Sears is the biggest loss to me after having been in business for generations. It was a large part of our history in this country. How my brother and I so looked forward to the Christmas Catalog and perusing the pages for toys to put in our letters to Santa.
There's still sears stores. There's one 3 towns over from me in Ardmore Oklahoma. In fact we bought our washer & dryer from them & you can also shop online
@danirip1931 Only small towns like yours. Drove through Great Falss, MT, and there was one there, too. Surprised me, because I thought they all closed 10yrs ago.
As an electronics guy, I do miss radio shack for all their little odd and ins for small electrical components. So convenient. Most things you have to wait for a week to get in the mail now.
I put together a nice little home stereo with speakers and components I bought 1 at a time to have little dance's at are house when my parents weren't home which was every weekend in summer . Optimus 10 inch subwoofers from the Shack for 75$ a piece days of fun
I used to work for borders books. I have to say it really was a cool and fun place to work at. One of my best friends worked there with me 25 years ago. And her and I are still best friends to this day.
@SuperMan-vm2vg raised in New York I remember Woolworth. Mom would buy my Star Wars figures from there in the late seventies. Great memories. And I loved the little luncheon place inside. Delicious burgers. Where have the years gone?😢
Bend Oregon has a blockbuster. Still up and running. Rent movies and all still. No joke. Thanks to OmarGoshTv. Hes a paranormal investigator. But has a vlog channel. One was about blockbuster and he was at it.
I remember standing around the cart waiting for them to put the recently returned movies on it and getting mad when somebody grabbed up a movie I'd been looking for.
@@nettakay2116 no no. The worst one is when people return the movie you want to rent. But turns out they returned something else. And all hell broke loose from that. Even the managers got made about it.
Supposedly UPON Trumps🇺🇸🦅Return PRICING will go down IMMEDIATELY...Back too the 70's for 3 yrs streight To Give Us a Chance To Catch Up maybe even Save some Money I believe ⛽️ GAS was $1.63 per Gallon, 🥚 eggs $ .87 a dozen I hope it's TRUE
Unemployment in the 1990s was double what it is today. Murder rates were double what they are today. Teen pregnancy rates were 4 TIMES higher than they are today. High school dropout rates fell by half. So, so, so many measures say today is objectively better than then.
One of my first memories was eating at a cafe inside a Kmart, stands out because I remember the area were you got your food and paid looked just like my school cafeteria. And one of the few times I was able to get a sprite frozen beverage. Just never see sprite slushes ya know. Sonic frozen lime aid comes close.
@@Vtard1I thought maybe my memory was flawed but YES!!! Someone else remembers the popcorn and slushes! Pretzels too! Makes me feel so nostalgic for those years...😢
@@user-bv9js4mi7p Yeah but no... Target isn't the same. IDK what it was about Kmart, it had a different vibe. And I think it's definitely more expensive at Target. *Sigh*
K Mart will forever hold a place in my heart because i was lucky enough to work at one for a while and it was the place where i got my very first Pokemon game, Yellow, that i got on Halloween in 1998. My mom took me to buy it while she got candy to give out that night. I started playing it as soon as we got in the car. Driving home my mom almost got in a car accident when someone ran a red light, and she did the mom thing and swung her arm out to hold me back. I was so into the game i had no idea any of that was happening lol.
These places represented something tactful. You didn't simply buy online. They had an identity. You planned your day around trips to the store with family or friends. Maybe the convenience wasn't there like present day, but you developed an emotional and psychological connection you don't get much anymore.
I remember Service Merchendice. You would fill out a slip with the item number from a catalog and then wait for them to bring it uo from the warehouse in the back.
@@aydennoah3316 How about ordering out of a Sears catilog and shipping COD. Then paying the mailman cash at the door when it was divered. Exact change only lol.
Yeah, record stores. I would spend hours looking at the covers and reading the credits of the album and later cds, wishing I had the money to buy them all. I remember the old vinyl album. Most of them had essays on the back. I would stop by and read them all.
For me it was CDs. There used to be a massive FYE near me, and I'd listen to album samples there. Now it's a tiny store in a dead mall. I really miss the mall the way it was, too. I'm a millennial.
Sears hands down. Worked there for 4 years. One of the best jobs I ever had. And as a kid their Christmas wish book was the shit! Wish Sears was still around
Especially the blockbuster smell when you walk in and coming home from school every Friday afternoon Gosh darn those are the good Ole days I miss em all
@jordangarza8405 yup. Me and my family would always hit the Pizza Hut after we're done with Blockbuster. They were in the same plaza. This was waaaay back, while Pizza Hut was still good. I miss a lot of things from those days. America had a completely different vibe. 90's were last great decade for this country. Everything changed after 9/11....
Online stores are taking over. I love walking through stores and being able to touch and test the products. You can try on clothes online to see if they fit. I prefer physical books to reading on a computer screen. I love the smell of old books in a library.
