shopped at the Bradlees in Union NJ on Rt. 22 where CostCutters, JobLot, ToysRUs, and KidsRus all shared the same shopping complex. Rt. 22 had every store. I miss NJ, FL sucks.
OK I just have to say this. Michael Jacksons you are not alone playing in the background is the saddest, but happiest vibe ever! Rest in peace, Michael hope to see you again one day
Why, so he can diddle your kids?
That baby is like, almost 30 now.
Imagine being that baby in the video and seeing this video on RUclips 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.
THANKYOU TO THOSE WHO TOOK THESE VIDEOS. I STILL THINK THE BEST WAS WALKING AROUND THE WALMART WITH THERE CHRISTMAS MUSIC PLAYING.
Damm, she got all that stuff for $166.00, today that would cost 400.
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
I miss Bradlees. Thanks for the footage!
I worked at the New London CT store for 27 years, The First Bradlees #880. My co-workers they were my family. Our store closed in 1999. As an after thought, today the store still is a retail store, Burlington Factory Coat Store.
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 😢.
Oddly enough, I miss the sound old registers made. 😅
The dot matrix receipt printers 😀
Oh me too! ❤
Best thing about this is no one has a smartphone glued to their face 😂😂
People had beepers/pagers back then 📟 it was clipped to their pants.
@@luxuryqueen42 True but people weren't staring at their beepers 24/7
OMG!! I've been looking for Bradlees or Caldors footage like this! This is incredible! Those 2 stores were my favorites as a kid, and footage is extremely scarce. Brings me back to the 90s. Thank you!!
Is there anymore Bradlees or Caldors footage? Immediate sub!
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 in 93 that baby prob a year younger then me i wonder whats shes up to these days.
wonder if she even know this video of her and her mom exist
I was born December’95 was probably still baking in the wound when this was recorded
This video reminded me that Bradlees used two different keyboard configurations on the IBM 4683s, depending on where the register was located. Front end checkouts used the standard POS keyboards and two line display, jewelry and electronics used the full alphanumeric keyboard. They probably had some GSA user exits that prompted for alphanumeric entry in these departments, so they needed the full keyboard. Also, Bradlees was one of the few big chains I was in that used the LCD customer displays; many chains used the double-sided alphanumeric display (Ames) or had two single alphanumeric displays (Hills). I'd love to see what user exits they incorporated into General Sales Application at the time.
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
I miss Bradley’s!😢
That cashier knew to protect that card number by placing it upside down… way before online shopping was a huge thing.
When i was in my early 20s...notice how quiet and pieceful it is there...and not a cellphone in sight
They had cell phones at that time and pagers 📟 you didn’t see people with them out chatting away because it was expensive to use them. We use them much more now because it’s far cheaper. Unlimited calls and texts these days and it also contains our entire lives in it. Don’t be fooled though, long before cell phones people still had their heads down be it through music players, newspapers, computer usage (obviously not in a store) and books. Those fortunate enough to have a cell phone were able to get important messages from their loved ones or work, rather than roaming around all day and having no way to contact anyone without tracking down a pay phone.
I worked at the Bradlees in Middletown, NJ. The one in Hazlet, NJ still stands vacant 22 years later.
The 80s & 90s best time
What sucks is that I remember buying things in 1995... I was really young but I remember it. It doesn't seem long ago until you see commercials and videos from that era. The big desktop computers and screens, the old blue screen DOS systems running on them, the lady Diana hairstyles, clothes, cars... just everything in those shots scream "This was a very long time ago!". It really makes me feel old - The world felt safer and better back then though - It's gotten absolutely crazy bad since.
I just love watching these old vids, it's the best thing we have to a time machine.
I've never heard of Bradless. It looked like a nice store. Was it similar to kmart or Ames? It looks huge with eateries in it.
Yes very similar
Back when most things werent locked up and you can actually feel the product.
VHS copy of Batman '89 yes!!!!
I forgot cash registers made that noise when ringing up items. I also remember my mom writing checks and writing her purchases in the checkbook and no one was rushing anyone out.
1:02 that woman got the hell out of the camera frame!
She's got warrants.
I have about 40 of the physical film photographs from the grand opening of the Bradlees in Bridgewater, New Jersey in 1994 and it looks almost identical to the store in this video other than the food court having a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut (the Haagen-dazs and overall style of the snack bar looks exactly the same though) and the dept banners hanging from the ceiling are exactly the same and even the ceiling/light fixtures are almost exactly the same. I would imagine that this location opened at almost the same time and was fairly new when this video was shot. It is strange to see such nice Bradlees stores built in the mid 90s compared to the majority of them that opened in the early/mid 70s that most of them were. The chain was starting to fail by this point but the newer locations were good looking stores. Reminds me of the Ames in West Lebanon, NH that opened in 1997, that was also an extremely nice store compared to most other Ames
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.
hearing familiar zip codes, you sure this isnt NJ?
I am 36 years old and I remember and miss bradlees
Too bad there's no vids of the Bradlees in Concord NH, that would bring back lots of memories.
love the printing sound of those old cash registers
My aunt used to work at the loss prevention department at Bradlees, She dealt with shoplifters lol.
RIP Aunty Melissa, I miss her dearly. 🙏🏽
I was 9 years old in 1995 and although we didn’t have Bridles in my area, I feel right at home. Cool sounding IBM cash registers, cool people, no smart phones and a calm demeanor from everyone!!! I miss these days.
Is there more footage of Toy R Us, Payless Shoesource, and Blockbuster by any chance?
If I see any I'll definitely post it. Thanks Mabel!
Those were great stores! 👍
I 2024 still have a box of Christmas ornaments from Bradlee's. I really liked that store.
