I spent the first 10 years of my life in Elgin, Illinois. I went back for a visit ten years later and could not believe my eyes when I got off I-90 only to see Kmart gone. The old school firetruck I used to play on right across the street in Trout Park was also gone. Two big parts of my childhood were gone. It is only a matter of time that the Kmart in my current hometown is gone. We live in a different world now. I miss the Friday nights eating grilled cheese and fries at the Elgin Kmart restaurant courtesy of my grandparents, the blue light specials, the anticipation of Halloween and Christmas displays come late September and late November (they did not put up displays three month in advance back then), and the excitement of getting treated to baseball and football cards every time I went to Kmart. Thanks for the memories, Kmart! Amazon be damned!!!!!!!!!!!1
Now Kmart is struggling. They keep closing more stores every year and in January 2017 they announced 78 stores closing. They are 3rd behind Target & Walmart. However, Kmart is doing well in Australia
Rest S. S. Kresge and thank God he didn't see the wreck of his company. K Mart could have survived (along with Sears), but it needed (1) Wal-Mart logistics! (2) Basic merchandising. Stores have to be pleasant. Rest S. S. Kresge and thank you to your giving to the University of California!
except Fast Eddie wasn't using profits during 2004-2010 to invest in his stores, he pocketed the money. They were still profitable until 2011, so if those profits had been used to enhance the store like the late-90's did with those Big K conversion- many of which still have that renovated look 20-some years later, they'd be better looking, and function far better than they are.
I remember going in the Kresge 5 & 10¢ stores as a kid in Chicago in the 50s & 60s and then seeing the Kmart stores in South Florida in the mid to late 70s. Kmart just seemed cheap in comparison to Sears, which I preferred to shop in.
Sad but I don't see physical Kmart stores being around in another 100 years unless Eddie steps down and the existing or most profitable stores get a COMPLETE makeover along with carrying more innovative products. I notice Kmart lacks in the electronics and grocery department however excels in the appliances department. I notice how Target offers electronics from Beats, Boss and Apple products while Kmart does not. What an edge, oh well there's always memories and perhaps Kmart.com.
This is sad to me that all the Kmart stores are closing, because my Grandmom that past away LOVED to shop there. (And she was a BIG part of my life) She would take me there every time I went to her house. And the EXACT one that she would take me to is now closing😓😢
I currently work at Kmart store 4987, in Carson California. Its extremely ghetto and I really don't like the customers. (U would be surprised to hear the stories, I've only been there 8 months and I can tell u stories about fights breaking out, the customers and employees being either high or drunk or just on some type of drug) most of my co workers and the managers are pretty cool. Its sad to see but I'm pretty sure that this is the last year that mine will be open. Its sad cause the managers are really trying and they work their asses off. Especially my boss of the shipping department. She comes in 4am and helps unloads the truck, helps stock, oversees store operations. She works like 12 hours a day. I also feel bad for some of my older co workers cause they have been there a while. I'm young so I can always get another job and I'm also starting college soon. But when u are in ur 40s or 50s and the only job you've had is working at Kmart for 20 plus years. It can be a challenge for them plus some of them are not too bright, (remember its in a really ghetto area) I liked my time working there, met some really cool people and made friends, I don't regret it, but less than a year there and I already want to leave, just feel bad for some of my co workers cause when the time comes for that place to close down and trust me it will, with the rapid changes the store has made at my time being there, its very obvious the place is near its death, tears will be shed :'( yup lots of history In that place, a lot
Do you know when the lease is up at your store? if not ask your manager and other people that work there. Because they are closing stores as their leases expire. So when the lease expires that is when your store will close. I have filmed several Kmarts here in Ohio they are on my page if you want to have a look
Well I can't really ask cause I was fired, coincidentally, 2 days after I posted that comment. But I think the lease expires the end of this year. Also my coworker told me they have to pay 100 k a month for rent on the property. I have no idea where they get the money cause we hardly get any customers and we get a lot of stolen merchandise. When I was working there, the store manager adin who is an idiot kept emphasizing on less hours to work but he wanted us to get the work done faster. So basically the same work with much less time to do it. That place is not gonna last much longer, they fired the leads, including a manager, liquidated the over stock rooms and cut hours alooooot
