Meijer Inside Of A Former Super Kmart - Lincoln Park, MI 

I have to admit meijer did a good job retrofitting this store

Hey wallieb26 I'm just glad this old k-mart store has new life in it instead of just rotting away or flatten just to put a new store in it's place

Meijer looks like a good store, but I really miss KMART. I miss Hills and Ames as well.

Hi Wallie, Today is Friday September 1st.I live in Detroit,Michigan and I just finished watching your video about Meijer,inside a former Super Kmart Center in Lincoln Park. This morning and I was reading in the Detroit Free Press in the Michigan Business Section. Demo,permit sought for old Kmart Headquarters in Troy,Michigan. The old Kmart Headquarters has been abandoned since 2006. The old Kmart Headquarters Building is located on Big BeaverRoad,and Coolidge in Troy near the Somerset Collection Mall in Troy. This is the very latest news about Kmart. I used to work for Kmart and I miss Kmart to this very day.

I can hear it in your voice you miss Kmart ❤ we all do too

I miss KMarts.

My friend works for Meijer in Lansing, MI. Wish we had one in Minnesota. Love the full line of groceries isle.

And you got to put into consideration any repair work to the building. The longer it stays empty its bound to need more work to make it back up.

I miss K-mart. Great video again.

Another Super Kmart that got retrofitted/remodeled into a Meijer is in Portage, Indiana. You can’t tell that it was a Super Kmart until you go to the side by the Garden Center/Electronics department, there is a door that leads to the old Sears Auto Center, that’s still visible from the outside. The old Super Kmart sign got upgraded to add lights, but still shows the shape of the old sign.

I like the way the shopping carts in the parking are facing you, like they are listening to you😂

Why would a company think it is cheaper to demolish than retrofit. There could be a few reasons: * Was there damage to the old building (Structural, Foundation Slab Cracks, Water Leaks, Mold, Radon, etc)? * Did the old building have things in it that were too costly to bring up to code or need to be removed (Asbestos, Lead, other hazards, etc)? * Was the old building in very bad shape or the roof in very bad shape? * Was there issues from lack of maintenance that it was too costly to renovate? * Were there issues with plumbing, electrical, drainage, chemicals, etc that were cheaper to start over than reuse? * Did the old building have too many code violations, unsafe conditions, liens, unpaid fines, etc that the city condemned it?

I was just in an old man and Kmart that was a temporary spirit of Halloween yesterday AUGUSTA Maine brought back some good times

Wallie, is Little Debbie your drug of choice? I would have thought Rax's, Whataburger, Bojangles would be your drug of choice😂😂😂😂

Love they kept the look outside of the Super K

My mom worked at a Super K-Mart when I was a kid. It has been retro fitted and now houses a strip mall of stores including Ross.

What a Awesome Meijer Video and Enjoyed the Awesome Wallie

Overall a nice conversion. I can understand why they gutted a lot of the old K-mart fixtures, ceiling, lighting, etc. I think they wanted a more modern look on this and wanted to resemble a look from the 2020s era and not from the 1980s era. But I think it looks pretty nice and is a great use of an old Kmart Supercenter building.

Yeah, it looks like a new store inside

Whoa! New vid

A Meijer with old-school Super Kmart Centre vibes, what a great combination and I'm lovin' it! 🥰

In Thorndale pa the old Kmart there is now a carpet and flooring store and the other half is an aldis grocery store and the old Kmart is suppose to become a target

Meijer is a very nice chain of stores.

I miss Kmart I never heard this store before? From Springfield, Missouri.

There's a old Kmart in ephrata pa that became 2 amish or Mennonite stores half the Kmart is called goods which is just like a Kmart the other half is called duchway market witch is a Mennonite grocery store

I miss you doing store tours

glad to see you in my neck of the woods the tore down the one in southgate mi they took down and built a kroger

