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Indeed.. I worked at a Big K in Winter Park Fl in 2001... off light is the florescent tube lighting; its bad - they say prolonged exposure causes depression... I like your pupster avatar.
They used to have those extra extra long fluro tubes, always looked best when they were not all the same color. Ugly for sure but I do miss that strangely enough. It takes me back to the early to mid 80's.
Jane Doe yeah whenever i go into some old stores like dollar tree ect they have that same lighting its depressing for some reason its funny when i walk into Walmart i get a pleasant feeling with their white led lighting it looks like they have
When you said "the old ladies used to hang out all day waiting for those blue light specials to occur", I thought you were going to finish with "I know this because I used to be one of them".
the same music plays in the airport here, but it's drowned out so much you have to go right up to the speaker to hear it. there's also lots of tropical plants and escalators. very A E S T H E T I C
The music at the 2:50 mark makes it feel very eerie. I'm curious what it is if anyone knows. Really pushes the end of something vibe. I was the electronics department lead in the Blueridge mall Kmart from 2012 to 2014. I had some great memories, made some great friends, and had an absolute blast.
Juliana Blewett that's the depressing part, it has barely changed. Kind of like my only look into how things were before the 2000s. I remember going to Kmart a few years back, and it was just sad seeing this store slowly deteriorating.
I used to live near a K mart,everytime I walked in,it seem like the layout changed. Toys would be in electronics and visa versa.I believe this one closed down too.
That's why they died out. Nothing much has changed... the quality of products basically got lower & lower as they tried to compete on price. People also found stuff with better value for money elsewhere. And then you also have online retail...
+Jonathan Tan Online retail was the straw that broke the camel's back. Its sad to think that shopping in person is going away. And anything that can be digitalized is, like game, movies, & Music.
The juxtaposition of the upbeat music they play on the intercom and the depressing atmosphere lingering over the store makes the whole thing even more bleak.
Nah. It was then-defunct K-mart and Sears fault. Shame on them for making their joke of a what was once a crooked and corrupt retail of a business. Sears was fine BEFORE that CEO convict embezzlement big spender had ruined everything. Made them both really bad. An embrrassing shoestring of a budget of a shyster. Man! 😅. Times sure had changed. Thinking that the future wasn't in the cards for them. You CAN be there living in the past;if you're not happy with the future. Look what happened. Sears once had everything that anybody could ever want,back then in those days.
Ahhhhhh. Memories. Of what K-Mart USED to be before the crooked and corrupt corporate SCP overlord - took over. As for the music, 🎶🎼 I really don't care much for it, because as someone who had been born in the seventies; of me growing up, being in there,when I was a little kid,and being with my parents...... especially whenever K-Mart had those Blue Light specials.....man oh man! Those were the days.
How Sears missed the online mail-order boat and didn't beat Amazon to the punch just floors me, because they were doing mail-order via catalogue since like the 50s. You used to be able to mail-order a pre-fab house from them even. All they had to do was move their catalogue online.
The problem with Sears is they only care about short-term profits. Discover card was made by Sears and they sold it off to make a quick buck. They should've improved on the catalogue so they can stay for the WWW launch in 1995, but they didn't. They never saw the big picture so now they are marching to the grave like other dead department stores.
Also, based on the promo video at the top of this, Kmart had in-store online shopping by the late '90s/early '00s. They were poised for the digital retail revolution 20 years ago, how did they screw that up?
@@artistwithouttalent They focused on company acquisitions and more corporate stuff instead of focusing on current problems and customer experiences. So Kmart and Sears relying on older technology and lack of updates both on their websites or actual stores really killed the experience and overall reputation
The lighting of these stores really strikes me: they are very old, outdated "endless lighting" tunnel of bright, white lights. Unflattering and uncomfortable to look at: feels like a very artificial place to be.
Chris Ducat I know. It’s creepy lighting. Non inviting
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Looks like walmart lighting to me which I think looks fine and intriguing it's due to the yellow outdated floors shelves ect. You want to see bad lighting go to a family dollar or dollar tree now that is depressing
When I went to a Kmart going out of business and they had moved the shelves, I found an old Nickelodeon magazine from the 90s. It was crusty and brown, but it had Arnold on the cover, so that's a plus.
Funny enough, last time I went to K-Mart was around 2014, and I found an old VHS tape of the Jimmy Neutron movie hidden in the back of the movie section. A very sticky copy, but a copy nonetheless.
Vanessa Streit the last thing i got from the kmart going out of business, was star wars shoes that my dad got for me. It was on sale and it had rey on it. I dont think it fits me anymore, i'd always wear them everyday. I kinda miss going to kmart.
Braden Sommers That was my favorite thing lol. Every week when my mom would do her shopping she’d bring me an ICEE home, or get one if I went with her. I miss those days.
looks like walmmarts in 2020 panikdemic workers dont give a hoot,they have just give up and the shoppers are rude defensive and typical 9 out of 10 acting people and kid anymore i feel for this country
That's what happens when a company has a huge multi billion dollar savings account from when they used to be cool... they die very slow painful deaths... I had my mind blown when blockbuster died so quickly because I was honestly expecting them to do the same thing... if you want another example of a company floating on it's bank account look at AMD they have been loosing 100 million+ a year for like 5 years but they keep on fighting it... they just made Ryzen and are about to put out Vega and guess what... early sales figures show it only slowed down the losses and they have yet to turn a profit... Yet I bet you they will still be making parts in 2020...
Holy shit, West Coast Video, they died off in my area about a year after DVD's came out. They were cool though, they would give me all of their horror and action movie posters and stands when they were done with them.
When I was in High School (2003-2006) I remember there was a K-Mart we would stop at sometimes about an hour away while passing through and not only did the electronics department look like this, but it still had a demo station set up for a motherfucking NINTENDO 64.
Same thing happened here, the Kmart closed here a couple of months ago and I went to go look at the sales. They had demo units of PS2/XB/GC consoles 😂 When I went to look at phone accessories they only had iPhone 4 items fully stocked 😂
10 years ago i wend to a Toys R us here in Germany and it was going to close. So i wandered around and in the corner was a SNES demo unit with yoshi's cookie in it. I asked the manager if i could buy it but he said no because it was store property. So bummed i asked if there was more older stuff from Nintendo. He thouged for a minute and said; wait here. So i stood there for literally 19 minutes untill the guy came back with a cardboard filled with NES, SNES, N64 and gamecube stuff. These were returned items or things that didn't sell. It had boxed NES, SNES games, gamecube & N64 accesoires that were still factory sealed. So i asked what he wanted for it and he said; " I dunno. 50€? " I still got some off it. I sold the things i didn't like. Best day ever.
K-Mart Manager: *"K-Mart is still a company. We're still very busy and we're still very much in business."* That had the same energy as a ranking officer to some dying regime saying _"Oh no, we still have control over the country, everything's perfectly fine!"_ as their capitol building is ransacked and burned behind them.
Well Kmarts do exist in Australia and unlike the ones up here I’ve heard from both friends and looked online. And geez they’re big there. Most of their business is down under nowadays and a very notable name there
this will get lost but my parents meant at kmart together when working then eventually had me. if kmart never existed i wouldnt be here. i tell people im a kmart baby
I worked at a Sears for 8 years. I left in 95, and even back then management was telling us things weren't looking good. Sears used to be THE place to shop. Funny how time changes things.
Me too. For almost 50 years shopping centers and the chain stores slowly crucified "Main street USA". Now they are being crucified on the alter of Amazon. Payback is a bitch.
You know the store is tired/they don’t care anymore when they let him film for 20 or 30 minutes without saying. If he was at Walmart he would have been kicked out for filming-
The biggest dagger to the chest for me was when they started closing vhs and dvd rental stores like blockbuster and the one me and my buddy went to called movie gallery.
Brian Jones yea the last time I went to a vhs/dvd rental store was when I was 19 I think. I’m 31 now so it’s been a while. Would’ve liked to take my kids there.
