DEAD MALL SERIES : THE END OF KMART : From Open to Closed to Abandoned!
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The music is depressing af
Trust YouMe what? the katy perry firework on the last day filled the employees and shoppers alike with determination!
Trust YouMe I was thinking the same thing. I don't think their mixture of 80s music helped the depressing, as well as dated, atmosphere.
Koft_Nedted
that's the point of vaporware
the same music plays in the airport here, but it's drowned out so much you have to go right up to the speaker to hear it. there's also lots of tropical plants and escalators. very A E S T H E T I C
The music at the 2:50 mark makes it feel very eerie. I'm curious what it is if anyone knows. Really pushes the end of something vibe. I was the electronics department lead in the Blueridge mall Kmart from 2012 to 2014. I had some great memories, made some great friends, and had an absolute blast.
idk if it's just me but the lighting in Kmart always feels off
Indeed.. I worked at a Big K in Winter Park Fl in 2001... off light is the florescent tube lighting; its bad - they say prolonged exposure causes depression...
I like your pupster avatar.
Jane Doe Not only that but all the shelves and fixtures are yellow!
They used to have those extra extra long fluro tubes, always looked best when they were not all the same color. Ugly for sure but I do miss that strangely enough. It takes me back to the early to mid 80's.
Like a WoolWorth's did.
Jane Doe yeah whenever i go into some old stores like dollar tree ect they have that same lighting its depressing for some reason its funny when i walk into Walmart i get a pleasant feeling with their white led lighting it looks like they have
Kmart: *Closes*
Spirit Halloween: Stonks 📈
Loooool
rip my local k-mart... you never accepted my grandma’s gift returns but I’ll still miss your weird vibes and nostalgia
😂
i used to work at a kmart. They told me to annouce a bluelight special. Problem is, I have lot of anxiety. lol I ended up fucking up by saying towards the end on the intercom, "...thank you for shopping at walmart."
niicknasty crippling anxiety 😢
niicknasty LMAO
niicknasty lmao
Sounds like something I would have done too
Lmao
this was really engaging. didnt think i'd watch the whole thing
iDubbbzTV
Wow, didn't expect you see you here
Love your shit dude. Thanks for the laughs got me through hard times.
iDubbbzTV make a brand inspector on Kmart just for the lolz
iDubbbzTV Get out of here kiddo. You don't belong here.
hmmm didn't expect idubbbz here
When you said "the old ladies used to hang out all day waiting for those blue light specials to occur", I thought you were going to finish with "I know this because I used to be one of them".
I thought the same thing, lol😅
The MOST underrated comment! 🤣
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AHAHahAHA I'm stealing this joke
Geez, even back then old ladies were weird. 😂😂😂😂
The frozen food isle looks like a part of a Gmod map
Omg right? I would of loved to go in there with some black poster bord and have the neon purple checkered and hang them random places in there XD
The only thing missing is "closing time, you don't have to go home, bit you cannot stay here "
All those alarm-like noises were the screams of the damned employees who never made it out of the store before they closed it.
lucarionme Wow that's macabre 😮
lucarionme ii
At first I though it was a fuck ton of crickets.
lucarionme.....LOL!
lucarionme _
Before you know it, the building will become a Spirit Halloween.
Esperanza Guevara this is so accurate 😂the one where I live became a spirit Halloween
One of the stores in the almost abandoned mall near where I work is putting up Spirit Halloween for the 4th year.
Esperanza Guevara Oh my god😭🤣👏🏼
Spirit halloween is the best store i've ever been too, sucks its just a pop up store. Now i have to drive a little over 2 hours for the nearest one.
Without a doubt
How Sears missed the online mail-order boat and didn't beat Amazon to the punch just floors me, because they were doing mail-order via catalogue since like the 50s. You used to be able to mail-order a pre-fab house from them even. All they had to do was move their catalogue online.
The problem with Sears is they only care about short-term profits. Discover card was made by Sears and they sold it off to make a quick buck. They should've improved on the catalogue so they can stay for the WWW launch in 1995, but they didn't. They never saw the big picture so now they are marching to the grave like other dead department stores.
Sears had catalogues since the late 1800's.
Also, based on the promo video at the top of this, Kmart had in-store online shopping by the late '90s/early '00s. They were poised for the digital retail revolution 20 years ago, how did they screw that up?
