I worked at Kmart #3163 (Burnsville, Minnesota) during high school. The annual employees' "Family Picnic" was not to be missed! Tons of food and kegs of beer, all provided by the company. Yeah, 90% of us were underage, but nobody cared. This was the early 1980s. A completely different time in America.
Hello! I’m a fellow K mart Enjoyer from Minnesota as well! I love the vibe you bring with Underage Drinking at K Mart! Rock on Brother! Hope you’re doing well these days.
I worked part time at Kmart while attending college from 1973 to 1978. It was a great company to work for. I loved my job there. So sad Kmart is gone. It truly was a magical store!
Today's can be shrill, but these wholesome muzak-like ads of the past were just as annoying back in the day. No one gets to claim that their generation was better and be taken seriously.
Has anybody else noticed that no matter how annoying contemporary culture is , the developments of the future will make the past much more acceptable ?!?!?!
Ugh I miss Kmart my childhood Kmart closed in July 2020 my hometown state no longer has any Kmarts left thank you Eddie Lampert for ruining my childhood and my mom's childhood unfortunately I'm still living in the past at this point even after it closed
Kmart isn't just some stupid store closing. This was childhood. Meals in the cafeteria. It's where you got your school clothes, TV's, fishing stuff, basically anything you couldn't get at Kroger's, you got at Kmart. Eddie Lampert ran it into the ground. Only 12 open as of this post. 10 after March '22. That will only leave 4 in the continental US. Rest are in territories. Only 25 Sears as of this post as well.
I miss the 1970s. that way I was 8 years old in 2019 by listening to this jingle, but now I'm 13 in 2024 cuz Kmart jingle was part of my childhood. NOTE: I'm not a kid, I'm a teenager.
I remember a heavy-set lady who used to slice ham in the store snack bar. As she'd slide the cutter back and forth, her hefty, rubbery upper arm would swing back and forth with each cutter stroke. As a little kid, I found it interesting to compare her arm to the ham itself.
Well it's the end of an era for Kmart. Here's the new jingle that I came up with. Planning plans life was good we came and filled our cup we got satisfaction even more at Kmart that was our Value Store. Kmart was our Value Store where are dollar bought us more they gave our dreams a helping hand at Kmart stores they understood. yep they understood right until Eddie Lampert came and took over and he didn't understand anything that the old Kmart understood back in the day. rip Kmart you will definitely be missed but it's an end of an era people don't want to shop at Kmart anymore they rather shop at Walmart or other places can't wait to see what you become in Mattydale New York as you already became a your storage place in Liverpool New York and I no longer shop in your old building
There was a K Mart about 14 miles from my home in 1997 I bought all my laundry stuff&personal grooming items and spent a lot of money there it went under around 2002/3? i was sad😭
We used to have a Big K store down on Rodney Parham in Little Rock next to where Safeway (later replaced as Chuck E. Cheese’s) used to be in the 70s until it closed down in 2017 and now it’s serves as a Premier Medical Plaza 😢.
As of the time I am typing this, there are only 17 stores left, with 2 of them liquidating later this year. The retail apocalypse is getting worse and worse.
SSKresge- Kmart was a wonderful store to grow up in. My late parents did a lot of shopping there. Household goods, Pet Supplies...Play clothes....the list goes on. We visited a Kmart every Saturday. They seemed to be everywhere....and now they are all gone!!! Such a shame. Walmart* dosen't even compare...and their stuff is all crap!!! Kmart had such good quality merchandise. What went wrong?
Shopping at Kmart was an EXPERIENCE. There WERE other discount "marts" then too, but NONE were like Kmart. The idea behind Kmart was to KEEP you in the store as long as possible (The Cafe, Blue Light Special, many had video games, later Little Cesar's pizza, etc) No one WANTS to STAY at Wally*World. Hell, I'd rather shop at 7-11 than at a Wally's.
...ok, are you supposed to listen to this on L.S.D?. i kind of got this idea after Richard Nixon appeared and the vocals went into elf mode. Is this a c.i.a psyop? Never mind.
My husband worked at the Kmart Warehouse for over 30 years..they were excellent with health insurance every until the first bankruptcy in 2001 .. with the Connolly guy that ripped off kmart in the 90s ..we had to deal with Lampard.. he was fair at times but..he's a land owner..he bought Sears what was good at the time he said he would improve everything bring kmart/ sears to their glory! No he didn't..he was a fool! He's only land onder who did nothing to improve his stores! He only sold out his stores! Never did anything to improve on things ..a lame lame attempt with Roderunner to compete with Amazon Walmart it sucked!! Then the 2nd bankruptcy in 19! All the stores closing!! So sad ! Should go back in in the 90s Kmart! was good. my husband was making gangbuster money on overtime..I rather shop at Kamrt then Walmart because back in the day kmart respected the worker ..my husband moved on but we are sad to see how the business went ..Kmart took care of us for many years
Our Kmart had a smoking room inside kind of like a break room for chain smokers. I remember notiicing The ceiling tiles weren't white but brown. Ashe trays full of cigarette butts. LOL
That 1960's "Big K" in the video at 0:55 was a completely separate chain and not related to Kmart at all. Big Kmart didn't come along for the Kmart we all know until the late 1990's.