I worked in the Sears Auto Centers for 17 years. Absolutely the best job I ever had. I miss everything about that time of my life. Back when the world made sense...
Toy R US for sure. As a kid I used to love the smell of all the plastics and freshly painted toys that would greet you at the door when you walked in. Ah... memories!
My granddad would always buy me popcorn and candy from the snack shop. He would get nuts for him! The nuts were warm, and the smell was like nothing else! What a memory of shopping at sears!
This is a sad video. I actually had tears! . "....even children get older, oh I'm getting older too..". I really miss the world I knew and loved back then. It would be so great to be able to go back in time for a week or so, and take my boys with me. I would show them around where i grew up, the area is so run down now... it was so pretty in my youth....would love them to be able to get a glimps of my world back then... so many good times. Great memories. Thank you for the unexpected, and beautiful walk down memory lane. Always a pleasure..
No necessarily. Amazon just capitalized on the inability of these stores to keep up with consumer and global demands. How many times have you gone into a store and not found the right size clothing or part vs going online and finding exactly what your looking for? Hard truth of retail in a global economy.
I just miss simple, I miss it so much.....our power went out once. My parents pulled out our sleeping bags, and we all camped out in the living room by the fireplace. These stores remind me of how everything changes constantly now.
Such a shame. Losing Blockbuster really was a bad thing for alot of families including mine. Taking my kids to get a few movies and some candy was something we enjoyed dearly
That type of family event built too much strength and provided character building. The desire now is to allow for there to be selfishness and loneliness to promote this behavior so as to devide and conquer on an even higher level than before.
@ricddewbe54 yeah, I miss those good times, now the kids are not what they used to be that's for sure and it's definitely nothing like it was when I was a kid.
@@Axlenut True. We were fortunate to have it be at a point where it was natural and just came without too much effort. Now it feels like it would take an act of God to corral these kids to have the innocence and respect we use to be raised to give. Simple things like a family store and a routine with family and not just so called friends helped a lot.
@ricddewbe54 my 2 kids that live at home are 14 and 17. We haven't sat down and had dinner in years. Granted I'm a single dad (no boo hoo, it's awesome) and work full time, but while they eat I'm right there but I'm scrambling to get everything ready for the next day. I guess it's alot worse in other households but darn, I feel bad for them. On the flip side, they have a hell of alot more "stuff" than I ever did and in their world their happy.
I remember when I was around 16 (yes living alone , had a job , was in school ) I would go into Radio Shack and need help and one of the guide oils leave the counter and come and help me until I found it…. I have been through all these stores and found this so bittersweet😢
Toys R Us is still around they got out of bankruptcy by liquidating everything . They're going to try to open up stores again but they're going to be smaller
Definitely Sears for me. I worked at Sears. It was my first retail job, and I loved every minute of it and the wonderful people who worked there with me. Lots of great memories!
The past decades can say what they want about this and that closing. But us kids who were alive and born into the 90’s (1986 here) truly experienced a massive shift…SO massive! Physical media, books, basically anything that can be bought online now has destroyed the infrastructure. We’ve lost most of it all. Even the staple restaurants are dying left and right
The old Sears is probably the most impacting one. They used to sell homes (kits to build homes) out of catalogs! They would also swap broken tools for new ones.
@ghostfrieza2904 Yeah, but with the current housing market. Wouldn't it be awesome just to order a house kit. The price would be the same aprox in Ohio as it would be in New York or even California.
Man how great were the 90s. Forreal though. Im 42 and the vest time in my life i can remember was the 90s. No cell phones no social media. Just real people, real friends, and really good times.
I was browsing through movies at blockbuster when I bumped into someone. We had conversations how great the movie she was holding. Today we've been married for 12 years and have two amazing children's. I would tell our kids how I met their mother.
I remember going along with my dad to pick my mom up from Sears, and while we would wait me and my bro would hit radio shack. The had a turbo graphics and Sega Genesis on display you could play. Great times with bonks adventure!
Me and my three friends spent two hours looking at movies a total of eight hours and none of us could decide on a movie to watch and by then it was too late anyway. So we left.
Omg. Everything they showed in this video, i miss growing up. K-mart, Payless, Kessler, circuit city and radio shack. Mannnn how times have changed.😢😢😢😢
I would say I miss Kmart the most. I worked there for 2 years. I held my first management position with the company. And my boss at the time gave me a chance when no one else would. Changed my life forever!💙💙💙💙
At 12 years old I bought my first hunting license at K-Mart. The man behind the counter had me sign it and then said “you’re all set young man” I thought it was the coolest experience I’d ever had. Miss that old store!
I also bought my first hunting license from K Mart. It’s not like today. We’d go to the same K Mart almost every week for upcoming hunting/ fishing trips. They knew us so well, I would go in and purchase ammo, and I was just in my early teens! Can’t do that anymore. But we were raised and observed properly. Something wasn’t right, no fishing or hunting. We were raised to appreciate life and the outdoors. Not being part of family outings was cruel enough punishment!