@@artistwithouttalent They focused on company acquisitions and more corporate stuff instead of focusing on current problems and customer experiences. So Kmart and Sears relying on older technology and lack of updates both on their websites or actual stores really killed the experience and overall reputation
It's just like Blockbuster's case. The higher-ups refused to adapt to changing times and got swept by competitors who were better in flexibility.
I remember when I was little my grandma would always get me an icee before we left
i miss the icee red slushies
@Bill Williams true dat, and yes, shes still around and about :D
Braden Sommers
That was my favorite thing lol. Every week when my mom would do her shopping she’d bring me an ICEE home, or get one if I went with her. I miss those days.
@@_Cato_ same bro :c
YEESSSSs!!!! ICEEES! 😂😂😂
At the end I imagine the spirits of elderly women lost in the dark store searching endlessly for blue light specials for all eternity.
Jeez ó-ò
i just laughed way to hard at this
@@brookemekena9224 I'm incredibly glad to hear that!
Amusing others is a great feeling...
Sounds like a pretty spoopy campfire story
They were racing to the finish line with all that K Mart pie, cheese, and coffee. 😢
Kmart of 2016 felt and looked exactly like the Kmart of 1988.
Juliana Blewett that's the depressing part, it has barely changed. Kind of like my only look into how things were before the 2000s. I remember going to Kmart a few years back, and it was just sad seeing this store slowly deteriorating.
I used to live near a K mart,everytime I walked in,it seem like the layout changed. Toys would be in electronics and visa versa.I believe this one closed down too.
Juliana Blewett That sounds pretty accurate lol
That's why they died out. Nothing much has changed... the quality of products basically got lower & lower as they tried to compete on price. People also found stuff with better value for money elsewhere. And then you also have online retail...
+Jonathan Tan Online retail was the straw that broke the camel's back. Its sad to think that shopping in person is going away. And anything that can be digitalized is, like game, movies, & Music.
Dan Bell showing interest in your shop's sign is the equivalent of vultures circling above your head when you are walking through the desert
I worked at a Sears for 8 years. I left in 95, and even back then management was telling us things weren't looking good. Sears used to be THE place to shop. Funny how time changes things.
*the 90 year old woman still hiding somewhere in the store waiting for their blue light specials*
Lily rose Xoxo lol 😂
XxSmolMochixX •___• lol
jackdawkeith aha 😂
That's heart breaking.
Oh, is *that* what was observing them from the dark corners?
Funny that you said there's no fun at Sears. I went to Sears yesterday and was looking at the kitchen appliances, when an employee came up to me and said, "If you are not buying anything you need to leave. This is not a fun store". he probably said it because I'm 17 an he knows there's no way I'm buying a $3,000 refrigerator, but still. I thought it was pretty rude, especially since I was probably one of three customers on the entire 2nd floor. Just goes to show how uninviting their stores are today.
Erik Kaspar wow how rude
Erik Kaspar Woulda been cool if you whipped a fat wad of $100 bills and said "Meh, I guess I'll leave then."
Last time I was in a Sears a few years ago, when I walked by one of the departments(either the appliances, or the jewelry section) I got funny looks from the 2 or 3(can't remember) employees working that part of the store. It was the middle of a weekday afternoon, so that's probably why I got the funny looks from them. There couldn't have been more than myself, and 1 or 2 other customers browsing that floor at the time of day. As I recall, I was inside that Sears a few years back since I hadn't revisited it since the mid or late 1990s. And was curious how bad things had gotten at that Sears, a few years ago in the 2010s. For the record, that store hasn't closed down yet, and that's probably one of the few Sears stores that still does good business in Chicago(Six Corners one on Cicero/Irving, btw).
That sucks you got treated that way. Doesn't matter if you're only 17, that's wrong how you were treated looking in the appliances section.
Sears is shit and customer service has been really shitty and your story just adds to the other stuff I've heard about Sears. Good riddens. lol
I brought my mom to Sears for sewing machine needles to fit her Kenmore sewing machine that's got to be 50 years old. An old guy in the store was very helpful, finding the right needles on the computer and helping us place an order. So I don't see where the griping about service comes from. One thing Sears seems to do that nobody else does anymore is make replacement parts available to fix things they sold decades ago. But now days people just buy cheap Chinese junk that lasts 6 months and throw it away when it breaks to buy something even more shoddy to replace it. You'd think environmentally conscious people would revive the idea of fixing stuff rather than filling the landfills.
K-Mart Manager: *"K-Mart is still a company. We're still very busy and we're still very much in business."*
That had the same energy as a ranking officer to some dying regime saying _"Oh no, we still have control over the country, everything's perfectly fine!"_ as their capitol building is ransacked and burned behind them.