Actually Kmart had closed hundreds of stores by 2012 the first big wave of closings was around 2004-2005 when they first filed for bankruptcy and Kmart was still it's own company not merged with Sears. They sold many of the closed locations to HomeDepot which I feel was stupid. In Seattle they closed the West Seattle Kmart which was always busy and then sold the location to HomeDepot which still operates a store there. Kmart basically decided to throw in the towel and let Target become the winner after Target opened a store a few miles away. WalMart can't get into the city of Seattle because of the unavailable property of the size they need for a price they are willing to pay in the city. Kmart had stores in prime locations that retailers envied but they chose to give up and now retailers many competition to the Kmart operate in the very Kmart stores that was left empty after Kmart closed the location. WalMart is in the Bellevue WA former Kmart, McClendons Harware in the former Renton Kmart. That says to me that the location works but Kmart didn't bother even trying they handed others the locations and its continues to go down hill from there.
We had a Kresge's here in Altoona, PA into the early 80s. Our Kmart came here in the 60s and is still here today, but they're clearly hurting for business just like other retailers
Kmart will not last another 100 years the kmart in my town closed and it was a dump seems to me a lot of the kmarts are dumps thus the reason so many of them are closing down.
The store pictured at :25 in the center (light colored building; timeline 1912) was on Michigan Ave. and Schaeffer. My wife remembers it well. The building is now doctors' offices, according to her, and the building has lost much of its former glory. Sad.
We had both Kmart and SS Kresge store in my Canadian town until they closed every Kmart in Canada. Then they tore down the Kresge store too! :( I loved going to SS Kresge's!
I remember Kmart back in the day as THE bargain store every suburban mom would shop at. This was back in the early & mid 90s. But I barely see them around anymore. Too bad. They were a part of my childhood!
sad, i do not see how kmart is still alive. they have been losing money for years. its only a matter of time before kmart/sears files chapter 7 bankruptcy, and they already filed chapter 11, and still can't pay off there debts, they did sell the craftsman name to black and decker. most companies never return profitable after chapter 11.
Of course this post is five years old and the video capture may be even older. I don't know why stores do the same thing over and over expecting a different result -- this chain will probably be gone inside of three years.
Jerome Shelton haaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaa blaming Walmart lol nah even Walmart is closing stores and having trouble!! the problem is an income problem!! no one make any real money and all these retailers are delusional that the money situation is still the same as it was 20 years ago!!
***** ahhh but under performing stores in a chain humm that's means they aren't making money in those areas thus their would-be customer base doesn't have any money funny thing is this is nation and world wide!! Also Walmart has gutted its headquarters twice of high management!! Sales are down over over all!! Walmart is not fine!! They may end up closing more stores soon though they haven't confirmed that yet!!! Their is an income drop and retail is failing as a result!!
***** k so maybe try to comprehend what was written before commenting!! I was not talking about such things that's a completely different topic than the one at hand!! All retail is is trouble at this time and with incomes being down people don't have the money to shop at high end or pretend high-end stores like Sears Macy's and Kohl's and Penny's so yes Walmart gets lots of customers via those people are forced their other wise they'd be shopping at the preppie stores and for groceries they'd rather shop Kroger not Walmart!!! But hey considering you know the future what are the winning lottery numbers???
***** you don't shop at either store and yet somehow you know what they are like??? OK you are doing large amounts of drugs!! Kmart has had problems since the late 70's and has never recovered due to bad management and scandal!! However if you knew anything in which you don't you'd know Kmart/Sears just got a new president and as of Friday the stock shot up over 40% they are embarking on a turn around this includes Kmart too maybe that will work finally!! Nothing worse than a know it all troll Jew!!
