After This Kmart Closes, Only Three Will Remain 

25 years ago Kmart was the place to be. I loved it as a kid. 10 years ago a Kmart was a sad place to be. They were all run down and messy, never stocked. Now it’s the end of the road. This reminds me of the Sears. Same story.

One of the last three exist in my childhood shopping center in the Bronx, NY. I recently went back in on a random visit to the area and it was pretty creepy to say the least. What used to be a bustling shopping store is now an empty half filled mega store that had half its store with the lights off and sectioned off, while still stuck in the 90's. The advertising photos near the ceilings still in place from when I was a child. It was insane when compared to how busy and lively it was back then. Pretty sad but this is also the same thing that has happened for years. Business come and go, people just remain nostalgic for days gone by. Australia still has kmarts if that's anything.

Kmart: 😞 Toys R Us: "I know it hurts." Blockbuster Video: "We all do."

Kmart had this special thing called " layaway". That's where most of my Christmas as a child came from along with clothes and shoes throughout the year. My local Kmart had a photography department and a food court. It was all amazing. It shut down years ago. But I'll always have those memories shopping at Kmart with Nana. It's ironic because she died 2 weeks ago. Watching this video sure brings back a lot of memories. I love you Nana.

I love how everyone is sharing their Kmart memories like at a funeral... I loved going with my mom, we would go Christmas shopping there. We would spend more than an hour and get a pizza from the Little Caesers home. Oh the good times 😢

its crazy how Kmart originated in the US, came to Australia in 1969 and is now probably the most popular store in AU we still have over 300 stores and counting, Kmart is thriving over here, i will say though Kmart Australia is a little bit different, slightly higher quality from the looks of it

Kmart was an innovator of lots of ideas like having a restaurant,auto shop,selling groceries Too bad for such bad management.

Here in Australia Kmart is a Vibing thriving store that continues to rise up and stand tall everyday. This breaks the heart strings to know that young kids in America miss out on all the weekend shopping visits/travels with their parents.

The biggest joy I get is going into the local mall and still seeing it packed with shoppers. Many malls fell, but the internet didn't destroy everything.

For any 80s or 90s kid, this is a sad day...

When I was born, my mom was working at Kmart. Their health insurance was really good back then. They covered the costs of my birth by 100% from the hospital. I still remember our old regular Kmart we had. And even our short lived Super Kmart that replaced it. Unfortunately it didn't last long though, as Kmart started the process of going into bankruptcy back then. After the Sears/Kmart merger happened, that process went into over drive. The merger happened in November of 2004. It's crazy to think that Kmart store's have been steadily closing for 20 year's now. 😕

Target killed Kmart. When Target opened with the clean and spotless floors with modern designed stores in early 2000, it was the end for Kmart.

I watched an interview with a Costco founder. He said all large retailers fall victim to the same problem. Management chases margins to increase short term profits but it leads to losing customers which leads to bankruptcy. All of these successful businesses fail because management pay is based on short term stock options.

I've always hated Kmart, and Target has taken over the city, but losing another big box still hurts

This was my favorite store growing up, it was the first place I applied to when I turned 16. Worked there for 2 years and loved it! Kmart will always hold a special place in my heart. How the mighty do fall and in such a short time. When I worked there from 2012-2014 the store was always busy, I was so upset when ours shut down a few years ago. Sears took Kmart with it.. rip❤️ My favorite memory: Being 13 and loitering with friends at Kmart. We would get a little ceasers pizza and go to the furniture displays and eat like we were in a house, for some reason they never kicked us out for that. We weren't loud, just being silly and I guess they were okay with it lol. We did it for years. Now grabbing the bikes and riding them around in the store after eating little ceasers on their dining table furniture display? THAT will get you kicked out😂

There’s a KMart on Guam and it’s the Islands only big box store haha That one is definitely not going away

I worked at the one at Willow Grove Mall in P.A. in 2013. I have very fond memories of my mom-mom taking me and my brother to one on the bus in the 80's. I could not get over food being served in the same place as clothes, and I remember vividly the excitement of riding those toy horses for a quarter outside of the stores. She's been deceased since 2001 but as a grown woman I would still cry everytime I'd see one of those toy rides outside of one. A trip to Six Flags never did compare. Rest forever in peace mom-mom Dot and Kmart. 🙏

For the record: There still exists a very much frequented Kmart in the U.S. Territory of GUAM. Not sure if the Little Caesars is single handedly keeping it afloat but it has been a prime tourist destination pre-Covid, for tourists from neighboring Asian countries.