What's crazy is Sears at one point made more profit than any other department store. And Kmart was number two right behind Sears. They must have made some horrible decisions because Walmart gained on them and overtook both of them. And even Sears and Kmart combined together in a merger and couldn't compete.
How about local music stores that sold CDs and cassette tapes?? I miss browsing the CDs for hours. And Montgomery Wards, Mervyn's, Kmart and Blockbuster Video!! RIP 80s-90s!
I think the one I would always go to was called FYE? There was a certain day of the week that new cd’s were released (at all stores) and I was always so pumped to cruise over and pick up the new tunes! Better times…
The Wonder Years. Kmart - We used to buy Kmart Sub Sandwiches when ever we went to Kmart. It was so good. The good old day. We brought so many things from Sears. Missed them all!
I loved going to our K-Mart Cafe & eating Little Caesar’s on the weekends in the 90s as a kid…. Before Little Caesar’s appeared at different locations individually….🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕
I miss blockbuster the most. The interactions were the best and something nowhere else ever had or will probably ever have again. The youngsters will never know the bliss of the 90's.
@@user-yk2bf4qw1v That's cool I loved going up to people and asking for viewing suggestions. People were so polite and helpful back then. Sometimes it was just someone craving socializing and movies acted as an excellent icebreaker to make new friends. Now everything is controlled by 2 or 3 companies and no one socializes.
I'm in my 40's. I remember all of those except Stien Mart. I guess that was just regional? Never saw one on the East coast. Toys R US was fun as a kid. "Dad, Neo Geo is only $699 and $149 a game, can I get one please" "HAHAHA when pigs fly"
I did my two sons school shopping there also still have my set of white stoneware dishes I got there has Mervyns on the bottom of each plate and bowl etc
"We" did not. Programming and brainwashing by evil did. They want all us buying through one path fir control. To this day, I do not have Netflix, cable and shop in stores.
There's a lot missing from this list. Kay-bee toys, Best department store. Mervins, Woolworth, Funcoland. Frys electronic, good guys electronic store. FAO Schwartz
Friday nights were often 'Blockbuster nights.' We would rent several movies - all VHS, of course. But the best thing that Blockbuster did was roll out Blockbuster Music. There were probably 10 or 12 spin chairs affixed to the floor at a bar that we could sit at. We picked all the music that we wanted to listen to/preview and using headphones at each seat, we could listen to, preview all that we wanted to.
@@ProudGoyim666LOL and here I thought I was the only one who went through that going shopping with grandma haha……Just wait and watch….But those were the good old days!
@@JOEYP1970 IKR. once, as a teen, i was waiting for my grandma to do whatever took them 2 hours to do(lol), i wandered into this room, and saw some old black lady with nothing on but a bra...then i was like: "wtf is this room about"...not realizing it was the woman's waiting/dressing room area,. some lady ran me out and it hit me about then that i wasn't welcome in there lol. I was probably 13 or 14. Crazee shhht
Yall remember “Hollywood” video
That was blockbuster
We had a Hollywood video down the street from Blockbuster, so if one didn't have what we wanted, on the bikes and down to the other we went
@@dallen91523 The same lol
The original 5day rentals
He was asking a question 🤦♂️@@tango216.
The 90s was the last great decade in America.
You're not kidding
After 1999 everything went to 💩
Totally agree
The 80’s was another great decade
After 9/11 @@peachyclean93
Sears is the biggest loss to me after having been in business for generations. It was a large part of our history in this country. How my brother and I so looked forward to the Christmas Catalog and perusing the pages for toys to put in our letters to Santa.
Thanks to Wal-Mart
There's still sears stores. There's one 3 towns over from me in Ardmore Oklahoma. In fact we bought our washer & dryer from them & you can also shop online
When did sears disappeared?
@danirip1931 Only small towns like yours. Drove through Great Falss, MT, and there was one there, too. Surprised me, because I thought they all closed 10yrs ago.
Sears isn’t gone. They’re just online now.
As an electronics guy, I do miss radio shack for all their little odd and ins for small electrical components. So convenient. Most things you have to wait for a week to get in the mail now.
All we have is MicroCenter now.
I'm still using a guitar chord I bought years ago from them.
I put together a nice little home stereo with speakers and components I bought 1 at a time to have little dance's at are house when my parents weren't home which was every weekend in summer . Optimus 10 inch subwoofers from the Shack for 75$ a piece days of fun
There's still a radio shack or several in virginia. There's one in the general area where I am. Have never needed to go in it but it's there somehow.
Radio Shack never sold antennas for radios though. They said they couldn't help me.
How many of y’all felt sad just watching this and with the music 😢those were the best times of my youth
Tell me about it….
Hit me hard . Wow . This is sad.
Not my youth my younger adulthood.
😢
I missed Fry's Electronic 😢
Who else would leave this spooky time in life to go back to these times & do it all over again??
