I remember when I was a toddler and they gave out their smiley face logo stickers to kids and put a sticker on my hand. The employees were so accommodating and the environment was more family oriented and friendly. One time I got lost in the store and there was a whole team of employees looking for me with hand radios and the store was always clean, open 24 hours and had good security. Nowadays the vibe feels depressing and unsafe.
@@dylanpresley3079 Not blaming the employees. I’m aware the issue is much more broad than just the store employees. With how things are run now being underpaid, being shorter staffed, budget cuts, working in dangerous/unsanitary conditions and poor treatment from upper management and customers ect. Its perfectly reasonable in those circumstances to be depressing. I’m just saying the overall environment is very different from what it used to be and this video sparked some old memories.
A lot of Walmarts (or Wal*Marts) in rural middle-of-nowhere towns weren't remodeled until around 2012, and even that was crazy. Seeing one in 2022 is just legendary.
When Walmart had coffee bean dispensers, smiley face stickers, fish tanks, & ready to play games in the electronic section. I just wish we could go back to the 90s😢
two locations had sold pet fish. then took them out in the 90s. then when those relocated and became supercenters they brought them back. eventually they were gone again.
One thing I miss from walmart growing up was the live lobster tank. They took them out years ago, but the Brookshires I live near now has one and I always get so excited when I see it!
Do you guys remember when Wal*Mart had whole bean coffee dispensers in the coffee aisle? You could fill a plain white coffee bag with different flavours of whole bean coffee. I think they had a bean grounder too. Those were the days. 😌☕
Yeah! The grinder!! I just caught the tail end of that, and really liked grinding my own coffee at the store. Then one day POOF the grinding machine was gone! No explanations, no signs, just merch and the eerie feeling I'd maybe dreampt the whole thing. Turkish grind was the best, it was nothing but coffee powder and you could use it in baking or mix with powder sugar and sprinkle on top of frosted brownies. I bought a small grinder, but it's just not the same
When I worked at Starbucks I always told people if they forgot to have us grind their beans they could always take the bag to Walmart and grind it themselves. I feel like that was such a nice way for people to have better coffee in their lives. May the public grinder rest in peace
Just wow! I never thought I'd feel nostalgic towards Walmart of all places. I miss the floor tiles most of all. I've noticed this trend lately with not just Walmart, but almost every other larger store in town, like Fred Meyer/ Kroger, where they're ripping out their floor tiles and just polishing the concrete underneath. It's really weird and gives the buildings a totally different vibe! And not a good one either.
I hate how all stores got rid of ceiling tiles and floor tiles. Much dirtier looking like a warehouse and harder to hear. They used to look shiny and nice. Now they look like production plants.
You can still find plenty of old-style WAL*MARTs in remote areas, at least in Canada. My guess is that remodelling them is just not a high priority given their remote location, certainly not what the majority of people will see or know about. But for people who have nostalgia for the 90s and 2000s, like me, they are the jewels in the wilderness.
I remember when the employees at the door actually greeted you rather than act as checkpoint guards asking for your receipt because something isn’t in a bag.
They also used to employ elderly and handicap people but in recent years pretty much forced them out with their policy that the door attendant must be on their feet. Sad, cause I knew a pretty cool old guy who was a ww2 vet who was a door greeter in his electric scooter and it's sad that nowadays he wouldn't have even been hired.
those door guards drive me crazy. Fun fact: it's actually illegal for stores to ask to look at your receipt. Exceptions would be places like Sam's Club or Costco where your membership contract states they can check your receipts at the door.
Honestly I just ignore them now when they ask for my reciept. They can think im a shoplifter, it's not like they can stop you from just walking out. They're trying so hard to emulate Costco.
@@Bloxicorn Dude, when I worked there, some guy went out the door with a cart full of stuff, and the other "associate" berated me for not going after them. Like? The fuck? I'm a cashier, I'm not gonna do that shit.
When we are in the way out the door, the lady just grabbed one of our items out of the cart and said we couldn’t have it. It pissed me off so much - like, who tf are you? We learned then they now had a “everything must be in bags” rule, which is just plain stupid.
There is actually a museum where the first Wal Mart was that has a lot of history about the company. I don’t remember much about it because I went there when I was little, but I remember there was also this little ice cream and soda shop on the side.
I use to work for wal*mart , almost twenty years. I started in 2003 as a cart pusher and worked my way up to facilitator as well as a co manager. Seen a lot change since then .. I did have meetings in Bentonville ,Arkansas , and they have a small town with a lot of nostalgic Walmart themed shops and restaurants .. the most interesting to me was the restrooms that were wallpapered with Walmart ads from the 80s and 90s lol!! Literally took me back to being a kid, looking at the toys and video games in the ads and begging my mom to take my brother and I .. a lot has changed, and Wal*Mart has become a place that I no longer shop at. It’s sad what it’s become.. and how they treat their people .. in the early 2000s I actually looked forward to going to work there, and by 2010 I dreaded it ..
Walmart in the early to mid 2000s was something special. This Walmart reminded of how special and unique Walmart use to be and feel. We had a Walmart growing up in Orange Park, Florida that looked very similar. I still have fond memories of the giant McDonald's arc and classic Walmart McDonald's, the the blue and red borders along the walls, and of course for quarter getting sam's choice soda can. It was a go to shop for most of my life until the store was closed and a new modern supercenter down the road replaced it. Never will forget the classic Walmart at Blanding Boulevard and Bolton Avenue.
I really miss Walmart before they rebranded in 2008. I wasn’t born in the 90s so I’m too young to remember everything with my store, but this honestly feels more inviting compared to how it looks today. And this is coming from someone who got really excited to see an entire new grocery level with ESCALATORS being added. Watching this, I can’t help but feel like that’s a bit much now. I miss the simpler discount store. I miss WAL☆MART.
I remember when I worked at Walmart in 2011 before they finished rebanding all the remaining stores in 2012ish, our cheer spelling the store name was "give me a W, give me a A, give me an L, give me an *_uh!_* , give me an M" etc. lol. That inclusion of the hyphen or star in the cheer was always funny to me. Never occured to me that it would have been phased out pretty quickly after I stopped working there.
That's friggin awesome. Looks like it's straight out of 1990. I really liked Walmart's 80s-90s architecture and design. You know, the star logo, classic white tiles which make the stores look nice and bright, the dark blue, red, and grey, the trademark Always used in their slogan: "Always low prices. Always." And of course, Smiley.
@@fennecRBX I'm not gonna lie, I don't really care for Walmart's current design nor logo much at all. While Supercenters (more like Stupid-Center lol) are convenient for the most part (it depends on the store management), I think they overpopulated. Although, I'm ok with their older Supercenters from the 90s and the ones built up to 2004. I really miss the days when there were still basic Walmarts and Supercenters were still a fairly new (at least in my area as the first Supercenter I went to opened in 2002 as a replacement store for the basic store down the road that operated for 16 years at the time). The Walmart near my house operated as a basic discount store for 18 years (it originally opened in November 1987); it eventually moved to it's current location as a Supercenter even closer to my neighborhood in January 2006.
Right?! And most of all, the goddamn ceiling tiles! I HATE the boring exposed ceiling beams their new store designs use. It makes it feel like you’re just shopping in a boring sterile warehouse. That’s why I like Target more - it just feels cozier and cleaner in its layout and design.
I know there may be some Walmarts in the United States that were from the 90's, but most of them were remodeled/repainted, I've never seen a true, 90's Walmart location that's still open, Incredible.
@@michaeljohn9263 there is quite a few old 90's Walmarts still in ontario, but none of the ones with an town/city population greater then 8,000 residents are the old 90's style. Only the really far out of reach ones are unaffected by the mass update the majority of the stores received
gotta say looking back i could have edited this better... i also sounded sick haha. thanks again for stopping by to hear me ramble maybe i'll revisit it someday.
its ok bro the amateur editing and voice over add to the quality of the video. It was never meant to be a professional production, its perfect this way
@@gaffneyrailroading1982 all the big stores fell same way about their employees,, like a pretty woman ❤️/ love employees for short peroid of time , , then want to rid of employee with new younger one
Good video, I honestly missed the 2000s Wal-Mart when there used to be greeters at the door and they’d hand out colorful smiley stickers which’d be on the employee tags and all the cardboard inserts for the sales had that smiley face on them. I wanna see you find a Wal-Mart like that
Ours had a greeter up until recently. She was a very kind elderly lady, easily well into her 80s, likely late 80s. Always greeted everyone, smiling, full of energy. I swear it's that job that kept her alive so long. Unfortunately she passed away a few months ago.... Now it's back to the younger people at the door...don't even look at you when you walk in, only there to make sure someone doesn't walk out of the store without paying for a big ticket item.
THIS COMMENT IS USELESS AS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. I was born in the 2000's, (2003) so I've never seen Walmart look like this before. From my research, it looks like the store has been around since the 60's, but didn't really surface into a chain until the 90's where it competed with K-Mart. I miss what my local Walmart looked like when I was a child. I remember the "Always" logo, along with that iconic yellow smiley face. Nov 19 2023 The hell was I going off about.... I was raised in the middle of nowhere with the closest "childhood" Walmart miles away. Never getting out much as a child. Born in 2003 to be exact. Don't know why I was being so cryptic. I don't know the first thing about Walmart PFFT.
I was born in the 90s and you pretty much hit it nail on the head. Walmart was a lot different back in the days and I kind of miss it. Even the weird way they would have random black tiles on the floor every little kid was playing hopscotch on them.