Funny that you said there's no fun at Sears. I went to Sears yesterday and was looking at the kitchen appliances, when an employee came up to me and said, "If you are not buying anything you need to leave. This is not a fun store". he probably said it because I'm 17 an he knows there's no way I'm buying a $3,000 refrigerator, but still. I thought it was pretty rude, especially since I was probably one of three customers on the entire 2nd floor. Just goes to show how uninviting their stores are today.
Last time I was in a Sears a few years ago, when I walked by one of the departments(either the appliances, or the jewelry section) I got funny looks from the 2 or 3(can't remember) employees working that part of the store. It was the middle of a weekday afternoon, so that's probably why I got the funny looks from them. There couldn't have been more than myself, and 1 or 2 other customers browsing that floor at the time of day. As I recall, I was inside that Sears a few years back since I hadn't revisited it since the mid or late 1990s. And was curious how bad things had gotten at that Sears, a few years ago in the 2010s. For the record, that store hasn't closed down yet, and that's probably one of the few Sears stores that still does good business in Chicago(Six Corners one on Cicero/Irving, btw). That sucks you got treated that way. Doesn't matter if you're only 17, that's wrong how you were treated looking in the appliances section.
I brought my mom to Sears for sewing machine needles to fit her Kenmore sewing machine that's got to be 50 years old. An old guy in the store was very helpful, finding the right needles on the computer and helping us place an order. So I don't see where the griping about service comes from. One thing Sears seems to do that nobody else does anymore is make replacement parts available to fix things they sold decades ago. But now days people just buy cheap Chinese junk that lasts 6 months and throw it away when it breaks to buy something even more shoddy to replace it. You'd think environmentally conscious people would revive the idea of fixing stuff rather than filling the landfills.
@@xXxequisxXx there is an antique store the next town over from me that collects old signs like that and has them hung all around the outside of the building. It looks like where the 80's and 90's went to die
The US market is very cutthroat, so if you fail to stay up to date with the times, you go under. Also, if y'all didn't know, Kmarts in Australia are owned by a separate company that actually modernized their stores and you Aussies don't have Walmart down their either
Target here in the US no relationship with the Australian target is taking over a lot of vacant kmart stores and more of those vacant kmart stores are turning in target stores remember the American target and kmart brands aren't owned by the Australian brands
when he said that kmart just looks tired, i felt that on such a level man. at the beginning of this vid i was like “i don’t really like kmart. i always hated the vibes it gave off” and he nailed exactly what those vibes are.
That's surreal. There's a dead K-Mart the next town over that hasn't been operating for like fifteen years. No idea why nothing has moved into the location. It's like it's tainted.
I live in New Zealand and it's pretty big over here too! Probably because we don't have walmart and the only targets in our country are strictly furniture stores lol
I worked at the Auburn, California Kmart from 2014 to 2016 (recently closed). Once in awhile a guy would wander into the store, mesmerized, gazing around saying. "Wow, I didn't know Kmart still existed."
When the store doesn't look nice, it's very tempting to just shoplift. People treat bad-looking public bathrooms with less respect than good-looking public bathrooms. the same goes to stores
I've heard people at my school say that our local K-Mart is great to shoplift at because the camera system doesn't work. I also live in Maryland but not near Dundalk. The store looks all run down like the one in the video but it's in a high traffic area and still has lots of customers. I might go there and make a video someday.
Inter5tella i think it has to do with server costs and maintenance. Target and walmart they have entire large rooms constructed in the back of the store to house their systems and servers. Kmart probably can’t afford to run their servers anymore.
Lowkey it gave me chills when “don’t bring me down started playing” it sounded like one of those “x song is playing but you’re in x place and you’re sad”
This is so weird this is like a spitting image of my Kmart in Lawton Oklahoma I managed until it closed. Exact same layout. I traveled the districts and not one resembled our store. It’s crazy how the aisles looked like that. I know it’s not the employees fault. They cut my employees hours down to 20 hours a week. So management had to do trucks mainly. Our team was amazing. We only had one Liquidater he was awesome. He treated it as if we weren’t going out of business. He taught us to straighten shelves and stripe them. It was a cool experience! I was supposed to move and take the Branson Missouri Kmart but our district manager told me not to and it was the end. I got the call on my vacation we were closing my whole team was sad! It’s sad my Kmart was sentimental to me because of family. Keep up the good work! Awesome channel!
Those computers at the registers are dinosaurs compared to what they have at Target and Walmart. The upper management at Sears Holdings really should have chosen to invest their money in modernizing their stores and creating a place people would WANT to go to.
And the thing is, that POS system was replaced in 1999 or 2000. Not LONG AGO, but you can see a massive difference. Before that change, the layaway computers were running on a 1980's database style system. Printing contracts on tractor-feed printers.
You nailed it when commenting how Kmart did nothing to stay exciting or keep up with competition. The Kmart in my town still has 20 year old cash registers that break down, and the atmosphere is dreary. They are having a sale "30% off store wide" and I think its the beginning of their end.
Our Big Kmart still has the same computers for checkout that my aunt used when she worked there for college ....20 years ago (They're some sort of outdated IBM computer). They also constantly run 20% everything sales and clearance out tons of stuff. The inside front of the store has that giant looking TV screen on a fake stone pillar like in the commercial at the beginning of the video, but it hasn't worked since I've been alive. I feel like it's gonna close soon and I'm gonna miss it because it's cheaper than our grocery store and our Walmart for a lot of stuff. Ours even had the food courts who's food tasted okay but it closed when I was in middle school and instead of tearing down the counters and stuff they just draped a big curtain in front of it and made the area into a clothing area, even leaving the menu signs and advertisements and making it super easy to go behind the curtain and explore if one so wished.
I think Dan's right about K-Mart's demise being due to it just always feeling old. Its odd that a store doesn't feel any different than when you visited the store in the 70s. I can't even recall a time when K-Mart built a new store, I just remember visiting stores that had been in a location for decades with their arched front and those huge, round ventilation ducts in the ceiling. Nothing has ever felt new in a K-Mart.
One time, when I was a young child, I turned one of those blood pressure machines on in our K-Mart then walked away. A few minutes later I heard this huge pop sound. I never went back to look, but I knew it was that BP machine and I never told anyone about what I did until now.
Kni from what I’ve seen, companies like K Mart that fail in America, succeed in Australia, and companies that succeed in America like Starbucks fail in Australia. However that might just be a coincidence.
Kni australian kmart is amazing for being on trend with decor, furniture and like accessories but the women’s clothes used to be good but now is kind of falling back. same with kids clothing the quality is so shit and they aren’t the nicest designs, you get what you pay for. it’s one of those stores where to go to get your essentials and cute stuff you didn’t know you needed for cheap. i absolutely love kmart honestly as most australians do haha
I remember going to Kmart when I was a kid, but a few months ago I stopped by for some nostalgia after not being there in like over a decade. I walked in and grabbed a Gatorade and while I was getting checked out a woman came in, grabbed a t-shirt directly next to the entrance, put it on, and turned right back around and left.
The merchandise is also low quality and outdated. All Sears have a distinctive unpleasant smell, like those cheap chalky fruit candies in dispensers for a quarter, mothballs, and despair. Very off putting.
SeeMePaint Florida me too if not for Kmart I wouldn’t have been able to afford diapers. They were better priced than grocery store carried luvs and Kmart was the first store not to harass me about using a coupon
I wish I could not just like, but heart your comment. Single moms & dads are the most boss people I know! I honestly do not know how my mom did it by herself.
If you have to put things on lay a way, then you can't afford it. That money should/could go towards your children's future and not some commercially driven, fake holy day. All of you need to get your priorities straight. Idiots. Sad because you cant buy Christmas presents. Providing presents doesn't mean love. Securing their futures.