I darn sure would and I would be skeptical of everything.
@@user-ko2pf6xq2z likewise!!!
Please help us!!
I would in a heartbeat. I wish that the late 1980s and 1990s could just replay over and over again.
I'd definitely go back and invest in Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon then retire
This video made me sad. I took all those simple pleasures for granted. 😢
Turning 55 on Friday and this brings back so many memories. Wish my boys could grow up in a time like it was back then. So much better
I just turned 60 on Monday the 13th! Happy early bday to you, fellow Taurusean!!🎉🎉 Hope it's special and unique, just like you!❤
I sure am lucky I’m 11, I gotta enjoy my life more than I do now 😂
I loved Borders. Anyone remember Mervyns? I worked there 30 years ago. That was a great store.
My mom worked at Mervin’s in the 80’s 😁
I worked at Mervyns in Napa Ca. What a great store. Loved my job.
@@user-hp5ht9bq4nI grew up in Napa going to that Mervyns!
I used to work for borders books. I have to say it really was a cool and fun place to work at. One of my best friends worked there with me 25 years ago. And her and I are still best friends to this day.
I used to go to Mervyns all the time.
Woolworth way better than Walgreens and CVS.
You must be from down south I miss Woolworths
@@SuperMan-vm2vgWoolworth was in Monterey California too, i remember it across the street from my job on Alvarado Avenue 😊
My first job was waitressing there. Nice memories!
Pier 1 and Stein Mart😢
@SuperMan-vm2vg raised in New York I remember Woolworth. Mom would buy my Star Wars figures from there in the late seventies. Great memories. And I loved the little luncheon place inside. Delicious burgers. Where have the years gone?😢
Remember going in Sears and smell Popcorn! Remember that?
My heart broke when I saw Blockbuster… It wasn’t just the kids that were excited to go to Blockbuster, my mom was even pumped about it too 💔
Same😢
Bend Oregon has a blockbuster. Still up and running. Rent movies and all still. No joke. Thanks to OmarGoshTv. Hes a paranormal investigator. But has a vlog channel. One was about blockbuster and he was at it.
I remember standing around the cart waiting for them to put the recently returned movies on it and getting mad when somebody grabbed up a movie I'd been looking for.
@@nettakay2116 no no. The worst one is when people return the movie you want to rent. But turns out they returned something else. And all hell broke loose from that. Even the managers got made about it.
We really need to get back to those days...I'm 53 and I can say today times are HORRIBLE
I agree
Agree
Supposedly UPON Trumps🇺🇸🦅Return PRICING
will go down IMMEDIATELY...Back too the 70's for 3 yrs streight
To Give
Us a Chance To Catch Up maybe even Save some Money
I believe ⛽️ GAS was
$1.63 per Gallon,
🥚 eggs $ .87 a dozen
I hope it's TRUE
Unemployment in the 1990s was double what it is today. Murder rates were double what they are today. Teen pregnancy rates were 4 TIMES higher than they are today. High school dropout rates fell by half. So, so, so many measures say today is objectively better than then.
Everything you just said! I’m 42 and what is this NONSENSE the dollar store isn’t a $1!
Kmart was fabulous! They had a cafe, loads of toys, houseware, bedding, groceries, and affordable/comfy clothes for poor families, like mine.
I remember going there as a kid. Would always get an icee and popcorn. It was a real treat when we ate at the cafe. Great memories.
One of my first memories was eating at a cafe inside a Kmart, stands out because I remember the area were you got your food and paid looked just like my school cafeteria. And one of the few times I was able to get a sprite frozen beverage. Just never see sprite slushes ya know. Sonic frozen lime aid comes close.
@@Vtard1I thought maybe my memory was flawed but YES!!! Someone else remembers the popcorn and slushes! Pretzels too! Makes me feel so nostalgic for those years...😢
like target
@@user-bv9js4mi7p Yeah but no... Target isn't the same. IDK what it was about Kmart, it had a different vibe. And I think it's definitely more expensive at Target. *Sigh*
K Mart will forever hold a place in my heart because i was lucky enough to work at one for a while and it was the place where i got my very first Pokemon game, Yellow, that i got on Halloween in 1998. My mom took me to buy it while she got candy to give out that night.
I started playing it as soon as we got in the car. Driving home my mom almost got in a car accident when someone ran a red light, and she did the mom thing and swung her arm out to hold me back. I was so into the game i had no idea any of that was happening lol.
These places represented something tactful. You didn't simply buy online. They had an identity. You planned your day around trips to the store with family or friends. Maybe the convenience wasn't there like present day, but you developed an emotional and psychological connection you don't get much anymore.
Who remembers walden bookstore and service merchandise?
I still have a backpack that I use every day that I bought at Service Merchandise. I've had to replace the zippers but it's still doing great.
I remember Service Merchendice. You would fill out a slip with the item number from a catalog and then wait for them to bring it uo from the warehouse in the back.