I'm a manager at Walmart, and it's awesome to see vintage-style things like this. Growing up, there was only one Walmart in the near vicinity (wasn't a SuperCenter at the time, just a regular discount store). They had to compete with K-Mart, Ames, and Target, the latter was in the process of being built. Out of the four choices, my parents always chose Walmart first due to their friendly atmosphere, prices, and convenience. Ames was cheaper and also had kind employees but felt dated even in the 90s, and they weren't familiar with Target. K-Mart flat out sucked. Walmart was really living up to its old motto "Satisfaction Guaranteed" which technically still does exist, but no one preaches or practices it now. The Walmart in the video was likely built and styled in the interim period between 1990-1992, with the 1992 font but the 1990 hyphen. Gotta love the navy and burgundy, low ceilings, classic registers, and classic interior design. Kinda wish they all still looked like this!
This is a Canadian Walmart in ontario, the Canadian stores used the hyphen with the post- ‘92 typeface until the early 2000s and Walmart wasn’t in Canada until 1994.
As a Walmart employee, I can see EVERY little difference. Walmart here looks low key like a Lowe’s going through an identity crisis. There’s red in the color scheme. At mine it’s ALL blue. And some yellow. The lighting is bars of fluorescent lighting. Ours look like those heat lamps or what you’d see in offices. Not a few continuous bars that go from one end to the other. Idk I don’t exactly look at the lights much. But I’m gonna now… The shelf tags all look completely minimal and worn, and I’m oddly loving it. We have a couple actually like that still. Idk if they got printed like that or if old.. but it was interesting. Still seeing red in it at all like that gave me flashbacks to childhood. It’s def changed. I like the 90’s version but don’t at the same time. Maybe I just like the nostalgia of it.. maybe I don’t bc I work there… I don’t love it or hate it. It’s decent. Lol
I worked for Walmart for 19 years and never saw those red signs. The floor tile conditions can easily be fixed with a heat gun from hardware. Those were called Division 1 stores when Super centers where managed with different District Managers. My father managed the 2nd or 3rd Super Center in the country back then.
I worked at Walmart for like 2 years from 2013-2015. We had to travel to a different Walmart to help them out for a weekend. that Walmart was located in ponca city Oklahoma. & the Walmart looked exactly like this. They may have updated that store now I’m not sure.
Man I really miss the old 90’s Walmarts, seeing this was nostalgia as heck. I used to love how they would have arcade games at the entrance back then, and how the electronics section had actual kiosks where you could play video games. I remember playing the PS1 and N64 games there all the time, I’d literally just be there the whole time playing games while my parents shopped. Lol.
This is so nostalgic and everytime I see pictures even of this version of Walmart I get hit with so many great memories. Walmart made grocery shopping with your mom so much fun, these days it’s boring
the 90's and early 2000's truly felt like a different, yet wonderful and an amazing time just with the vibe and atmosphere, the music just brought those memories back along with the entire intro. and its the fact we will never experience that feeling again..
What a blast from the past. My parents were never big on Walmart, but they would shop there when my siblings and I were little because it was affordable and it enabled them to take care of us. It looked just like this. My partner and I were in Vegas recently, and we walked into a 90’s target there. Had the old neon, signage, floors and everything. I felt the same way I did when I’m watching this video.
Aww this gives me flashbacks to when my mother and siblings went to go grocery shopping. The vibes were always good. It was a sad day when they announced that they were relocating that Walmart. That's when they started to remodel the walmarts. The cool thing is that the infrastructure is still there but now there are different stores using it. Kinda like a plaza.
I'm surprised they haven't forced to remodel like every other Walmart. Every Walmart I've been to, including the one I currently work at has been remodeled multiple times...my store is actually in the middle of the latest remodel as I type this. The remodel is a corporate decision and every Walmart now looks the same with the latest remodel. So I'm really surprised corporate hasn't forced this store to remodel or even update from the old style signage, registers, tile floor...etc. Almost makes me think this might be privately owned or something to that effect by someone keeping the vintage look alive instead of being run by corporate. Either way it's a really cool store and I do love the vintage look they kept...right down to the red stripes on the white tile and old school paint job. Just a reminder of a simpler time before it was all about money.
One of the biggest things that a 90s Walmart had was the electronic department in the middle of the the store .. will never forget that I remember getting nes and super nes games form there back then
I cant thank you guys enough for stopping by! what's your favorite thing about the older design? I miss the old design McDonalds they had inside the Walmart's which you can kinda see at 0:03 through the window, also meant to say checkouts instead of cashiers, small mistake haha, thanks for watching!
The Walmart where my parent's live is one of the updated Walmart's and it still has a McDonalds inside of it. It's ironic given how there is already McDonalds just outside of the parking lot of it. It's in Powell, TN for context.
The Walmart in Barboursville, Kentucky, store 1189 is actually much older and still in use today, opened in September 1988. Never got upgraded to a Supercenter yet, but it was very small, about the size of a large Family Dollar or Dollar General today. Looks much like that one in Northern Ontario you visited, but the outside got remodeled and never got expanded.
Their is a Walmart in Fordyce Arkansas that's so small the dairy and freezer is kept at the front by the doors. It has been remodeled,but it's definitely smaller than the store in barboursville.
My dad lives there. That Walmart is pretty outdated, as well as the one in Manchester, but I don’t believe either one is as old looking as this one. Especially not on the outside.
Wow. I wish I had taken some video of the old school stores around a few years back. I really miss them. K-Mart, and Walmart and a few other places that either moved to a new location or went out of business. Thanks for the groovy trip down memory lane.
So it wasn't just me, walmart really has become an anxiety inducing experience lately since the remodeling. How simple the design of walmart was back then ; so easy to navigate and find stuff. Now it's all over the place and confusing. Too much signs yet also lacking them at the same time. I don't know... I just find my anxiety disorder gets severely triggered in walmarts recently. Seeing this video answers my question. The most recent remodeling truly was the worst one. And it's so weird how they place all the aisles and where things are. Just so messy and it takes forever to find something as simple as orange juice, or mayo. Where you usually find items you can't anymore. I try to avoid walmart as much as I can.
Our local Walmart used to be a Kmart. Not a Supercenter. The Kmart was actually a bigger store than the Walmart is today. You can tell by looking around what it used to be.
This is newer than the 90s Walmart I remember, it’s been updated. The ones from the early 90s were brown and orange relics of the 70s & 80s. They didn’t have a grocery section, they just had home goods and lawn and garden. The grocery section additions made them “super Walmarts”. They did this to out compete stores like Kmart. Mine had a food court with pop corn and those curved plywood booths with orange and brown laminate tops. I still remember the pop corn and eagerly searching for the Lego isle 😔
@@TRJ2241987 True, I edited to reflect that. I don't recall seeing the first updated Wal-Mart's until the real late 90's. For my home town it was about 98.
@@RustandRegret in New England we never had Wal-Mart at all until the mid 90s, and my town didn't get one until 2003 (and it's one of the smallest and worst Wal-Mart's you will find, but the location has actually been a department store since 1962) I think we were the last part of the country to get Wal-Mart though I do recall seeing stores with the dash logo instead of the star. But when we would travel down south or out west across country back in the 90s that is definitely when you would still see the 70s/80s style Wal-Mart stores.
I'm the same as you, our wal mart was next to food world a store which is now extinct. I used to love getting popcorn then going to the poster roladex and the arcade games.
this unlocked memories I didn’t know I had. I was born in ‘01 but for some weird reason before this video, I only remembered Walmart looking how it does today but seeing this video made me realize, I do remember the Walmart logo looking that way. Crazy
My biggest memory of old Walmart would be the times my mom would go shopping towards midnight/early morning, before the holiday to avoid long lines during the day (; running around an empty Walmart was one of my greatest sense of freedom. Thanks for sharing
There used to be an abandoned 90's style Walmart in a town about 30 minutes from me. Was truly unsettling like the parking lot had weeds and little trees growing up through the cracks and the lights were always off. Looked apocalyptic and shit. I think some company bought it as a warehouse recently though
@@coolbreeze1431 worth it for the memories and photos you can take, easily. besides, most cops/security will just warn you and let you go as long as you're civil and kind.
This Wal-Mart should stay the way it is, it's the glorious vintage symbol of fhe last millennium, I mean is everyone just thinking the 90s never existed
Oh my god. I remember this design. The First Super Center in my city opened back in 1995 and my mom was one of the first group of associates to work there it had this design but was much bigger with 3 sets of doors grocery, non grocery and lawn and Garden. I remember the Arcade that was in it and the McDonalds that was in the back. this was back when I was 4 years old turning 5 when it first opened up and it kept that design throughout the Early to Mid 2000s. Good memories and Good times. I still have dreams of going back to that Walmart in its mid 90s design.
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sometimes vibes speak for themselves and you wouldn't want to lose a chance to record at something like a vintage Walmart@@JDMSpecYugo but honestly, i believe it's possible to ask for permission given that store's speciality
I re renovate these for a living. They take 6 months to a year to complete... We have done a few of these older ones... The one in Northlands Calgary that we did 2 years ago hadn't been re renovated since the early 90s when it got its switchover from Wilco The MacDonald was especially old lod looking and they had very old coin only payphones!!! I'll have to look and see if we have this location coming up for us!
Retro gaming is cool and I think society will start appreciating more “retro” looking stores too. I think that would be a cool marketing initiative with these big brands.
to be fair though, "fake retro" doesn't look as good as actual retro. It's like Pepsi with their current logo that tries to mimic the 80s one. It just doesn't look the same.
I hope so. The current bland beige asymmetrical boxes are getting boring. Fingers crossed that one company will do something different to stand out from the crowd.
Pretty rare. After Walton died, the kids started pushing converting/relocating many across the country into Super Walmart's. That Super Walmart is why their sales just exploded in the 90's. You look at when they passed Sears in 1991, they were at $30 billion in sales. By the end of the 90's, that had ballooned to over $200 billion!