@@xaenon it's almost 2020, and they're barely still around. They're crawling into 2020 though with only 182 stores combined- 60 for Kmart, 122 for Sears. It's definitely going to end sometime in the near future.
These stores are ran extremely poorly by people who could care less. I worked for store 3786, the first Super K and I watched it get ran into the ground. Sad really because the store was actually pretty busy most of the time.
unstoppable in the 80's, they let Hellmart pass them up in sales in 1990 by using their profits to buy other stores, instead of investing in their own stores. That's why Hellmart passed them in revenue that holiday season, and hasn't looked back. Kmart did rebound in the late-90's after selling off those stores, acquiring Venture stores to reopen as Kmart, and focus more on their company. Then, their CEO took company money for his own use, leading to the first bankruptcy. After they successfully emerged, they used $11 billion to buy Sears, instead of investing that money into their stores building new super centers, better distribution systems, new equipment, etc. Today nearly all of them are stuck in the 90's from that Big K rebranding, which was fine in the 2000's, but in the 2010's looks dated now.
Please clear up a rumor for me. Back in the 1990's a former coworkers church wanted to boycott Kmart because they claimed that "Penthouse Magazine" owned them. They wanted people to go to Walmart because Sam Walton is a Christian. Is this or was this rumor true?
It's funny, they say in the video they hope that Kmart lasts "today, tomorrow, and 1000 tomorrows to come." If you think about it, that's about three years. Given that this came out in 2012, it's highly prescient, if a little pessimistic.
Looking forward to the massive closings and hemorrhaging that will ultimately doom the brand. This video was made before the store hit the proverbial iceburg.
it hit that iceberg in 2004 when it merged with Sears. This was only their 2nd year losing money, first attributed to the recession, but now almost 10 years later, it's pretty clear that they've been sinking for this entire decade!
Depends on Fast Eddie. He seems determined not to close them all at once like Toys R Us did, so if he gets the rest who knows how long he'll keep them going.
14DaveHunter It looks like a Kmart training video, the kind they show employees so they know the history of the company. It leaves out all the negatives, like the bankruptcy in 2001 and the massive store closings of the last 15 to 16 years or so. In the 1990s, Kmart used to have around 2300 stores, now they are down to close to 750.
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I spent the first 10 years of my life in Elgin, Illinois. I went back for a visit ten years later and could not believe my eyes when I got off I-90 only to see Kmart gone. The old school firetruck I used to play on right across the street in Trout Park was also gone. Two big parts of my childhood were gone. It is only a matter of time that the Kmart in my current hometown is gone. We live in a different world now. I miss the Friday nights eating grilled cheese and fries at the Elgin Kmart restaurant courtesy of my grandparents, the blue light specials, the anticipation of Halloween and Christmas displays come late September and late November (they did not put up displays three month in advance back then), and the excitement of getting treated to baseball and football cards every time I went to Kmart. Thanks for the memories, Kmart! Amazon be damned!!!!!!!!!!!1
Now Kmart is struggling. They keep closing more stores every year and in January 2017 they announced 78 stores closing. They are 3rd behind Target & Walmart. However, Kmart is doing well in Australia
My Kmart is now closing lol
@Mr Cool now, but they originally were a branch of Kmart Corporation in the 80's, until they sold it. They also sold the Canadian division.
Rest S. S. Kresge and thank God he didn't see the wreck of his company. K Mart could have survived (along with Sears), but it needed (1) Wal-Mart logistics! (2) Basic merchandising. Stores have to be pleasant. Rest S. S. Kresge and thank you to your giving to the University of California!
except Fast Eddie wasn't using profits during 2004-2010 to invest in his stores, he pocketed the money. They were still profitable until 2011, so if those profits had been used to enhance the store like the late-90's did with those Big K conversion- many of which still have that renovated look 20-some years later, they'd be better looking, and function far better than they are.
