DEAD MALL SERIES : THE END OF KMART : From Open to Closed to Abandoned! 

iDubbbzTV Wow, didn't expect you see you here

Love your shit dude. Thanks for the laughs got me through hard times.

iDubbbzTV make a brand inspector on Kmart just for the lolz

iDubbbzTV Get out of here kiddo. You don't belong here.

hmmm didn't expect idubbbz here

Indeed.. I worked at a Big K in Winter Park Fl in 2001... off light is the florescent tube lighting; its bad - they say prolonged exposure causes depression... I like your pupster avatar.

Jane Doe Not only that but all the shelves and fixtures are yellow!

They used to have those extra extra long fluro tubes, always looked best when they were not all the same color. Ugly for sure but I do miss that strangely enough. It takes me back to the early to mid 80's.

Like a WoolWorth's did.

Jane Doe yeah whenever i go into some old stores like dollar tree ect they have that same lighting its depressing for some reason its funny when i walk into Walmart i get a pleasant feeling with their white led lighting it looks like they have

Loooool

I thought the same thing, lol😅

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AHAHahAHA I'm stealing this joke

Geez, even back then old ladies were weird. 😂😂😂😂

Trust YouMe what? the katy perry firework on the last day filled the employees and shoppers alike with determination!

Trust YouMe I was thinking the same thing. I don't think their mixture of 80s music helped the depressing, as well as dated, atmosphere.

Koft_Nedted that's the point of vaporware

the same music plays in the airport here, but it's drowned out so much you have to go right up to the speaker to hear it. there's also lots of tropical plants and escalators. very A E S T H E T I C

The music at the 2:50 mark makes it feel very eerie. I'm curious what it is if anyone knows. Really pushes the end of something vibe. I was the electronics department lead in the Blueridge mall Kmart from 2012 to 2014. I had some great memories, made some great friends, and had an absolute blast.

Esperanza Guevara this is so accurate 😂the one where I live became a spirit Halloween

One of the stores in the almost abandoned mall near where I work is putting up Spirit Halloween for the 4th year.

Esperanza Guevara Oh my god😭🤣👏🏼

Spirit halloween is the best store i've ever been too, sucks its just a pop up store. Now i have to drive a little over 2 hours for the nearest one.

Without a doubt

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Omg right? I would of loved to go in there with some black poster bord and have the neon purple checkered and hang them random places in there XD

The only thing missing is "closing time, you don't have to go home, bit you cannot stay here "

Saadia Potato idk my Kmart is lit af

what if someone made a whole shopping mall with multiple stores. One store for each era of time. The hipsters would eat it up.

Saadia Potato I bet I'd love that place. Not a hipster, I promise!

Saadia Potato you go to Kmart if you want to inhale all the mold growing inside the walls

+Aspirin Damage Funny story, I saw a old Kmart building burning before.

Erik Kaspar wow how rude

Erik Kaspar Woulda been cool if you whipped a fat wad of $100 bills and said "Meh, I guess I'll leave then."

Last time I was in a Sears a few years ago, when I walked by one of the departments(either the appliances, or the jewelry section) I got funny looks from the 2 or 3(can't remember) employees working that part of the store. It was the middle of a weekday afternoon, so that's probably why I got the funny looks from them. There couldn't have been more than myself, and 1 or 2 other customers browsing that floor at the time of day. As I recall, I was inside that Sears a few years back since I hadn't revisited it since the mid or late 1990s. And was curious how bad things had gotten at that Sears, a few years ago in the 2010s. For the record, that store hasn't closed down yet, and that's probably one of the few Sears stores that still does good business in Chicago(Six Corners one on Cicero/Irving, btw). That sucks you got treated that way. Doesn't matter if you're only 17, that's wrong how you were treated looking in the appliances section.

Sears is shit and customer service has been really shitty and your story just adds to the other stuff I've heard about Sears. Good riddens. lol

I brought my mom to Sears for sewing machine needles to fit her Kenmore sewing machine that's got to be 50 years old. An old guy in the store was very helpful, finding the right needles on the computer and helping us place an order. So I don't see where the griping about service comes from. One thing Sears seems to do that nobody else does anymore is make replacement parts available to fix things they sold decades ago. But now days people just buy cheap Chinese junk that lasts 6 months and throw it away when it breaks to buy something even more shoddy to replace it. You'd think environmentally conscious people would revive the idea of fixing stuff rather than filling the landfills.

i miss the icee red slushies

@Bill Williams true dat, and yes, shes still around and about :D

Braden Sommers That was my favorite thing lol. Every week when my mom would do her shopping she’d bring me an ICEE home, or get one if I went with her. I miss those days.