I can't help but notice that it used to be red, white, & blue. I remember it though. Something about this Walmart is very welcoming. Now days going to Walmart feels like a chore and you only go strapped
@@whitendirty23 the newer ones are way more efficient, you have numbered lanes, wider lanes, the app which let's you navigate the store to find what you need and self checkout
@@kevinmontoya7318 I agree with that. Also I don't understand why people hate online shopping so much? I think it's beneficial in some ways. Hell, people still physically shop. Lol.
These kind of videos makes me feel like I’m still there even though time has passed on I could tell my mind and feel that I’m in the exact locations of the old Walmarts from the 90s. If i was there at any 90s moment at my local Walmart this what you would go through. First off the Walmart sign just makes you feel like you’re at a playground for kids. As soon as you open the doors to the right are the arcade games. The main entrance when it would slide open you would get this hard whiff of popcorn because every day this man would stand literally next to the main entry door to give popcorn to kids and families they never charged I guess it was just out of gratitude they would give us popcorn. To me that was already a great feeling as a kid along with playing a little arcade games before meeting the popcorn man lol. And of course I had to roam every aisle until I reach the best aisles. One of them was the aquatic aisle. You could see over 20 mid size aquariums filled with different type sized fish. And It always brought joy to me as a kid cause one of the guys there would let me feed it sometimes when I would go there when he wasn’t busy. now I’m walking to the sports section of course everyone as a kid had to at least bounce those big bouncy balls at least once they would sell back then I believe they still do lol. Dribble the basketball kick the soccer ball the typical things kids will do lol. Now I make my way to the toy section. Oh it was always fun there I would last like 20minutes there looking through every single toy and at that time power rangers were the big hit along with all the Disney characters and others. but I always chose power rangers I could never get enough of those toys. cars and trucks were the best toys to buy as a kid for me I just had so much imaginations with them. Idk who else did this but I always poked a hole inside the bubble bottle and start blowing bubbles out in the open it never failed for me to do that when I would go lol. Now this was the best part of me The Movie Section! The thrills of looking at all these movies ranging from Disney movies to horrors lol for me movies as a kid made me feel some type of way as if I was in the movies call me weird lol. I still remember the releases of Toy Story Toy Story 2 Lion King Lion King 2 Little Rascals Flubber Free Willy Hercules 101 Dalmatians cartoon and the real life movie home alone omg that was a treasure and part 2 everyone was going wild for those home alone movies lol even part 3 I loved. So many movies to pick but it always brought me the best joy because when I got home I’d play the hell out of all of them home alone was always the best along with Toy Story.all those times at the 90s Walmart was always paradise for me as a kid I always had fun and Walmart made my childhood cause I could take from Walmart to take it home to even have more fun. I miss it so much I wish I was a kid again! So me looking at this old 90s Walmart video made me go back in time and feel everything I felt as a kid. I miss the 90s I’m 31 yrs old now man I miss being a kid where you never did nothing but play and have fun. Sorry y’all for this long maybe boring story. Walmart made a childhood for kids!
I forgot about the aquatic scetion! There was a whole wall of mini aquariums with fish in them! I used to hate seeing other kids tap the glass. The big bouncy ball tower set up in the middle of one of the main aisles was my favorite! I used to love bouncing them and then trying to shoot it back into the tower. So much fun! Thank you for reminding me about that
My areas Walmart still had an aquatic section and ball tower up until covid hit. The store was built in the 90s as well, and as far as I know, has always been a supercenter which I could be wrong about but if I’m correct, that would probably make it one of the OG supercenters.They remodeled back in like 2009 but some of the pre remodel features were kept in a few areas. They remodeled again during Covid and now it just looks like any other modern Walmart.
It's wild like I don't see any of this anymore nor do I EVER see kids out playing and it leaves me wondering what on earth the entire generation of current children are gonna do when they're 20 years old and most of their memories come from a smartphone and one single building...
1.5k subs and a video like this. 👍 must feel great! This day you were firing on all cylinders using the other half of your brain! This was a good idea for a video. Great job brought me back to my day
I actually went to 5th grade in an old Walmart building after the school was flooded. The general design, especially those big red lines on the floor, brings back a lot of memories.
i remember ~10 something years ago as a kid stumbling upon an old walmart for the first time and remember especially being just surprised with how different the layout of it was compared to newer walmarts, i remember clothing/department stuff being front and center and having to walk further in before getting to clothes and anything else
I live in a pretty rural part of Kansas and the closest Wal-Mart to us is about a 20 minute drive. That Wal-Mart looked very similar to the one in this video up until 2018, when the entire store was completely overhauled and made to look essentially brand new. I will say, however, that our Wal-Mart had a much better upkeep than the one shown here, as the floors never looked like that and the lights on the outside signs were never burnt out. Those red checkout lane indicators bring back a lot of nostalgia, as during Christmas they would always decorate them with all sorts of green ornaments and it would make them look so cheerful. They still do that with the blue ones now, but it's just not the same.
I remember when my Walmart had a whole cafe area you could order food and drinks at. They had like the colorful 90s seating and everything by the deli section. The photo counter was a huge square area where they had big machines that you’d give them film out of your camera that theyd run through and print within an hour or two. once they upgraded years ago, all of it went with it as well.
Target used to have both too!! I remember when they had Pizza hut, the new mini swlf serve cafe thing they have is so boring 😭😭😭, imagine how many people lost their position to a self check out register!
What's really weird are the Walmarts down in Bentonville. You would think being the headquarters, they would have expansive and really nice Walmarts. I didn't go in any, but what I saw instead were tiny specialized Walmarts. Like neighborhood stores, probability just groceries inside.
Sounds like Walmart might use Bentonville as a test market (and most likely they would). I know you didn't visit any, but wonder if some of their merchandise offerings might be different than a typical Walmart? On the other hand, I've seen some of these small "Walmart Neighborhood Market" stores here in Texas.
@@sbclaridge I'm fairly certain that's what they were, Neighborhood Markets. We did a lot of driving around the area because we're thinking of moving. The only SuperCenter I recall seeing was along the main highway. Bentonville, Rodgers, Fayetteville and even Bella Vista area are all very close to one another. So maybe there's just a couple SuperCenters mixed in among the Neighborhood Markets. I do know that Walmart is testing drone delivery in Fayetteville and Pea Ridge. They're definitely rolling some services out in the area ahead of nationwide. I wanted to check out a store but we were limited with time between looking at properties. I did have the opportunity to go to a Walmart in West Branson, MO earlier this year. While it's about an hour or so from Bentonville, it was a really nice store. They also had hundreds of kayaks out front, showing that Walmart definitely stocks merchandise specific to the location.
We have several SuperCenters as well in NWA. The Neighborhood markets are more plentiful. I typically go to other stores because they are easier to navigate and there are less people. Walmart's prices on some things are worth the trip, though.
My favorite Wal-Mart memory as a kid was seeing the Primal Rage arcade machine for the first time. I was blown away by the game, the sounds, and the look of the cab itself. Truly an unforgettable experience.
One of the last Kmart in my area that closed a year ago was straight from the 90s. Everything from shelves, cash registers, price scanners were all unchanged from the mid 90s.
These smaller walmarts were everywhere when I was a kid in the 90s but in the 2000s they started phasing them out for supercenters. We lost the one in our town in 2009 and they built a supercenter in its place. The interior of this one reminds me of it.
Walmart in my small town in Virginia was just shut down in the 90s... and the Supercenter was opened in 1995 or 96, so yeah thanks for the vid... Nostalgia feeling indeed 😌
I was living in Montana in the 1990s and when the first Walmart opened in Billings in 1993, it looked exactly like this. It was then remodeled into a supercenter in 2000 and renovated again in 2013, removing any and all traces of what it looked like when it originally opened. This must ahve been a total trip walking through a Walmart with the old 90s decor!
I remember the old layout of the 90s era Walmart. What the newer layouts did was make them look more like Sam's but with more organized sections though there are some in my area that ditched the gray, warehouse look and look like what an actual updated 90s version would look like with a cleaner feel, much much less green feel.
@@joetatro5415 I'm from Canada so idk your American and if these stores were in America but we had zellers, Kmart, sears. Blockbuster I know was in America aswell.
The old Walmart exterior was cool, much more aesthetic than its replacement. The one we had like this where I live growing up was different inside than this one back in the day. Aisles were closer together, it wasn't open late, and my hometown old one didn't have any groceries; it was a lot more like a K Mart. It did have its own McDonald's with the golden arches entrance you'd have to walk through in a very prominent position when you walked in (not to the side like fast food at the new Walmarts).
That’s crazy this was recommended to me because today I was just thinking about an old video on here where this group of friends went into a Walmart back in 95 in Panama City . I think the video is still on here under that name . It’s interesting to see
"Getting ready for Walmart Shopping in PCB 1995" uploaded by Tina Layton! I absolutely love that little piece of time capsule! A must watch for 90s nostalgia
The only older WM in my area (Lake County IL) was "upgraded" to a Supercenter many years ago. What I miss are some of the other stores that have gone out of business, most likely because of WM (but also because of their own incompetence).