I remember going in the Kresge 5 & 10¢ stores as a kid in Chicago in the 50s & 60s and then seeing the Kmart stores in South Florida in the mid to late 70s. Kmart just seemed cheap in comparison to Sears, which I preferred to shop in.
Sad but I don't see physical Kmart stores being around in another 100 years unless Eddie steps down and the existing or most profitable stores get a COMPLETE makeover along with carrying more innovative products. I notice Kmart lacks in the electronics and grocery department however excels in the appliances department. I notice how Target offers electronics from Beats, Boss and Apple products while Kmart does not. What an edge, oh well there's always memories and perhaps Kmart.com.
Kmart is not going be around in 100 years unless they do a complete 180.
The first Kmart opened in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan. And it just closed a couple of weeks ago.
This is sad to me that all the Kmart stores are closing, because my Grandmom that past away LOVED to shop there. (And she was a BIG part of my life) She would take me there every time I went to her house. And the EXACT one that she would take me to is now closing😓😢
I currently work at Kmart store 4987, in Carson California. Its extremely ghetto and I really don't like the customers. (U would be surprised to hear the stories, I've only been there 8 months and I can tell u stories about fights breaking out, the customers and employees being either high or drunk or just on some type of drug) most of my co workers and the managers are pretty cool. Its sad to see but I'm pretty sure that this is the last year that mine will be open. Its sad cause the managers are really trying and they work their asses off. Especially my boss of the shipping department. She comes in 4am and helps unloads the truck, helps stock, oversees store operations. She works like 12 hours a day. I also feel bad for some of my older co workers cause they have been there a while. I'm young so I can always get another job and I'm also starting college soon. But when u are in ur 40s or 50s and the only job you've had is working at Kmart for 20 plus years. It can be a challenge for them plus some of them are not too bright, (remember its in a really ghetto area) I liked my time working there, met some really cool people and made friends, I don't regret it, but less than a year there and I already want to leave, just feel bad for some of my co workers cause when the time comes for that place to close down and trust me it will, with the rapid changes the store has made at my time being there, its very obvious the place is near its death, tears will be shed :'( yup lots of history In that place, a lot
Do you know when the lease is up at your store? if not ask your manager and other people that work there. Because they are closing stores as their leases expire. So when the lease expires that is when your store will close.
I have filmed several Kmarts here in Ohio they are on my page if you want to have a look
Well I can't really ask cause I was fired, coincidentally, 2 days after I posted that comment. But I think the lease expires the end of this year. Also my coworker told me they have to pay 100 k a month for rent on the property. I have no idea where they get the money cause we hardly get any customers and we get a lot of stolen merchandise. When I was working there, the store manager adin who is an idiot kept emphasizing on less hours to work but he wanted us to get the work done faster. So basically the same work with much less time to do it. That place is not gonna last much longer, they fired the leads, including a manager, liquidated the over stock rooms and cut hours alooooot
i work at kmart 7010
Kmart just announced they are closing 64 stores.
Yes I heard about that. None of the locations are close to me. They closed 3 more local stores here in Dayton, Ohio over the summer
Our Kmart shut down in the mid nineties or so. Just before the big Walmart started going up. Sad really.
mine shutdown in 1995 as well.
After 47 years I finally know what the K stands for.
Ron Peterson Krap
Kresge
So before they created K Mart, Kresge were essentially Woolworths?
Ironic as Woolies also tried the big stores in the 90s with "The Big W"
Larry Bundy Jr no no Woolworth tried big box way before the 90's
that had Woolco!!
My wife also owned a blue roan Thoroughbred-Quarter Horse cross named Blue Light Special during her college years.
How the mighty have fallen.
I still have one.
Christopher Sobieniak We have many, unfortunately.
Good for you, I still like going there.
Christopher Sobieniak Good for you, like I care.
***** Why? Your pansies getting all wet because you disagree with on a store with shitty customer service? Go cry me a river or suck it up.
I lov sears and k mart.