What about Mervyns, Montgomery Wards and those S.H green stamps where you filled up the card from the grocery stores.
@@aydennoah3316 How about ordering out of a Sears catilog and shipping COD. Then paying the mailman cash at the door when it was divered. Exact change only lol.
Omgggggg I loved Service Merchandise 😢❤
I miss Kmart.
Same, when I was growing up we used to go to the one on Spring Mountain and Rainbow in Vegas.
Blue light special and those “gourmet” ham sandwiches in the case. 😂😂
I am still upset that Kmart closed. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Soft pretzel and frozen coke.
I remember eating at Kmart. Some had restaurants in them like the Woolworth stores. But....I'm only 29 so ....🥴😏😉
Indeed. This is the dystopia the controllers wanted all along. They've led us to an empty wilderness.
They've not finished yet.
I miss the old days so much 😢😢
I really miss going to record stores! So fun to hang out and listen to the latest music. 😢
Me too. Spend hours looking at album covers and listening to music. Good time.
Buying 45s from Kmart.
I remember buying singles and making tapes with your favorite songs.
Yeah, record stores. I would spend hours looking at the covers and reading the credits of the album and later cds, wishing I had the money to buy them all. I remember the old vinyl album. Most of them had essays on the back. I would stop by and read them all.
For me it was CDs. There used to be a massive FYE near me, and I'd listen to album samples there. Now it's a tiny store in a dead mall. I really miss the mall the way it was, too. I'm a millennial.
Walmart was the nail in the coffin for most these retailers. Then amazon finished job by throwing dirt on the rest.
I AGREE
Very true.
The govt sold out
Not necessarily it was the tech mostly. Once smart phones and the internet became more advance people stopped caring about them as much.
Don’t forget…Redbox was part of the trend that helped to close down video and game rentals.
Payless was underrated. I miss them
Shoes not meant to last
Sears hands down. Worked there for 4 years. One of the best jobs I ever had. And as a kid their Christmas wish book was the shit! Wish Sears was still around
my mom worked for Sears also, but then they moved to Iowa.
R.I.P. to the good days. I miss most of the store equally. MUCH better times.
Especially the blockbuster smell when you walk in and coming home from school every Friday afternoon Gosh darn those are the good Ole days I miss em all
@jordangarza8405 yup. Me and my family would always hit the Pizza Hut after we're done with Blockbuster. They were in the same plaza. This was waaaay back, while Pizza Hut was still good. I miss a lot of things from those days. America had a completely different vibe. 90's were last great decade for this country. Everything changed after 9/11....
All of them🥺…(sigh) when American was normal.
Not sure america is going to be normal again. It's sad 😢
America was never normal.
So true and so sad...well....who I wants to order something from Amazon
America was never "Normal" 😂😂😂😂
@@ParkourRhett ok…name me a place where you’d like to live besides America.
Online stores are taking over.
I love walking through stores and being able to touch and test the products.
You can try on clothes online to see if they fit.
I prefer physical books to reading on a computer screen.
I love the smell of old books in a library.
Even online sales gone down in the bad economy today
Man Blockbuster, Toys R Us, Sears, and K Mart all hit really hard I miss those stores and wish they would come back 🥹🥺
The Toys R Us one still gets me. That was my entire childhood, especially when you would get the catalog in the mail right before Christmas.
My dad took us there Sunday’s after church…memories🥹
Theres still one in nj American dream mall
Still a bunch here in Canada
I heard they're inside Macy's now!
Online shopping is why they went our of business in America
I worked in the Sears Auto Centers for 17 years. Absolutely the best job I ever had. I miss everything about that time of my life. Back when the world made sense...
Facts of life 💯
Had my brakes serviced final days of Sears in my major city. Sears gave me both store and credit card which scaled me back up.
I miss Sears bro. Only place you can get a real warranty. Bought everything there
All their merchandise was top-notch, from tools to appliances.
You got paid retirement?
Western Auto used to be in Milton New Jersey on Old Black Oak ridge Rd,
My Dad bought my first motorcycle from there back in 1968.
Toy R US for sure. As a kid I used to love the smell of all the plastics and freshly painted toys that would greet you at the door when you walked in. Ah... memories!
Who remembers Ventures, service merchandise, Montgomery Ward?
I DO
Service Merchandise...wow
❤ed Ventures!
Hills & Media Play were awesome
I remember all 3.
I will forever remember looking through the Sears Christmas catalog as a kid
Service merchandise
Same here.Good memories.
Wow! I just felt a dart through my heart! Yes, the catalog! :( makes me sad remembering.
My granddad would always buy me popcorn and candy from the snack shop. He would get nuts for him! The nuts were warm, and the smell was like nothing else! What a memory of shopping at sears!