Looool
"capitol building ransacked" didn't age very well! Lol
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And now in 2022, there are only THREE stores left!!!
Well Kmarts do exist in Australia and unlike the ones up here I’ve heard from both friends and looked online. And geez they’re big there. Most of their business is down under nowadays and a very notable name there
The biggest dagger to the chest for me was when they started closing vhs and dvd rental stores like blockbuster and the one me and my buddy went to called movie gallery.
Red Box and Netflix just leave so much to be desired 😪
Brian Jones yea the last time I went to a vhs/dvd rental store was when I was 19 I think. I’m 31 now so it’s been a while. Would’ve liked to take my kids there.
Jessica H it really does. The experience is definitely not the same no where close.
Movie Gallery, Hastings, Blockbuster. Thanks internet
I was a shift manager at a Movie Gallery in the early 2000s
if you watch the video in reverse, a discount retail chain decides to purchase an abandoned space in order to offer neat sweatpants
PyroTheFox awesome lol
PyroTheFox you are a fucking genius
PyroTheFox You are AWESOME. It also makes the video less depressing. :)
without neat sweatpants, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Kmart gets reverse snapped back into existence.
Are k-marts really stores, or just time-capsules of what retail looked like in the 90s?
Saadia Potato idk my Kmart is lit af
what if someone made a whole shopping mall with multiple stores. One store for each era of time. The hipsters would eat it up.
Saadia Potato
I bet I'd love that place. Not a hipster, I promise!
Saadia Potato you go to Kmart if you want to inhale all the mold growing inside the walls
+Aspirin Damage
Funny story, I saw a old Kmart building burning before.
I worked at the Auburn, California Kmart from 2014 to 2016 (recently closed). Once in awhile a guy would wander into the store, mesmerized, gazing around saying.
"Wow, I didn't know Kmart still existed."
"here's an example of food"
*lifts up a beverage*
Always thought K-Mart would be a good filming location for a zombie movie.
HappyHappyistGaming haha my friend always said he was gonna go there during the Apocalypse
especially on black friday
HappyHappyistGaming No, that would be Walmart, and they're apparently filming it all day, every day, at every location, already.
I'm just imagining Dead Rising taking entirely in place of a Kmart.
Lawrence Genereux There is a possibility that I can agree to that.
Adam Levine having a line of clothes at Kmart is the most Adam Levine thing I can think of.
See, if they'd just sung Sweet Victory, K-Mart wouldn't have had to die.
OtakuUnitedStudio I stole a crop top from his collection at a kmart. I’m comfortable saying it now bc they closed lmao
Sara and that’s why kmart is now closed.... thanks sara
Who the hell is Adam Levine?
@Elizabeth Fitzpatrick what Martha Stewart went to prison? Not Kristine Stewart
"Don't Bring Me Down" but you're exploring a dead K-Mart
I remember eating the cookies and a slushy in the cafeteria and looking forward to it every time I went as a kid
yeah the red icee slushies
I got the cocke ones lol
Anyone else feel weird about the overly positive eerie pop music playing over the speakers
Like you're in purgatory...when I think of the endless in between this is what I picture
An eerie melody to broken hope and dead dreams. The swan song to an era that no longer exists.
whydoialwaysspill Yep. It was pretty weird.
"Don't bring me down, Bruce!" And it was brought down.
LIKE THE FOOUUURTH OF JULYY~
*-lights out and doors slam shut-*
bye kmart
I always remember Kmart looking like a tired store.
Jenn Durham the moment they came into existence they were immediately tired...reminds me of me!
amelia6152 lmao
Jenn Durham Wow someone else too??? It felt dead, didn’t make you want to buy. Unless there was a special sale or something
@@okiguess2313 ....😆
I always felt very dirty in there, it was weird
Sounds like the liquidations guy was in complete denial!
This reminds me of one of those liminal spaces videos. I always liked the outdated look of KMart, it was somehow comforting to me and reminded me of childhood.
One time, when I was a young child, I turned one of those blood pressure machines on in our K-Mart then walked away. A few minutes later I heard this huge pop sound. I never went back to look, but I knew it was that BP machine and I never told anyone about what I did until now.
I did that multiple times but the thing didnt pop lol.
Emily W.
I fucking love you.
Emily W. that's fucking hilarious
Emily W. not all heroes wear capes
Emily W. lmfaooooooo
A slice of cheese and a cigarette. Part of a healthy breakfast
FYI it's probably a slice of cheese ON the pie.