I feel *IKEA* is heading in that direction too (the branch in my country doesn't seem like it is getting much attention from what I've seen due to *high prices).*

Even back in the 80's and 90's It was considered cheap and low-class. Do you remember how they would have a hair salon at some of them and a cafe that always looked sketchy? A lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes, with burned perms and bad plaid. I mean, it's sad because it's a store closing, but honestly how many of us have even been in a Kmart in the last 2 decades in America?

I think buying the last K-Mart and keeping it running would be a smart business opportunity for someone. It would be like a museum and people would shop there just for nostalgia's sake, kind of like they do with the Blockbuster in Oregon.

The one by my house closed back in 2016. I miss Kmart😞As a 90s kid, I associate it with my childhood.

My mom worked as a cashier at the one in Waterville before I was born. On the day before closing, me and her went to the store, and I can say it was surreal seeing the store completely empty and the racks devoid of clothes. The Kmart later made way for a hobby lobby

My town used to have two of them. One closed in 2003 or so and for replaced by a Hobby Lobby. The remaining location closed in 2020 and got torn down. The Kmarts in my town had and awesome selection of cleaning supplies

I remembered going to Kmart as a kid, those were the days. Walmart just took over everything.

I, too, have fond memories of Kmart as a kid. Growing up in the middle of nowhere, we kids looked forward to our monthly trips to the city for shopping, including getting our icee’s and riding the little horses outside that cost a quarter.

I’ll always cherish the memories when I was a kid going into my local K Mart with my parents looking around at the toy section for my birthday/Christmas and going through the Halloween section. One of the happiest store experiences I’ve had.

I moved to the United States in 2015 at 12 years old. I visited the last Kmart in my town that same year just months before it closed. I thought it was quite nice coming from Europe where we don’t have many big stores. Happy that I got to see it in time.

K-Mart was apart of my childhood. they closed in canada about 20 years ago. it was alaways a joy coming to america to be able to shop there.

Theres no reason KMart had to go this way, they could have easily done like Target and still be a thriving big box store.. Havent been to a KMart in 20 years or so.

The last K-mart I went to was in 2001 in Tucamcari NM, I was in 3rd grade, and I remember buying some of my Lego collections and movies from there. Nostalgia

The Kmart in my town (Caboolture, Australia) closed last year but there’s still over 200 left in the country. It’s gonna be sad to see more stores close.

I'll miss the blue light specials. Proud to be an 80's kid who grew up shopping in Kmart.

I miss Kmart during Christmas times

It's like watching dominoes painfully fall. First Sears & Roebuck & now K Mart? Think about when you're down to 3 stores how much pressure they feel to keep the brand alive. I hope we see a substantial comeback with Sears & Roebuck & K Mart soon. Toys R Us is doing it, Sears & Roebuck & K Mart can do it also.

I know man it’s sad I grew up loving Kmart the Kmart in my area in New Jersey close down over a year ago and it was so sad to see them leave

I remember my mom rushing me across the store to find the blue light special.

I visited my grandparents who lived in the southeastern part of Ohio during the Summers of 1985 & 1987. There was a store named TG&Y. It was a great store for the region, fully packed, lots of items & a pretty good customer base for the area. I then visited in 1987 & wanted to visit the store again; what an utter disappointment to what they did to the store. Not much inventory screwed up the aisles, looks like it was mismanaged. My granddad refused to go in due to how it was ruined. A few years ago, found out it was sold to another department store company & ran it into the ground in 1986. Eventually went bankrupt; just like Kmart what an iconic brand & will be gone forever.