Personally, I believe that Sears was purposely destroyed by the CEO. It wasn't "mismanaged," and people need to understand that the "rich get richer" is not accidental. Look at Toys R Us, which went out of business but miraculously is back. My guess is they got out of paying pensions, which mostly benefit the middle class.
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It's actually very sad. Kmart was a vibrant and bustling place when I was a kid. The few times I have been there in the past 10 years is like going back to 1982 again. Nothing has changed. It's stunning how many retailers have disappeared in the past 5 years.
Last time I went to Kmart, a homeless man was walking around while peeing himself. The staff tried to stop him but he kept walking, a kid slipped on the pee on the floor, a lady screamed, people were making drama, my dad just grabbed us and told us to keep walking. This was back in 2009, after that I didnt go back since it was kinda far and the other kart that was closer turned into a Ross and a LA fitness. They had cool shoes tho, RIP KMART.
We had a man shit himself, an old lady shit herself, someone piss on the flashlights, and literally every toilet in the store explode when I was working at Kmart. It truly is the worst place on earth
This reminds me of one of those liminal spaces videos. I always liked the outdated look of KMart, it was somehow comforting to me and reminded me of childhood.
You should check out Defunctland and the Abandoned/Bankrupt series by Bright Sun Films (I could be off on that title) it's similar content, and I love both of the channels
FYI Dan Bell, this was my first vid of yours that I had recommended, and I love it, and have pretty much watched all the dead mall, abandoned places, thrift stores, abandoned hotels and ADRs to date! You are a great film director!
Its interesting when you think about it. WalMart sells the same stuff, so there is something appealing about going into a WalMart vs a KMart. You're right... tired and old... is a good way to describe it.
My local Kmart closed in 2016. I'm not sure about the other locations but ours wasn't as well-stocked as Walmart. You could go to Kmart and take a gamble or go to Walmart and know they'd have everything on your list. Plus, you could check online to see if Walmart had it in stock first. It was more convenient than Kmart.
blackkey1976 it's more appealing than k mart. Alot of walmarts are being revamped. Walmarts in the past 10 years have fast food restaurants in them, eye glass stores, salons, and a small arcade and like 2 other sections I can't remember. K mart doesn't have that. It's convenient because I order new eyeglasses from Walmart. Walmart also has sections around lunch time where their let you taste a product. The Walmarts in my state are relatively clean and bright. And some walmarts have a food court section in the back thats kind of like subway but Isn't.
ThatOldBiddy and not only does it look tired, but if you noticed when they were looking at the food and couches, they were all nasty looking. The food was either old, freezer burnt or both. Walmart doesn't have that problem. And they always restock everything.
LapisSheepz have you been in a Walmart lately? Lol. They have clothes, kitchen and garden decor, eye glass department, fast food restaurants, school supplies, alcohol (I'm in Louisiana so they have alcohol there), electronic section with video games, phones, computers, and TVs. Pharmacy bathroom department isles... Oh and you know... Food lol. What you're thinking of is Sears.
I grew up in a town of 5000 people. Kmart was all we had for anything that wasn't groceries. The only place within an hour of us to buy clothes, electronics, toys, decor... It was my first job when I turned 16...it's sad to see it go down the drain. And the one in our town closed this summer so there's nowhere to shop.
I was smiling at your recounting of childhood memories,then out of nowhere my eyes welled with tears. KMart was a piece of my childhood and seeing it go is the closing of a chapter.
This look like a horror game walk through type simulator. Where you’re in first person walking around expecting jump scares or something. The whole atmosphere and slowness really adds to the aesthetic
I love this episode, it brings back so many memories. I grew up going to Kmart as my grandmother worked there and I also worked there myself at both a Big K and a Super K. I miss Kmart SOOOO BAD!!!
Me and my grandpa went to Kmart together. It was the only store I ever went to with him ever and I only went once. He bought me a shirt. I miss him. Rip gramps and rip Kmart.
e val79 my grandpa used to bend me over his knee and beat the crap out of me and when he was done he didn't explain to me why he had to whoop me or discipline me wow an explanation for every time I got my ass whooped
Who was really coming to shut off the alarms tho. Hahaha. I wonder how long the loud one blared before someone shut it off. Or if it's still blaring to this very day 🤣
I know, same . It really makes me sad 😔. I try to shop as little as I can online , especially for clothing as I don’t really like to (I’m a weird size etc ). But they are all dying and it’s such a bummer, it’s like watching the American dream die or something.
Yeah! Now I have a choice of Walmart, Target, or Kroger. Every city now looks the same because they have the same stores and restaurants. I also miss going to different stores for different things, like going to the hardware store, the auto store, the bakery, instead of it all being under one roof. It really cuts down the variety.
I miss k mart i am 55 years old me and my Pa would shop there when I was a kid ...good memories for me if I was being good My Pa would buy me a toy usually a model plane car or ship one time he bought me the Starship Enterprise model my fav EVER thanks Pa
I work at a Big Kmart in Ohio, and let me tell you: I agree with you wholeheartedly, Dan. Our store is very old, likely dating back to the early 70's. And it definitely shows. While we're one of the cleaner and well organized Kmarts, our shelving system, general layout, and utilities are outdated. Thing is, no one cares. Really, none of the higher-ups give that much of a shit, because they've already secured their careers with other department chains. The few people that do give a damn are ignored. Kmart fell due to it's own ignorance. It refused to evolve with the times, and so faded away. (Note: we still have Blue Light specials, and sell those very jeans- sweatpants and Joe Boxer briefs you were looking at.)
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Are k-marts really stores, or just time-capsules of what retail looked like in the 90s?
Saadia Potato idk my Kmart is lit af
what if someone made a whole shopping mall with multiple stores. One store for each era of time. The hipsters would eat it up.
Saadia Potato
I bet I'd love that place. Not a hipster, I promise!
Saadia Potato you go to Kmart if you want to inhale all the mold growing inside the walls
+Aspirin Damage
Funny story, I saw a old Kmart building burning before.
At the end I imagine the spirits of elderly women lost in the dark store searching endlessly for blue light specials for all eternity.
Jeez ó-ò
i just laughed way to hard at this
@@brookemekena9224 I'm incredibly glad to hear that!
Amusing others is a great feeling...
Sounds like a pretty spoopy campfire story
They were racing to the finish line with all that K Mart pie, cheese, and coffee. 😢
Before you know it, the building will become a Spirit Halloween.
Esperanza Guevara this is so accurate 😂the one where I live became a spirit Halloween
One of the stores in the almost abandoned mall near where I work is putting up Spirit Halloween for the 4th year.
Esperanza Guevara Oh my god😭🤣👏🏼
Spirit halloween is the best store i've ever been too, sucks its just a pop up store. Now i have to drive a little over 2 hours for the nearest one.
Without a doubt
rip my local k-mart... you never accepted my grandma’s gift returns but I’ll still miss your weird vibes and nostalgia
😂
I'm surprised - it seems like we accepted everything back. (I worked at this Kmart.)
this was really engaging. didnt think i'd watch the whole thing
iDubbbzTV
Wow, didn't expect you see you here
iDubbbzTV make a brand inspector on Kmart just for the lolz
iDubbbzTV Get out of here kiddo. You don't belong here.
hmmm didn't expect idubbbz here
idubbbz your a fucking loser
idk if it's just me but the lighting in Kmart always feels off
Indeed.. I worked at a Big K in Winter Park Fl in 2001... off light is the florescent tube lighting; its bad - they say prolonged exposure causes depression...
I like your pupster avatar.
Jane Doe Not only that but all the shelves and fixtures are yellow!
They used to have those extra extra long fluro tubes, always looked best when they were not all the same color. Ugly for sure but I do miss that strangely enough. It takes me back to the early to mid 80's.
Like a WoolWorth's did.
Jane Doe yeah whenever i go into some old stores like dollar tree ect they have that same lighting its depressing for some reason its funny when i walk into Walmart i get a pleasant feeling with their white led lighting it looks like they have
*the 90 year old woman still hiding somewhere in the store waiting for their blue light specials*
Lily rose Xoxo lol 😂
XxSmolMochixX •___• lol
jackdawkeith aha 😂
That's heart breaking.
