Abandoned Kmart - Somerset, NJ 

This was originally a W.T. Grant, looks like Kmart didn't change the building much since they bought it. So cool and vintage

I find your videos very relaxing and enjoyable! Thanks for the great content.

Thank You Wallie and Kayla for Reaching for 46,000 Subscribers You are Awesome.

The writing is on the wall for Kmart now. TransformCo announced they are seeking tenants to fill their last 3 remaining stores.

Another blast from the past! Thanks for sharing!

Wow! 3 Kmarts in one trip! You're very lucky! 😀😀

Hi Wallie and Kayla, Congratulations on your 46,000 Subscribers ! Kroger, has been looking at Detroit, Michigan area Kmart's stores for years. And, Meijer has been looking at the State of Ohio Kmart's stores for years.

Goodvideo I like your Kmart videos also this was a grants :) before Kmart like the one in Williamsport etc you did this closed in sometime in august 2018 2 months before Kmarts bankruptcy happened.

It’s sad seeing my childhood stores going under. I grew up shopping at Kmart & sears. Thank you for sharing. Gave me great memories with my mom.

It was Grant's in the 1970s before it was KMart. Grant's had a little lunch counter inside that ran along the front of the store to the right of the entrance. The lunch counter was no longer there after Kmart took over. I don't remember the garden center being in use anymore when I worked there in the mid to late 80s. The restaurant on the corner was called Hunan Delight. If you continued around the corner of the restaurant and kept going, you'd see another door that was an emergency exit for Kmart.

Sad to see another one gone. Great video!

So sad to see what happened to Kmart

Yay! Congrats on 46K subscribers, Wallie! Been following you since January 2018. I was housebound recovering from a broken leg at that time due to an accident I had at work before Christmas but your videos really cheered me up 🙂

Happy Belated Birthday, Wallie !

Cool to know Kayla likes it in Cincinnati. You two are more than welcome in this nice city. Additionally, I think that's northeast drivers in general. The drivers in Baltimore were horrible when I went there a month ago.

Good video

On that same road (Easton ave) there’s one of the very few (possibly only) old school McDonald’s remaining in central Jersey.

A really cool abandoned KMart video, Wallie! I enjoyed the pictures of KMART when the store was open. Though, I was hoping that we'd have a picture of Eddie with a noose around his neck. Have a KMartlicious Day!

Hi there...the Somerset K Mart that you visited opened in 1973 as a Grants. Used to shop there all the time. Next to it was a great Chinese Restaurant - Hunan...

I work for a grocery store that really sells alot of of plants starting spring through the summer and every once in awhile we have we have a couple people people filling up there car with plants and drive off and not pay

Wallie I think you and kayla need to find a place that is warm cause winter is still hanging on😭.

the Light bulbs at the K Mart Somerset..those are relics from the 1970s when it was a Grants!

That's an awesome vintage building; there is a bench next to that old kmart trash can. Enjoyed the video Wallie.

I remember when this location was open. You’re right about it closing in late 2018 - early 2019, I tried to come down here before it did end up closing. It was a very nice store, one of the last few original Big K’s that NJ had left

Someone mentioned it I’m sure but the globe lights suggest an old Grant city store…we had one similar in my hometown

As several others commented, this was indeed a WT Grant (aka: Grant City) before KMart moved in. I grew up right behind this shopping center. Before Stop & Shop moved in & expanded, the building was originally a cinema. The Chinese restaurant next to KMart was a Szechuan restaurant for at least 35-40 years. The Burger King closed within the last year or two and that was there since the late 70’s/early 80’s. Thanks for making this video. Brought back a lot of memories.

Based on the exterior, it was a W.T. Grant store prior to being a Kmart. When W.T. Grant went out of business back in 1976, Kmart opened numerous locations where the former Grant's stores were. My Dad worked at W.T. Grant's around the late 1960's-early 1970's and that location would become a Kmart too.

Hello from Utah! Stateside, I’ve never been east of Texas, I enjoy watching your videos from Pennsylvania.

Wow 👌 awesome

Oh man you missed the coolest feature of this Kmart which was leftover from Grants…there was a second entrance/exit on the left-hand side of the building which fed directly into the strip plaza. I was waiting for you to walk around the left hand side!!

Nice wallie 😃

wallie the restaurant part of the Kmart building looks like it may have been a hunans Chinese restaurant and bar love you guys always like family and may God bless you guys always hope to hear back from you guys soon 🎉💩💩💩💩💩🦠🪰🐾🐛🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰😂🎂🧁 happy birthday wallie dear on this special day you turn" 16 " and are the prom king right hope you have a great one my friend 🤠

I like your tee shirt Wallie Good video thanks for sharing

Ayy you visited the bk! I’ve been messaging you about it! I believe route 34 has an abandoned big k sign still in tact

That was a cool one! From what I remember for any of the few K-Mart locations I've been to here in the midwest in my home state of Wisconsin and now Minnesota, I don't recall any of them having those globe lights outside like this one did. Also, speaking of Wisconsin, when I saw the name Somerset, it immediately made me think of a town by the same name just over the MN/WI state line on the Wisconsin side, just about a half hour from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The Kmart by me closed in 2018 and the Shop Rite next to it closed in 2000.Both are still vacant.Kmart was a Grants.A video was done of this on TD3s channel:Dutchess Center Poughkeepsie, ny.Blockbuster video is still abandoned there as well.Congrats on 46k!