Amy O just thinking about that makes me want to throw up!!!
I always get a slice of cheese on my apple pie.
It's the Kmart traditional birthday cake. Instead of putting candles into the cake they put cigarettes into the pie.
Amy O couldn't agree more
This is so weird this is like a spitting image of my Kmart in Lawton Oklahoma I managed until it closed. Exact same layout. I traveled the districts and not one resembled our store. It’s crazy how the aisles looked like that. I know it’s not the employees fault. They cut my employees hours down to 20 hours a week. So management had to do trucks mainly. Our team was amazing. We only had one Liquidater he was awesome. He treated it as if we weren’t going out of business. He taught us to straighten shelves and stripe them. It was a cool experience! I was supposed to move and take the Branson Missouri Kmart but our district manager told me not to and it was the end. I got the call on my vacation we were closing my whole team was sad! It’s sad my Kmart was sentimental to me because of family. Keep up the good work! Awesome channel!
It's so weird seeing this as an Australian. Here Kmart is really popular and isn't showing any sign of closing any time soon.
I think KMart Australia is different
That is insane. Probably due to your higher minimum wage.
The US market is very cutthroat, so if you fail to stay up to date with the times, you go under. Also, if y'all didn't know, Kmarts in Australia are owned by a separate company that actually modernized their stores and you Aussies don't have Walmart down their either
it's because Kmart Australia is owned by a different company unrelated to the american Kmart.
Target here in the US no relationship with the Australian target is taking over a lot of vacant kmart stores and more of those vacant kmart stores are turning in target stores remember the American target and kmart brands aren't owned by the Australian brands
You are correct. Stepping into these stores is like stepping back into 1990. It's kind of creepy, actually.
Daniel Johnson and the music too!
Daniel Johnson mine here in El Paso TX too. it's like reliving my childhood. We used to shop at Kmart all the time
I actually like the feel lol
Can I still buy the old Lego sets I always wanted? Because that would be amazing lol
Daniel Johnson seriously?😨😱
The juxtaposition of the upbeat music they play on the intercom and the depressing atmosphere lingering over the store makes the whole thing even more bleak.
I will never forget K mart and sears because they made the a s t h e t i c videos about specific song but in an abandoned mall.
We live in the dead mall era.
Bathrooms, cooking facilities from the snack bar/Little Cesar’s, a LOT of homeless people could live in this building with very little remodeling.
We can use the former stores to house the people who used to have a job at the stores 🤧
Something about seeing an empty K-Mary while “Don’t Bring Me Down” plays in the background is both hilarious and depressing
Too bad it’s updated and it has no sound anymore
Do you know what the first song that's playing in the store is?
K-mart looks like an expensive Good Will.
Don’t insult good will like that there in business
@@samanthacasanas6950 that wasn't an insult. An insult would be Good Will looks like K-mart.
Angie Kelley woooosh
@@aross-hb6jl r/wooosh
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Awww, the liquidator team member who wouldn't sell you the sign was in denial about K-mart dying :(
Betting it got auctioned off on eBay or something. Ppl pay a lot of money for junk like that.
@@xXxequisxXx there is an antique store the next town over from me that collects old signs like that and has them hung all around the outside of the building. It looks like where the 80's and 90's went to die
They wouldn't, because protocol.
They actually send them to the locations that are still operating.
3 alarms: blaring
these guys: lol anyway look at these health code violations huh
Who was really coming to shut off the alarms tho. Hahaha. I wonder how long the loud one blared before someone shut it off. Or if it's still blaring to this very day 🤣
“We’re still very much a company. We’re very busy!” “ I can’t sell you any signs”😂
Store is 75% empty, trash everywhere, lots of empty shelves even in the area still open. "We're very busy!"
looks like every zombie game ever when they have to search for meds or supplies and all the shelves are ransacked
I worked for Kmart from '78 to '95. It was good back in the day. This is depressing.
and now here we are.. all shelves empty cause of corona virus
Or in 2020 looking for toilet paper that the sheeple have hoarded!
Silent Hill
XD
looks like walmmarts in 2020 panikdemic workers dont give a hoot,they have just give up and the shoppers are rude defensive and typical 9 out of 10 acting people and kid anymore i feel for this country
Just looks like they stacked the shelves in 2000 and forgot to restock since. Simple mistake
Big lots, Sears, JC Penney they feel like they're on their last legs. The eerie sounds felt like visiting what is left of the 80s and 90s on life support
Big Lots is doing fine at least in Northern California. Sears will shutdown for good by 2023 and JCP not much later. Sad times for traditional department stores.
the last time i went into a big lots it reminded me of kmart. disgusting looking and merchandise thrown on the floor. and the funny thing is that there was no sign of it closing. idk how the brand itself is doing but that store was horrid.