This video leaves out massive store closings, stores old and never busy. Kreske must be rolling over in his grave!
He sure would be.
Remember this is 2012, not 2017. It's also by k mart, so they wouldn't want to say that. Those jackasses.
Actually Kmart had closed hundreds of stores by 2012 the first big wave of closings was around 2004-2005 when they first filed for bankruptcy and Kmart was still it's own company not merged with Sears. They sold many of the closed locations to HomeDepot which I feel was stupid. In Seattle they closed the West Seattle Kmart which was always busy and then sold the location to HomeDepot which still operates a store there. Kmart basically decided to throw in the towel and let Target become the winner after Target opened a store a few miles away. WalMart can't get into the city of Seattle because of the unavailable property of the size they need for a price they are willing to pay in the city. Kmart had stores in prime locations that retailers envied but they chose to give up and now retailers many competition to the Kmart operate in the very Kmart stores that was left empty after Kmart closed the location. WalMart is in the Bellevue WA former Kmart, McClendons Harware in the former Renton Kmart. That says to me that the location works but Kmart didn't bother even trying they handed others the locations and its continues to go down hill from there.
Well, I forgot about that, but as stated, They wouldn't want to mention that.
Does anybody know if any of his surviving family members or relatives have ever been interviewed about the state of the company?
Kmart was a fun place.
Walmart and Target are just not the same anymore.
We had a Kresge's here in Altoona, PA into the early 80s. Our Kmart came here in the 60s and is still here today, but they're clearly hurting for business just like other retailers
Kmart will not last another 100 years the kmart in my town closed and it was a dump seems to me a lot of the kmarts are dumps thus the reason so many of them are closing down.
My kmart is closing down. It's very over priced.
"kmart looks foward to another 100 years they would make sebastian krege proud"
boy that did not age well
There's a Kmart on 19 n Garfield Rd in Clinton Twp that's still open surprisingly
This looks like a introductory video to be viewed by new employees at a store.
Walmart will fall too.I worked,hell my whole family worked at K-Mart.They took care of my Dad very well.My Dad started just when it was S.S. Kresge.
Kresge would be rolling in his grave to find out what has happened to his stores.
Walmart is Hugh at over 11,000 stores even started they're peak Kmart didn't even have 2,500 stores.
walmart is not the wost
The store pictured at :25 in the center (light colored building; timeline 1912) was on Michigan Ave. and Schaeffer. My wife remembers it well. The building is now doctors' offices, according to her, and the building has lost much of its former glory. Sad.
My wife worked at Kmart 3188 in Mesa, AZ while in college in the mid-70s. She left the company in 1980 to start her 22 year career with Motorola.
I watch this video after reading news that there's only one Kmart left.
The first kmart store ever in Garden city Mi is closing this Spring rip kmart Garden city 1962-2017.
I remember s.s. Kresge Co. store in Middletown, Ohio. The next block in town, we had a G.C. Murphy. this was in the early to middle 1960's.
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We had both Kmart and SS Kresge store in my Canadian town until they closed every Kmart in Canada. Then they tore down the Kresge store too! :( I loved going to SS Kresge's!
Kmart sold its Canadian division in 1998
Kmart is fading away.
I remember Kmart back in the day as THE bargain store every suburban mom would shop at. This was back in the early & mid 90s. But I barely see them around anymore. Too bad. They were a part of my childhood!
sad
My wonderful&loving Grandmothers favorite store was SS Kresge...Her and others called them "Dime stores"...
Well, I remember go to one of two K mart strore in México in 1996 on Estado de México state, but in 1999 that store was changed to Comercial Mexicana.