The smell of popcorn
This is a sad video. I actually had tears! . "....even children get older, oh I'm getting older too..". I really miss the world I knew and loved back then. It would be so great to be able to go back in time for a week or so, and take my boys with me. I would show them around where i grew up, the area is so run down now... it was so pretty in my youth....would love them to be able to get a glimps of my world back then... so many good times. Great memories. Thank you for the unexpected, and beautiful walk down memory lane. Always a pleasure..
I remember Blockbuster stopped charging late fees as a last resort to stay in business.
Sears going out of business was by far the biggest
U ain't lying in my old stomping ground sears was my favorite, etc
Sears was bought out by Kmart. How weird is that
my late mom loved Sears
I was working at Sears when ours closed down. It's now a Gold's Gym.
@@jackkanoff6265 did Kmart buy sears, before they all closed? I was so confused with all that. It always sounded like sears should have bought Kmart
Amazon killed the modern day store.
No, consumers decided to leave these stores behind.
What was the cause of these stores closing?
No necessarily. Amazon just capitalized on the inability of these stores to keep up with consumer and global demands. How many times have you gone into a store and not found the right size clothing or part vs going online and finding exactly what your looking for? Hard truth of retail in a global economy.
Walmart too
I think online shopping in general did them in
Back in day when window shopping and looking at stuff were fun and give you great ideas.
I just miss simple, I miss it so much.....our power went out once. My parents pulled out our sleeping bags, and we all camped out in the living room by the fireplace. These stores remind me of how everything changes constantly now.
Such a shame. Losing Blockbuster really was a bad thing for alot of families including mine. Taking my kids to get a few movies and some candy was something we enjoyed dearly
Me too my Dad would let us pick a movie n we each get our own candy. I miss them both.
That type of family event built too much strength and provided character building. The desire now is to allow for there to be selfishness and loneliness to promote this behavior so as to devide and conquer on an even higher level than before.
@ricddewbe54 yeah, I miss those good times, now the kids are not what they used to be that's for sure and it's definitely nothing like it was when I was a kid.
@@Axlenut True. We were fortunate to have it be at a point where it was natural and just came without too much effort. Now it feels like it would take an act of God to corral these kids to have the innocence and respect we use to be raised to give. Simple things like a family store and a routine with family and not just so called friends helped a lot.
@ricddewbe54 my 2 kids that live at home are 14 and 17. We haven't sat down and had dinner in years. Granted I'm a single dad (no boo hoo, it's awesome) and work full time, but while they eat I'm right there but I'm scrambling to get everything ready for the next day. I guess it's alot worse in other households but darn, I feel bad for them. On the flip side, they have a hell of alot more "stuff" than I ever did and in their world their happy.
Anyone remember the Sears Christmas catalog wishbook that was the best thing that was ever invented😅
Nope, no one's heard of that
It made Christmas special. Everything you wanted was in that book.❤
Most definitely remember. It was the highlight of the Christmas season.
We would sit around my grandma's table and circle what we wanted each grandkid wjth a different color marker
During Christmas season, when my brother and I were kids, we'd get excited for the Service Merchandise and toys'r'us catalogs.
I remember when I was around 16 (yes living alone , had a job , was in school ) I would go into Radio Shack and need help and one of the guide oils leave the counter and come and help me until I found it…. I have been through all these stores and found this so bittersweet😢
Peaches, Records & Tapes.
You could get any genre of music at their stores. I was so sad when the last one closed in South Florida.
They went back to Georgia I bet 😊
I miss them all. I was a shopper at everyone of them. I really miss Sears and Toys R Us.
Toys R Us is still around they got out of bankruptcy by liquidating everything . They're going to try to open up stores again but they're going to be smaller
These make me feel a little sad while missing yesterday when life was more wholesome and simple.
Yes 👍🏽
Same😩
I met my wife on a first date 32 years ago at a borders book store,good times.
Definitely Sears for me. I worked at Sears. It was my first retail job, and I loved every minute of it and the wonderful people who worked there with me. Lots of great memories!
As a kid back in the 60's and 70's, I couldn't wait for the Sears Christmas catalog every year.
Yes I loved that book I would go and circle stuff I liked and wanted
......you old as me.....that's "Sears and Roebucks"😅
I feel your loss.
@@alantaylor-vb6mn Montgomery Wards. Where I got my first 3 hp Briggs and Stratton mini bike.
Or the 80s. Always excited to see what new nes game was out
The 80’s & 90’s were epic for everything! I miss that time so much. 😢
The past decades can say what they want about this and that closing. But us kids who were alive and born into the 90’s (1986 here) truly experienced a massive shift…SO massive! Physical media, books, basically anything that can be bought online now has destroyed the infrastructure. We’ve lost most of it all. Even the staple restaurants are dying left and right
Nothing last but the word of God ❤️.
Godwilling . The way people drive out on streets reflects their paganism
It’s like having your childhood closed, just like those stores.
Well said.... well said my friend.