I remember when i used to work at kmart. I loved the store, now looking back i cherish all the people and moments i had while being there.. it truly is sad 😥

We used to go to Kmart a lot in our area. The Winter Haven one. It's sad to see them go. I always liked going there.

I used to work for one mine closed. imagine that. all I can say is two words Eddie Lampert! He has accelerated the failure of this company refused to invest in stores, strip n sold off valuable assets and stop investing in employees and wanted to push Shop your way online to compete with Amazon. It failed dismally. All he cared about was using Kmart and Sears stores as a real estate playground that’s why he didn’t update the stores because there was no intention of keeping them open. The sad catastrophic failure of this company was no accident it was made by design. Thousands have suffered and lost their jobs and livelihood due to this and of course Eddie Lampert is laughing his way to the bank. To me hedge funds should be illegal!

The guy at the end is right. I drive everyday pass the empty build that held our KMart to and from work.

Within 10 years 2 local KMarts in my area closed and I stopped by their closing sale like this. It's sad.

I used to go to a Kmart in Round Lake, Illinois when I was a little kid till in my late 20’s. There was one in Green Bay,Wisconsin that I have been in a couple times. My favorite memories of Kmart was getting these pictures of myself and my sister for Christmas times one year back in the early 80’s. The guy who took them was funny and was great towards us. He had me wearing a black cover in this picture and it was so difficult for me not to smile because of him being so funny. I had this beautiful long blonde hair when I was 10 years old.

This used to be a part of America until Amazon came along and showed that there was no need of a cashier, manager, etc.

I'm from bucks county, and these last 2 years would go to support this store. But the people going in there just completely destroyed the store. Taking stuff out of the packaging, throwing clothes on the floor. It really broke my heart, so I stopped going. Kmart, was the ultimate store. I would take Kmart over Walmart, Target, Kohls any day

There was a Kmart like 2 miles from me that closed down around 5 years ago and now it’s just an empty building and it’s sad because I used to go there all the time .

When I was young and went to Kmart with my mom it was an awesome time. A few years ago we me and my mom went cause we just hadn’t been in a while and the whole vibe of the place was just sad and depressing it’s crazy to see all of them gone now but happy to get the chance to say I’ve been to a Kmart

This is emotional 😭 it’s just sad 😢

As a 90s kid, Kmart will always be a happy part of my childhood. I remember a place bustling with customers, all the registers were open, it was filled to the brim with toys that I would've easily spent the entire day enjoying and dreaming and they always went all out on decorating for Christmas. Ah memories..

In the 1970's and the 1980's, Kmart was the place to shop. They had everything a family could want to buy. If you wanted a nice bicycle, they had it. They had cameras, lawn mowers, you name it. When the 1990's arrived, some of the good merchandise were no longer available. The management during the year 2000 and on never kept the shelves full of the items most families were seeking to buy. The decline was a direct result of poor management.

Man my childhood back East was spent at Kmart, such a great store back then, sad all the stores in Vegas closed... Makes me wonder if the one I used to go to in PA is still open

This saddens me to hear, not only for the ppl losing their jobs, but Kmart was the first job I ever had back in high school. Some good memories and met some great friends.

I wonder if Walmart will ever close their doors, imagine that

😓ill never forget my family trips to a kmart w my grandma or mom or dad. or playin tag w my sister throughout all of the aisles. ugh, ill miss it.

Theres a Kmart on 79th and Harlem, Chicago that's been abandoned since 2013. I used to go there as a kid now it's a eye sore driving past.

My husband used to work at a Kmart in Pa but lost his job when it closed! It was very sad since we did all of our shopping there!

Our Kmart just closed about a month ago, here in Montana. It was one of my first jobs, in the 70s, when I was 17 years old. They always had Blue Light Specials, with a flashing blue light! Lol, what memories 💙

Always remember the BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL.. When I was a kid. Loved K Mart, Bradlees, Caldor and Big Wheel, to name a few.