I like Kmart but I don't think it will last long, out of the 3 locations that were near by 1 is still there and 1 got turned into a Walmart
+denvercolorado2010 Come to my page and watch my videos of Kmart, it is looking really bad for them
Kmart in Australia and New Zealand is booming and is getting huge sums of money because they changed what they sell
gotta shop your kmart and support them
CEO Eddie is gonna visit one of the call centers I work at, I might ask him some questions
sad, i do not see how kmart is still alive. they have been losing money for years. its only a matter of time before kmart/sears files chapter 7 bankruptcy, and they already filed chapter 11, and still can't pay off there debts, they did sell the craftsman name to black and decker. most companies never return profitable after chapter 11.
Of course this post is five years old and the video capture may be even older. I don't know why stores do the same thing over and over expecting a different result -- this chain will probably be gone inside of three years.
Kreske ur legend is sinking like the titanic more stores across the US are closing every day or never busy due to Walmart
Jerome Shelton haaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaa blaming Walmart lol nah even Walmart is closing stores and having trouble!!
the problem is an income problem!! no one make any real money and all these retailers are delusional that the money situation is still the same as it was 20 years ago!!
***** ahhh but under performing stores in a chain humm that's means they aren't making money in those areas thus their would-be customer base doesn't have any money funny thing is this is nation and world wide!!
Also Walmart has gutted its headquarters twice of high management!! Sales are down over over all!! Walmart is not fine!! They may end up closing more stores soon though they haven't confirmed that yet!!!
Their is an income drop and retail is failing as a result!!
***** k so maybe try to comprehend what was written before commenting!! I was not talking about such things that's a completely different topic than the one at hand!!
All retail is is trouble at this time and with incomes being down people don't have the money to shop at high end or pretend high-end stores like Sears Macy's and Kohl's and Penny's so yes Walmart gets lots of customers via those people are forced their other wise they'd be shopping at the preppie stores and for groceries they'd rather shop Kroger not Walmart!!!
But hey considering you know the future what are the winning lottery numbers???
***** you don't shop at either store and yet somehow you know what they are like??? OK you are doing large amounts of drugs!!
Kmart has had problems since the late 70's and has never recovered due to bad management and scandal!!
However if you knew anything in which you don't you'd know Kmart/Sears just got a new president and as of Friday the stock shot up over 40% they are embarking on a turn around this includes Kmart too maybe that will work finally!!
Nothing worse than a know it all troll Jew!!
We had 4 K-Mart stores with in a 15 mile radius of our house, the closest being across the street.
Are you sure that's not S.H. Kress stores?
Attention KMart shoppers, thank you for shopping at your local Rehoboth Beach Big K, KMart!
they want to be around a 100 more years but with all the store closings, i dont give them 10 years
+landmind666 Kmart and Sears are both rapidly heading for the Big Gurgle right NOW. This time next year, they'll be nothing more than a memory.
@@xaenon it's almost 2020, and they're barely still around. They're crawling into 2020 though with only 182 stores combined- 60 for Kmart, 122 for Sears. It's definitely going to end sometime in the near future.
@@jackson5116 I'm astonished they've managed to hang on THIS long, TBH.
kmart 1962 good. Present LOTS OF CLOSINGS! ACROSS THE USA
All good things must come to an end. Kmart needs to except that they are history.
I hope Target's future doesn't die. If that happens, Douglas Dayton will be turning in his grave.
These stores are ran extremely poorly by people who could care less. I worked for store 3786, the first Super K and I watched it get ran into the ground. Sad really because the store was actually pretty busy most of the time.
I have filmed several Kmarts in Ohio where I live at and they are run down depressing dumps
There are a bunch of dying kmart stores in PA. One of them is in Stroudsburg PA.
They were unstoppable in the 1980s and 90s then downhill.
unstoppable in the 80's, they let Hellmart pass them up in sales in 1990 by using their profits to buy other stores, instead of investing in their own stores. That's why Hellmart passed them in revenue that holiday season, and hasn't looked back. Kmart did rebound in the late-90's after selling off those stores, acquiring Venture stores to reopen as Kmart, and focus more on their company. Then, their CEO took company money for his own use, leading to the first bankruptcy. After they successfully emerged, they used $11 billion to buy Sears, instead of investing that money into their stores building new super centers, better distribution systems, new equipment, etc. Today nearly all of them are stuck in the 90's from that Big K rebranding, which was fine in the 2000's, but in the 2010's looks dated now.