Oh, is *that* what was observing them from the dark corners?
When you said "the old ladies used to hang out all day waiting for those blue light specials to occur", I thought you were going to finish with "I know this because I used to be one of them".
I thought the same thing, lol😅
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AHAHahAHA I'm stealing this joke
Geez, even back then old ladies were weird. 😂😂😂😂
The music is depressing af
Trust YouMe what? the katy perry firework on the last day filled the employees and shoppers alike with determination!
Trust YouMe I was thinking the same thing. I don't think their mixture of 80s music helped the depressing, as well as dated, atmosphere.
Koft_Nedted
that's the point of vaporware
the same music plays in the airport here, but it's drowned out so much you have to go right up to the speaker to hear it. there's also lots of tropical plants and escalators. very A E S T H E T I C
The music at the 2:50 mark makes it feel very eerie. I'm curious what it is if anyone knows. Really pushes the end of something vibe. I was the electronics department lead in the Blueridge mall Kmart from 2012 to 2014. I had some great memories, made some great friends, and had an absolute blast.
if you watch the video in reverse, a discount retail chain decides to purchase an abandoned space in order to offer neat sweatpants
PyroTheFox awesome lol
PyroTheFox you are a fucking genius
PyroTheFox You are AWESOME. It also makes the video less depressing. :)
without neat sweatpants, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Kmart gets reverse snapped back into existence.
I always remember Kmart looking like a tired store.
Jenn Durham the moment they came into existence they were immediately tired...reminds me of me!
amelia6152 lmao
Jenn Durham Wow someone else too??? It felt dead, didn’t make you want to buy. Unless there was a special sale or something
@@okiguess2313 ....😆
I always felt very dirty in there, it was weird
Kmart: *Closes*
Spirit Halloween: Stonks 📈
Loooool
Kmart of 2016 felt and looked exactly like the Kmart of 1988.
Juliana Blewett that's the depressing part, it has barely changed. Kind of like my only look into how things were before the 2000s. I remember going to Kmart a few years back, and it was just sad seeing this store slowly deteriorating.
I used to live near a K mart,everytime I walked in,it seem like the layout changed. Toys would be in electronics and visa versa.I believe this one closed down too.
Juliana Blewett That sounds pretty accurate lol
That's why they died out. Nothing much has changed... the quality of products basically got lower & lower as they tried to compete on price. People also found stuff with better value for money elsewhere. And then you also have online retail...
+Jonathan Tan Online retail was the straw that broke the camel's back. Its sad to think that shopping in person is going away. And anything that can be digitalized is, like game, movies, & Music.
K-mart looks like an expensive Good Will.
Don’t insult good will like that there in business
@@samanthacasanas6950 that wasn't an insult. An insult would be Good Will looks like K-mart.
Angie Kelley woooosh
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All those alarm-like noises were the screams of the damned employees who never made it out of the store before they closed it.
lucarionme Wow that's macabre 😮
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At first I though it was a fuck ton of crickets.
lucarionme.....LOL!
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The frozen food isle looks like a part of a Gmod map
Omg right? I would of loved to go in there with some black poster bord and have the neon purple checkered and hang them random places in there XD
The only thing missing is "closing time, you don't have to go home, bit you cannot stay here "
Adam Levine having a line of clothes at Kmart is the most Adam Levine thing I can think of.
See, if they'd just sung Sweet Victory, K-Mart wouldn't have had to die.
OtakuUnitedStudio I stole a crop top from his collection at a kmart. I’m comfortable saying it now bc they closed lmao
Sara and that’s why kmart is now closed.... thanks sara
Who the hell is Adam Levine?
@Elizabeth Fitzpatrick what Martha Stewart went to prison? Not Kristine Stewart
Just looks like they stacked the shelves in 2000 and forgot to restock since. Simple mistake
The juxtaposition of the upbeat music they play on the intercom and the depressing atmosphere lingering over the store makes the whole thing even more bleak.
I will never forget K mart and sears because they made the a s t h e t i c videos about specific song but in an abandoned mall.
We live in the dead mall era.
Nah. It was then-defunct K-mart and Sears fault.
Shame on them for making their joke of a what was once a crooked and corrupt retail of a business.
Sears was fine BEFORE that CEO convict embezzlement big spender had ruined everything.
Made them both really bad. An embrrassing shoestring of a budget of a shyster.
Man! 😅. Times sure had changed.
Thinking that the future wasn't in the cards for them.
You CAN be there living in the past;if you're not happy with the future.
Look what happened.
Sears once had everything that anybody could ever want,back then in those days.
Ahhhhhh. Memories. Of what K-Mart USED to be before the crooked and corrupt corporate SCP overlord - took over.
As for the music, 🎶🎼 I really don't care much for it, because as someone who had been born in the seventies; of me growing up, being in there,when I was a little kid,and being with my parents...... especially whenever K-Mart had those Blue Light specials.....man oh man!
Those were the days.
How Sears missed the online mail-order boat and didn't beat Amazon to the punch just floors me, because they were doing mail-order via catalogue since like the 50s. You used to be able to mail-order a pre-fab house from them even. All they had to do was move their catalogue online.
The problem with Sears is they only care about short-term profits. Discover card was made by Sears and they sold it off to make a quick buck. They should've improved on the catalogue so they can stay for the WWW launch in 1995, but they didn't. They never saw the big picture so now they are marching to the grave like other dead department stores.
Sears had catalogues since the late 1800's.
Also, based on the promo video at the top of this, Kmart had in-store online shopping by the late '90s/early '00s. They were poised for the digital retail revolution 20 years ago, how did they screw that up?
@@artistwithouttalent They focused on company acquisitions and more corporate stuff instead of focusing on current problems and customer experiences. So Kmart and Sears relying on older technology and lack of updates both on their websites or actual stores really killed the experience and overall reputation
It's just like Blockbuster's case. The higher-ups refused to adapt to changing times and got swept by competitors who were better in flexibility.
Kmart makes me uncomfortable. every time i enter one i feel an overwealming sense of dread.
This is exactly how I feel too. It's such a strange feeling, almost like time stopped back in the late 90s/early 2000s
Same it’s so freaking creepy
same, i also feel this way walking through sears!
Same! I feel it walking through Kmart, Sears, and Bjs,
I get that but at this old bowling alley by my house. The arcade legitimately has nothing made post 2005 in it
The lighting of these stores really strikes me: they are very old, outdated "endless lighting" tunnel of bright, white lights. Unflattering and uncomfortable to look at: feels like a very artificial place to be.
Chris Ducat I know. It’s creepy lighting. Non inviting
Looks like walmart lighting to me which I think looks fine and intriguing it's due to the yellow outdated floors shelves ect. You want to see bad lighting go to a family dollar or dollar tree now that is depressing
I like this outdated, endless lighting. It makes me feel at home
Everything about K-Mart is outdated, The one closest to me before it closed, had cash registers that looked like something out of 1993.
@ this Kmart is the same color as the Dollar tree in my city
K-Marts were always so dreary, the ceiling always seemed lower and they sold fake jewelry, lots of polyester, ice cream shop, and smelled like rubber.
Dan Bell showing interest in your shop's sign is the equivalent of vultures circling above your head when you are walking through the desert
When I went to a Kmart going out of business and they had moved the shelves, I found an old Nickelodeon magazine from the 90s. It was crusty and brown, but it had Arnold on the cover, so that's a plus.
Arnold Schwarzenegger? On a Nickelodeon magazine?
@@sambeck2510 He's probably talking about Arnold as in Hey Arnold! An old TV show from the 90s.
Funny enough, last time I went to K-Mart was around 2014, and I found an old VHS tape of the Jimmy Neutron movie hidden in the back of the movie section. A very sticky copy, but a copy nonetheless.
