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  • čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
  • Abandoned Kmart - Shillington, PA. Back in fall we took a weekend trip out to Harrisburg and Reading, PA. Along our trip we drove by this old Kmart which closed in the fall of 2019 and has been vacant since. Enjoy our look at this store and the rocks that we're decorated all along the side of the garden center.
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Komentáře • 111

  • @QuinnDickinson2610
    @QuinnDickinson2610 Před 2 lety +13

    The rocks at the back are from a local Facebook group Berks County Rocks. Basically people hide these all over for others to find

  • @slackingpacking
    @slackingpacking Před 2 lety +16

    You’re right.. it’s getting rare to find an abandoned Kmart. Just like finding an Kmart that is open.

    • @MrCraigblaze
      @MrCraigblaze Před 2 lety

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 Před 2 lety +1

      Despite what people think, Kmart had many good locations, it's why so many aren't sitting abandoned long- yeah, I know my childhood one in Cahokia still sits empty 27 years later now, but there's a Walmart like a quarter mile away, so nothing is going to want to compete with them (that's what killed that Kmart to begin with!).

  • @thepinkyprincesspoetc.a.5767

    Wallie your Hysterical hon...When Kayla talked about the SIGN...
    Soooooooo FUNNY😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

  • @justincunha5221
    @justincunha5221 Před 2 lety +6

    Our local Kmart was exactly the same & it was a pick n save next to the Kmart, not a Kmart foods. Looked exactly the same though

  • @deloresjordan6043
    @deloresjordan6043 Před 2 lety +10

    👍 afternoon Wallie and Kayla, the rocks with the eyes on them rocks my guess is the employees were sad about Kmart closing, I miss Kmart, 👍 📹, have a KMART vilisous and Merry 🎄 to you Wallie and Kayla and 👪, thank you for KMART 📹, Delores Jordan

  • @DesertRainReads
    @DesertRainReads Před 2 lety +6

    Sears/KMart were the titans of retail for the longest time, shame this is no longer the case. I miss the Sears that was at my Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH. I used to do layaway with them all the time with them and Toys R' Us. Sucks that layaway has gone the way of the dodo. Was the best way to get what you want while affording to pay the bills.

    • @leah-louisegottlich6733
      @leah-louisegottlich6733 Před 2 lety

      I used to frequent sears at the pheasant lane and Kmart turned sears essentials on the other side of Nashua when I used to live in Merrimack. Now I live in Northern NH and used to shop at a hometown store in Gorham.

  • @adamivey7663
    @adamivey7663 Před 2 lety +7

    Wallie and Kayla love you guys from penny from alabama 🎄☃️ have a great Christmas 🌲☃️💕 love you guys

  • @franciscofigueroa1132
    @franciscofigueroa1132 Před 2 lety +3

    The abandoned kmart in Joliet,IL is finally being renovated and they are turning it into Tony's grocery store and a planet fitness

  • @nicolemacpherson3908
    @nicolemacpherson3908 Před 2 lety +1

    Wow! Talk about "rockin out!"

  • @audreylonsinger2678
    @audreylonsinger2678 Před 2 lety +4

    I found myself smiling when you highlighted the rocks 🪨🥰

  • @703am
    @703am Před 2 lety +9

    the rocks as so cool...see Kmart isn't abandoned at all , the rock friends are ready to serve you as always enjoyed the video

  • @gibbythecudakid1428
    @gibbythecudakid1428 Před rokem

    This was my Kmart. It definitely went down hill towards the end, but it was still nice to have a place to shop close by. I felt bad for some of the individuals who lost their jobs. Some of them had worked there for as long as I can remember. Love you channel. Down the hill from there next to the Ollies. That was a Two Guys at one time. There was a Rickels hardware and the opposite end there was a Giant grocery store.

  • @randomthings3334
    @randomthings3334 Před 2 lety

    The K Mart by me is now a Hobby Lobby. Been closed for many years now. I'll cherish the last time I shopped there.

  • @stevehill8085
    @stevehill8085 Před 2 lety +2

    I used to shop all the time when I was growing up. Live only five minutes away when I was a kid.

