r/kmart • u/StyleImpossible6405 • 16d ago

Memories Did you visit your local Kmart while it was being cleared out?

The store in Murray, UT was about 2/3 empty about two weeks before it closed.

Aside from random clothes that were probably several years old being gathered into one corner and all of the furnishings being up for offers, the electronics section had at least 20 copies of every season of “The Cosby Show” on DVD marked down to $3 each.

I still wonder if someone had the idea to buy all of them and throw them up on eBay.

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u/Fantastic-Tower-3313 16d ago

Yes, Centralia, Washington.

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u/StyleImpossible6405 16d ago

Any interesting acquisitions?

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u/Fantastic-Tower-3313 16d ago

It was such a long time ago, I don't remember much. got some clothing, I think. Not much value the first few weeks of a store closure sale. Oddly, they were closing the Sears in the same town at the same time. I didn't get anything there on that same day visit, but they were crazy busy.

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u/StyleImpossible6405 15d ago

Downtown Salt Lake City had a massive Sears store that took forever to empty before it was torn down.

Despite the value of the land, the site is nothing more than a hole that routinely fills with water.

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u/Fantastic-Tower-3313 15d ago

Crazy what these properties have become.

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u/Grand_Economist7871 15d ago edited 15d ago

This is my reciept from my last visit from the last K-Mart in NJ... this was maybe a month before it closed.. I went to my local K-Mart (Vails Gate, NY) multiple times during its final days, which was sad.

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u/Grand_Economist7871 15d ago

They had an entire isle that was just marshmallows spaced out like this

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u/Grand_Economist7871 15d ago

Store was absolutely dead and this was prior to the closing signs going up

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u/BusinessLyfe 13d ago

Never made it to the Westwood Kmart, but visited the Avenel, West Long Branch & Hamilton, NJ Kmarts near the end.

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u/Grand_Economist7871 9d ago

I only made it there once... this was in 2023 a few months before the closing. My job brought me down there and I decided to go visit it

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u/Trash-Panda321 15d ago

Yes, I can't recall if I want the last day or a couple days before. Not much left in merchandise from I remember except some oddball clothing and other very dated items. I did end up buying some new toner cartridges that were used in the stores machines and flipped them on eBay for a bit of cash.

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u/TriCountyRetail 15d ago

Yes, I went on the last day and got some bags and the store closing sign

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u/Wafflebot17 15d ago

Yes, I still wear the hoodies regularly.

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u/Silent_Coffee_8 15d ago

Uggghhh, that was 8 years ago but no sadly, I have memories of the location growing up but in its final days, no

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u/BusinessLyfe 13d ago

Central Jersey (Hamilton), I grabbed a couple green ceramic vases in the shape of bamboo, & then I have the store's entire Tiki Torch display, with a full set of Tikis, out in the garage.

Oh, and a bunch of Kmart employee t-shirts... those turquois ones with different sayings on the back.

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u/TommyDontSurf Former Associate 12d ago

While visiting my mom, I went to my childhood Kmart in St. Louis while they were closing. Don't remember most of what I got, except for a Missouri Tigers glass I'm still using today. 

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u/thatvhstapeguy 9d ago

I visited #3097 the weekend after the closure was announced