Vanessa Streit I know I found a high school musical pen that played a song and like a birthday tablecloth it was all dusty and old too
Vanessa Streit the last thing i got from the kmart going out of business, was star wars shoes that my dad got for me. It was on sale and it had rey on it. I dont think it fits me anymore, i'd always wear them everyday. I kinda miss going to kmart.
*This looks like where all vapourwave tracks are produced*
This is what I'm sayin!
Kmart is vapourwave.
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who else can smell the store?
It crashed my laptop!
lmao
I know what mold smells like... disgusting!🤢
It has a weird but nice smell🤣
Smells like tires
I remember when I was little my grandma would always get me an icee before we left
i miss the icee red slushies
@Bill Williams true dat, and yes, shes still around and about :D
Braden Sommers
That was my favorite thing lol. Every week when my mom would do her shopping she’d bring me an ICEE home, or get one if I went with her. I miss those days.
@@_Cato_ same bro :c
YEESSSSs!!!! ICEEES! 😂😂😂
looks like every zombie game ever when they have to search for meds or supplies and all the shelves are ransacked
I worked for Kmart from '78 to '95. It was good back in the day. This is depressing.
and now here we are.. all shelves empty cause of corona virus
Or in 2020 looking for toilet paper that the sheeple have hoarded!
Silent Hill
XD
looks like walmmarts in 2020 panikdemic workers dont give a hoot,they have just give up and the shoppers are rude defensive and typical 9 out of 10 acting people and kid anymore i feel for this country
I'm surprised K-Mart didn't go out of business years ago to be honest.
That's what happens when a company has a huge multi billion dollar savings account from when they used to be cool... they die very slow painful deaths... I had my mind blown when blockbuster died so quickly because I was honestly expecting them to do the same thing... if you want another example of a company floating on it's bank account look at AMD they have been loosing 100 million+ a year for like 5 years but they keep on fighting it... they just made Ryzen and are about to put out Vega and guess what... early sales figures show it only slowed down the losses and they have yet to turn a profit... Yet I bet you they will still be making parts in 2020...
Artzie Music oh snap! artzie music
winterwolf211 there are still a few blockbusters around but they are usually in smaller towns where people still rent movies from a movie store.
There are even a few West Coast Video (remember them?) locations still around.
Holy shit, West Coast Video, they died off in my area about a year after DVD's came out. They were cool though, they would give me all of their horror and action movie posters and stands when they were done with them.
When I was in High School (2003-2006) I remember there was a K-Mart we would stop at sometimes about an hour away while passing through and not only did the electronics department look like this, but it still had a demo station set up for a motherfucking NINTENDO 64.
Dang for real?!! Wow
Same thing happened here, the Kmart closed here a couple of months ago and I went to go look at the sales. They had demo units of PS2/XB/GC consoles 😂 When I went to look at phone accessories they only had iPhone 4 items fully stocked 😂
There’s still a Nintendo DS Lite demo station at my local PC Richard’s.
10 years ago i wend to a Toys R us here in Germany and it was going to close. So i wandered around and in the corner was a SNES demo unit with yoshi's cookie in it.
I asked the manager if i could buy it but he said no because it was store property. So bummed i asked if there was more older stuff from Nintendo.
He thouged for a minute and said; wait here.
So i stood there for literally 19 minutes untill the guy came back with a cardboard filled with NES, SNES, N64 and gamecube stuff.
These were returned items or things that didn't sell. It had boxed NES, SNES games, gamecube & N64 accesoires that were still factory sealed. So i asked what he wanted for it and he said; " I dunno. 50€? "
I still got some off it. I sold the things i didn't like. Best day ever.
Midinette 2388 Nintendo 64 demos were the best ever. Mario Kart ... those were the days that formed true friendship. Haha 1999
K-Mart Manager: *"K-Mart is still a company. We're still very busy and we're still very much in business."*
That had the same energy as a ranking officer to some dying regime saying _"Oh no, we still have control over the country, everything's perfectly fine!"_ as their capitol building is ransacked and burned behind them.
Looool
"capitol building ransacked" didn't age very well! Lol
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And now in 2022, there are only THREE stores left!!!
Well Kmarts do exist in Australia and unlike the ones up here I’ve heard from both friends and looked online. And geez they’re big there. Most of their business is down under nowadays and a very notable name there
this will get lost but my parents meant at kmart together when working then eventually had me. if kmart never existed i wouldnt be here. i tell people im a kmart baby
Aw, that's sweet
@@excalibur493 mine met at IHOP
@Chops Shockley damn
Excalibur 493 so ur the Blockbuster baby :P
Good for you kmart bambino
Whenever I went to Kmart I felt like I was gonna get murdered
Why tho?
Why????
Okay but like .....why do I understand that feeling vididly 😐.....
SAME, cause it was so empty and there would always be a random creepy person walking around
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Feel like I just got catapulted back into 2003 as a kid shopping with my mom.
Nolan Milnes Me too. And the K-Mart in my town just closed a couple years ago or so. I actually practice drove in their empty, sad lot.
Nolan Milnes 2003.....as a kid.....😒😒 Way to make us all feel old as fuck. lol
Nolan Milnes More like 1986. K-Mart stores never changed and kept up with the times.
Nolan Milnes dude, I'm so sorry you missed the 90s.
Lafawnduh sorry! I'll be old as fuck like you someday too!
I worked at a Sears for 8 years. I left in 95, and even back then management was telling us things weren't looking good. Sears used to be THE place to shop. Funny how time changes things.
You are correct. Stepping into these stores is like stepping back into 1990. It's kind of creepy, actually.
Daniel Johnson and the music too!
Daniel Johnson mine here in El Paso TX too. it's like reliving my childhood. We used to shop at Kmart all the time
I actually like the feel lol
Can I still buy the old Lego sets I always wanted? Because that would be amazing lol
Daniel Johnson seriously?😨😱
I love the smell of a dead, decaying shopping center in the morning
OH.. You know her too????
Don't we all?
Me too. For almost 50 years shopping centers and the chain stores slowly crucified "Main street USA". Now they are being crucified on the alter of Amazon. Payback is a bitch.
Wow...me tooo
You know the store is tired/they don’t care anymore when they let him film for 20 or 30 minutes without saying.
If he was at Walmart he would have been kicked out for filming-
I just filmed a video in Walmart while I was doing Thanksgiving shopping. No problemo.
There is a youtuber I watch who is always filming at Wal-Mart while driving around in a mobility scooter. Nobody ever stops her.
The biggest dagger to the chest for me was when they started closing vhs and dvd rental stores like blockbuster and the one me and my buddy went to called movie gallery.
Red Box and Netflix just leave so much to be desired 😪
Brian Jones yea the last time I went to a vhs/dvd rental store was when I was 19 I think. I’m 31 now so it’s been a while. Would’ve liked to take my kids there.
Jessica H it really does. The experience is definitely not the same no where close.
Movie Gallery, Hastings, Blockbuster. Thanks internet
I was a shift manager at a Movie Gallery in the early 2000s
Funny that you said there's no fun at Sears. I went to Sears yesterday and was looking at the kitchen appliances, when an employee came up to me and said, "If you are not buying anything you need to leave. This is not a fun store". he probably said it because I'm 17 an he knows there's no way I'm buying a $3,000 refrigerator, but still. I thought it was pretty rude, especially since I was probably one of three customers on the entire 2nd floor. Just goes to show how uninviting their stores are today.
Erik Kaspar wow how rude
Erik Kaspar Woulda been cool if you whipped a fat wad of $100 bills and said "Meh, I guess I'll leave then."
Last time I was in a Sears a few years ago, when I walked by one of the departments(either the appliances, or the jewelry section) I got funny looks from the 2 or 3(can't remember) employees working that part of the store. It was the middle of a weekday afternoon, so that's probably why I got the funny looks from them. There couldn't have been more than myself, and 1 or 2 other customers browsing that floor at the time of day. As I recall, I was inside that Sears a few years back since I hadn't revisited it since the mid or late 1990s. And was curious how bad things had gotten at that Sears, a few years ago in the 2010s. For the record, that store hasn't closed down yet, and that's probably one of the few Sears stores that still does good business in Chicago(Six Corners one on Cicero/Irving, btw).