    • @stevehill8085
      @stevehill8085 Před 2 lety +1

      That store next door used to be a weis supermarket

  • @numberone7674
    @numberone7674 Před 2 lety

    I miss my Kmart that closed in 2015. I lived literally right behind the store. Now it is a Farm and Home Supply. There is also another small section that used to be a part of Kmart but years ago they had a fire and that part has been closed since.

  • @JeremysRetailExploration
    @JeremysRetailExploration Před 2 lety +6

    Good Video Wallie! I filmed this back in July.

  • @QuinnDickinson2610
    @QuinnDickinson2610 Před 2 lety +3

    At night the Kmart sign at the road is still lit up

  • @SavageTheKidxz
    @SavageTheKidxz Před 2 lety

    R.I.P All Kmarts That Closed In The Countries

  • @markstrouse3101
    @markstrouse3101 Před 2 lety +8

    Hey WallieB26 and Kayla, there are still abandoned Kmarts still standing in Allentown PA yet.

  • @waltmoneyscratcheryoutubei5920

    I like the whole intro look especially look @ the front were it says ames real big.

  • @jet34thehawk
    @jet34thehawk Před 2 lety +3

    Wow 👌 awesome

  • @jackstanwich180
    @jackstanwich180 Před 2 lety +2

    What a cool find..like your vidow of Kmart.

  • @jennifergarrett6809
    @jennifergarrett6809 Před 2 lety +5

    Loved the rocks. They were cool. Here in North Texas there was a thing for awhile of painting rocks then playing hide and seek with them. When you'd find one you'd take them somewhere else and post a pick to see who'd find it next. A friend of mine found one and took it to the restaurant we were fixing to eat at.

  • @jaimienichols5649
    @jaimienichols5649 Před 2 lety +2

    Awesome Wallie

  • @MxCartney_Lou
    @MxCartney_Lou Před 2 lety

    I miss Kmart so much thanks for letting history NOT be forgotten

  • @jamesgarasiun5082
    @jamesgarasiun5082 Před 7 měsíci

    Cool 😎

  • @paultyler5313
    @paultyler5313 Před rokem

    You've been recording a lot of Kmart's and I'm not even complaining

  • @fishingwithtommy_yt9056
    @fishingwithtommy_yt9056 Před 2 lety +3

    You should check out the abandoned Kmart in Clementon NJ. Shop rite is moving in to it next year

    • @tricountyretail992
      @tricountyretail992 Před 2 lety

      Really? Where did you hear about ShopRite moving in?

    • @fishingwithtommy_yt9056
      @fishingwithtommy_yt9056 Před 2 lety

      @@tricountyretail992 my girlfriend’s mom works at the one down the street and told me last week.

    • @tricountyretail992
      @tricountyretail992 Před 2 lety

      @@fishingwithtommy_yt9056 That's surprising. I thought this would become another Big Lots, Ross, LIDL combination like the on in Glassboro.

  • @behneyfarmsllc6475
    @behneyfarmsllc6475 Před 2 lety

    Reading rocks it’s a Facebook thing, people put decorated rock everywhere.
    The food store is an old Weis Market it moved down the road.
    That was my hometown K mark I was there at the end. The Manager said it’s 5 o’clock and your Shillington K mart is closed for the final time.
    Thanks trasformco.

  • @churchofseabass9227
    @churchofseabass9227 Před 2 lety

    I worked there in 2014 doing loss prevention, lotta people stealing from kmart
    To your extreme left from the front door was the electronics section, in the front corner. They also sold kitchen appliances, washers and dryers in that area. Caught a kid stealing display headphones there once. Further toward the back on the left side was kitchen wear, etc then outdoors/sporting/bike stuff toward the left back corner (edit: seeing the photos at the end, apparently they must have gotten rid of most of their electronics section because that looks way different). Middle section toward the left was mostly food/pantry items, right side of the store was mostly clothing and shoes.