“I cant sell you any signs”
2020: 37 stores left
2021: 25 stores left
He was offended when Dan wanted to buy the sign
Quick Update, 1 Kmart store left.
@@VRyze really?
@@Ash-uo8sp yes
I love the smell of a dead, decaying shopping center in the morning
OH.. You know her too????
Don't we all?
Me too. For almost 50 years shopping centers and the chain stores slowly crucified "Main street USA". Now they are being crucified on the alter of Amazon. Payback is a bitch.
Wow...me tooo
who else can smell the store?
It crashed my laptop!
lmao
I know what mold smells like... disgusting!🤢
It has a weird but nice smell🤣
Smells like tires
I love this episode, it brings back so many memories. I grew up going to Kmart as my grandmother worked there and I also worked there myself at both a Big K and a Super K. I miss Kmart SOOOO BAD!!!
Kmart was always stuck in the 80s, and Sears couldn’t grow out of the 90s! SMH
The lighting of these stores really strikes me: they are very old, outdated "endless lighting" tunnel of bright, white lights. Unflattering and uncomfortable to look at: feels like a very artificial place to be.
Chris Ducat I know. It’s creepy lighting. Non inviting
Looks like walmart lighting to me which I think looks fine and intriguing it's due to the yellow outdated floors shelves ect. You want to see bad lighting go to a family dollar or dollar tree now that is depressing
I like this outdated, endless lighting. It makes me feel at home
Everything about K-Mart is outdated, The one closest to me before it closed, had cash registers that looked like something out of 1993.
@ this Kmart is the same color as the Dollar tree in my city
Kmart makes me uncomfortable. every time i enter one i feel an overwealming sense of dread.
This is exactly how I feel too. It's such a strange feeling, almost like time stopped back in the late 90s/early 2000s
Same it’s so freaking creepy
same, i also feel this way walking through sears!
Same! I feel it walking through Kmart, Sears, and Bjs,
I get that but at this old bowling alley by my house. The arcade legitimately has nothing made post 2005 in it
I remember about a month ago I thought to myself, "It's been a while since I've gone to Kmart. Might check out and see if they have any items on sale.". But when I went to where it was located, it was closed. "Huh... Guess they closed early." I thought, not knowing they closed two years ago... Depressions a b****!!
I was smiling at your recounting of childhood memories,then out of nowhere my eyes welled with tears. KMart was a piece of my childhood and seeing it go is the closing of a chapter.
*This looks like where all vapourwave tracks are produced*
This is what I'm sayin!
Kmart is vapourwave.
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That almost empty Kmart would seem like a great place to go roller skating, like if I was in charge I'd put a roller rink there and probably also a laser tag arena
You could also put a bowling alley in there too
Phoenix Pyrope Roller Laser Tag!!!
Phoenix Pyrope roller skating laser tag bowling lol
the laser tag arena in my city closed :( there wasnt enough people going
I guess being failed abortions are what you two share in common
I find myself returning to this video when I just can’t sleep- One of the best things on CZcams
Even as a kid, Kmart always had more of a thrift store feel to it rather than a Walmart competitor
K-Marts were always so dreary, the ceiling always seemed lower and they sold fake jewelry, lots of polyester, ice cream shop, and smelled like rubber.
Did this make anyone else cry? KMart was such a big part of my childhood, I was always so excited to go with my parents.
Yes, because going to a store gives you something to do on a Saturday or Sunday. After 9/11 many places changed.
Dan and Will had a fun friendship before it changed. Traveling the world isn't fun without somebody with a sense of humor.
I remember even in the early 80's how Target felt much more modern and fresh. I would cycle 5 miles to shop at Target rather than the KMart just down the street.
pov: you’re in an abandoned k-mart and you see a blue light special
Fuk
A line of old lady aperitions apear from the cafiteria and go to the light
@@eightlivesnow1644 your spelling is scarier
@Kieran Dillon I don't bully, just try to spell check before you comment, it's not my fault you're stupid and lazy
@Kieran Dillon BTW I bet you anything you like , you really thought about it before you posted!