So true!😉
PAYLESS for sure!! 👍 The appreciation that came with the stores from the 80’s
Ruined our feet lololol
I REMEMBER THE TEN DOLLAR PRO WINGS.🤣😆🫴👟👟
I loved Payless
Why does the music make me cry. It literally reminds me of my childhood
What I miss most are the hauls of new, and lightly used product that I rescued from these stores dumpsters.
Walmart help run most of these stores out of business, now they make us self check out...poor customer service 😢
I prefer to check my own stuff.
And low pay always
The old Sears is probably the most impacting one. They used to sell homes (kits to build homes) out of catalogs! They would also swap broken tools for new ones.
Buddy, they stopped doing that in the 40s 💀
@ghostfrieza2904 Yeah, but with the current housing market. Wouldn't it be awesome just to order a house kit. The price would be the same aprox in Ohio as it would be in New York or even California.
The original part of my house (pre addition) was from a kit and its over 100 years old
@@christopherwangler9559 that's crazy I would love to see pictures
There are still home building kits being sold. Here at Menards and I think Home Depot
Man how great were the 90s. Forreal though. Im 42 and the vest time in my life i can remember was the 90s. No cell phones no social media. Just real people, real friends, and really good times.
I was browsing through movies at blockbuster when I bumped into someone. We had conversations how great the movie she was holding. Today we've been married for 12 years and have two amazing children's. I would tell our kids how I met their mother.
Radio Shack was awesome
Still have them in TN, VA and NC
I remember going along with my dad to pick my mom up from Sears, and while we would wait me and my bro would hit radio shack. The had a turbo graphics and Sega Genesis on display you could play. Great times with bonks adventure!
@@coleernest8421 also one in Colville, Washington
I remember seeing them recently and laughing that they were still hanging in there.
Thanks Amazon. Don't forget 99¢ only store.
“Music City” on Sunset in Hollywood. The good ole days 🤪
Circuit City was the 💩
Shits depressing and music really drives it home
Right...the music doesn't help.
Damn. This made me nostalgic. I used to spend literally hours at blockbuster just to get one or two movies. Loved it.
Me and my three friends spent two hours looking at movies a total of eight hours and none of us could decide on a movie to watch and by then it was too late anyway. So we left.
I miss Montgomery Wards & Dillards!
🫶🏼
Dillards is still open
I took driving lessons from Montgomery Ward 's 42 years ago in Detroit !
Theres literally a dillards still standing in my town
Toys R Us is still in business in Canada apparently. I follow this Hot Wheels hunting channel that’s in Canada.
@@ChrischansmomMine as well Missoula MT
Omg. Everything they showed in this video, i miss growing up. K-mart, Payless, Kessler, circuit city and radio shack. Mannnn how times have changed.😢😢😢😢
I remember all these stores growing up. You could actually afford to buy things back then. I miss those days 😔
I would say I miss Kmart the most. I worked there for 2 years. I held my first management position with the company. And my boss at the time gave me a chance when no one else would. Changed my life forever!💙💙💙💙
I loved the subs they made😊😊😊😊😊
I worked at Kmart lol sucked Ass
Nothing like the 80’s
Missed the cafeteria the most......
Same, it was my very first management position at K-mart. I was there when Eddie lambert bought the chain.
How does this music combined w these pics make me cry Everytime
Block Buster was memorable as a young kid in the early 2000s even though I’m still young at 24 😂.
At 12 years old I bought my first hunting license at K-Mart. The man behind the counter had me sign it and then said “you’re all set young man” I thought it was the coolest experience I’d ever had. Miss that old store!
Dont forget the “ LAY WAY” 😂 at kmart
@@theimage1144 oh ya and the blue light special!
I also bought my first hunting license from K Mart. It’s not like today. We’d go to the same K Mart almost every week for upcoming hunting/ fishing trips. They knew us so well, I would go in and purchase ammo, and I was just in my early teens! Can’t do that anymore. But we were raised and observed properly. Something wasn’t right, no fishing or hunting. We were raised to appreciate life and the outdoors. Not being part of family outings was cruel enough punishment!
@@marcoaguiar1131 when customer service existed
My first job was at Stein Mart.
RIP
Miss the 80s and 90s so much, staying out till the street lights coming on, smelling like the great outdoors
Looking back, we had the best, no matter ones status
Yes, catching lighting bugs 😢😢😢 .....take me back
You did the damn thing . I could cry so many memories 😢😢😢 good stores
I would have never thought Sears and Kmart would actually go away
What's crazy is Sears at one point made more profit than any other department store. And Kmart was number two right behind Sears. They must have made some horrible decisions because Walmart gained on them and overtook both of them. And even Sears and Kmart combined together in a merger and couldn't compete.
How about local music stores that sold CDs and cassette tapes?? I miss browsing the CDs for hours.
And Montgomery Wards, Mervyn's, Kmart and Blockbuster Video!! RIP 80s-90s!