  • @michaelcoffey7362
    @michaelcoffey7362 Před 2 lety +2

    Cool 😀

  • @adamvyondandplotagonmaster7454

    Sorry I was late I had to go shopping good video Jeremy filmed this recently.

  • @MrCraigblaze
    @MrCraigblaze Před 2 lety

    Thanks for the Upload 👍 !! I can tell that was a Kmart by the stucco blocks on the outside !! Merry Christmas 🎄⛄ !! XD

  • @catnapped_
    @catnapped_ Před 2 lety +1

    Electronics was in the front left corner of the store. The interior decor was basically white with some yellow, orange and green randomly on the walls and poles. From what I remember, the garden shop doors were papered over before the store closed. There was never a Kmart Foods here...the supermarket (where Grocery Outlet is now) was originally a Weis Market (both opened in 1974)

    • @Twiikrz
      @Twiikrz Před 2 lety

      I'm in Panama City FL and our big Kmart turned into a grocery outlet

  • @amymac1030
    @amymac1030 Před 2 lety +1

    I used to frequent this when I was younger.. it actually had a pharmacy in it! Loved this Kmart!

  • @williamdevries2496
    @williamdevries2496 Před 2 lety +2

    I miss KMART

  • @scottlillis4849
    @scottlillis4849 Před 2 lety +3

    This is the K Mart that I used to shop at. The store aside of it was a Weis supermarket.

    • @philliesphan9364
      @philliesphan9364 Před dnem

      Aside from Ollie's Is there any other stores in Shillington? Used to come here all the time with my Mom. We'd also go to the Weis Dollar Tree and Mark's TV Games

    • @scottlillis4849
      @scottlillis4849 Před dnem

      @@philliesphan9364 Not too much. I haven’t been out that way in a while. There is a shopping center not far from there called the Kenhorst shopping center. That’s put much a grocery store in there, pizza place, a Dairy Queen and a few other things.

  • @EBS-Studios
    @EBS-Studios Před 2 lety +3

    WallieB26 & Kayla Thank You For The Excellent Video & Happy Christmas 🎄

  • @trentpettit6336
    @trentpettit6336 Před 2 lety +1

    The run-down eyesore across the street from here was a TWO GUYS store originally, which competed with Kmart back in the 70's! They had already been here since 1962 (ironically, the year Kresge launched the first Kmart stores) but Kmart didn't come to this neighborhood until 1974. Most recently, the left third of the former Two Guys was a Giant (which had been a Pathmark in the 80's after Two Guys closed, but was sold to Giant in 1997) but that part of the building has been abandoned since 2005, ever since Giant moved to the former Phar-Mor store in Reading about a mile east of here!

  • @syxepop
    @syxepop Před 2 lety +3

    Wallie, last time I've read it was 4 in VI, 1 in PR (our Plaza Las Américas mall location is still open with the pharmacy) and the 1 in GU, along with the 8-9 in Mainland US (1 still in the FL Keys).
    Supposedly (as a news item in November, 2021) those Mainland US locations would close by the end of this month, leaving the 6 Island locations as the only ones open in 2022.

    • @tricountyretail992
      @tricountyretail992 Před 2 lety

      As of December 23, 2021 there are six locations in the states. The other six are in the territories.

  • @jackson5116
    @jackson5116 Před 2 lety

    At least the positive is that unless the remaining Kmart's pull a Manhattan, and close without notice, all remaining stores will see Kmart's official 60th anniversary on March 1, 2022 (counting this one as official since it was the first Kmart built from the ground up). Whether or not they're liquidating then is another story.

  • @jakesawesomevids7908
    @jakesawesomevids7908 Před 2 lety +2

    Second Yayyyyyy another abandoned Kmart

  • @carlavision6143
    @carlavision6143 Před 2 lety +1

    WallieB26, awesome abandoned Kmart! Really enjoyed your video.