That sucks you got treated that way. Doesn't matter if you're only 17, that's wrong how you were treated looking in the appliances section.
Sears is shit and customer service has been really shitty and your story just adds to the other stuff I've heard about Sears. Good riddens. lol
I brought my mom to Sears for sewing machine needles to fit her Kenmore sewing machine that's got to be 50 years old. An old guy in the store was very helpful, finding the right needles on the computer and helping us place an order. So I don't see where the griping about service comes from. One thing Sears seems to do that nobody else does anymore is make replacement parts available to fix things they sold decades ago. But now days people just buy cheap Chinese junk that lasts 6 months and throw it away when it breaks to buy something even more shoddy to replace it. You'd think environmentally conscious people would revive the idea of fixing stuff rather than filling the landfills.
It’s almost like a Walmart that was clean and nice, slowly turned into a really big dollar tree
Daniel Torres Every Family Dollar I’ve been in is so much nastier than dollar tree or dollar store.
like one of those 90's walmarts in the getto that never renovated
Nah Dollar Tree stores are kept much cleaner than that.
Awww, the liquidator team member who wouldn't sell you the sign was in denial about K-mart dying :(
Betting it got auctioned off on eBay or something. Ppl pay a lot of money for junk like that.
@@xXxequisxXx there is an antique store the next town over from me that collects old signs like that and has them hung all around the outside of the building. It looks like where the 80's and 90's went to die
They wouldn't, because protocol.
They actually send them to the locations that are still operating.
It's so weird seeing this as an Australian. Here Kmart is really popular and isn't showing any sign of closing any time soon.
I think KMart Australia is different
That is insane. Probably due to your higher minimum wage.
The US market is very cutthroat, so if you fail to stay up to date with the times, you go under. Also, if y'all didn't know, Kmarts in Australia are owned by a separate company that actually modernized their stores and you Aussies don't have Walmart down their either
it's because Kmart Australia is owned by a different company unrelated to the american Kmart.
Target here in the US no relationship with the Australian target is taking over a lot of vacant kmart stores and more of those vacant kmart stores are turning in target stores remember the American target and kmart brands aren't owned by the Australian brands
when he said that kmart just looks tired, i felt that on such a level man. at the beginning of this vid i was like “i don’t really like kmart. i always hated the vibes it gave off” and he nailed exactly what those vibes are.
Juliana Quinones Kmart didn’t always give that vibe. I remember it being like a target 10 years ago. Back then Target looked like how Kmart does now
So weird seeing this, In Australia K-mart is still around and has modernised.
That's surreal. There's a dead K-Mart the next town over that hasn't been operating for like fifteen years. No idea why nothing has moved into the location. It's like it's tainted.
Dude mine closed back in 2017 I wish I had mine still open
I live in New Zealand and it's pretty big over here too! Probably because we don't have walmart and the only targets in our country are strictly furniture stores lol
Kmart Australia isn't related to Kmart America though, they bought the rights to use the name
Our Kmart in New Zealand is literally one of the biggest, most thriving stores in town
Always thought K-Mart would be a good filming location for a zombie movie.
HappyHappyistGaming haha my friend always said he was gonna go there during the Apocalypse
especially on black friday
HappyHappyistGaming No, that would be Walmart, and they're apparently filming it all day, every day, at every location, already.
I'm just imagining Dead Rising taking entirely in place of a Kmart.
Lawrence Genereux There is a possibility that I can agree to that.
I worked at the Auburn, California Kmart from 2014 to 2016 (recently closed). Once in awhile a guy would wander into the store, mesmerized, gazing around saying.
"Wow, I didn't know Kmart still existed."
When the store doesn't look nice, it's very tempting to just shoplift. People treat bad-looking public bathrooms with less respect than good-looking public bathrooms. the same goes to stores
I've heard people at my school say that our local K-Mart is great to shoplift at because the camera system doesn't work. I also live in Maryland but not near Dundalk. The store looks all run down like the one in the video but it's in a high traffic area and still has lots of customers. I might go there and make a video someday.
over9000baud ive heard the same about my local kmart in ohio, do NONE of their security cameras work lol?
over9000baud i live in md too
Same goes for people eh
Inter5tella i think it has to do with server costs and maintenance. Target and walmart they have entire large rooms constructed in the back of the store to house their systems and servers. Kmart probably can’t afford to run their servers anymore.
pov: you’re in an abandoned k-mart and you see a blue light special
Fuk
A line of old lady aperitions apear from the cafiteria and go to the light
@@eightlivesnow1644 your spelling is scarier
@Kieran Dillon I don't bully, just try to spell check before you comment, it's not my fault you're stupid and lazy
@Kieran Dillon BTW I bet you anything you like , you really thought about it before you posted!
English is a beautiful language, USE IT
Lowkey it gave me chills when “don’t bring me down started playing” it sounded like one of those “x song is playing but you’re in x place and you’re sad”
Musical sarcasm! I think that's the term!
This is so weird this is like a spitting image of my Kmart in Lawton Oklahoma I managed until it closed. Exact same layout. I traveled the districts and not one resembled our store. It’s crazy how the aisles looked like that. I know it’s not the employees fault. They cut my employees hours down to 20 hours a week. So management had to do trucks mainly. Our team was amazing. We only had one Liquidater he was awesome. He treated it as if we weren’t going out of business. He taught us to straighten shelves and stripe them. It was a cool experience! I was supposed to move and take the Branson Missouri Kmart but our district manager told me not to and it was the end. I got the call on my vacation we were closing my whole team was sad! It’s sad my Kmart was sentimental to me because of family. Keep up the good work! Awesome channel!
Anyone else feel weird about the overly positive eerie pop music playing over the speakers
Like you're in purgatory...when I think of the endless in between this is what I picture
An eerie melody to broken hope and dead dreams. The swan song to an era that no longer exists.
whydoialwaysspill Yep. It was pretty weird.
"Don't bring me down, Bruce!" And it was brought down.
LIKE THE FOOUUURTH OF JULYY~
*-lights out and doors slam shut-*
bye kmart
They seriously could make a horror game on that abandoned k mart...
(insert generic "thanks for the likes" edit)
@@alejandro0o00 there's an Ikea spc game? That actually sounds amazing
Bluelight
Coming 2020
someone get puppet combo...
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17:05 Perfect room for a boss battle.
Those computers at the registers are dinosaurs compared to what they have at Target and Walmart. The upper management at Sears Holdings really should have chosen to invest their money in modernizing their stores and creating a place people would WANT to go to.
Jeana Yeah, and not going around buying everybody.
Has someone that works in sears I agree with this
And the thing is, that POS system was replaced in 1999 or 2000. Not LONG AGO, but you can see a massive difference.
Before that change, the layaway computers were running on a 1980's database style system. Printing contracts on tractor-feed printers.
The ceilings are so low suffocating almost
Wasn’t that their main issue? Overexpanding?
Bathrooms, cooking facilities from the snack bar/Little Cesar’s, a LOT of homeless people could live in this building with very little remodeling.
We can use the former stores to house the people who used to have a job at the stores 🤧
You nailed it when commenting how Kmart did nothing to stay exciting or keep up with competition. The Kmart in my town still has 20 year old cash registers that break down, and the atmosphere is dreary. They are having a sale "30% off store wide" and I think its the beginning of their end.
jendwy81 I'm not an American, but that smacks of liquidation to me...