Nope, but a common mistake. The "Big Kmart" thing was not introduced until the late 1990's. This is Kuhn's Big K department store. Kmart and Big K were actually both introduced in 1962, although Big K's heyday was through the late 1960's to the early 1970's. I found a article about it on Pleasant Family Shopping if you want to read more: pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/2008/07/original-big-k.html
@@loganlogan9433 Back in the early 2000s they were struggling here in North Carolina and Virginia. They shut down all the stores in Virginia and North Carolina from the early to mid 2000s.
The k mart in gilford nh was always a dump.it really went downhill steadily after it took over for bankrupt wt grant.the landlord seemingly did nothing.leaky roof and a very unkempt covered walkway in front of the store among other faults.certainly lowered people's impression of the place.
I worked at Kmart #3163 (Burnsville, Minnesota) during high school. The annual employees' "Family Picnic" was not to be missed! Tons of food and kegs of beer, all provided by the company. Yeah, 90% of us were underage, but nobody cared. This was the early 1980s. A completely different time in America.
❤️ kmarts fresh popcorns, toys , films, employees
Hello! I’m a fellow K mart Enjoyer from Minnesota as well! I love the vibe you bring with Underage Drinking at K Mart! Rock on Brother! Hope you’re doing well these days.
I worked part time at Kmart while attending college from 1973 to 1978. It was a great company to work for. I loved my job there. So sad Kmart is gone. It truly was a magical store!
When jingles actually sounded pleasant and didn't drive you nuts like today's ads.
Agree 💯
Today's can be shrill, but these wholesome muzak-like ads of the past were just as annoying back in the day. No one gets to claim that their generation was better and be taken seriously.
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Has anybody else noticed that no matter how annoying contemporary culture is , the developments of the future will make the past much more acceptable ?!?!?!
Like the ones on RUclips that interrupt videos every three minutes.
Kmart may be gone, but the magic is still alive, and will live on forever
Ugh I miss Kmart my childhood Kmart closed in July 2020 my hometown state no longer has any Kmarts left thank you Eddie Lampert for ruining my childhood and my mom's childhood unfortunately I'm still living in the past at this point even after it closed
#WallieB26 feels the same I believe about ole Eddie❤️
There's 5 more stores left...ours was the last store to close in March 2022 in the whole West of the country! 😭😭😭
There’s VRChat Kmart.
I love these old Kmart commercials , thanks for uploading them my friend !! 👍😊
Kmart isn't just some stupid store closing. This was childhood. Meals in the cafeteria. It's where you got your school clothes, TV's, fishing stuff, basically anything you couldn't get at Kroger's, you got at Kmart. Eddie Lampert ran it into the ground. Only 12 open as of this post. 10 after March '22. That will only leave 4 in the continental US. Rest are in territories. Only 25 Sears as of this post as well.
Soon to be three in the US
Sadly the rest will be gone by the end of 2022 if I had to guess
Come to Australia. We still have them all over the place. And they are probably the leading department store in the country.
Kmart so much better than Walmart such a shame they're closing such an iconic store.
Sounds like The Chipmunks partnered or sponsored Kmart
IKR? I used a lot of No-Doz in my day, but I never went THAT fast. LOL.
They kept modulating upward until they started to sound like the chipmunks.
I'm quite annoyed it wasn't a full 4min expanded version of the jingle
Yeah, it became annoying. I still love hearing the songs though.
The glory days of the retail giant.
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Talk about giant it was right next sears
I worked at Kmart when I was a teenager did lots of blue lights miss Kmart
Why do the singers voices pitch get higher and higher by the end of this? Bizarre.
Love this video but it makes me very sad now with most Kmarts now closing and despite what Eddie Lambert saids, the rest will be closing.
According to Wikipedia K-Marts are now outnumbered by Ben Franklin 5 & 10's (115 K-Marts vs 123 Ben Franklins),
Lol Lampert's an idiot >:(
On March 1, 1962 Kmart opened it's First Store in Garden City.
Happy 62nd Anniversary to Kmart! (1962 - 2024)
K Mart was THE store I miss it very much so many memories over the years.
I remember these jingles......and how they can quickly rot your brain!!!