  • @darkclutch8314
    @darkclutch8314 Před 2 lety

    Do the Kmart on 5th Street Highway Reading PA right across the street from the old Fairgrounds Square Mall. There’s and old Auto center in the left side with a door around the back that looks right into the sales floor

  • @ryanhenley3123
    @ryanhenley3123 Před 2 lety +2

    hi i do miss k mart

  • @cheaplaughkennedy2318
    @cheaplaughkennedy2318 Před 2 lety +2

    That was a good episode Wallie and those rocks were really unusual 👀. Liked the music too👌

  • @billsmith2217
    @billsmith2217 Před 2 lety +2

    Nice video Wali

  • @erikwthackrey1963
    @erikwthackrey1963 Před 2 lety +2

    Great video Wallie

  • @evanwilliams6406
    @evanwilliams6406 Před 2 lety +1

    Another old style Kmart.

  • @markbaxter5027
    @markbaxter5027 Před 2 lety +1

    Wallie, that would be a good fixer upper opportunity for you and Kayla. You could be business owners.

  • @CoachSRYA
    @CoachSRYA Před 2 lety

    There’s an abounded Kmart here in edgwater Maryland it’s in a shopping center called woodland center

  • @sandral2178
    @sandral2178 Před 2 lety

    I miss KMart, where I live it’s Wallyworld is the only game in town, it’s there or nothing!

  • @xaingo76
    @xaingo76 Před 2 lety

    The last Kmart in California just closed. ABC station said it was the last one on the West Coast.

  • @frothe42
    @frothe42 Před 2 lety

    My friend lives in Shillington! I might have passed it when visiting.

  • @mattmaverick703
    @mattmaverick703 Před 2 lety +1

    Great video Wallie and you're right alot of the abandoned kmarts were demolished. Yeah id say you're right about the Kmart Foods because that's a late 60s to early 70s style Kmart almost a carbon copy of the one that once was in Seven Hills OH that was torn down for a new Meijer

  • @mattmaverick703
    @mattmaverick703 Před 2 lety +2

    Looking good Wallie can tell you've lost some weight too! Glad you're doing good and are happy with Kayla. Hope you guys have a great Christmas and Happy New Year too! Keep up the awesome videos 😎👍💓

  • @tricountyretail992
    @tricountyretail992 Před 2 lety +1

    Even going to an open Kmart is depressing. Other than the smell of flannel and rubber tires and seeing the signage, there isn't much left. Most of the remaining stores have large sections blocked off with very slim choices. Even as recently as early 2020, the liquidating stores then were in far better shape than the open ones now.

  • @amandaclick3590
    @amandaclick3590 Před 2 lety

    What an awesome abandoned video! I enjoyed watching it, WallieB26! ❤😘👍Thank you so much!

  • @gwenjarbothenickbeebiesfan2008

    I hope this should be a Micro Center.

  • @Decade8Media
    @Decade8Media Před 2 lety

    I just received my Kmart t shirt that I ordered online.

  • @ericeckman9470
    @ericeckman9470 Před 2 lety

    Loved this store too and yes I shop there before

  • @danielhedrick5886
    @danielhedrick5886 Před 2 lety +1

    The Kmart I went to as a kid had a grocer beside them like 3 other businesses with them.foodland was the last grocer there last as far as knew in independence mo.🥺

  • @robertmailhos8159
    @robertmailhos8159 Před 2 lety +1

    Taking the sings down to clean them 🤣😂

  • @rileyw8960
    @rileyw8960 Před 2 lety

    You guys are a cool channel 😎

  • @MrIceman22
    @MrIceman22 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for sharing wallie :D IT was a nice video love the kmart abandoned ones :D

  • @DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES
    @DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES Před 2 lety +1

    nice video this was a nicer looking one

  • @jackson5116
    @jackson5116 Před 2 lety

    That was likely Kmart Food, because they didn't operate Kmart Food, another company did (sometimes even chains like Kroger), but the program used Kmart's name, and lasted into the 80's, and this style is a 70's/80's one, so I don't doubt this was a Kmart Foods.

  • @buzzlightyearretail9556
    @buzzlightyearretail9556 Před 2 lety +5

    First

  • @behneyfarmsllc6475
    @behneyfarmsllc6475 Před 2 lety

    Wish I would have known you coming to the area would have been fun to show you around.