Our Big Kmart still has the same computers for checkout that my aunt used when she worked there for college ....20 years ago (They're some sort of outdated IBM computer). They also constantly run 20% everything sales and clearance out tons of stuff. The inside front of the store has that giant looking TV screen on a fake stone pillar like in the commercial at the beginning of the video, but it hasn't worked since I've been alive. I feel like it's gonna close soon and I'm gonna miss it because it's cheaper than our grocery store and our Walmart for a lot of stuff. Ours even had the food courts who's food tasted okay but it closed when I was in middle school and instead of tearing down the counters and stuff they just draped a big curtain in front of it and made the area into a clothing area, even leaving the menu signs and advertisements and making it super easy to go behind the curtain and explore if one so wished.
"Don't Bring Me Down" blasting on the last day open...
The only thing that would be more ironic would be if they were playing "Closing Time."
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Sorry, we only carry sizes 1,3 and 5...you could try Sears...
hahaha iconic
so fetch
our k marts are FULL of xl + clothes . you want a 6 x shirt?
Llama Del Fid wrong store...this is kmart. try again
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I remember eating the cookies and a slushy in the cafeteria and looking forward to it every time I went as a kid
yeah the red icee slushies
I got the cocke ones lol
I think Dan's right about K-Mart's demise being due to it just always feeling old. Its odd that a store doesn't feel any different than when you visited the store in the 70s. I can't even recall a time when K-Mart built a new store, I just remember visiting stores that had been in a location for decades with their arched front and those huge, round ventilation ducts in the ceiling. Nothing has ever felt new in a K-Mart.
That is becasue there stores were old. Wal Mart and Target replaced old stores with new ones. K Mart just kept old stores to rot.
Unfortunately Kmart doesn’t have the money anymore to renovate their stores.
Omg yes the round ventilation ducts..
That upbeat music versus the dead aisles, so weird.
It's odd because the dead aisles seem to completely cancel out the music. For me it adds to the depression. Lol
One time, when I was a young child, I turned one of those blood pressure machines on in our K-Mart then walked away. A few minutes later I heard this huge pop sound. I never went back to look, but I knew it was that BP machine and I never told anyone about what I did until now.
I did that multiple times but the thing didnt pop lol.
Emily W.
I fucking love you.
Emily W. that's fucking hilarious
Emily W. not all heroes wear capes
Emily W. lmfaooooooo
“We’re still very much a company. We’re very busy!” “ I can’t sell you any signs”😂
Store is 75% empty, trash everywhere, lots of empty shelves even in the area still open. "We're very busy!"
Kmart is still alive in Australia, glad they are not stuck in the 1980s..
Kni from what I’ve seen, companies like K Mart that fail in America, succeed in Australia, and companies that succeed in America like Starbucks fail in Australia. However that might just be a coincidence.
Lmao so is woolworths (uk version of kmart that shut down)
Lucky fuckers
kmart is amazing in australia 😂 most of my wardrobe is kmart clothes
Kni australian kmart is amazing for being on trend with decor, furniture and like accessories but the women’s clothes used to be good but now is kind of falling back. same with kids clothing the quality is so shit and they aren’t the nicest designs, you get what you pay for. it’s one of those stores where to go to get your essentials and cute stuff you didn’t know you needed for cheap. i absolutely love kmart honestly as most australians do haha
K Mart looks like something from a post-apocalyptic movie
3 O'clock In The Afternoon Of The Dead.
and its in dundalk
ok but what if they capitalized on the old and tired feel and decorated it vaporwave style
That's a great idea! If the remaining k marts did that maybe they would slowly become popular again!!
Boy Logan also make it sell youth clothes like Urban Outfitters and you’ll see it make big bank lol
That would actually be dope
You’d love Omega Mart then, It definitely has a retro feel to both the ‘store’ and the advertisements.
I remember going to Kmart when I was a kid, but a few months ago I stopped by for some nostalgia after not being there in like over a decade. I walked in and grabbed a Gatorade and while I was getting checked out a woman came in, grabbed a t-shirt directly next to the entrance, put it on, and turned right back around and left.
JoaquizzleTwizzle your profile picture is a good reaction to that lol.
JoaquizzleTwizzle ...Dont tell the police, please...
Stealing from Kmart is fun and easy. They have no security now and the cameras are all FAKE!!!
The merchandise is also low quality and outdated. All Sears have a distinctive unpleasant smell, like those cheap chalky fruit candies in dispensers for a quarter, mothballs, and despair. Very off putting.
Smell walmart, lol
My parents have our refrigerator there
@Jack Productions Holding Account Not so true lol
@Jack Productions Holding Account Yes. I have. That mall is always busy. I went last week, actually
I was a single mom and if it was not for Kmart layaway there would not have been Christmas
Same here
SeeMePaint Florida me too if not for Kmart I wouldn’t have been able to afford diapers. They were better priced than grocery store carried luvs and Kmart was the first store not to harass me about using a coupon
I wish I could not just like, but heart your comment. Single moms & dads are the most boss people I know! I honestly do not know how my mom did it by herself.
Walmart does it now for the holiday shopping period
If you have to put things on lay a way, then you can't afford it.
That money should/could go towards your children's future and not some commercially driven, fake holy day.
All of you need to get your priorities straight.
Idiots. Sad because you cant buy Christmas presents.
Providing presents doesn't mean love. Securing their futures.
"Don't Bring Me Down" but you're exploring a dead K-Mart
Personally, I believe that Sears was purposely destroyed by the CEO. It wasn't "mismanaged," and people need to understand that the "rich get richer" is not accidental. Look at Toys R Us, which went out of business but miraculously is back. My guess is they got out of paying pensions, which mostly benefit the middle class.
I completely agree...he jumps from company to company and sucks it dry until it dies
Can’t have the middle class benefit ever
The sears where I live, the boss let the employees take whatever they wanted for a huuuuugee discount
@@oxyroid 5 finger?
Toys R Us is back??!!! I haven't seen a store anywhere, where have you seen them?!
When that guy said "I feel like we're in the apocalypse" and Dan responded with "we kind of are," I felt that
I'm advocating my ideology of partying into the end of the world.
Mestre Shake word. Just get wasted and have fun until the very last day of life
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@@NivisonsMilk in three weeks I changed my mind about it. I was getting entrenched by ideology and went to the other side (pendulum analogy) and now I'm slowly but surely taking life with less seriousness but not losing control of it (discipline and objectives). I lost nearly all of my friends to communism and now all they see are problems over anything and going kinda genocidal in their speech and I started to notice that if I kept in that road I would be like them on the opposite isle. Taking care of my health and improving myself to be useful to my community is a way to improve the local world without radical actions. I'm still celebrating that the reef problems have been figured out (microfractioning and incubation of corals and then implementation back to the oceans) Google it and celebrate with me.
@mestre shake how very philosophical of you
12:56 I like how the song in the background is playing "don't bring me down" while the store is going down. :D
Musicman The FAM lol
Lol that is ironic
E L O (Electric Light Orchestra)
Musicman The FAM BRRRUCE
Musicman The FAM I'm actually crying now
Like even those its closing
The store has their spirit
Love the channel! Thank you for all that you do.
It's actually very sad. Kmart was a vibrant and bustling place when I was a kid. The few times I have been there in the past 10 years is like going back to 1982 again. Nothing has changed. It's stunning how many retailers have disappeared in the past 5 years.
Especially since they always have the oldies stations on a lot of the time.
Last time I went to Kmart, a homeless man was walking around while peeing himself. The staff tried to stop him but he kept walking, a kid slipped on the pee on the floor, a lady screamed, people were making drama, my dad just grabbed us and told us to keep walking. This was back in 2009, after that I didnt go back since it was kinda far and the other kart that was closer turned into a Ross and a LA fitness. They had cool shoes tho, RIP KMART.
And then everyone clapped?
Hahahaha!
We had a man shit himself, an old lady shit herself, someone piss on the flashlights, and literally every toilet in the store explode when I was working at Kmart. It truly is the worst place on earth
Was this near Carson?
Sounds like the makings for a new reality show!!😅
It's not a store, it's a museum. They should charge for admission.