Dangggg I had a Kmart down the street from my house I used to love that store, now that whole plaza is gone 😳😞

I remember the days when I was a small child going to Kmart with my mom. Back when the food court was open and they sold Little Ceasars pizza. It was expensive, even for those times, but good. We just had one close where I'm at like 2 years ago. When it was still open, it was like walking back to the 90s because that's really how it looked. Old computers running the register, the inside pretty much in need of updating, and the vast majority of shoppers were the elderly. It is sad to see them go, but that's possibly how they got out of business. They didn't keep up with the times and they got phased out.

I will miss K-Mart with deep passion, I remember going as a kid and begging my mom for nerf guns and stuff like that, getting the groceries, now I see ALL of them being CLOSED. It brought me sadness when I heard my childhood K-mart in Virginia closed in 2019 because of bankruptcy, I loved it as a kid and I will never forget it, R.I.P

Last time I've been to Kmart was somewhere around a decade ago. Never knew so many of them closed until now.

I remember going to K Mart as a little kid. What I remember most was how messy and run down it all was.

Houston area, here. Our Kmart stores closed up way back in 2003 and the two I lived close to have been repurposed. One of them was original and the other one was a Venture store. When Kmart acquired many of Venture's stores in 1997 when they were going out of business, it resulted in the original one moving up the street into the newly acquired Venture store. It was strange that they plumped for such a store as they were smaller and lacked the garden and auto departments. The original Kmart store then became a flea market in 2002 and the Venture Kmart closed up in 2003 along with the rest of the chain in the area. That store became a Burlington, which remained for many years until recently and is now a building for the school district and the original Kmart that became a flea market recently became split between a gym and O'Reilly's auto parts store.

Wow, I didn't realize how fast Kmart was falling. A few years ago, my family and I used to make trips to the Kmart in Metamoras, PA just for a small outing. We came after a few months, and found it gone, a carcass so to speak. I do miss it.

If they had one still open for nostalgia, real operating mini diners decorated with amber and yellow plastic partitions and some seasonal merch, don't forget the pizzas and hoagies and square ham blocks you could have sliced...it would be a nice place for lunch and blue light specials. Memories. I sure would go. Simpler times people crave in this crazy world.

It was sad to see the Kmart in my hometown go down hill after being the place many people in my area, including my family and I would go shopping for stuff. I guess one the first clues it was going down hill was the fact they weren't selling Pokémon cards anymore, cause apparently people kept stealing them. Now it's completely closed, which is sad and strangely a relief. Upside though, is that my town still has some grocery stores and small businesses that sell some of the stuff we need or want, like Pokémon cards. But now we got to drive an hour more to the nearest Walmart. LOL Rural life in a nutshell

The Kmarts with the little ceasers connected to it was everything !

I remember being a kid eating little Caesars inside Kmart Everytime we went shopping. Those were the days.

I grew up going to Kmart and I've found the warmest sweatshirt ever there, several years ago. There used to be a huge parking lot for our Kmart and it was just off the freeway. Now that building's torn down and it's turned into a huge shopping center of much more expensive stores.

Attention K-Mart Shoppers, there's a blue light special going on in the toy dept! Worked there and it was a lot of fun. Sad to see so many things fall by the wayside.

I still remember seeing the Kmart ads on TV when I was a kid. To be honest I’ve never set foot in one of the stores but I still want to know, what the hell happened?

I remember one like 10 minutes away from me closed like a few years ago, it’s still empty 💀

I can remember the last day the Kmart in Uniontown Pennsylvania was open, everything was for sale and I mean everything, even the shelves were for sale. The Kmart got turned into a Big lots, and paint store.

I used to work at Kmart in the early 90's. I got fired for sleeping on the job. I had a fort in the back but I got caught one day because they were checking fire sprinklers and there was one above my hideout.

I live near that KMart in Avenel. It's sad to see such a large department store go to the waste side. Honestly makes sense why they're shutting. KMart-Sears was a disaster.