I think the one I would always go to was called FYE? There was a certain day of the week that new cd’s were released (at all stores) and I was always so pumped to cruise over and pick up the new tunes! Better times…
Payless Shoes one still gives me memories. My mom used to get shoes for me from that store......
The Wonder Years.
Kmart - We used to buy Kmart Sub Sandwiches when ever we went to Kmart. It was so good. The good old day. We brought so many things from Sears. Missed them all!
I loved going to our K-Mart Cafe & eating Little Caesar’s on the weekends in the 90s as a kid…. Before Little Caesar’s appeared at different locations individually….🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕
I miss blockbuster the most. The interactions were the best and something nowhere else ever had or will probably ever have again. The youngsters will never know the bliss of the 90's.
My mother use to go to blockbusters every morning.
@@user-yk2bf4qw1v That's cool I loved going up to people and asking for viewing suggestions. People were so polite and helpful back then. Sometimes it was just someone craving socializing and movies acted as an excellent icebreaker to make new friends. Now everything is controlled by 2 or 3 companies and no one socializes.
It did not matter which location you went to the customer service at Blockbuster was always good
I had rented 6 PS2 games from the blockbuster by my house and when I went to return them the store was closed the sign was even already gone
Come visit the last blockbuster in Bend OR!
Miss them all. This was my childhood and I only wish my son could enjoy half the stuff I did as a kid 😢
awe my mom recently asked if payless was around still around 💔
Now we got to paymore
I'm in my 40's. I remember all of those except Stien Mart. I guess that was just regional? Never saw one on the East coast.
Toys R US was fun as a kid. "Dad, Neo Geo is only $699 and $149 a game, can I get one please" "HAHAHA when pigs fly"
Loved Mervyn's, that's where my daughter and i would do her back to school shopping! How i miss those days 🥲
I was going to write this comment 😢 Mervyns was my back to school shopping place loved it!!!
@@monique17_88 and it was quite afortable too.
I did my two sons school shopping there also still have my set of white stoneware dishes I got there has Mervyns on the bottom of each plate and bowl etc
Man! This brought a tear in my eye! Back down memory lane
I ❤ Borders. I'm a huge bookworm. Borders was what I always needed. 📚 📖 📙 📘 🎒 📚 📖 📙 📘 🎒 honestly, I miss them all. Borders was my favorite.
Hills. No matter if I purchased something or not, I always walked out with either popcorn or a soft pretzel and an orange Julius!
We as a society killed these stores . Online shopping
"We" did not. Programming and brainwashing by evil did. They want all us buying through one path fir control. To this day, I do not have Netflix, cable and shop in stores.
You pick the right instrumental for these videos, it almost gives you goosebumps because of the nostalgia 🔥👍
One store I miss is Media Play. That place was like a bigger, better Best Buy and it still blows my mind they went out of business.
I remember a store called Woolworth my Grandfather use to take me to back in 1983. I miss those times.
There's a lot missing from this list. Kay-bee toys, Best department store. Mervins, Woolworth, Funcoland. Frys electronic, good guys electronic store. FAO Schwartz
Clovers ❤😢
GEmcO, zodies, builders imporium
Alexanders
I miss Kmart. Worked there for almost ten years 😢
I really miss the blue light special they had
I worked there too.. definitely miss it 😢
When I was a kid, my mom would always yell at idiot drivers on the road asking if they got their license at a blue light special😂
Friday nights were often 'Blockbuster nights.' We would rent several movies - all VHS, of course. But the best thing that Blockbuster did was roll out Blockbuster Music. There were probably 10 or 12 spin chairs affixed to the floor at a bar that we could sit at. We picked all the music that we wanted to listen to/preview and using headphones at each seat, we could listen to, preview all that we wanted to.
I got teary eyed .
R.I.P ☹️ At least I still have 90's music to reminisce on 🎧
I always get a heartfelt look on my face when i watch these. fml
I remember the 1st Sunday in December, the super thick newspaper would come with all the stores' advertisements
Service Merchandise was great. For some reason, I was fascinated when your package came down the conveyer belt.
What about big 5
And Evans too. I used to love the pneumatic order system.
😂 serviced merchandise
My grandma used to always go to Sears or JC Pennys.
JC still open at my mall.
That was definitely a Grandmas paradise...
@@JOEYP1970 right, and i had to sit there and sit there and sit there and wait.....lol
@@ProudGoyim666LOL and here I thought I was the only one who went through that going shopping with grandma haha……Just wait and watch….But those were the good old days!
@@JOEYP1970 IKR. once, as a teen, i was waiting for my grandma to do whatever took them 2 hours to do(lol), i wandered into this room, and saw some old black lady with nothing on but a bra...then i was like: "wtf is this room about"...not realizing it was the woman's waiting/dressing room area,. some lady ran me out and it hit me about then that i wasn't welcome in there lol. I was probably 13 or 14. Crazee shhht
Who remembers Sam Goody? We used to listen to music in stores and buy cassette tapes.