@@_Cato_ same bro :c

YEESSSSs!!!! ICEEES! 😂😂😂

The problem with Sears is they only care about short-term profits. Discover card was made by Sears and they sold it off to make a quick buck. They should've improved on the catalogue so they can stay for the WWW launch in 1995, but they didn't. They never saw the big picture so now they are marching to the grave like other dead department stores.

Sears had catalogues since the late 1800's.

Also, based on the promo video at the top of this, Kmart had in-store online shopping by the late '90s/early '00s. They were poised for the digital retail revolution 20 years ago, how did they screw that up?

@@artistwithouttalent They focused on company acquisitions and more corporate stuff instead of focusing on current problems and customer experiences. So Kmart and Sears relying on older technology and lack of updates both on their websites or actual stores really killed the experience and overall reputation

It's just like Blockbuster's case. The higher-ups refused to adapt to changing times and got swept by competitors who were better in flexibility.

niicknasty crippling anxiety 😢

niicknasty LMAO

niicknasty lmao

Sounds like something I would have done too

Lmao

Jeez ó-ò

i just laughed way to hard at this

@@brookemekena9224 I'm incredibly glad to hear that! Amusing others is a great feeling...

Sounds like a pretty spoopy campfire story

They were racing to the finish line with all that K Mart pie, cheese, and coffee. 😢

Looool

"capitol building ransacked" didn't age very well! Lol

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And now in 2022, there are only THREE stores left!!!

Well Kmarts do exist in Australia and unlike the ones up here I’ve heard from both friends and looked online. And geez they’re big there. Most of their business is down under nowadays and a very notable name there

Juliana Blewett that's the depressing part, it has barely changed. Kind of like my only look into how things were before the 2000s. I remember going to Kmart a few years back, and it was just sad seeing this store slowly deteriorating.

I used to live near a K mart,everytime I walked in,it seem like the layout changed. Toys would be in electronics and visa versa.I believe this one closed down too.

Juliana Blewett That sounds pretty accurate lol

That's why they died out. Nothing much has changed... the quality of products basically got lower & lower as they tried to compete on price. People also found stuff with better value for money elsewhere. And then you also have online retail...

+Jonathan Tan Online retail was the straw that broke the camel's back. Its sad to think that shopping in person is going away. And anything that can be digitalized is, like game, movies, & Music.

Lily rose Xoxo lol 😂

XxSmolMochixX •___• lol

jackdawkeith aha 😂

That's heart breaking.

Oh, is *that* what was observing them from the dark corners?

Red Box and Netflix just leave so much to be desired 😪

Brian Jones yea the last time I went to a vhs/dvd rental store was when I was 19 I think. I’m 31 now so it’s been a while. Would’ve liked to take my kids there.

Jessica H it really does. The experience is definitely not the same no where close.

Movie Gallery, Hastings, Blockbuster. Thanks internet

I was a shift manager at a Movie Gallery in the early 2000s

I think KMart Australia is different

That is insane. Probably due to your higher minimum wage.

The US market is very cutthroat, so if you fail to stay up to date with the times, you go under. Also, if y'all didn't know, Kmarts in Australia are owned by a separate company that actually modernized their stores and you Aussies don't have Walmart down their either

it's because Kmart Australia is owned by a different company unrelated to the american Kmart.

Target here in the US no relationship with the Australian target is taking over a lot of vacant kmart stores and more of those vacant kmart stores are turning in target stores remember the American target and kmart brands aren't owned by the Australian brands

lucarionme Wow that's macabre 😮

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At first I though it was a fuck ton of crickets.

lucarionme.....LOL!

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Jenn Durham the moment they came into existence they were immediately tired...reminds me of me!

amelia6152 lmao

Jenn Durham Wow someone else too??? It felt dead, didn’t make you want to buy. Unless there was a special sale or something

@@okiguess2313 ....😆

I always felt very dirty in there, it was weird

PyroTheFox awesome lol

PyroTheFox you are a fucking genius

PyroTheFox You are AWESOME. It also makes the video less depressing. :)

without neat sweatpants, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Kmart gets reverse snapped back into existence.

Don’t insult good will like that there in business

@@samanthacasanas6950 that wasn't an insult. An insult would be Good Will looks like K-mart.