If you're heading to NC, it would be awesome to see you do the Mayberry Mall in Mount Airy, also you should stop by the Libby Hill right next to it. Great fish and dill tartar sauce, also they sell my favorite beverage Cheerwine. Last time I had it, they had it

The Kmart in Easton Pennsylvania still sitting empty been closed since December 2019.

This K-mart has seen better days! ❤😘👍

Almost 90% positive it was a grant's with that pea green floor and those light fixtures.

It's crazy that the closure of Kmart, this store in particular, involved much retail history. So much of it is gone now.

Happy birthday wallie awesome video you had here :D

that second abandoned store was a Chinese restaurant a sit-down place it was very good

Hey Wallie! Cheers from New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦

We have a Kmart here in Pueblo Colorado and it closed 2 years ago and the building is still abandoned and nothing been done with it.

Back in 1976-77 we watched a shopping center here in Palm Bay, Florida being built. It would house a K-Mart and a Publix grocery store. The K-Mart closed probably 10 years or more ago and sat empty for several years then UHaul bought it and completely refurbished it into a beautiful rental and storage place. You'd never know it was ever a K-Mart. UHaul has a plaque on the wall outside saying something about them refurbishing the old K-Mart instead of building a new building of their own.

46,000 subs good work.

Good old Kmart

Someone said Grants. That would be my guess as my hometown Kmart had been a Grants before it was a Kmart.

Look below the video, where it says "Abandoned Kmart" real big.

looks like a old grants type

There was a side door you could've peeked into. Developer wants to bulldoze this and put up apartments. Locals don't want that.

C is for cookie and it is good enough for Wallie :)

This Kmart closed at the end of July 2018. I went inside it before it closed.

The restaurant was a Chinese restaurant called Hunan Delite.

I Remember The New Jersey Pranksters Has Filmed This Before And Get Kick Out Of This Playing With a Baseball & Doing They Intercom At This Kmart Before It Closed It Was a Funny Memory But It Will Still Be Remembered 🥲

Good video! I would have laughed if someone would have answered that bell, when you tried them! Sure is a different kind of K-mart! Tagalongs are my favorites too!

I worked there in late 1987/early 1988.

Good afternoon

My local Kmart in Honesdale PA had the same glass globes before it closed 1992 and moved to the new format!

Happy Birthday man 🎉🎊

It was a Grant City store when Kmart to over.

Might have originally been the Grants restaurant on the end.

You could open a new store there and model it after Kmart when they were profitable. You could name it Wmart. Lol

Closed August 2018

We have an old K-Mart building about 2 blocks from where I live. It’s been repurposed as an NPS (shirt for, Nice Place to Shop). Anyways, it’s been painted over in a dark blue/gray color, but you can still tell it used to be a K-Mart.

They torn the Kmart in Lancaster Ohio and it's now a Kroger's clothing store

There was probably a oil dump container next to that no dumping sign.

Hi 👋 There.

What's the name of the song at the end? So funky!

Levin Properties, of North Plainfield, wants to demolish the vacant Kmart in the Easton Avenue shopping center and build in its place a four-story apartment building called The Cosmopolitan at Somerset Town Center.

4:51 If those 2 doors swing both ways, why does one have a door closer on it?

Stop & Shop does indeed own the Giant Stores that you see in the Philly/Baltimore region, that’s why you see the same logo for both stores, kind of like Hardee’s & Carl’s Jr., I do not remember WT Grant. I’m going to have to look them up.

When I was in middle school, the rough kids would go to Kmart and throw Nintendos over the garden center fence. That's the reason for the prison yard, not plant theft.

My aunt's sister in law worked there for years.

Wallie. You could Take Kayla to Jacksonville, Florida for her birthday

NJ has the worst drivers of any state I’ve ever been!

Have you guys considered moving to Nashville??? It's a good midway point between Texas, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, North Carolina. Seems like a no brainer.

Hopefully,it will be repurposed into somethung.

Have you tried the abandoned Kmart in Maple Shade NJ?

What happened to the Z24?

Probably a Caldor.

Aw man no egg rolls?😉😀..

The west orange NJ kmart videos gone

It all Started on a dodgy shirt

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Congrats on your 46,000 subscribers let's see if we can get it up to 50,000 by the end of May, if everybody who subscribes to the channel please, just post a video now and then on your Facebook account Instagram TikTok, When you post a video that's really helps these RU-vid channels. I'm from Ohio and it seems like big stores like that K mart as nice shape as it's in, Somebody could rent it and make indoor flea markets. In Ohio flea markets are only usually open Friday, Saturday and Sunday you could rent little spaces out, How do I know this because I do it in Ohio But it's not even near as big as K mart. its a Dollar General store. Keep posting the good video's. Is keep making good content.💯👍