English is a beautiful language, USE IT
When I went to a Kmart going out of business and they had moved the shelves, I found an old Nickelodeon magazine from the 90s. It was crusty and brown, but it had Arnold on the cover, so that's a plus.
Arnold Schwarzenegger? On a Nickelodeon magazine?
@@sambeck2510 He's probably talking about Arnold as in Hey Arnold! An old TV show from the 90s.
Funny enough, last time I went to K-Mart was around 2014, and I found an old VHS tape of the Jimmy Neutron movie hidden in the back of the movie section. A very sticky copy, but a copy nonetheless.
Vanessa Streit I know I found a high school musical pen that played a song and like a birthday tablecloth it was all dusty and old too
Vanessa Streit the last thing i got from the kmart going out of business, was star wars shoes that my dad got for me. It was on sale and it had rey on it. I dont think it fits me anymore, i'd always wear them everyday. I kinda miss going to kmart.
FYI Dan Bell, this was my first vid of yours that I had recommended, and I love it, and have pretty much watched all the dead mall, abandoned places, thrift stores, abandoned hotels and ADRs to date! You are a great film director!
I worked at a Kmart and it was one of my favorite jobs ever. The coworkers were like family, the work felt productive and we always had meals in the break room.
The store closed years ago and it still hurts my heart.
wow
I'm surprised K-Mart didn't go out of business years ago to be honest.
That's what happens when a company has a huge multi billion dollar savings account from when they used to be cool... they die very slow painful deaths... I had my mind blown when blockbuster died so quickly because I was honestly expecting them to do the same thing... if you want another example of a company floating on it's bank account look at AMD they have been loosing 100 million+ a year for like 5 years but they keep on fighting it... they just made Ryzen and are about to put out Vega and guess what... early sales figures show it only slowed down the losses and they have yet to turn a profit... Yet I bet you they will still be making parts in 2020...
Artzie Music oh snap! artzie music
winterwolf211 there are still a few blockbusters around but they are usually in smaller towns where people still rent movies from a movie store.
There are even a few West Coast Video (remember them?) locations still around.
Holy shit, West Coast Video, they died off in my area about a year after DVD's came out. They were cool though, they would give me all of their horror and action movie posters and stands when they were done with them.
this will get lost but my parents meant at kmart together when working then eventually had me. if kmart never existed i wouldnt be here. i tell people im a kmart baby
Aw, that's sweet
@@excalibur493 mine met at IHOP
@Chops Shockley damn
Excalibur 493 so ur the Blockbuster baby :P
Good for you kmart bambino
Literally looks like a store in the apocalypse would
Just hearing K-Mart cafeteria brings back so many nostalgic memories.
Sorry, we only carry sizes 1,3 and 5...you could try Sears...
hahaha iconic
so fetch
our k marts are FULL of xl + clothes . you want a 6 x shirt?
Llama Del Fid wrong store...this is kmart. try again
@@strwbrrydaisy444 r/woosh
It’s almost like a Walmart that was clean and nice, slowly turned into a really big dollar tree
Daniel Torres Every Family Dollar I’ve been in is so much nastier than dollar tree or dollar store.
like one of those 90's walmarts in the getto that never renovated
Nah Dollar Tree stores are kept much cleaner than that.
United States, Czechoslovakia and Canada: Kmart is closed.
Australia: *excuse me?*
This is what I would expect a store to look like 5 years after the apocalypse started.
Me and my grandpa went to Kmart together. It was the only store I ever went to with him ever and I only went once. He bought me a shirt. I miss him. Rip gramps and rip Kmart.
radwilly1
Jeffery Stephens
Rip grammar
radwilly1 My grampa used to sit me in his lap and let me steer the freaking van!
e val79 my grandpa used to bend me over his knee and beat the crap out of me and when he was done he didn't explain to me why he had to whoop me or discipline me wow an explanation for every time I got my ass whooped
This is what happens when you look like a dollar store but you aren't.
Amenhir no this is what happens when Amazon came along
This is what happens when Walmart comes around and plays the Wild Draw 4 -cards- Bankruptcy Chances card on K-Mart with better deals.
At least dollar stores don’t feel this depressing
Our dollar store even looks better than this.
This is what happens when you look like a dollar store but aren't, Amazon comes around, and Walmart gets a draw four all at the same time.
Anyone remember the “I shipped my pants” ad?
4:52 Dude turns the camera like "Oh shit that child's coming right at me! If I stand completely still they cant see me. Their eyesight is based on movement."
5:02 "Whew, dodged a bullet there."
"Don't Bring Me Down" blasting on the last day open...