My town has 2 Walmart’s. Sometimes I wish they didn’t convert the 2nd one into a super center back in 2004 . I know currently it’s my favorite Walmart to go to because of how less congested it is than the other one and how kept up it is but I hate walking in the super centers ; my legs hurt after walking around 30+ minutes to grocery shop ( I wish they kept the benches and the grocery baskets). Also I hate how I still have to go to another store because Walmart ironically doesn’t have what I’m specifically looking for. They never should’ve made half the cash register section into U-scans ; some of the self checkouts don’t work right plus they only keep like 1 or 2 employees nearby to help. They have like 20 manual checkouts but only keep 3 or 4 open. They also don’t put any urgency to fix the vending machines. Also don’t get me started on the app or website saying they have an item in stock only for it to not actually be there. Another gripe is that I’ve come into the store sometimes only for the grocery carts and the mobility scooter carts to not even be in the store to use
that's a good point about the benches that i haven't thought of, haven't seen those in a long time... weird why they were removed, and yeah the self checkouts can be really annoying here and there, thank you for watching!
Okay Boomer, self checkouts are the future. Don't blame people for not manning the registers or the cart pushers for not always having mobility carts. People need to get paid and $12 to service hundreds of people at a register, not being able to get a break because they don't have anyone to cover. Walmart needs to pay a fair wage as the biggest company next to Amazon. Same with the cart pushers, why pay grown adults $12 to be out in extreme heat or cold, and then you complain because the mobility carts aren't around. I bet you didn't know you aren't supposed to take them out of the building, you park them by the outlets and walk out, not park them at the end of the parking lot, especially when it's snowing, and almost impossible to get them back into the building. Also, vending machines aren't Walmart, they are serviced by whomever owns them.
The front of this Walmart reminds me of how the one in Wausau Wisconsin used to look, up until about the early 2000s or so. They remodeled that store into a Super Center, by adding onto the left and right sides of the building complete with new entrances on both ends and blocking in the original entrance that was in the middle and adding a couple of emergency exit doors there, you can still tell where it was by looking at the front of the store. On the inside they kept the drop ceiling in the original part of the building but have the raised ceiling on both ends that they added on. This location is a time capsule for sure.
My local Wal-Mart looked like this when I was growing up. Good times. I live in a smaller town so ours didn’t get updated until I was into elementary school. So early 2000s. It’s super nostalgic seeing this old style store.
It was just a little bit over 10 years ago that I was in a 90’s style Walmart. The one I go to built a Super Walmart behind the old one. The old one was torn down.
The first Walmart in Kapuskasing ON was in the Model City Mall and was converted from a Woolco store in 1994-95. Walmart bought out around 120 Woolco locations in its entry into Canada. It was only in the mall for a short time before moving to its present location. I can't remember the exact year but I'm guessing 1998 or 1999. I live in Timmins and will stop into the Kapuskasing store when I'm up that way. Kapuskasing and its surrounding areas has had a declining population for awhile and I can kind of see why Walmart has left this location as being one of the last to be renovated as there really isn't any competition or growth potential.
Biloxi, Mississippi had a Wal-Mart just like this until around 2010, when a gleaming new Supercenter was built closer to the mall. But I think the Bogalusa, Louisiana location hung on even longer before it finally Supercentered. I was in Bogalusa for a funeral in 2012, and stopped by the Wal-Mart while I was in town. It was like stepping back in time to 1992. That was the last time I've ever been in an old-style Wal-Mart, and will probably never do so again.
The 90s Walmart experience I had didn't really have much at all for general groceries. If you wanted food, it was mostly candy and a few basic items not entirely unlike an expanded trucker section at a gas station today. No freezers or anything. The idea of grocery shopping there was a radical change when they built a new one across town.
I remember when my local Walmart (Lake Worth, TX) was expanded into a Supercenter as a child. It used to be one of these older style Walmarts in the 1990s, and then they added on a grocery section at the eastern end, along with a second set of entrance/exit doors. I don't remember the exact year the expansion happened, but it had to be sometime around 2000. The grocery area still has higher ceilings than the rest of the store to this day, or at least it did the last time I went in there a few years ago. This has the effect of making the grocery feel larger and less closed-in when compared to other departments.
In my memory K-Mart was the first to bring groceries/frozen food in the mid 90s when they started converting stores to 'Big-K'.....and then Wal-Mart followed shortly after
I remember not that many years ago that I thought my hometown had the only Wal-Mart that hadn’t converted to the “Super-Duper” Wal-Marts. This wasn’t the case but it sure felt that way lol. I remember when Sam was still alive and he vowed that they wouldn’t carry any product not made in the USA!
Reminds me of being a kid in the early 2000s where on a late night I would go with my dad and siblings to pick up snacks for the weekend, and a new toy. Man never thought I’d feel nostalgic for a walmart of all places.
I remember when I was a toddler and they gave out their smiley face logo stickers to kids and put a sticker on my hand. The employees were so accommodating and the environment was more family oriented and friendly. One time I got lost in the store and there was a whole team of employees looking for me with hand radios and the store was always clean, open 24 hours and had good security. Nowadays the vibe feels depressing and unsafe.
We had bigger dreams back then, now it’s all depressing 😢
But you have to look at the people who work there, they aren’t as happy anymore either. Like I worked there for 2 years and I wasn’t happy
@@dylanpresley3079 Not blaming the employees. I’m aware the issue is much more broad than just the store employees. With how things are run now being underpaid, being shorter staffed, budget cuts, working in dangerous/unsanitary conditions and poor treatment from upper management and customers ect.
Its perfectly reasonable in those circumstances to be depressing. I’m just saying the overall environment is very different from what it used to be and this video sparked some old memories.
OH MY GOD!! i missed those smiley face stickers, and the employees gave them out after your shopping!
Walmart still does that but ya the overall vibe be different
A lot of Walmarts (or Wal*Marts) in rural middle-of-nowhere towns weren't remodeled until around 2012, and even that was crazy. Seeing one in 2022 is just legendary.
yeah that's how I remember it looking in west texas.
a few even stuck around until 2013!!!
currently we are getting ready to remodel a store at grinnel IA. it looks like this one. if you are crazy you can see it before then.
the one in Merritt British Columbia still has the old colours on the outside
@@ib7566 When is the remodeling to take place?
When Walmart had coffee bean dispensers, smiley face stickers, fish tanks, & ready to play games in the electronic section. I just wish we could go back to the 90s😢
@user-gn7cu1pw6tI carry those memories in my heart
The walmart in my area had a goldfish tank that was way back🐡🐡
early 2000s were like that too, its a shame how much worse everything has gotten in the past 25-20 years
two locations had sold pet fish. then took them out in the 90s. then when those relocated and became supercenters they brought them back. eventually they were gone again.
@@sentell02 the tanks were overcrowded and the fish were not well cared for
One thing I miss from walmart growing up was the live lobster tank. They took them out years ago, but the Brookshires I live near now has one and I always get so excited when I see it!
I loved it as a kid. I’d go up and watch them. Same for the fish tanks they used to have in there.
One thing I’ll never forget about the early 90’s stores was the electronics section had hours and they would put buggies in front to block it off.
I know that was annoying when they did that!
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist what?
What the fuck is a buggie?
@@chrisvaughn5960 Jesus doesn't want you to fear the buggies 🙏
Yes! Mine used the mobility scooters because they were heavier, I guess.
Do you guys remember when Wal*Mart had whole bean coffee dispensers in the coffee aisle? You could fill a plain white coffee bag with different flavours of whole bean coffee. I think they had a bean grounder too. Those were the days. 😌☕
Man I haven't seen that for years last time was like 2014
Oh u just spark my 10 year old me would turn the bean grounder while passing by and cause coffee to go everywhere on the ground. lol
They had that? The Krogers near me actually have those coffee bean dispensers.
Yeah! The grinder!! I just caught the tail end of that, and really liked grinding my own coffee at the store. Then one day POOF the grinding machine was gone! No explanations, no signs, just merch and the eerie feeling I'd maybe dreampt the whole thing. Turkish grind was the best, it was nothing but coffee powder and you could use it in baking or mix with powder sugar and sprinkle on top of frosted brownies. I bought a small grinder, but it's just not the same
When I worked at Starbucks I always told people if they forgot to have us grind their beans they could always take the bag to Walmart and grind it themselves. I feel like that was such a nice way for people to have better coffee in their lives. May the public grinder rest in peace
Just wow! I never thought I'd feel nostalgic towards Walmart of all places. I miss the floor tiles most of all. I've noticed this trend lately with not just Walmart, but almost every other larger store in town, like Fred Meyer/ Kroger, where they're ripping out their floor tiles and just polishing the concrete underneath. It's really weird and gives the buildings a totally different vibe! And not a good one either.
Yea it looks too sterile with the concrete.
Not me I like the stained concrete, reminds me of an ancient Egyptian crypt or something. Also a lot easier to clean.
I hate how all stores got rid of ceiling tiles and floor tiles. Much dirtier looking like a warehouse and harder to hear. They used to look shiny and nice. Now they look like production plants.
Tile looks a lot cleaner too.
Target is doing it now too
You can still find plenty of old-style WAL*MARTs in remote areas, at least in Canada. My guess is that remodelling them is just not a high priority given their remote location, certainly not what the majority of people will see or know about. But for people who have nostalgia for the 90s and 2000s, like me, they are the jewels in the wilderness.
I remember when the employees at the door actually greeted you rather than act as checkpoint guards asking for your receipt because something isn’t in a bag.
They also used to employ elderly and handicap people but in recent years pretty much forced them out with their policy that the door attendant must be on their feet. Sad, cause I knew a pretty cool old guy who was a ww2 vet who was a door greeter in his electric scooter and it's sad that nowadays he wouldn't have even been hired.
those door guards drive me crazy. Fun fact: it's actually illegal for stores to ask to look at your receipt. Exceptions would be places like Sam's Club or Costco where your membership contract states they can check your receipts at the door.
Honestly I just ignore them now when they ask for my reciept. They can think im a shoplifter, it's not like they can stop you from just walking out. They're trying so hard to emulate Costco.