Angie Kelley woooosh

@@aross-hb6jl r/wooosh

ARoss R/iamthemobileuser

Who was really coming to shut off the alarms tho. Hahaha. I wonder how long the loud one blared before someone shut it off. Or if it's still blaring to this very day 🤣

yeah the red icee slushies

I got the cocke ones lol

Like you're in purgatory...when I think of the endless in between this is what I picture

An eerie melody to broken hope and dead dreams. The swan song to an era that no longer exists.

whydoialwaysspill Yep. It was pretty weird.

"Don't bring me down, Bruce!" And it was brought down.

LIKE THE FOOUUURTH OF JULYY~ *-lights out and doors slam shut-* bye kmart

Aw, that's sweet

@@excalibur493 mine met at IHOP

@Chops Shockley damn

Excalibur 493 so ur the Blockbuster baby :P

Good for you kmart bambino

We can use the former stores to house the people who used to have a job at the stores 🤧

Store is 75% empty, trash everywhere, lots of empty shelves even in the area still open. "We're very busy!"

This is exactly how I feel too. It's such a strange feeling, almost like time stopped back in the late 90s/early 2000s

Same it’s so freaking creepy

same, i also feel this way walking through sears!

Same! I feel it walking through Kmart, Sears, and Bjs,

I get that but at this old bowling alley by my house. The arcade legitimately has nothing made post 2005 in it

Amenhir no this is what happens when Amazon came along

This is what happens when Walmart comes around and plays the Wild Draw 4 -cards- Bankruptcy Chances card on K-Mart with better deals.

At least dollar stores don’t feel this depressing

Our dollar store even looks better than this.

This is what happens when you look like a dollar store but aren't, Amazon comes around, and Walmart gets a draw four all at the same time.

I did that multiple times but the thing didnt pop lol.

Emily W. I fucking love you.

Emily W. that's fucking hilarious

Emily W. not all heroes wear capes

Emily W. lmfaooooooo

I will never forget K mart and sears because they made the a s t h e t i c videos about specific song but in an abandoned mall.

We live in the dead mall era.

Too bad it’s updated and it has no sound anymore

Do you know what the first song that's playing in the store is?

Daniel Johnson and the music too!

Daniel Johnson mine here in El Paso TX too. it's like reliving my childhood. We used to shop at Kmart all the time

I actually like the feel lol

Can I still buy the old Lego sets I always wanted? Because that would be amazing lol

Daniel Johnson seriously?😨😱

Why tho?

Why????

Okay but like .....why do I understand that feeling vididly 😐.....

SAME, cause it was so empty and there would always be a random creepy person walking around

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Big Lots is doing fine at least in Northern California. Sears will shutdown for good by 2023 and JCP not much later. Sad times for traditional department stores.

the last time i went into a big lots it reminded me of kmart. disgusting looking and merchandise thrown on the floor. and the funny thing is that there was no sign of it closing. idk how the brand itself is doing but that store was horrid.

2021: 25 stores left

He was offended when Dan wanted to buy the sign

Quick Update, 1 Kmart store left.

@@VRyze really?

@@Ash-uo8sp yes

HappyHappyistGaming haha my friend always said he was gonna go there during the Apocalypse

especially on black friday

HappyHappyistGaming No, that would be Walmart, and they're apparently filming it all day, every day, at every location, already.

I'm just imagining Dead Rising taking entirely in place of a Kmart.

Lawrence Genereux There is a possibility that I can agree to that.

That's what happens when a company has a huge multi billion dollar savings account from when they used to be cool... they die very slow painful deaths... I had my mind blown when blockbuster died so quickly because I was honestly expecting them to do the same thing... if you want another example of a company floating on it's bank account look at AMD they have been loosing 100 million+ a year for like 5 years but they keep on fighting it... they just made Ryzen and are about to put out Vega and guess what... early sales figures show it only slowed down the losses and they have yet to turn a profit... Yet I bet you they will still be making parts in 2020...

Artzie Music oh snap! artzie music

winterwolf211 there are still a few blockbusters around but they are usually in smaller towns where people still rent movies from a movie store.

There are even a few West Coast Video (remember them?) locations still around.

Holy shit, West Coast Video, they died off in my area about a year after DVD's came out. They were cool though, they would give me all of their horror and action movie posters and stands when they were done with them.

See, if they'd just sung Sweet Victory, K-Mart wouldn't have had to die.

OtakuUnitedStudio I stole a crop top from his collection at a kmart. I’m comfortable saying it now bc they closed lmao

Sara and that’s why kmart is now closed.... thanks sara

Who the hell is Adam Levine?

