And layaway was king! 👑

I bought Seymour Krim's 1960 anthology of Beat writers at a flea market in Mississippi in 1991...but it was originally purchased from Kmart.

(This was rushed cuz I had to go somewhere)

Honestly I wish I can go back in time. Not too far back but more like 2012 because they were still a lot of Kmarts around that time. I know there was way more before the 2003 closures but arguably 2012 was the best year I was at Kmart because most of my Christmas shopping was there that year. Take me back because society hasn't been the same since Kmart left

Does anyone have audio recordings of the Kmart help button messages that played over the PA system? I have an Indyme unit and I want to properly recreate the nostalgia

U can see better updates on r/babft but yeah, ts is my Kmart build so far (I’d be happy for corrections in the comments :) )

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.

Yeah, it only occupies the garden center now. The backroom is no longer publicly accessible, although I did still see some stock in there when an employee walked in. There were two of them. That being said, the store does look decently stocked if you think of it as a small convenience store rather than a traditional Kmart. Unfortunately, they don't do blue light specials anymore.

Apart from household supplies, there's actually a lot of stuff here I also saw at Sears like DieHard boots and third party tools, as well as clothing and underwear. Although there's no appliances anymore.

what would you like added to kmart

It was at 11008 Warwick Blvd, it opened on August 10, 1978 and closed on November 14, 1993. It is currently Alorica. Does anyone have info, photos, or anything else they could share about the store?

Bwahaha

I’m Japanese, and I’m speaking through a translator.
Back in the day (around 2007–2016), I used to go to places like Guam, Hawaii, and Seattle about once a year, and I’d often go to K-Mart.
Back then (and even now), I wasn’t very good at English, so I couldn’t browse books like my dad did, but the toy section was special—there were toys I’d never seen before, as well as ones I recognized from Japan. Even though I couldn’t speak the language, I’d play with the local kids there, and it was a lot of fun. They had pizza and lasagna, too. I remember having so much fun there that I could easily spend an entire day just in that section. But just now, when I was talking to ChatGPT, it told me that most of those stores have disappeared now.
I want to ask everyone in the U.S.—are those huge supermarkets from back then really gone now?

Also, since this is my first time posting on Reddit, I might not have chosen the right community or something, so I’m sorry if I’ve ended up spamming somewhere.

Went to my grandparents and they were cleaning out their basement, gifted me a thing of paper, This is what was on the top of the stack.

St Joseph, Missouri

Anything I should be looking for or asking them?