@@Bloxicorn Dude, when I worked there, some guy went out the door with a cart full of stuff, and the other "associate" berated me for not going after them. Like? The fuck? I'm a cashier, I'm not gonna do that shit.
When we are in the way out the door, the lady just grabbed one of our items out of the cart and said we couldn’t have it. It pissed me off so much - like, who tf are you? We learned then they now had a “everything must be in bags” rule, which is just plain stupid.
That Walmart Signage needs to be in a museum. That old Walmart sign is a piece of history
You'll shut down the store just to get the sign into a museum?
@@jesseyoungblood6265 who said all that?
There is actually a museum where the first Wal Mart was that has a lot of history about the company. I don’t remember much about it because I went there when I was little, but I remember there was also this little ice cream and soda shop on the side.
@@ChickenNugget-ev8zd i hope my body gets put in the museum
I use to work for wal*mart , almost twenty years. I started in 2003 as a cart pusher and worked my way up to facilitator as well as a co manager. Seen a lot change since then .. I did have meetings in Bentonville ,Arkansas , and they have a small town with a lot of nostalgic Walmart themed shops and restaurants .. the most interesting to me was the restrooms that were wallpapered with Walmart ads from the 80s and 90s lol!! Literally took me back to being a kid, looking at the toys and video games in the ads and begging my mom to take my brother and I .. a lot has changed, and Wal*Mart has become a place that I no longer shop at. It’s sad what it’s become.. and how they treat their people .. in the early 2000s I actually looked forward to going to work there, and by 2010 I dreaded it ..
Walmart in the early to mid 2000s was something special. This Walmart reminded of how special and unique Walmart use to be and feel. We had a Walmart growing up in Orange Park, Florida that looked very similar. I still have fond memories of the giant McDonald's arc and classic Walmart McDonald's, the the blue and red borders along the walls, and of course for quarter getting sam's choice soda can. It was a go to shop for most of my life until the store was closed and a new modern supercenter down the road replaced it. Never will forget the classic Walmart at Blanding Boulevard and Bolton Avenue.
Nice
Man, I'd forgotten about the quarter Sam's Choice soda cans!
Ah so yours moved doen tbe street as Supercenter too huh?
That’s wild man. I grew up in that area also that Walmart is now an Academy.
Feels like near EVERYTHING in the early 2000s (and before) was a lot more special. Lot of uniqueness has been dying out in recent years
I really miss Walmart before they rebranded in 2008. I wasn’t born in the 90s so I’m too young to remember everything with my store, but this honestly feels more inviting compared to how it looks today. And this is coming from someone who got really excited to see an entire new grocery level with ESCALATORS being added.
Watching this, I can’t help but feel like that’s a bit much now. I miss the simpler discount store. I miss WAL☆MART.
I remember when I worked at Walmart in 2011 before they finished rebanding all the remaining stores in 2012ish, our cheer spelling the store name was "give me a W, give me a A, give me an L, give me an *_uh!_* , give me an M" etc. lol.
That inclusion of the hyphen or star in the cheer was always funny to me. Never occured to me that it would have been phased out pretty quickly after I stopped working there.
I was born in 2002 and my local Walmart looked exactly like this for most of my childhood until they rebranded & moved locations
I was going through my dads old CDs and a wal-mart receipt with the original logo and stuff fell out
That's friggin awesome. Looks like it's straight out of 1990. I really liked Walmart's 80s-90s architecture and design. You know, the star logo, classic white tiles which make the stores look nice and bright, the dark blue, red, and grey, the trademark Always used in their slogan: "Always low prices. Always." And of course, Smiley.
yeah it does look much better then the current design, the brand new design rolling out in America isn't half bad through.
@@fennecRBX I'm not gonna lie, I don't really care for Walmart's current design nor logo much at all. While Supercenters (more like Stupid-Center lol) are convenient for the most part (it depends on the store management), I think they overpopulated. Although, I'm ok with their older Supercenters from the 90s and the ones built up to 2004. I really miss the days when there were still basic Walmarts and Supercenters were still a fairly new (at least in my area as the first Supercenter I went to opened in 2002 as a replacement store for the basic store down the road that operated for 16 years at the time). The Walmart near my house operated as a basic discount store for 18 years (it originally opened in November 1987); it eventually moved to it's current location as a Supercenter even closer to my neighborhood in January 2006.
No, Walmart was brown in 1990.
@@microbios8586 my bad. Thinking about it, I guess it looks more like mid-late 90s.
Right?! And most of all, the goddamn ceiling tiles! I HATE the boring exposed ceiling beams their new store designs use. It makes it feel like you’re just shopping in a boring sterile warehouse. That’s why I like Target more - it just feels cozier and cleaner in its layout and design.
I know there may be some Walmarts in the United States that were from the 90's, but most of them were remodeled/repainted,
I've never seen a true, 90's Walmart location that's still open, Incredible.
The one in my hometown was built in 1995. Remodeled in 2010. I’ll never forget how it used to look though!
This location is in Ontario Canada.
Dude huh they got em all over Pennsylvania lol
@@michaeljohn9263 there is quite a few old 90's Walmarts still in ontario, but none of the ones with an town/city population greater then 8,000 residents are the old 90's style.
Only the really far out of reach ones are unaffected by the mass update the majority of the stores received
I remember the Walmart paintings, logos and all sort of things oh yes most of the stores these days presumably look the same haha.
gotta say looking back i could have edited this better... i also sounded sick haha. thanks again for stopping by to hear me ramble maybe i'll revisit it someday.
its ok bro the amateur editing and voice over add to the quality of the video. It was never meant to be a professional production, its perfect this way
this just got reccomended to me
ok
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same, i'm on desktop@@noahmadole
I wish Walmart never abandoned this design.
But also I wish Sam Walton hadn't passed away, because maybe then the company might still give a shit about its employees.
@@gaffneyrailroading1982 all the big stores fell same way about their employees,, like a pretty woman ❤️/ love employees for short peroid of time , , then want to rid of employee with new younger one
Lights say WAlmaRt
Good video, I honestly missed the 2000s Wal-Mart when there used to be greeters at the door and they’d hand out colorful smiley stickers which’d be on the employee tags and all the cardboard inserts for the sales had that smiley face on them. I wanna see you find a Wal-Mart like that
Omg yes! I think you'll find it on the receipt too.
They still do that, although tbf this entire province is stuck in like 2005
Aw, what!? I never remembered smiley stickers! That'd make my day.
York, Nebraska
Ours had a greeter up until recently. She was a very kind elderly lady, easily well into her 80s, likely late 80s. Always greeted everyone, smiling, full of energy. I swear it's that job that kept her alive so long. Unfortunately she passed away a few months ago....
Now it's back to the younger people at the door...don't even look at you when you walk in, only there to make sure someone doesn't walk out of the store without paying for a big ticket item.
THIS COMMENT IS USELESS AS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
I was born in the 2000's, (2003) so I've never seen Walmart look like this before. From my research, it looks like the store has been around since the 60's, but didn't really surface into a chain until the 90's where it competed with K-Mart. I miss what my local Walmart looked like when I was a child. I remember the "Always" logo, along with that iconic yellow smiley face.
Nov 19 2023
The hell was I going off about....
I was raised in the middle of nowhere with the closest "childhood" Walmart miles away. Never getting out much as a child. Born in 2003 to be exact. Don't know why I was being so cryptic. I don't know the first thing about Walmart PFFT.
I was born in the 90s and you pretty much hit it nail on the head. Walmart was a lot different back in the days and I kind of miss it. Even the weird way they would have random black tiles on the floor every little kid was playing hopscotch on them.
@@honestdave Same
I remember Walmart like this i was born in 2002
@@vinnboi2228 right the Wal-Mart where i grew up was similar to this
I remember them still looking like this in the early 2000s when I was a kid
I'm a manager at Walmart, and it's awesome to see vintage-style things like this. Growing up, there was only one Walmart in the near vicinity (wasn't a SuperCenter at the time, just a regular discount store). They had to compete with K-Mart, Ames, and Target, the latter was in the process of being built. Out of the four choices, my parents always chose Walmart first due to their friendly atmosphere, prices, and convenience. Ames was cheaper and also had kind employees but felt dated even in the 90s, and they weren't familiar with Target. K-Mart flat out sucked. Walmart was really living up to its old motto "Satisfaction Guaranteed" which technically still does exist, but no one preaches or practices it now.
The Walmart in the video was likely built and styled in the interim period between 1990-1992, with the 1992 font but the 1990 hyphen. Gotta love the navy and burgundy, low ceilings, classic registers, and classic interior design. Kinda wish they all still looked like this!
This is a Canadian Walmart in ontario, the Canadian stores used the hyphen with the post- ‘92 typeface until the early 2000s and Walmart wasn’t in Canada until 1994.
Yeah I used to work at a Walmart and even though I don't know you, you can still kiss my ass.
Interesting
One thing I noticed about Canadian Walmarts is that they still use the smiley face in their marketing.
As a Walmart employee, I can see EVERY little difference. Walmart here looks low key like a Lowe’s going through an identity crisis. There’s red in the color scheme. At mine it’s ALL blue. And some yellow. The lighting is bars of fluorescent lighting. Ours look like those heat lamps or what you’d see in offices. Not a few continuous bars that go from one end to the other. Idk I don’t exactly look at the lights much. But I’m gonna now… The shelf tags all look completely minimal and worn, and I’m oddly loving it. We have a couple actually like that still. Idk if they got printed like that or if old.. but it was interesting. Still seeing red in it at all like that gave me flashbacks to childhood. It’s def changed. I like the 90’s version but don’t at the same time. Maybe I just like the nostalgia of it.. maybe I don’t bc I work there… I don’t love it or hate it. It’s decent. Lol
Yeah I just kept thinking Lowes constantly
@@fuoco1365 Right lol
I worked for Walmart for 19 years and never saw those red signs. The floor tile conditions can easily be fixed with a heat gun from hardware. Those were called Division 1 stores when Super centers where managed with different District Managers. My father managed the 2nd or 3rd Super Center in the country back then.
