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This channel is a remembrance and celebration of our shared history. Each video takes a look back at times in our past that hopefully brings back good memories of days gone by. OR - if you weren't around back then, provides a glimpse of what life was like back then.
By remembering where we came from, we can hopefully be reminded of the things we have in common and can move forward with a greater understanding of our common past and each other.
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I worked at K-Mart in the 90's and I remember one of my managers used to wear these little tassels on his shoes that reminded me of cowboy spurs. When he walked they moved around. I'll always remember that.
My first real job was at Kmart….1988 or so…they paid us in cash! I did blue light specials. I loved their stinky but tasty subs…popcorn…cherry slushies…my store even had a cafeteria…all crappy food but i miss it. “TYFSOK”😅
I remember when our local one really started going downhill. Was sad seeing a mostly empty parking lot while other stores were jammed. But then you'd go in and it looked like the place hadn't been cleaned in years. Even the cash registers looked like something from 20 years earlier compared to Walmart. Some things on the shelves had been there so long there was visible dust.
K mart can be found in every Australian city and in most suburbs along with Target owned by West Farmers conglomerate here in Australia who also own the “Coles” supermarket chain and “Officeworks” who sell everything from pens to phones they are all huge here in Australia: We do not have any Walmart stores here: Sydney Australia:
Being caged up, in increasingly narrow and confined spaces, brings out the feral in some people. I wonder if this behaviour would improve if airlines reverted back to allowing more seating space 🤔
I use to walk the roads and pick up bottles, go to local grocery store and get the deposits on them, take that 2.00 bucks and go buy fishing fuzzy tale jigs at Kmart
My husband and I visited the loc Kmart store in Jackson Wyoming when it was about to close - and everything was up to 80% off. We bought the most beautiful Christmas tree for just a few dollars. We now own a boutique and we sell really nice trees, but I have yet to find one as pretty as the one we bought at Kmart, for a little bit of nothing!
Sears stood for quality and selection. I remember we did a lot of our back to school shopping there. My dad had bought all of his tools there. We bought appliances from there. I miss what retail used to be.
I remember buying very yummy sub sandwiches from there for a reasonable price. I also remember when mom paid with a check, the cashier would take out a spiral notebook that had all the names of people that wrote bounced checks…. My mom was never on that list by the way. 😉
Sears had a large beautiful store here on Alhambra Calif. A large selection of quality clothes. I always did a walk thru of the tool dept Craftsman tools were very good quality. Second floor was appliances and camping equipment. There was also the Garden center.
Sears, JC Penny's, Spartan Atlantic, Gibsons, Levines, Sanger Harris...Those were the major stores in the 50's through the 70's in Dallas. Montgomery Wards, & Kmart, made money after their departures. Still miss 'em.
Kmart was destroyed because of CORPORATE GREED!!! A few immoral people tore away it's assests/and profits. People who never EARNED what they criminally embezzled. THEY DESTROYED IT FOR ALL OF US, particularly my mother-in-law who worked there for 25 years!! God have mercy on the oppressors! They'll need it!
I bought my first guns n' roses appetite for destruction tape at Kmart when I was 9 years old !!! Little did I know, It turned me into who I am today a 44-year-old out of work musician that only likes guns and roses really old stuff.😂 I'm an old guy now! But I still would love to go shopping at Kmart and I would do almost ANYTHING to go back to the 80s for a summer.
My first real job was as a maintenance man at Sears. I started cleaning restrooms and ended up running the floor polisher. Those tile floors were as bright as a mirror! One time another guy tried to run the polisher and crashed it into a mannequin display causing hundreds of dollars of damage. 😂
Growing up in a small town in the 60's there weren't Kmarts in small towns, but most small towns with a population around 8 to 12,000 usually had a Woolworths. When you grew up and left the small town and moved to a city Kmart became your store to go to.
My grandma bought my first transistor radio here at the store in Surrey BC Canada. One of the greatest things ever given to me. 1968 was the year. The Wonder Years.
The first rule of any good business is be different , not better, because the latter is more subjective. K Mart would have lasted longer if they had leaned into nostalgic sensibilities
I remember the Sears in my town. They only hired men, and when a female would walk in the store they were treated like dirt. I wasn't sad to see it close.
I grew up in the 70's - 80's... And Kmart was a depressing store to have shop at. It filled me w/dread at the end of every summer, knowing l would soon be forced to go and get school clothes at Kmart. I hated it. Every kid in school knew exactly where u got clothes and especially your shoes. Kmart only had a few styles, year after year, so it was obvious. And we all know how kind children can be. Back then, I'd spray paint my shoes. Not to be cool like kids do it now, but to try and disguise them. To this day, I still hate all bargain stores. There's no real shame attached to it now - except for my own scars.
All understood! However, I was one of those who were only clothed by these type stores (80's), I remember getting traxx athletic shoes that had four stripes vs the three for Adidas. The stripes would fall off after a couple of weeks. Again, all the clothes followed suit. Thankfully, these type stores now sell clothes which are difficult if possible to tell apart from other retailers along with quality shoes, etc. which is extremely cool. Weird how judgmental people were 20-25 yrs ago.
I was once told by a senior partner at Deloitte , in the year 2000, if you were to poll our American population, one person out of every five ( 20% ) had at one time in their life, worked at Sears.
I worked at the Bay Road Kmart in Saginaw, MI, from 1986-1989. I was 21 when I started at "check outs", and then got moved to 03. That encompassed toys, hardware, house wares, cleaning and paper products, a few groceries, and God knows what else. They paid me $3.20 an hour, and nobody ever got promoted from part-time to full-time. We all had a clock number. They paged you over the PA by your number. I doesn't seem like it was 38 years ago! 😮