@Elizabeth Fitzpatrick what Martha Stewart went to prison? Not Kristine Stewart

It crashed my laptop!

lmao

I know what mold smells like... disgusting!🤢

It has a weird but nice smell🤣

Smells like tires

@@alejandro0o00 there's an Ikea spc game? That actually sounds amazing

Bluelight Coming 2020

someone get puppet combo...

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17:05 Perfect room for a boss battle.

Nolan Milnes Me too. And the K-Mart in my town just closed a couple years ago or so. I actually practice drove in their empty, sad lot.

Nolan Milnes 2003.....as a kid.....😒😒 Way to make us all feel old as fuck. lol

Nolan Milnes More like 1986. K-Mart stores never changed and kept up with the times.

Nolan Milnes dude, I'm so sorry you missed the 90s.

Lafawnduh sorry! I'll be old as fuck like you someday too!

OH.. You know her too????

Don't we all?

Me too. For almost 50 years shopping centers and the chain stores slowly crucified "Main street USA". Now they are being crucified on the alter of Amazon. Payback is a bitch.

Wow...me tooo

This is what I'm sayin!

Kmart is vapourwave.

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Fuk

A line of old lady aperitions apear from the cafiteria and go to the light

@@eightlivesnow1644 your spelling is scarier

@Kieran Dillon I don't bully, just try to spell check before you comment, it's not my fault you're stupid and lazy

@Kieran Dillon BTW I bet you anything you like , you really thought about it before you posted! English is a beautiful language, USE IT

Yes, because going to a store gives you something to do on a Saturday or Sunday. After 9/11 many places changed.

Dan and Will had a fun friendship before it changed. Traveling the world isn't fun without somebody with a sense of humor.

I worked for Kmart from '78 to '95. It was good back in the day. This is depressing.

and now here we are.. all shelves empty cause of corona virus

Or in 2020 looking for toilet paper that the sheeple have hoarded!

Silent Hill XD

looks like walmmarts in 2020 panikdemic workers dont give a hoot,they have just give up and the shoppers are rude defensive and typical 9 out of 10 acting people and kid anymore i feel for this country

The only thing that would be more ironic would be if they were playing "Closing Time."

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NO NO NO NO NO ... WU HUUU!

that made me laugh thank you

wow

Chris Ducat I know. It’s creepy lighting. Non inviting

Looks like walmart lighting to me which I think looks fine and intriguing it's due to the yellow outdated floors shelves ect. You want to see bad lighting go to a family dollar or dollar tree now that is depressing

I like this outdated, endless lighting. It makes me feel at home

Everything about K-Mart is outdated, The one closest to me before it closed, had cash registers that looked like something out of 1993.

@ this Kmart is the same color as the Dollar tree in my city

Betting it got auctioned off on eBay or something. Ppl pay a lot of money for junk like that.

@@xXxequisxXx there is an antique store the next town over from me that collects old signs like that and has them hung all around the outside of the building. It looks like where the 80's and 90's went to die

They wouldn't, because protocol.

They actually send them to the locations that are still operating.

FYI it's probably a slice of cheese ON the pie.

Amy O just thinking about that makes me want to throw up!!!

I always get a slice of cheese on my apple pie.

It's the Kmart traditional birthday cake. Instead of putting candles into the cake they put cigarettes into the pie.

Amy O couldn't agree more

I've heard people at my school say that our local K-Mart is great to shoplift at because the camera system doesn't work. I also live in Maryland but not near Dundalk. The store looks all run down like the one in the video but it's in a high traffic area and still has lots of customers. I might go there and make a video someday.

I was absolutely thinking about this. People care less if you shoplift from a shit hole too. Why should I care if you don't care?

over9000baud ive heard the same about my local kmart in ohio, do NONE of their security cameras work lol?

over9000baud i live in md too

Same goes for people eh

Arnold Schwarzenegger? On a Nickelodeon magazine?

@@sambeck2510 He's probably talking about Arnold as in Hey Arnold! An old TV show from the 90s.

Funny enough, last time I went to K-Mart was around 2014, and I found an old VHS tape of the Jimmy Neutron movie hidden in the back of the movie section. A very sticky copy, but a copy nonetheless.

Vanessa Streit I know I found a high school musical pen that played a song and like a birthday tablecloth it was all dusty and old too

Vanessa Streit the last thing i got from the kmart going out of business, was star wars shoes that my dad got for me. It was on sale and it had rey on it. I dont think it fits me anymore, i'd always wear them everyday. I kinda miss going to kmart.