I worked at Walmart for like 2 years from 2013-2015.
We had to travel to a different Walmart to help them out for a weekend. that Walmart was located in ponca city Oklahoma. & the Walmart looked exactly like this.
They may have updated that store now I’m not sure.
Man I really miss the old 90’s Walmarts, seeing this was nostalgia as heck. I used to love how they would have arcade games at the entrance back then, and how the electronics section had actual kiosks where you could play video games. I remember playing the PS1 and N64 games there all the time, I’d literally just be there the whole time playing games while my parents shopped. Lol.
Ikr
Is the mc donalds still there u didnt show it
mine still has arcade games near the entrance
Man I totally forgot about that!
And the smell of 🍿 🫠🤤
This is so nostalgic and everytime I see pictures even of this version of Walmart I get hit with so many great memories. Walmart made grocery shopping with your mom so much fun, these days it’s boring
the 90's and early 2000's truly felt like a different, yet wonderful and an amazing time just with the vibe and atmosphere, the music just brought those memories back along with the entire intro. and its the fact we will never experience that feeling again..
I haven't seen a 90's styled Walmart since I was a kid and teenager good times lol.
wdym, i last saw a walmart like that in 2019 and it was the same thing as this
@@1337haxit’s 2023
@@Tom_bradys_unretirement 2022
@@1337hax for a lot of us, they remodeled this style of Walmart 15 years ago, if not longer ago.
@@jr2904 oh
What a blast from the past. My parents were never big on Walmart, but they would shop there when my siblings and I were little because it was affordable and it enabled them to take care of us. It looked just like this.
My partner and I were in Vegas recently, and we walked into a 90’s target there. Had the old neon, signage, floors and everything. I felt the same way I did when I’m watching this video.
Aww this gives me flashbacks to when my mother and siblings went to go grocery shopping. The vibes were always good. It was a sad day when they announced that they were relocating that Walmart. That's when they started to remodel the walmarts. The cool thing is that the infrastructure is still there but now there are different stores using it. Kinda like a plaza.
I love the way you have put this all together ;
I’ve subscribed and can’t wait for a new video .
This is truly wonderful !
I don't think Walmart should've remodeled imo. I loved when it looked like this
I miss how fast check out time used to be.
I wasn't alive yet when they changed but I would like to see what it looked like before it remodeled
Naw 😂 The remodeled way is much better.
@@KW145. Except the slow azz lines and clustercheck-out
Looks like Kmart
“You can only make a video about an old Walmart for so long”
You could have made this hours long and I would have kept watching lol
ditto
I was saddened at the ending lol i said in my head "broooo give us a full on tour!!!'
@@JoshuaPope1 right I would love to see a full walk through its fantastic
Hey, I know you! Lol
i thought the same
Loved this video !! Brings back that nostalgic feel things used to have 💕 thank u for filming this !!
I'm surprised they haven't forced to remodel like every other Walmart. Every Walmart I've been to, including the one I currently work at has been remodeled multiple times...my store is actually in the middle of the latest remodel as I type this.
The remodel is a corporate decision and every Walmart now looks the same with the latest remodel. So I'm really surprised corporate hasn't forced this store to remodel or even update from the old style signage, registers, tile floor...etc.
Almost makes me think this might be privately owned or something to that effect by someone keeping the vintage look alive instead of being run by corporate.
Either way it's a really cool store and I do love the vintage look they kept...right down to the red stripes on the white tile and old school paint job. Just a reminder of a simpler time before it was all about money.
One of the biggest things that a 90s Walmart had was the electronic department in the middle of the the store .. will never forget that I remember getting nes and super nes games form there back then
Mine is still like that in Southern California. I think most are here.
@@cruzinbosco I don't know where you are in socal, but I haven't seen one like this in 15 years. Also just a PSA, don't stand with an evil wench
I remember I was going to the beach , and drove in the middle of nowhere , and stumble upon this kind of Wal-Mart . Nostalgia!
I like how the narrator at the start says he's gonna stop talking like 3x and then just keeps on talking anyways lol
yeah abit rusty when it comes to vids haha, thanks for watching!
I miss the older Walmart. Simple and no frills. Would love to visit that one some day.
I cant thank you guys enough for stopping by! what's your favorite thing about the older design? I miss the old design McDonalds they had inside the Walmart's which you can kinda see at 0:03 through the window, also meant to say checkouts instead of cashiers, small mistake haha, thanks for watching!
@@explorer7176 already have the city but i added the province too! thank you
@@fennecRBX Walmart where dreams go to die 😂 😂 😂 😂
@@explorer7176 I actually work there. If you wanna see it now let me know
@@horseplop9 your dreams are dying right now 😂😂😂😂
The Walmart where my parent's live is one of the updated Walmart's and it still has a McDonalds inside of it. It's ironic given how there is already McDonalds just outside of the parking lot of it. It's in Powell, TN for context.
The Walmart in Barboursville, Kentucky, store 1189 is actually much older and still in use today, opened in September 1988. Never got upgraded to a Supercenter yet, but it was very small, about the size of a large Family Dollar or Dollar General today. Looks much like that one in Northern Ontario you visited, but the outside got remodeled and never got expanded.
Wow I just looked on Google Maps Street View and it looks so interesting!
Yeah I've seen a few in the U.S. that are glorified Butler Buildings (steel huts) that only have one door and are super small.
I live within an hour from there I'll check it out next time I'm going through Kentucky
Their is a Walmart in Fordyce Arkansas that's so small the dairy and freezer is kept at the front by the doors. It has been remodeled,but it's definitely smaller than the store in barboursville.
My dad lives there. That Walmart is pretty outdated, as well as the one in Manchester, but I don’t believe either one is as old looking as this one. Especially not on the outside.
Wow. I wish I had taken some video of the old school stores around a few years back. I really miss them. K-Mart, and Walmart and a few other places that either moved to a new location or went out of business. Thanks for the groovy trip down memory lane.
Super wholesome video! I love the old look. Brings back memories. Good prices there too!
So it wasn't just me, walmart really has become an anxiety inducing experience lately since the remodeling. How simple the design of walmart was back then ; so easy to navigate and find stuff. Now it's all over the place and confusing. Too much signs yet also lacking them at the same time. I don't know... I just find my anxiety disorder gets severely triggered in walmarts recently. Seeing this video answers my question. The most recent remodeling truly was the worst one. And it's so weird how they place all the aisles and where things are. Just so messy and it takes forever to find something as simple as orange juice, or mayo. Where you usually find items you can't anymore. I try to avoid walmart as much as I can.
I thought I was the only one experiencing this. I’m not alone.
Maybe it is disorganized on purpose in hopes you will aimlessly wander around and end up buying more things you never intended on getting.
Yep they used to be great to shop at. Now I can’t stand it. I only do pickup. Thankfully that has not become stressful
Our local Walmart used to be a Kmart. Not a Supercenter. The Kmart was actually a bigger store than the Walmart is today. You can tell by looking around what it used to be.
The type of people that go to Wal mart are what give me anxiety.
This is newer than the 90s Walmart I remember, it’s been updated. The ones from the early 90s were brown and orange relics of the 70s & 80s. They didn’t have a grocery section, they just had home goods and lawn and garden. The grocery section additions made them “super Walmarts”. They did this to out compete stores like Kmart. Mine had a food court with pop corn and those curved plywood booths with orange and brown laminate tops. I still remember the pop corn and eagerly searching for the Lego isle 😔
K-Mart's were also brown and orange on the inside in the 80s
@@TRJ2241987 True, I edited to reflect that. I don't recall seeing the first updated Wal-Mart's until the real late 90's. For my home town it was about 98.
@@RustandRegret in New England we never had Wal-Mart at all until the mid 90s, and my town didn't get one until 2003 (and it's one of the smallest and worst Wal-Mart's you will find, but the location has actually been a department store since 1962) I think we were the last part of the country to get Wal-Mart though I do recall seeing stores with the dash logo instead of the star. But when we would travel down south or out west across country back in the 90s that is definitely when you would still see the 70s/80s style Wal-Mart stores.
I'm the same as you, our wal mart was next to food world a store which is now extinct. I used to love getting popcorn then going to the poster roladex and the arcade games.
@@CharlieRootsMusic we have to go back 😆.
this unlocked memories I didn’t know I had. I was born in ‘01 but for some weird reason before this video, I only remembered Walmart looking how it does today but seeing this video made me realize, I do remember the Walmart logo looking that way. Crazy
It's neat that such a place still exists for people like me to experience something that is beyond our time.
My biggest memory of old Walmart would be the times my mom would go shopping towards midnight/early morning, before the holiday to avoid long lines during the day (; running around an empty Walmart was one of my greatest sense of freedom. Thanks for sharing
There used to be an abandoned 90's style Walmart in a town about 30 minutes from me. Was truly unsettling like the parking lot had weeds and little trees growing up through the cracks and the lights were always off. Looked apocalyptic and shit. I think some company bought it as a warehouse recently though
You should’ve tried to go in and explore it before it got bought out. Would’ve made a nice video.
@@SanctifiedLux42yeah urban exploration. What is the worst that happens. Police kick you out and maybe trespassing
@@coolbreeze1431 worth it for the memories and photos you can take, easily.
besides, most cops/security will just warn you and let you go as long as you're civil and kind.