The only thing that would be more ironic would be if they were playing "Closing Time."
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that made me laugh thank you
Feel like I just got catapulted back into 2003 as a kid shopping with my mom.
Nolan Milnes Me too. And the K-Mart in my town just closed a couple years ago or so. I actually practice drove in their empty, sad lot.
Nolan Milnes 2003.....as a kid.....😒😒 Way to make us all feel old as fuck. lol
Nolan Milnes More like 1986. K-Mart stores never changed and kept up with the times.
Nolan Milnes dude, I'm so sorry you missed the 90s.
Lafawnduh sorry! I'll be old as fuck like you someday too!
You should see K-mart in Australia it’s so much sexier
i used to get christmas decorations & halloween costumes from there when i was 7, i miss the days when this store was filled up & cheery
Whenever I went to Kmart I felt like I was gonna get murdered
Why tho?
Why????
Okay but like .....why do I understand that feeling vididly 😐.....
SAME, cause it was so empty and there would always be a random creepy person walking around
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When the store doesn't look nice, it's very tempting to just shoplift. People treat bad-looking public bathrooms with less respect than good-looking public bathrooms. the same goes to stores
I've heard people at my school say that our local K-Mart is great to shoplift at because the camera system doesn't work. I also live in Maryland but not near Dundalk. The store looks all run down like the one in the video but it's in a high traffic area and still has lots of customers. I might go there and make a video someday.
I was absolutely thinking about this. People care less if you shoplift from a shit hole too. Why should I care if you don't care?
over9000baud ive heard the same about my local kmart in ohio, do NONE of their security cameras work lol?
over9000baud i live in md too
Same goes for people eh
Remembering working at the first K-mart both with weird nostalgia and "Thang god it's gone" but seriously this is almost the exact layout as my store, I can almost by the step remember stocking from outdoors to arts and crafts.
There's just something about this video, come back at least twice a year to rewatch it.
Me to.
So weird seeing this, In Australia K-mart is still around and has modernised.
That's surreal. There's a dead K-Mart the next town over that hasn't been operating for like fifteen years. No idea why nothing has moved into the location. It's like it's tainted.
Dude mine closed back in 2017 I wish I had mine still open
I live in New Zealand and it's pretty big over here too! Probably because we don't have walmart and the only targets in our country are strictly furniture stores lol
Kmart Australia isn't related to Kmart America though, they bought the rights to use the name
Our Kmart in New Zealand is literally one of the biggest, most thriving stores in town
when he said that kmart just looks tired, i felt that on such a level man. at the beginning of this vid i was like “i don’t really like kmart. i always hated the vibes it gave off” and he nailed exactly what those vibes are.
Juliana Quinones Kmart didn’t always give that vibe. I remember it being like a target 10 years ago. Back then Target looked like how Kmart does now
One of our closed K-Marts in Greenville, SC became a COVID vaccine site last year. Used to take my kids there to get pictures made in the 90’s. How the times have changed! Love your dead mall series
Thank you so much. you have very quickly became my favorite youtuber. Thank you for reviving memories from a simpler time, my friend!
When I was in High School (2003-2006) I remember there was a K-Mart we would stop at sometimes about an hour away while passing through and not only did the electronics department look like this, but it still had a demo station set up for a motherfucking NINTENDO 64.
Dang for real?!! Wow
Same thing happened here, the Kmart closed here a couple of months ago and I went to go look at the sales. They had demo units of PS2/XB/GC consoles 😂 When I went to look at phone accessories they only had iPhone 4 items fully stocked 😂
There’s still a Nintendo DS Lite demo station at my local PC Richard’s.
10 years ago i wend to a Toys R us here in Germany and it was going to close. So i wandered around and in the corner was a SNES demo unit with yoshi's cookie in it.
I asked the manager if i could buy it but he said no because it was store property. So bummed i asked if there was more older stuff from Nintendo.
He thouged for a minute and said; wait here.
So i stood there for literally 19 minutes untill the guy came back with a cardboard filled with NES, SNES, N64 and gamecube stuff.
These were returned items or things that didn't sell. It had boxed NES, SNES games, gamecube & N64 accesoires that were still factory sealed. So i asked what he wanted for it and he said; " I dunno. 50€? "
I still got some off it. I sold the things i didn't like. Best day ever.
Midinette 2388 Nintendo 64 demos were the best ever. Mario Kart ... those were the days that formed true friendship. Haha 1999
Lowkey it gave me chills when “don’t bring me down started playing” it sounded like one of those “x song is playing but you’re in x place and you’re sad”
Musical sarcasm! I think that's the term!