Dang for real?!! Wow

Same thing happened here, the Kmart closed here a couple of months ago and I went to go look at the sales. They had demo units of PS2/XB/GC consoles 😂 When I went to look at phone accessories they only had iPhone 4 items fully stocked 😂

There’s still a Nintendo DS Lite demo station at my local PC Richard’s.

10 years ago i wend to a Toys R us here in Germany and it was going to close. So i wandered around and in the corner was a SNES demo unit with yoshi's cookie in it. I asked the manager if i could buy it but he said no because it was store property. So bummed i asked if there was more older stuff from Nintendo. He thouged for a minute and said; wait here. So i stood there for literally 19 minutes untill the guy came back with a cardboard filled with NES, SNES, N64 and gamecube stuff. These were returned items or things that didn't sell. It had boxed NES, SNES games, gamecube & N64 accesoires that were still factory sealed. So i asked what he wanted for it and he said; " I dunno. 50€? " I still got some off it. I sold the things i didn't like. Best day ever.

Midinette 2388 Nintendo 64 demos were the best ever. Mario Kart ... those were the days that formed true friendship. Haha 1999

That's surreal. There's a dead K-Mart the next town over that hasn't been operating for like fifteen years. No idea why nothing has moved into the location. It's like it's tainted.

Dude mine closed back in 2017 I wish I had mine still open

I live in New Zealand and it's pretty big over here too! Probably because we don't have walmart and the only targets in our country are strictly furniture stores lol

Kmart Australia isn't related to Kmart America though, they bought the rights to use the name

Our Kmart in New Zealand is literally one of the biggest, most thriving stores in town

hahaha iconic

so fetch

our k marts are FULL of xl + clothes . you want a 6 x shirt?

Llama Del Fid wrong store...this is kmart. try again

@@strwbrrydaisy444 r/woosh

Daniel Torres Every Family Dollar I’ve been in is so much nastier than dollar tree or dollar store.

like one of those 90's walmarts in the getto that never renovated

Nah Dollar Tree stores are kept much cleaner than that.

Kyle Gardner it brings back memories

VibrantNightmare same

Kyle Gardner maybe because we fear about our own economic security. like what happen to Circuit City and Mervyn's the last decade. At this rate, there won't be that many retails left except Wal*Mart.

Okami Jubei you're exactly right. I myself try not to shop at Walmart because they're one of the main reasons​why our local mom and pop hardware stores have gone under, and countless others. Now sadly K-Mart.

another that comes to an end makes me sad

I just filmed a video in Walmart while I was doing Thanksgiving shopping. No problemo.

There is a youtuber I watch who is always filming at Wal-Mart while driving around in a mobility scooter. Nobody ever stops her.

3 O'clock In The Afternoon Of The Dead.

and its in dundalk

You could also put a bowling alley in there too

Phoenix Pyrope Roller Laser Tag!!!

Phoenix Pyrope roller skating laser tag bowling lol

the laser tag arena in my city closed :( there wasnt enough people going

I guess being failed abortions are what you two share in common

Me to.

Mr.Storm same here buddy roe

Mr.Storm same here too

Mr.Storm altoona Pennsylvania still has a larger one.

there were 3 kmarts when i moved where i live back in 2009 and now there's none

Problem with Kmart is that it's stuck 25 - 30 years in the past while Walmart adapted Kmart figured that people would keep coming back because of memories but it just doesn't work like that anymore. My friend worked for Kmart in altoona last year and while getting ready for Christmas and moving stock he found two unopened boxes of original PS1s and his manager told him "take the creates and do as you please" out of a skid of 500 PS1s he 5000 bucks in a week because the local Kmart never sold off their old stock.

Kni from what I’ve seen, companies like K Mart that fail in America, succeed in Australia, and companies that succeed in America like Starbucks fail in Australia. However that might just be a coincidence.

Lmao so is woolworths (uk version of kmart that shut down)

Lucky fuckers

kmart is amazing in australia 😂 most of my wardrobe is kmart clothes

Kni australian kmart is amazing for being on trend with decor, furniture and like accessories but the women’s clothes used to be good but now is kind of falling back. same with kids clothing the quality is so shit and they aren’t the nicest designs, you get what you pay for. it’s one of those stores where to go to get your essentials and cute stuff you didn’t know you needed for cheap. i absolutely love kmart honestly as most australians do haha