Thanks for posting. Good nostalgia.
Vinnie
your brain gets deteriorated by nostolgia and happiness not to mention peace of mind
This jingle used to be a fixture on TV back then. Remember it so well!
2,100 stores in 1990 t0 34 in 2020, The brand has completely changed their identity
Eddie ruined this company's future
@@DalmationProductions That was his plan all along.
I miss the 1970s.
that way I was 8 years old in 2019 by listening to this jingle, but now I'm 13 in 2024 cuz Kmart jingle was part of my childhood.
NOTE: I'm not a kid, I'm a teenager.
Awww! The year I was born 1973!!!!
I remember a heavy-set lady who used to slice ham in the store snack bar. As she'd slide the cutter back and forth, her hefty, rubbery upper arm would swing back and forth with each cutter stroke. As a little kid, I found it interesting to compare her arm to the ham itself.
Why am I getting such a vivid image of that in my head?
I miss Kmart 😔😢
Well it's the end of an era for Kmart. Here's the new jingle that I came up with. Planning plans life was good we came and filled our cup we got satisfaction even more at Kmart that was our Value Store. Kmart was our Value Store where are dollar bought us more they gave our dreams a helping hand at Kmart stores they understood. yep they understood right until Eddie Lampert came and took over and he didn't understand anything that the old Kmart understood back in the day. rip Kmart you will definitely be missed but it's an end of an era people don't want to shop at Kmart anymore they rather shop at Walmart or other places can't wait to see what you become in Mattydale New York as you already became a your storage place in Liverpool New York and I no longer shop in your old building
There was a K Mart about 14 miles from my home in 1997 I bought all my laundry stuff&personal grooming items and spent a lot of money there it went under around 2002/3? i was sad😭
We used to have a Big K store down on Rodney Parham in Little Rock next to where Safeway (later replaced as Chuck E. Cheese’s) used to be in the 70s until it closed down in 2017 and now it’s serves as a Premier Medical Plaza 😢.
As of the time I am typing this, there are only 17 stores left, with 2 of them liquidating later this year. The retail apocalypse is getting worse and worse.
SSKresge- Kmart was a wonderful store to grow up in. My late parents did a lot of shopping there. Household goods, Pet Supplies...Play clothes....the list goes on. We visited a Kmart every Saturday. They seemed to be everywhere....and now they are all gone!!! Such a shame. Walmart* dosen't even compare...and their stuff is all crap!!! Kmart had such good quality merchandise. What went wrong?
Our K-Mart had a certain smell... kind of a cross between old people BO, popcorn and cigs :)
I think you nailed it.
Was your Kmart, by any chance, the Taylor, MI store? That store stank so bad. A smell so rancid, yet nostalgic
You forgot day-old farts! 😅
I'm almost 12 and I love this one and the walmart jingle of 1993
Shopping at Kmart was an EXPERIENCE. There WERE other discount "marts" then too, but NONE were like Kmart. The idea behind Kmart was to KEEP you in the store as long as possible (The Cafe, Blue Light Special, many had video games, later Little Cesar's pizza, etc) No one WANTS to STAY at Wally*World. Hell, I'd rather shop at 7-11 than at a Wally's.
I believe this version was played in stores, there is a much shorter version that was played on tv and radio
What's with President Richard Nixon?
He was in the White House during K-Mart's "golden era".
@@craigjensen6853 he probably bought wigs for Pat there!
@@craigjensen6853 lol! And a rainbow icee!!
...ok, are you supposed to listen to this on L.S.D?. i kind of got this idea after Richard Nixon appeared and the vocals went into elf mode. Is this a c.i.a psyop? Never mind.
Nixon was president in 1973
My husband worked at the Kmart Warehouse for over 30 years..they were excellent with health insurance every until the first bankruptcy in 2001 .. with the Connolly guy that ripped off kmart in the 90s ..we had to deal with Lampard.. he was fair at times but..he's a land owner..he bought Sears what was good at the time he said he would improve everything bring kmart/ sears to their glory! No he didn't..he was a fool! He's only land onder who did nothing to improve his stores! He only sold out his stores! Never did anything to improve on things ..a lame lame attempt with Roderunner to compete with Amazon Walmart it sucked!! Then the 2nd bankruptcy in 19! All the stores closing!! So sad ! Should go back in in the 90s Kmart! was good. my husband was making gangbuster money on overtime..I rather shop at Kamrt then Walmart because back in the day kmart respected the worker ..my husband moved on but we are sad to see how the business went ..Kmart took care of us for many years
I miss K Mart ❗
Our Kmart had a smoking room inside kind of like a break room for chain smokers. I remember notiicing The ceiling tiles weren't white but brown. Ashe trays full of cigarette butts. LOL
The last 2 Kmart stores will close in October 20th 2024.