Thank you for this, this gives me so much nostalgia. My mom (who is now passed) used to bring me here all the time as a kid up till my late teens when it was nearing shut down. And yes it was always much more expensive than it should have been lol.
I’m so late to the party but i’ve been loving your dead mall series !!! Watched nearly every single one of them one night when I couldn’t sleep.
You nailed it when commenting how Kmart did nothing to stay exciting or keep up with competition. The Kmart in my town still has 20 year old cash registers that break down, and the atmosphere is dreary. They are having a sale "30% off store wide" and I think its the beginning of their end.
jendwy81 I'm not an American, but that smacks of liquidation to me...
Our Big Kmart still has the same computers for checkout that my aunt used when she worked there for college ....20 years ago (They're some sort of outdated IBM computer). They also constantly run 20% everything sales and clearance out tons of stuff. The inside front of the store has that giant looking TV screen on a fake stone pillar like in the commercial at the beginning of the video, but it hasn't worked since I've been alive. I feel like it's gonna close soon and I'm gonna miss it because it's cheaper than our grocery store and our Walmart for a lot of stuff. Ours even had the food courts who's food tasted okay but it closed when I was in middle school and instead of tearing down the counters and stuff they just draped a big curtain in front of it and made the area into a clothing area, even leaving the menu signs and advertisements and making it super easy to go behind the curtain and explore if one so wished.
I worked at Kmart about 14 years ago, many of the people I worked with there had been there since the late 1970's, they said the store never changed and even until that store's closing in 2010, it never changed. One of the most common things people said was there was never any advertised items in stock, which always pissed people off causing them to go elsewhere. Kmart was a very depressing place in general, I can remember getting there about 6:30 in the morning to prepare everything before it opened, by Noon the store was lucky if it had 10 customers total, by 4:00pm, maybe 30 people and mostly senior citizens. It was a fun place work wise at because you could get away with so much, but workers positions were very odd. Oh you think you're a cashier? Hell no, you're going to unload trucks too! You unload trucks? No, you clean shit off of floors, pick up dead birds, fix icee machines, get carts, stock shelves, organize metal shelves in a 100+ degree attic, all while you try your best to hear the intercom just in case you get summoned for another duty because you're only one of 7 employees in the entire store. LOL
Beast6228 I'm the same here in a Canadian walmart lol. I'm a beamer, stocker, truck unloader , dairy & frozen worker lol
LOL, yep, when I worked at Kmart I did just about everything, unloaded trucks with only one other person, I mopped floor, swept floors, put stock on shelves, put the dairy products in the coolers, put shelves up, straighten shelves, ran the register, carried things to peoples cars, shoveled snow off the sidewalks, picked up rubbish from the parking lots, fixed all of the vending machines, loaded the machines with pop and food, they even had me adjusting security cameras and fixing their computer network cables. I even had to escort their money bags from the back to the front sometimes when the bank trucks came. All that for minimum wage which was about 5 bucks and hour back then. Aside from the shit pay, it was still a fun job because I did what I wanted mostly, I never listened to the manager. I got tired of the pay though and finally quit, the only time I ever made any money is when people would call off and I had to work a double shift, which meant overtime.
Beast6228 You had to work in a 100+ degree attic in Kmart? Psh... I had to do the same at a Walmart in Florida.
I worked at K-Mart in 1995 and 1996. The part about advertised merchandise not being available was SO COMMON even back then. I used to get bitched out ALL THE TIME by angry customers that came in just to pick up the sale items. We would get 4 units of the sale items in, and then 45 units of some other crap that we already had 59 units of stored in the back.
Also, I decided to stop by a K-Mart store about a year ago (mainly out of curiosity) and was shocked to find that the same registers were in use. They also had the same shelving fixtures that we were using in the 90s too.
In the end, K-Mart has been earning its failure for years now. It is almost a merciful relief to finally see it go under (like a suffering patient with a terminal illness finally passing away).
I worked at a kmart in the early 90s. It wasn't incredibly bustling then. Toward the end you went in the storage area and went up to the loft. That's where I used to hide and find all the "damaged" bags of M&M's that we couldn't put on shelves. Oh and I got to run the blue light around one day and made the "attention kmart shoppers" announcement.
Toward the end, they actually had some decent looking clothing. So many memories in the electronics department at K mart looking at keyboards and commodore 64 computer stuff.