This reminds me of one of those liminal spaces videos. I always liked the outdated look of KMart, it was somehow comforting to me and reminded me of childhood.
12:50 "Don't Bring Me Down" playing in the Kmart is pretty ironic considering the situation.
I heard it at a Kmart Liquidation sale just hours after watching this.
Same with Firework, but for the opposite reason.
We found you. Joker! The jig is up clown!
Garon Moore lol I was thinking the same thing
I thought the exact same thing!
Americans: No wonder Kmart shut down, the stores were so expensive and unloved.
Australians: ( ' ._.) Kmart shutdown?
Shun i guess cuz we have walmart & target & etc
We like to ruin things and disrespecting places and stores. We do not take care of stores.
@@awesomejb9646 no we do not
@@awesomejb9646 "Disrespecting stores" lmao
@@misbegotten3508 ugh, don't you know, companies are people! You're gonna hurt the brands fweewings :(
a series about malls that failed is a thing I never imagined I wanted but now I need it so much
Hello hanayo
You should check out Defunctland and the Abandoned/Bankrupt series by Bright Sun Films (I could be off on that title) it's similar content, and I love both of the channels
FYI Dan Bell, this was my first vid of yours that I had recommended, and I love it, and have pretty much watched all the dead mall, abandoned places, thrift stores, abandoned hotels and ADRs to date! You are a great film director!
Its interesting when you think about it. WalMart sells the same stuff, so there is something appealing about going into a WalMart vs a KMart. You're right... tired and old... is a good way to describe it.
My local Kmart closed in 2016. I'm not sure about the other locations but ours wasn't as well-stocked as Walmart. You could go to Kmart and take a gamble or go to Walmart and know they'd have everything on your list. Plus, you could check online to see if Walmart had it in stock first. It was more convenient than Kmart.
blackkey1976 it's more appealing than k mart. Alot of walmarts are being revamped. Walmarts in the past 10 years have fast food restaurants in them, eye glass stores, salons, and a small arcade and like 2 other sections I can't remember. K mart doesn't have that. It's convenient because I order new eyeglasses from Walmart. Walmart also has sections around lunch time where their let you taste a product. The Walmarts in my state are relatively clean and bright. And some walmarts have a food court section in the back thats kind of like subway but Isn't.
ThatOldBiddy and not only does it look tired, but if you noticed when they were looking at the food and couches, they were all nasty looking. The food was either old, freezer burnt or both. Walmart doesn't have that problem. And they always restock everything.
I have no idea how Walmart is still in business. Don't people only go there to get vacuums?
LapisSheepz have you been in a Walmart lately? Lol. They have clothes, kitchen and garden decor, eye glass department, fast food restaurants, school supplies, alcohol (I'm in Louisiana so they have alcohol there), electronic section with video games, phones, computers, and TVs. Pharmacy bathroom department isles... Oh and you know... Food lol. What you're thinking of is Sears.
Blue light special on all drugs in the pharmacy
Don't bring me down lol
I grew up in a town of 5000 people. Kmart was all we had for anything that wasn't groceries. The only place within an hour of us to buy clothes, electronics, toys, decor... It was my first job when I turned 16...it's sad to see it go down the drain. And the one in our town closed this summer so there's nowhere to shop.
Oh god you need to leave your hometown...
For real! 5,000 people? Wtf!? My town has over 100K in Boca Raton, FL!
Get out and explore the world.
Wait, how? If it’s the only shop.
Loretta Deveaux ?? yeah let’s just leave with no money and as a minor just to go to a town with more people !1 yeah !1!1 shut up
I cry
I was smiling at your recounting of childhood memories,then out of nowhere my eyes welled with tears. KMart was a piece of my childhood and seeing it go is the closing of a chapter.
that alarm going off is so creepy... just going like that all day and night
And it echos too O_O
This look like a horror game walk through type simulator. Where you’re in first person walking around expecting jump scares or something. The whole atmosphere and slowness really adds to the aesthetic
14:33 The Bestform Romantique Cotton Contuour Underwire Bra is from 1996, likely the same as the ones being sold in the April 28, 1996 coupon booklet.
i was thinking it was from the 1990s indeed, 1980s is way too much
Thank you, this is the kind of cooperation that built up our species.
I guess it 20 years. Pretty accurate huh.
I love this episode, it brings back so many memories. I grew up going to Kmart as my grandmother worked there and I also worked there myself at both a Big K and a Super K. I miss Kmart SOOOO BAD!!!
Me and my grandpa went to Kmart together. It was the only store I ever went to with him ever and I only went once. He bought me a shirt. I miss him. Rip gramps and rip Kmart.
radwilly1
Jeffery Stephens
Rip grammar
radwilly1 My grampa used to sit me in his lap and let me steer the freaking van!
e val79 my grandpa used to bend me over his knee and beat the crap out of me and when he was done he didn't explain to me why he had to whoop me or discipline me wow an explanation for every time I got my ass whooped
A slice of cheese and a cigarette. Part of a healthy breakfast
FYI it's probably a slice of cheese ON the pie.
Amy O just thinking about that makes me want to throw up!!!
I always get a slice of cheese on my apple pie.
It's the Kmart traditional birthday cake. Instead of putting candles into the cake they put cigarettes into the pie.
Amy O couldn't agree more
This is what happens when you look like a dollar store but you aren't.
Amenhir no this is what happens when Amazon came along
This is what happens when Walmart comes around and plays the Wild Draw 4 -cards- Bankruptcy Chances card on K-Mart with better deals.
At least dollar stores don’t feel this depressing
Our dollar store even looks better than this.
This is what happens when you look like a dollar store but aren't, Amazon comes around, and Walmart gets a draw four all at the same time.
3 alarms: blaring
these guys: lol anyway look at these health code violations huh
Who was really coming to shut off the alarms tho. Hahaha. I wonder how long the loud one blared before someone shut it off. Or if it's still blaring to this very day 🤣
It feels so weird that a lot of the stores and malls I went to with my mom when I was younger are being shut down..
It's sad, really
Wow I can relate
Same
I know, same . It really makes me sad 😔. I try to shop as little as I can online , especially for clothing as I don’t really like to (I’m a weird size etc ). But they are all dying and it’s such a bummer, it’s like watching the American dream die or something.
Yeah! Now I have a choice of Walmart, Target, or Kroger. Every city now looks the same because they have the same stores and restaurants. I also miss going to different stores for different things, like going to the hardware store, the auto store, the bakery, instead of it all being under one roof. It really cuts down the variety.
I miss k mart i am 55 years old me and my Pa would shop there when I was a kid ...good memories for me if I was being good My Pa would buy me a toy usually a model plane car or ship one time he bought me the Starship Enterprise model my fav EVER thanks Pa
Aww so heartwarming (つ ♡ ͜ʖ ♡)つ
55 and say fav
@@someoneontheinternetsequel1538 yea but my brain is still 14 years old so......
Thanks for sharing c:
@@JB-pt7sr what
I work at a Big Kmart in Ohio, and let me tell you: I agree with you wholeheartedly, Dan. Our store is very old, likely dating back to the early 70's. And it definitely shows. While we're one of the cleaner and well organized Kmarts, our shelving system, general layout, and utilities are outdated. Thing is, no one cares. Really, none of the higher-ups give that much of a shit, because they've already secured their careers with other department chains. The few people that do give a damn are ignored. Kmart fell due to it's own ignorance. It refused to evolve with the times, and so faded away.
(Note: we still have Blue Light specials, and sell those very jeans- sweatpants and Joe Boxer briefs you were looking at.)
Kurt Yarish When Kmart is gone, where will people get man-thongs?
Kurt Yarish where at in Ohio? I'm in canton
Tia Fogle
nowhere near you I'm afraid
Kurt Yarish
please tell me what happened to kmart cafes.
JokerL1000 my towns k mart had one it just closed up no idea why
Sounds like the liquidations guy was in complete denial!