R.I.P. Kmart/S.S Kresge Corporation
1899-1962-2024
So sad I was born in 2001, I got to experience Kmart a little bit….but I missed out greatly
The Kmart I worked at is now a Walmart.
After observing the clientele in Wal-Mart, the K-Mart customers, in retrospect, looked like model citizens.
That 1960's "Big K" in the video at 0:55 was a completely separate chain and not related to Kmart at all. Big Kmart didn't come along for the Kmart we all know until the late 1990's.
Although Wal-Mart would later buy those stores.
4:11 is that the Original Big Kmart!?!?
Nope, but a common mistake. The "Big Kmart" thing was not introduced until the late 1990's. This is Kuhn's Big K department store. Kmart and Big K were actually both introduced in 1962, although Big K's heyday was through the late 1960's to the early 1970's.
I found a article about it on Pleasant Family Shopping if you want to read more:
pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/2008/07/original-big-k.html
Yo thanks for the info! It doesn't have the MART in it so it can't be a kmart
Big K-owned by Kuhn's-was a southern chain, acquired in 1981 by Walmart.
1973-2024 great savings each and every day 👍🇦🇺⚡️
Now it's down to 9 stores overall in the US and it's territories.
7 one in the Virgin Islands closed plus the last Puerto Rico location was closed
The New Jersey store will close in Fall 2023. Only 2 will remain in USA: New York and Florida.
The Big K store shown here isn't a Kmart
@ 1:10
That's probably a Khun's Big K, not a Kmart.
@0:57 Sorry.
Came here to say this.
Kmart is soo cool
Where did you find the photo of the kmart at 2:21
Used to shop at my old K Mart when I was a baby but then they closed and demolished it for Kaiser Permanente.
4:25 Alvin and the Chipmunks! LOL
Pretty neat how you have the jingle ramp up with each loop.
Nothing stays the same
But there’s VRChat Kmart!
Why is Nixon in this?
Nixon was president at the time
Why is Dick Nixon's picture in the middle?
He was president in a1973.
Dic- i dont wanna say it.
@@beast5ty749 It's a nickname for Richard
Sounds like Greg and Marcia Brady
This hits different
Awesome
Satisfaction always
0:22 Kmart Food I freaking knew they had it before Kmart Super Center in 1991.
Most Atlanta stores had them in the 70s
2:26 what is Nixon doing here
He was president in 1973.
Wait a moment they had another big Kmart logo just it was called big K
Kmart will live on
but this vid is just switching pitches and repeating the same thing
Kmart is and will be my number 1 store open or close
Very funny! Good work.
What's up with the picture of Nixon?!
Nixon was president in 1973.
Have to wonder what happened to this chirpy sessions singing group! Haha!
Kmart Jingle, with The Ray Conniff Singers, or Ray Conniff Sound Alike Singers.
Kmart is your ripoff store, 99c for an apple core.
They're doing well in Aus, the original Kmart guy who started it sold out after.a.couple of years
0:56 big k before big k!??!?!
(edit: that’s a totally different chain im so stupid)
Hilarious! Nice
Seriously? This actually was the full jingle?
No 😂
Big K is not Kmart.
Yes it is
K Mart Division, S.S. Kresge Co., Troy Michigan
KmArT
Hopefully the inevitable won't happen.
No, it’s a Khun’s big K. The Kmart Big K was not introduced until the 1990’s
They have the jingle sped up it almost sounds like the chipmunk s
They sound... Inhuman near the end. 😑
if God tarries sending Jesus back for the rapture it may come back someday.
Big K is not Kmart. Walmart bought them out.
2:02 That's two American retailers that are no more Kmart and Winn-Dixie
not quite yet, Kmart is hanging on by the slimmest of threads, but soon they'll be no more.
Plus Winn Dixie is still around along the Southeast US though mostly Florida and the Gulf Coast states.
Although Eckerd Drugs which was also pictured is no longer in business. CVS bought part of the chain the rest was bought by Rite Aid.
I had no idea Winn-Dixie was even struggling XD
@@loganlogan9433 Back in the early 2000s they were struggling here in North Carolina and Virginia. They shut down all the stores in Virginia and North Carolina from the early to mid 2000s.
The k mart in gilford nh was always a dump.it really went downhill steadily after it took over for bankrupt wt grant.the landlord seemingly did nothing.leaky roof and a very unkempt covered walkway in front of the store among other faults.certainly lowered people's impression of the place.
1:52 Helium tank leak.
wait until you get to the end of this video
Too long
You defiled this jingle. Just needed the first :60. Not your assine sped up crap. No one who sang this thanks you.
#WallieB26 @WallieB26