I remember going to one here in okc like in the early 2000s, and it feeling weird and outdated compared to Walmart and target. But still sad to know there’s only two left.

Kmart just reminds me of spending time with my mom and eating pizza. She loved going there with us . I miss those times. Thankfully the Ross next to our Kmart won’t close because that was one of my mom’s favorite stores.

I grew up with a Kmart in my hometown and have fond memories of the place when I was a kid and teenager. I was there on one of the last days before closing back in early January of 2020 it was a surreal experience. I remember playing a GameCube game demo, messing around with merchandise as a teen, and even going on a date with my then girlfriend at the time. It was a mix of nostalgia and bittersweetness knowing it was the last time in and out of the store to buy something. I looked back at the store as my mom drove her car until I couldn’t see it anymore all that is left is an empty vacant lot.

"I used to get my underwear from Kmart." - Rain Man

One of my fondest memories was the infamous "Blue-Light Specials" I'd be shopping with my mom in the 70's when they would announce over the intercom... Attention K-Mart shoppers we're having a "Blue-Light special going on. Look for the flashing blue light and take advantage of this special for 15 minutes.... They had this cart with a blue light on a pole they would move around the store. Those were the memories.

Mine closed in my town in 2015 and its been a empty store since, Sad

When I hear Kmart, I think about the time that our family moved to the US completely in the 90s. Kmart would be my parent’s go to store since it was much closer than Walmart. when my mom did the shopping, my dad would take us to the food court to get some nachos or popcorn :) god I miss it. US should definitely take notes from Australia’s Kmart, lol

Am not from America but I used to love seeing the Kmart Sears and JCpennny commercials on TV really made me wonder what being in them would be like but I guess am still wondering because up to now I haven't been in any and they're all gone to that big Defunct Department store in the sky

3-4 years ago the vero beach Florida location was still open didn't know that was the last time I would shop at Kmart, now it's a spirit Halloween store smhhh 😞

I worked at a kmart in Nj in 2017. I only worked there for abt 5 months til finding out the store was closing for good. I cant believe I was apart of this history.

I remember in I think 2018 there was a Kmart In Sonoma County but the wildfires took it and the empty space is still there

One of my favorite stores growing up. Sad to see only a few left. Went through the same liquidation(closure)where I used to work and we're still not over it

I used to live in Visalia, CA right behind a Kmart. Growing up that was like our Walmart, Walmart was too far across town so my mom always went to Kmart instead. Sad to see my childhood store go. Hopefully, one day someone can bring it back!❤

The Kmart where I live closed years ago and turned into a T-Mobile Customer Support building

am i only the one who thinks the music they're using is extremely unfitting or is it just me

Wow I loved going to Kmart as a child . This brings back so many memories. I remember as a kid that’s the only way we could have Christmas some years, and I thank you for that 😇 very sad to see it go!! Also shout out to them because I have baby photos taken at Kmart photography center .

I don’t think there’s been a Kmart in my neck of the woods in about 20 years, and the one I remembered was located at a dead mall.

I remember frequently going into the Kmart on 34th street in Manhattan. I actually still have a suitcase I purchased there several years ago, good quality.

Honestly… I did see this coming especially when Toys r us came at a disclose or shutdown.

As a kid, I lived 5 minutes away from this Kmart. So many memories

ive got an abandoned kmart near my house in Arvada CO, its recently had people working on it, im not sure what they plan on doing with it but i miss shopping there

I'm 27 and I remember KMart fondly. I remember getting all sorts of cool toys there. I also remember the fun times of being in the mall. Luckily, the mall I have here in Virginia is still full of life. It's a shame what Amazon has done to business, and shows what happens when we allow a single entity to fulfill so many needs at the cost of smaller business. We pay for our convenience

I live in Virginia but back then when I was like 9 or 10 maybe younger my family would go to K Mart and inside on the right they would be a Little Caesars God damn I miss those memories 😢😭🥲😔