Kmart in the 70s & 80s - Why We LOVED IT
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
- A return to the Kmart of the 1970s that we all loved.
Before the days of "Super Kmarts" and "Big Ks," there was just Kmart.
The first Kmart was opened in 1962, and by the mid-1970s, we were all shopping there.
Revisit the days of Blue Light Specials, Kmart Cafeterias, and random wood-veneered merchandise scattered in aisles throughout the store.
MAKE SURE to stick around for the musical montage featuring two unforgettable K-mart jingles complete with in-store announcements.
Thanks for watching The History Lounge!
- Kevin
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Get rid of Walmart and bring back KMART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💔
They had bowling balls.. and we gave that all up for $1 ice trays at Walmart 😡
Those were The Days :-) Thank you for the memories...
K Mart sold American made products , Walmart sells junk of China
Blue Light Special aisle 9
I am still amazed at how badly K-mart performed post 1990. In the 1960s and 1970s, my family went there all the time. In the 1980s, I left home but not K-mart. I do think that the early 1990s was when things went south. I seldom shop Wal-Mart, but Target became my first choice.
I’m going to guess Kmart and Sears got shorted like Game Stop and Block Buster Video for a quick profit.
The new CEO wrecked Kmart, bought Sears and ruined that too.
Kmart did not want to up the delivery rate from .4 cents to .5 cents a box or item unloaded, we brought it up during a meeting and they were too cheap to pay the drivers. The employees also had pay issues.
I went with my mother to K-mart in the early 70’s in Indiana,we would sit down at tables and eat open faced beef n gravy,which was two slices of bread with beef and gravy,then they had a submarine sandwich,it was on a bun that seemed like it was 12inches long and 6 inches wide,it was delicious,I miss the food,and my sweet mother,and the blue light special 🥲
The only thing that could compete with Kmart, was a local TG&Y !!! I loved them both.
One morning my mom handed me a box that said Kmart on it. She told me to put on my clothes before they go out of style. I said they already are. 😂😂😂🎉
There is still a Kmart in Guam. I was there last year.
i grew up in the 80s and i remember being made fun of because my clothes were from kmart.... they actually were handmedowns from friends and cousins maybe from kmart i will never know. but if you grew up in rural michigan in the 80s and went to public schools you knew kmart was a dead man walking. my generation was never going to shop there.
This is by far my favorite video. My memories are so similar to mine. In the 80s when my grandmother picked my brother and I up from school she would often go to K mart to buy her yarn for knitting or crocheting. We loved going with her because we knew we would get popcorn a slushy or hoagie. Once in awhile if we were spending the with her and papa we got to go to the back for a hot meal at the restaurant. You have no idea how much joy you gave with this wonderful video. I wish i had been born in the 60s and early 70s to enjoy it.
I worked at Kmart back in the 80’s. Best time ever…..
I saved my high school lunch money (.35 cents-1975) for a coffee mug with my name on it. I still have the cup today. School supplies, clothes, vinyl 45s and sandwiches from the lunch counter.
Oh wow 😊 that shot of the electronics department... I got my first Atari from there! I became famous for a few hours at school I could flip missile command 😆 fun times!
I know where he was born. Actually there's a town in the Poconos called kresgeville. I'm pretty sure Kresge was from the area.
My momma took me to K-Mart and when there was a Blue Light announcement, a mob of shoppers rushed to take advantage of the sale.. The retail landscape is not the same as years ago.