THIS is a proper Walmart… a Walmart style that I miss oh so much…
wow this brings me back. i remember always looking at both of the As on the main sign for bird nests, and usually being there lol
This Wal-Mart should stay the way it is, it's the glorious vintage symbol of fhe last millennium, I mean is everyone just thinking the 90s never existed
Honestly it seems like design wise everything peak in the 90s. Change for the sake of change is a disease.
@@DeltaFRFX if it ain't broke...
Oh my god. I remember this design. The First Super Center in my city opened back in 1995 and my mom was one of the first group of associates to work there it had this design but was much bigger with 3 sets of doors grocery, non grocery and lawn and Garden. I remember the Arcade that was in it and the McDonalds that was in the back. this was back when I was 4 years old turning 5 when it first opened up and it kept that design throughout the Early to Mid 2000s. Good memories and Good times. I still have dreams of going back to that Walmart in its mid 90s design.
Immediately liked the video as soon as I heard the familiar sound waves of HOME. Good shit man.
So cool man. I visited my old Kmart before it shutdown in 2017. It still had that 90's feel when I was a kid. Sad to see our past fade away slowly.
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@BentoBuff Permissions can be asked. This was not the case.
sometimes vibes speak for themselves and you wouldn't want to lose a chance to record at something like a vintage Walmart@@JDMSpecYugo
but honestly, i believe it's possible to ask for permission given that store's speciality
I remember when Walmart used to have a snack bar inside of it.
Those mozzarella sticks were the bomb from there!
I liked the big pretzel.
I remember the bright neon coming from it 🥹
I remember when they got turned into a Subway and McDonalds
God I miss the snack bars, my dad and I used to get nachos and icees while my mom shopped.
I love how you said vintage cashiers instead of vintage cash registers 😅 like wow I guess we got the same old ladies checking people out since 1997 😂
I re renovate these for a living. They take 6 months to a year to complete... We have done a few of these older ones... The one in Northlands Calgary that we did 2 years ago hadn't been re renovated since the early 90s when it got its switchover from Wilco
The MacDonald was especially old lod looking and they had very old coin only payphones!!!
I'll have to look and see if we have this location coming up for us!
Retro gaming is cool and I think society will start appreciating more “retro” looking stores too. I think that would be a cool marketing initiative with these big brands.
it would be, they could do a few throughout the country and make an exact replica. Or make Walmart mini stores that are modeled in the 90s retro look.
to be fair though, "fake retro" doesn't look as good as actual retro. It's like Pepsi with their current logo that tries to mimic the 80s one. It just doesn't look the same.
I hope so. The current bland beige asymmetrical boxes are getting boring. Fingers crossed that one company will do something different to stand out from the crowd.
Pretty rare. After Walton died, the kids started pushing converting/relocating many across the country into Super Walmart's. That Super Walmart is why their sales just exploded in the 90's. You look at when they passed Sears in 1991, they were at $30 billion in sales. By the end of the 90's, that had ballooned to over $200 billion!
I can't help but notice that it used to be red, white, & blue. I remember it though. Something about this Walmart is very welcoming. Now days going to Walmart feels like a chore and you only go strapped
I remember this style of Walmart when I was 4-7 years old. They reminded the location into a modern Walmart later on
Although this older Walmart may have more of an aesthetic appeal, the newer ones are soo much more efficient.
True
Not true in reality
@@whitendirty23 the newer ones are way more efficient, you have numbered lanes, wider lanes, the app which let's you navigate the store to find what you need and self checkout
@@kevinmontoya7318 I agree with that. Also I don't understand why people hate online shopping so much? I think it's beneficial in some ways. Hell, people still physically shop. Lol.
@@vibrantgleam I love online shopping! I live overseas and I can purchase items from the US on my smartphone, even from Walmart.
These kind of videos makes me feel like I’m still there even though time has passed on I could tell my mind and feel that I’m in the exact locations of the old Walmarts from the 90s.
If i was there at any 90s moment at my local Walmart this what you would go through. First off the Walmart sign just makes you feel like you’re at a playground for kids. As soon as you open the doors to the right are the arcade games. The main entrance when it would slide open you would get this hard whiff of popcorn because every day this man would stand literally next to the main entry door to give popcorn to kids and families they never charged I guess it was just out of gratitude they would give us popcorn. To me that was already a great feeling as a kid along with playing a little arcade games before meeting the popcorn man lol. And of course I had to roam every aisle until I reach the best aisles. One of them was the aquatic aisle. You could see over 20 mid size aquariums filled with different type sized fish. And It always brought joy to me as a kid cause one of the guys there would let me feed it sometimes when I would go there when he wasn’t busy. now I’m walking to the sports section of course everyone as a kid had to at least bounce those big bouncy balls at least once they would sell back then I believe they still do lol. Dribble the basketball kick the soccer ball the typical things kids will do lol. Now I make my way to the toy section. Oh it was always fun there I would last like 20minutes there looking through every single toy and at that time power rangers were the big hit along with all the Disney characters and others. but I always chose power rangers I could never get enough of those toys. cars and trucks were the best toys to buy as a kid for me I just had so much imaginations with them. Idk who else did this but I always poked a hole inside the bubble bottle and start blowing bubbles out in the open it never failed for me to do that when I would go lol. Now this was the best part of me The Movie Section! The thrills of looking at all these movies ranging from Disney movies to horrors lol for me movies as a kid made me feel some type of way as if I was in the movies call me weird lol. I still remember the releases of Toy Story Toy Story 2 Lion King Lion King 2 Little Rascals Flubber Free Willy Hercules 101 Dalmatians cartoon and the real life movie home alone omg that was a treasure and part 2 everyone was going wild for those home alone movies lol even part 3 I loved. So many movies to pick but it always brought me the best joy because when I got home I’d play the hell out of all of them home alone was always the best along with Toy Story.all those times at the 90s Walmart was always paradise for me as a kid I always had fun and Walmart made my childhood cause I could take from Walmart to take it home to even have more fun. I miss it so much I wish I was a kid again! So me looking at this old 90s Walmart video made me go back in time and feel everything I felt as a kid. I miss the 90s I’m 31 yrs old now man I miss being a kid where you never did nothing but play and have fun. Sorry y’all for this long maybe boring story.
Walmart made a childhood for kids!
I forgot about the aquatic scetion! There was a whole wall of mini aquariums with fish in them! I used to hate seeing other kids tap the glass. The big bouncy ball tower set up in the middle of one of the main aisles was my favorite! I used to love bouncing them and then trying to shoot it back into the tower. So much fun! Thank you for reminding me about that
@@monicag.1527 you’re welcome.
My areas Walmart still had an aquatic section and ball tower up until covid hit. The store was built in the 90s as well, and as far as I know, has always been a supercenter which I could be wrong about but if I’m correct, that would probably make it one of the OG supercenters.They remodeled back in like 2009 but some of the pre remodel features were kept in a few areas. They remodeled again during Covid and now it just looks like any other modern Walmart.
It's wild like I don't see any of this anymore nor do I EVER see kids out playing and it leaves me wondering what on earth the entire generation of current children are gonna do when they're 20 years old and most of their memories come from a smartphone and one single building...
thank you! great video and mostly love that you kept it short and sweet!
1.5k subs and a video like this. 👍 must feel great! This day you were firing on all cylinders using the other half of your brain! This was a good idea for a video. Great job brought me back to my day
I liked the Walmart with the snack counter where you can get hot dogs or nachos and fountain drinks.
I actually went to 5th grade in an old Walmart building after the school was flooded. The general design, especially those big red lines on the floor, brings back a lot of memories.
i remember ~10 something years ago as a kid stumbling upon an old walmart for the first time and remember especially being just surprised with how different the layout of it was compared to newer walmarts, i remember clothing/department stuff being front and center and having to walk further in before getting to clothes and anything else
I live in a pretty rural part of Kansas and the closest Wal-Mart to us is about a 20 minute drive. That Wal-Mart looked very similar to the one in this video up until 2018, when the entire store was completely overhauled and made to look essentially brand new. I will say, however, that our Wal-Mart had a much better upkeep than the one shown here, as the floors never looked like that and the lights on the outside signs were never burnt out. Those red checkout lane indicators bring back a lot of nostalgia, as during Christmas they would always decorate them with all sorts of green ornaments and it would make them look so cheerful. They still do that with the blue ones now, but it's just not the same.
Loved how wholesome the video is , you should make more content like this
I remember when my Walmart had a whole cafe area you could order food and drinks at. They had like the colorful 90s seating and everything by the deli section. The photo counter was a huge square area where they had big machines that you’d give them film out of your camera that theyd run through and print within an hour or two. once they upgraded years ago, all of it went with it as well.
Target used to have both too!! I remember when they had Pizza hut, the new mini swlf serve cafe thing they have is so boring 😭😭😭, imagine how many people lost their position to a self check out register!
Some used to have actual restaurants in them. I remember one having a McDonald’s in it.
Walmarts in some areas, even NEW ones still have some cafes, alongside with franchised brands.
What's really weird are the Walmarts down in Bentonville. You would think being the headquarters, they would have expansive and really nice Walmarts. I didn't go in any, but what I saw instead were tiny specialized Walmarts. Like neighborhood stores, probability just groceries inside.
Sounds like Walmart might use Bentonville as a test market (and most likely they would). I know you didn't visit any, but wonder if some of their merchandise offerings might be different than a typical Walmart?
On the other hand, I've seen some of these small "Walmart Neighborhood Market" stores here in Texas.