I remember when this store was in Saddle Brook, NJ and me and my Aunt Julie went there a long time ago. The Bradlees in Saddle Brook, NJ became a Walmart.
Any footage from Ames department store?
I wish! No I don't believe there is.
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Ames.
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SHAME THAT CELL PHONES WITH VIDEO WERE NOT AROUND IN THE 70'S. AND DIGITAL PICTURES HOW MUCH MORE PHOTOS WE WOULD HAVE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE GONE SAD.
My family and I used to shop at Bradlees in Toms River, NJ all the time when I was a kid. Funny enough, it was right across the street from Caldor🤣🤣🤣. I miss the old retailers 😔. Seeing this brought back some good memories. Thank you for putting this up! Just out of curiosity, do you have anything from Caldor or Jamesway? I've yet to find any footage from there
My family shopped at that same Bradlees store in Toms River.
I was born in 1995! I’m probably the same or about the same age as the baby now, I’ll be 30 in July 2025!
So you missed out on this glorious store 😢
Very cool store! Reminds me of Fedco. Do you happen to have any footage of a Fedco?
Bradleys was local to me, shame I was too young to remember any of them. My grocery store actually used to be a Bradleys!
The ceiling reminds me of that of my local DSW.
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.
Never heard of this place but I find this video fascinating ❤
I've never heard of Bradlees. Must've been a regional store. Almost reminds me of the small Walmart stores we had in my neck of the woods years ago. It even had a little food court/cafe like shown in this video. But not the good places like Taco Bell and Pizza Hut though lol
🤣🤣🤣
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!
Bradlees existed in the Northeast from 1958-2002, and was once owned by the Stop and Shop grocery chain. Another smaller store that was shredded by Walmart and Target.
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.
My credit card doesn’t even have a box to sign! I just noticed it vanished! Ha! 😂
I wonder if these kinds of videos were filmed by the stores themselves or by customers. Because other than just simply documenting what other purpose do these serve?
All of the videos on this channel are stock footage/b roll
Wow this bradlees looked much nicer than an Ames almost target like
when i watch this and i when i go to the store like this, it's different times
1:02 🤣🤣 little did she know what was around the corner with videos and selfies 🤣🤣
Got any Venture Stores footage? I don't think I've ever seen any online. I was born in 90 and I went there with my mom semi-frequently until they closed. Always loved the atmosphere of that chain!
Never heard of it.
Where and what was it?
@@13ranzz Venture was a chain by former Target founder John Geisse with stores mostly in Missouri but also Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Indiana, and Kentucky. The stores had a unique black & white stripe aesthetic. They operated from 1968 to 1998.
With her Marlboro miles t-shirt
Hope the mum and her (28yr old) baby are doing well
I was 2 years old in 1995 i miss 90s amazing back then everyone was kind hearted and respectful the social media today of generations destroying mind kids today nowday evil get a angry look why walking attitude problem . Back then people say excuse be polite to me I wish I can go back.
Where is Mrs. Bradlees from 3 men and a baby movie? Btw I still have my Bradlees store credit card 💳 ( 4 which I still owe them and along with the creditors collection agencies )1995 locked 🔒 up in my security chest along with other store charge cards. And Idk why I still have them @fter all these years later. I guess 4 memories?
Any videos of Caldor? if you got ones of bradless then there deff has to be some caldor ones lying around since they both competed in the same areas
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!
The sound of the old cash registers gives me a dopamine boost lol
Great sound, right? 😉
Lmao
I used to love clothes shopping at Bradlees
I bought a lot of housewares for my 1st apartment at Bradlees and Lechmere.
5:07 eww house phones. Glad those went away lol
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?
omg i remember bradlees.
what date in 1995?
you know none of these people are gonna pay back the credit card 💳 bill
If they're anything like my mom they paid their credit card bills using other credit cards lol
Why did that kady duck at 1:02
1995 or 2001?
late 80s thru mid 90s went to the north Brunswick nj Bradlees and Caldor
Like how the Crest toothpaste came with a toothbrush!
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
Bradlees ahhhhh
Customer service back then was literally non existent 🤣
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!
Holy shit Michael Keaton batman
I've never been to bradlees, I was 6 when bradlees shutdown back in 2001.
9:12 that Bradlee's was poppin' lol taco bell/ haagen das in there?
That's the year I graduated high school. Never been to a bradlees.
Handsome cashier 💜
More like grusome
@@charlesterrebonne-lw5ml😂
Wow all that for 166 dollars i miss those days for sure
Looks kind of like a Target.
That poor baby.
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All that would be 100k dollars now, thanks Brandon!!! @ 5:32
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.
My first job was Bradlees in North Andover Massachusetts way back when dinosaur roamed the earth 1986 lol
I wonder why Bradlees failed but Target thrived...
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.
When Bradless close down
They went bankrupt in 2001 if I’m not mistaken
Batman new vhs 😭
That Baby is 28 like me
The house phone
Notice the music Michael Jackson
I see their problem they tried to copy Kmart.
Bradlees, K-Mart, Walmart, Ames & Woolworths were basically almost the same stores but seems like Walmart had won the compaction.
Hey I don't think those shopping bags are biodegradable!
Never heard of consumer credit card
Back when it was OK to be white, straight, and Christian.
lol wtf
Lmfao 💀 wtf
That's why it was a very civilized habitable society Those were some great times Now there is too many satanic demonic mentality disturbed weirdos that roam around society today And it's also because of too much black supremacy today And because of the third world barbaric savages that come to the United States and bring their third world barbaric savage culture with them They don't want to respect American people or culture or assimilate to the American way of life or don't want to learn or speak the English language Godliness, Goodness, Greatness, Gloriousness and Graciousness must reign again God Bless
WTF would yousay something like that??
@@DevSodDribble Because alot of antiChrist filth today demonize the White Heterosexual today