  • @danestegman155
    @danestegman155 Před 2 lety

    Good video! So sad, to see all these Kmart stores going away!

    • @STSRTF
      @STSRTF Před 2 lety

      Their is only 6 Kmart stores still open in the United States, sadly they will permanently close also.

  • @mehchocolate1257
    @mehchocolate1257 Před 2 lety +1

    Thnx a lot now I feel old 😂 😂 😂 😂

  • @ReimaginedAdventures
    @ReimaginedAdventures Před 2 lety +3

    So sad . Have you found in the last year or so there has been more businesses go out ? Where is your home base? Love watching the travels. Were located in grove city pa

  • @JRE2540
    @JRE2540 Před 2 lety

    Pretty good!

  • @ericeckman9470
    @ericeckman9470 Před 2 lety

    Love your videos wallie

  • @soggz3055
    @soggz3055 Před rokem

    I’m pretty sure that this place turned into a ocean state job lot.

  • @MrElwoodjayblues
    @MrElwoodjayblues Před 2 lety

    RIP Kmart here and the one in Marshall, MI.

  • @jamesthev5607
    @jamesthev5607 Před 2 lety +1

    Yeah strange I just checked with Google again and it said December 1st 2021 27 locations still open

  • @hunteracernese
    @hunteracernese Před rokem

    random, but i was looking at this place on google maps and the grocery outlet was not a kmart foods. always a grocery outlet

  • @PapipuJP
    @PapipuJP Před 2 lety +2

    the super kmart in warren ohio is being demolished :(

  • @matthewfarmer6830
    @matthewfarmer6830 Před 2 lety

    I didn't know you had abandoned Kmart until 6 hours ago lol this Kmart is a 1970s when first open.

  • @keithatkins9783
    @keithatkins9783 Před 2 lety

    The Kmart in ephrata pa is suppose to be becoming an amish owned store called goods and they sell stuff like Kmart sold its just owned by the amish and there also opening up an meninight grocery store called duchway market

  • @pzivg43
    @pzivg43 Před 2 lety +1

    Looked at transformco properties it would be nice if Fast Eddie would just sell the rights to Kmart there was at least 10+ Pennsylvania Kmart locations that theoretically could be reopened plus a distribution center. I see a Business opportunity. Only if I was a billionaire 😔

  • @user-ci9ri4fl5pBuckeyeChessie

    One of K Mart's biggest mistake was scrapping K Foods.

  • @trentpettit6336
    @trentpettit6336 Před 2 lety

    Did you get a good look at the empty Kmart in PENN PLAZA at the northern end of Reading, near the BOJANGLES that you made a video about?

  • @jamesthev5607
    @jamesthev5607 Před 2 lety

    Well the company's website said they were still 27 locations open I guess we need to go to them and Shop

  • @shelbychurchisbeautiful614

    Target Is Better Than Kmart,

  • @mirandavanzee6366
    @mirandavanzee6366 Před 9 měsíci

    😂🤣 funny

  • @daveowens9849
    @daveowens9849 Před 2 lety

    Shoot, we have an abandoned K Mart in Englewood, Ohio. Been empty for quite a while.

  • @MrGgffggffggff
    @MrGgffggffggff Před rokem

    Did you say Ephrata? That's my town. It's pronounced Effrituh though lol

  • @jaxll
    @jaxll Před 2 lety

    #Request Kmart Las Vegas NV

  • @iamaverysmart8936
    @iamaverysmart8936 Před 2 lety +2

    What’s the name of the song at the end

    • @WallieB26
      @WallieB26  Před 2 lety +1

      It's called "Bonfires" by Waterfront Dining

    • @iamaverysmart8936
      @iamaverysmart8936 Před 2 lety +1

      @@WallieB26 thanks for replying. I’ve been watching ur vids since summer 2019. Keep up the good content

  • @andypage9
    @andypage9 Před 2 lety

    What's up with motorcycle dude? Was he stalking you or what?

  • @nicksabandonedadventures4771

    What’s better target or Kmart if you’re not Wallie do not reply to this comment.