Please clear up a rumor for me. Back in the 1990's a former coworkers church wanted to boycott Kmart because they claimed that "Penthouse Magazine" owned them. They wanted people to go to Walmart because Sam Walton is a Christian. Is this or was this rumor true?
I dream kmart will live forever!
Sears apperantly might go bankrupt this weekend
It's funny, they say in the video they hope that Kmart lasts "today, tomorrow, and 1000 tomorrows to come." If you think about it, that's about three years. Given that this came out in 2012, it's highly prescient, if a little pessimistic.
they also didn't mention the chapter 13 bankruptcy in 98 or 99 and the employees lost all there shares
There’s now only 43 Kmart stores in the us
i have a kmart left in desplains Illinois there's one left out HERE
wasnt that kmart recently remodled
What about Bridgeview?
So few Kmarts now left
Dateline: 2017, Kmart faces financial problems and nears bankruptcy.
First song name?
Axel's favorite department store.
1000 thousand tomorrow (days) later they closed...
if Kmart would have invested more in their stores and prices they wouldn't be dieing out
if they had used that $11 billion to build more supercenters and build better logistics, they wouldn't have lost their number 2 spot to Target.
I feel so bad that my Kmart closed
Looking forward to the massive closings and hemorrhaging that will ultimately doom the brand.
This video was made before the store hit the proverbial iceburg.
it hit that iceberg in 2004 when it merged with Sears. This was only their 2nd year losing money, first attributed to the recession, but now almost 10 years later, it's pretty clear that they've been sinking for this entire decade!
K Mart and Sears will be nothing but a memory by 2020
Depends on Fast Eddie. He seems determined not to close them all at once like Toys R Us did, so if he gets the rest who knows how long he'll keep them going.
I L💝VE K->MART!!!! 💟💗💖
For sure!
Next 100 years? It'll be lucky to get 10 more.
They forget to say now kmart change its name to k-fresh they doing it in ohio getting rid of the bakery puting fresh food in they say it will work
But when Target was founded in 1902 it quickly dominated Kmart
kmarts still around in australia. In fact, its the most popular retailer der
Wow! still 85 stores today! not bad! XD
Mr. Kresge would be so disappointed with the greedy corrupt ceo's running his company into the ground
they first ran it into the ground in the 90's! Used company money for personal use, that ultimately led to the first bankruptcy in 2002.
And the management of 1990s ran it into ground and it's nearly out of business.
Early/mid-90's, they rebounded under Floyd Hall in the late-90's.
www.americanbanker.com/news/its-earnings-way-up-kmart-seen-driving-down-its-debt
All we can do is just keep praying and trusting in the my Lord and Savior.
***** Bless you and yours always
Kmart will be lucky to last 5 more years much less 100 more.
R.I.P K-mart
still better than Wallsharts
Walmart and Target killed Kmart and Sears lol.
Sebastian Sparing Kresge is spinning in his grave.
Ha
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*fades to black* Ah shit
m mart worked swell before the Martha Stewart bs.
Soon there will be only 400 kmart stores. I don't think anyone cares.
Walmart sucks.🤮
Kmart is good. 👍
False hope, in a false video. They've closed more stores now, than they did in bankruptcy. All their problems were internal, so they self-destructed.
14DaveHunter It looks like a Kmart training video, the kind they show employees so they know the history of the company. It leaves out all the negatives, like the bankruptcy in 2001 and the massive store closings of the last 15 to 16 years or so. In the 1990s, Kmart used to have around 2300 stores, now they are down to close to 750.
It is their training video.
They are the Titanic now.
I am sorry, who asked for this?
Kmart sucks
Kmart got what they deserve lol
Don't blame Kmart
Kmart CEOs is that better 4 ya?