@@sbclaridge I'm fairly certain that's what they were, Neighborhood Markets. We did a lot of driving around the area because we're thinking of moving. The only SuperCenter I recall seeing was along the main highway. Bentonville, Rodgers, Fayetteville and even Bella Vista area are all very close to one another. So maybe there's just a couple SuperCenters mixed in among the Neighborhood Markets. I do know that Walmart is testing drone delivery in Fayetteville and Pea Ridge. They're definitely rolling some services out in the area ahead of nationwide. I wanted to check out a store but we were limited with time between looking at properties. I did have the opportunity to go to a Walmart in West Branson, MO earlier this year. While it's about an hour or so from Bentonville, it was a really nice store. They also had hundreds of kayaks out front, showing that Walmart definitely stocks merchandise specific to the location.
We have several SuperCenters as well in NWA. The Neighborhood markets are more plentiful. I typically go to other stores because they are easier to navigate and there are less people. Walmart's prices on some things are worth the trip, though.
My favorite Wal-Mart memory as a kid was seeing the Primal Rage arcade machine for the first time. I was blown away by the game, the sounds, and the look of the cab itself. Truly an unforgettable experience.
This brought back memories from when I was a small kid going to Walmart with my mom in the early 2000’s
One of the last Kmart in my area that closed a year ago was straight from the 90s. Everything from shelves, cash registers, price scanners were all unchanged from the mid 90s.
These smaller walmarts were everywhere when I was a kid in the 90s but in the 2000s they started phasing them out for supercenters. We lost the one in our town in 2009 and they built a supercenter in its place. The interior of this one reminds me of it.
As a '90s kid, I definitely miss seeing stores such as Wal Mart with their old logos back in the day. It's never the same, nowadays.
Walmart in my small town in Virginia was just shut down in the 90s... and the Supercenter was opened in 1995 or 96, so yeah thanks for the vid... Nostalgia feeling indeed 😌
I was living in Montana in the 1990s and when the first Walmart opened in Billings in 1993, it looked exactly like this.
It was then remodeled into a supercenter in 2000 and renovated again in 2013, removing any and all traces of what it looked like when it originally opened. This must ahve been a total trip walking through a Walmart with the old 90s decor!
I remember the old layout of the 90s era Walmart. What the newer layouts did was make them look more like Sam's but with more organized sections though there are some in my area that ditched the gray, warehouse look and look like what an actual updated 90s version would look like with a cleaner feel, much much less green feel.
Wow… suddenly I’m taken back in time where I’m six years old in the early 2000’s.. thanks for sharing.
This brings back memories of the Walmart I use to go to as a child with my family
GOOD CONTENT I MISS OLD WALMART
Flood what other stores do you want to come back other than the old Wal-Mart from the 90s and 2000s
@@joetatro5415 I'm from Canada so idk your American and if these stores were in America but we had zellers, Kmart, sears. Blockbuster I know was in America aswell.
Justin P America doesn't have Half of the stores that America used to have
I miss walmart had stuff other stores didn'" t have
Honestly this was cool. I would love to be able to see a Walmart like this again.
Love the video. It's a random cool thing and straight to the point.
The old Walmart exterior was cool, much more aesthetic than its replacement. The one we had like this where I live growing up was different inside than this one back in the day. Aisles were closer together, it wasn't open late, and my hometown old one didn't have any groceries; it was a lot more like a K Mart. It did have its own McDonald's with the golden arches entrance you'd have to walk through in a very prominent position when you walked in (not to the side like fast food at the new Walmarts).
That’s crazy this was recommended to me because today I was just thinking about an old video on here where this group of friends went into a Walmart back in 95 in Panama City . I think the video is still on here under that name . It’s interesting to see
Interesting! Glad you enjoyed
"Getting ready for Walmart Shopping in PCB 1995" uploaded by Tina Layton! I absolutely love that little piece of time capsule! A must watch for 90s nostalgia
@@twylaI’ll check that video out, PCB is like a second home to me now
CZcams wasn’t around in 1995 genius 🤨
@@jessihawkins9116 No, but you can upload videos from that time…
The only older WM in my area (Lake County IL) was "upgraded" to a Supercenter many years ago. What I miss are some of the other stores that have gone out of business, most likely because of WM (but also because of their own incompetence).
I was born in 1987 and this brought back memories and got me thinking a lot about the past. ..gotta love a party mix
going shopping at walmart at 3 in the morning when it is empty and quiet was a real treat we may never get to experience ever again
My town has 2 Walmart’s. Sometimes I wish they didn’t convert the 2nd one into a super center back in 2004 . I know currently it’s my favorite Walmart to go to because of how less congested it is than the other one and how kept up it is but I hate walking in the super centers ; my legs hurt after walking around 30+ minutes to grocery shop ( I wish they kept the benches and the grocery baskets). Also I hate how I still have to go to another store because Walmart ironically doesn’t have what I’m specifically looking for. They never should’ve made half the cash register section into U-scans ; some of the self checkouts don’t work right plus they only keep like 1 or 2 employees nearby to help. They have like 20 manual checkouts but only keep 3 or 4 open. They also don’t put any urgency to fix the vending machines. Also don’t get me started on the app or website saying they have an item in stock only for it to not actually be there.
Another gripe is that I’ve come into the store sometimes only for the grocery carts and the mobility scooter carts to not even be in the store to use
that's a good point about the benches that i haven't thought of, haven't seen those in a long time... weird why they were removed, and yeah the self checkouts can be really annoying here and there, thank you for watching!
Sounds like you just need to lose weight tbh, then half your "gripes" would be irrelevant
@@fennecRBX yeah the only bench left in the store is in the pharmacy aisle. Benches used to be placed all throughout the middle of the aisles
Okay Boomer, self checkouts are the future. Don't blame people for not manning the registers or the cart pushers for not always having mobility carts. People need to get paid and $12 to service hundreds of people at a register, not being able to get a break because they don't have anyone to cover. Walmart needs to pay a fair wage as the biggest company next to Amazon.
Same with the cart pushers, why pay grown adults $12 to be out in extreme heat or cold, and then you complain because the mobility carts aren't around. I bet you didn't know you aren't supposed to take them out of the building, you park them by the outlets and walk out, not park them at the end of the parking lot, especially when it's snowing, and almost impossible to get them back into the building.
Also, vending machines aren't Walmart, they are serviced by whomever owns them.
@@outspokenterms9240 Covid ruined that. Blame the virus, not Walmart.
The front of this Walmart reminds me of how the one in Wausau Wisconsin used to look, up until about the early 2000s or so. They remodeled that store into a Super Center, by adding onto the left and right sides of the building complete with new entrances on both ends and blocking in the original entrance that was in the middle and adding a couple of emergency exit doors there, you can still tell where it was by looking at the front of the store. On the inside they kept the drop ceiling in the original part of the building but have the raised ceiling on both ends that they added on. This location is a time capsule for sure.
My local Wal-Mart looked like this when I was growing up. Good times.
I live in a smaller town so ours didn’t get updated until I was into elementary school.
So early 2000s.
It’s super nostalgic seeing this old style store.
It was just a little bit over 10 years ago that I was in a 90’s style Walmart. The one I go to built a Super Walmart behind the old one. The old one was torn down.
Yoooooo that intro just hit me so hard. Before the Night is one of my favorite songs!!!!
Same here
The first Walmart in Kapuskasing ON was in the Model City Mall and was converted from a Woolco store in 1994-95. Walmart bought out around 120 Woolco locations in its entry into Canada. It was only in the mall for a short time before moving to its present location. I can't remember the exact year but I'm guessing 1998 or 1999. I live in Timmins and will stop into the Kapuskasing store when I'm up that way. Kapuskasing and its surrounding areas has had a declining population for awhile and I can kind of see why Walmart has left this location as being one of the last to be renovated as there really isn't any competition or growth potential.
This was actually extremely cool. Thanks for sharing!
Spotting these pre-supercenter Wal-Marts is always neat. It’s sort of a similar sensation as spotting a Blockbuster.
Biloxi, Mississippi had a Wal-Mart just like this until around 2010, when a gleaming new Supercenter was built closer to the mall. But I think the Bogalusa, Louisiana location hung on even longer before it finally Supercentered. I was in Bogalusa for a funeral in 2012, and stopped by the Wal-Mart while I was in town. It was like stepping back in time to 1992. That was the last time I've ever been in an old-style Wal-Mart, and will probably never do so again.
The 90s Walmart experience I had didn't really have much at all for general groceries. If you wanted food, it was mostly candy and a few basic items not entirely unlike an expanded trucker section at a gas station today. No freezers or anything. The idea of grocery shopping there was a radical change when they built a new one across town.
I remember when my local Walmart (Lake Worth, TX) was expanded into a Supercenter as a child. It used to be one of these older style Walmarts in the 1990s, and then they added on a grocery section at the eastern end, along with a second set of entrance/exit doors. I don't remember the exact year the expansion happened, but it had to be sometime around 2000. The grocery area still has higher ceilings than the rest of the store to this day, or at least it did the last time I went in there a few years ago. This has the effect of making the grocery feel larger and less closed-in when compared to other departments.
In my memory K-Mart was the first to bring groceries/frozen food in the mid 90s when they started converting stores to 'Big-K'.....and then Wal-Mart followed shortly after
I remember not that many years ago that I thought my hometown had the only Wal-Mart that hadn’t converted to the “Super-Duper” Wal-Marts. This wasn’t the case but it sure felt that way lol. I remember when Sam was still alive and he vowed that they wouldn’t carry any product not made in the USA!
Reminds me of being a kid in the early 2000s where on a late night I would go with my dad and siblings to pick up snacks for the weekend, and a new toy. Man never thought I’d feel nostalgic for a walmart of all places.