I have worked in retail design. From a retailer's perspective, they like to know the history of their buildings and standardize them as much as possible. It's much easier when it comes time to renovate since each store likely got the same work around the same time over the years (Meijer always renovates chain-wide over a 3-4 year period about every 10 years). When you have a one-off store, a lot more time and attention has to go into tweaking a renovation package to fit it. I also find the removal of a drop ceiling to be kind of a cardinal sin. Have you ever noticed how much quieter and brighter it is in stores with them? Target has retained them (thankfully) but most retailers have ditched them for the sake of economics. All new Meijer stores had them until 1985 and they began removing them around 2000, first from the grocery section, then the entire store in subsequent renovations. Stores built in the '78-'84 timeframe had lower roofs and were designed with mechanical systems tightly packed in the plenum above the ceiling. Removing ceilings from these stores especially was a poor decision as it left a busy, messy look with a ceiling that actually felt lower because these stores didn't have the roof clearance to give the true 'warehouse' look they were going for (see Brighton store #46, a 1982 store as a good example of this). This current renovation wave that is wrapping up removed the last of all drop ceilings on the sales floor. In the case of the Lincoln Park Meijer, as the building itself is approaching 30 years old, it probably made more sense for them to remove the ceiling simply because by 30 years, major mechanical, electrical and plumbing overhauls are needed and the ceiling would have just gotten in the way (part of the reason they disappeared). Kmart avoided this by never renovating their stores, although I know of one exposed ceiling Kmart from 2003 that existed in Phoenix. Ceiling tiles also can provide some insulating value (and Meijer's were thick, fiberglass-batt tiles in the '78-'84 stores) so it costs them quite a bit more to now condition that extra volume of space. The store in Allen Park was intentionally built with a lower roof with energy costs in mind (it is their only LEED-certified store and was built atop a dump like CityView Center, except it was competently designed). Fun Fact: if you go into the Best Buy there, you can see the pipes going up to the roof labeled "Methane".

It's the Kmart in West Chester pa is suppose to become a target I goofed on the last text or what ever they call this on RU-vid

Maybe in the future Meijer will come out with Blue Light Specials!

I miss kmart

I remember when the K Mart was being built, around 1990 if I remember right. Welcome to the downriver Detroit area! There is another Super K not far from this one in Taylor off of Van Born Road. Its abandoned now but Ford Mo Co. was using the building a few years back. The city of Taylor refused to re zone the property and Ford left the building.

It seems like many places are turning to open ceilings now I guess to make the space look bigger.

Meijer has been remodeling many of their stores in Metro Detroit. They have always been grocery first, merchandise second (that’s how they compete with Super Wal-Mart, which is the opposite). The radio towers directly next to the store are of AM 1500 WLQV. There used to be 12 until three were torn down when Kmart was built.

It might depend on the condition of the building possibly

I wish i had meijer where i live. When i visited fmaily in Michigan this last year i was in a meijer and loved it

Wow! I used to live in Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park, New Jersey, that is (for five years). Lincoln Park, N.J. is located about 20 miles west of New York City. 👌

Our former Kmart is interesting right now. It's now a Goodwill, Anytime Fitness, Tractor Supply, and there's still an unused section of the store that's locked up with old registers that can still be seen through the doors. It's in Bryan, OH if you're interested in checking it out!

Awesome Wallie

I live right by here! It hasn’t been a Kmart for sooooooo so so so long

As said in the video, if you look this store up on Google, there are a lot of older pictures of this Meijer before the update around 2021 (I have seen it before they updated it). It is really cool and still had a lot of the old Kmart look(including one inside showing the Cafe with it's tables and chairs that they removed). They did a good job on the update, but I do still miss the old nostalgic, colorful Kmart look it used to have.

There’s like no sign of Kmart memory in the building at all anymore

I never got experience of kmart imagine if Kmart got remodeling in 2020 if they never went out of business I love Kmart thanks to wallie i also like ames and hills

🎉 greetings from coastal Mississippi. I have watched you since 2019. I love your videos and truly appreciate your company.😊

Back in the day and I remember when Kmart's first store,first opened for business in 1962. Kmart's very first store,on Ford Road in Garden City,Michigan. And I remember that Kmart Store #1,has been demolished and too become a LA FITNESS GYM. The other Kmart,Super Kmart Center Stores in Detroit and Southeastern Michigan has been taken over by Kroger,Meijer,and U-Haul Storeage and Truck Rental Centers. I also used to work for Kmart and Meijer Stores. I miss Kmart Stores and I am retired from Meijer.

The food is sooooo good.

Thanks WallieB26 for visiting our Meijer!!! I have been watching your videos for 3 years now. You are awesome and entertaining, it is so cool you were in my meijer!!! what night and time was this? I probably had just punched out. If you would like I have a nice picture I took of the dairy section before and after remodel I would gladly send you!!! We were a former Kmart before 2003, there was a little Caesars inside at one time. As you can see Meijer is the first to have a meat section with no full service Meat Counter!!! along with the hot chicken it is all self serve after Meijer remodels. Deli and Bakery are the only counters to have customer service interactions!!! 50% of the meijers will be this way after remodel. Thanks for visiting I hope you had fun!!!!

Great video! The café used to have those big Super-K Café windows until they renovated around 2020-2021. 13:37 - you can see where they covered it up. And then where the windows above produce are, that was an expansion. It used to be an outside open space. They also removed a good part of the original Kmart garden center for the pharmacy drive-thru.

We have them here but its called Fred Meyer.

That place looks amazing the last time I when meijer was in 2015

Please go to the Belleville Kmart!! And there was a former Kmart that is now a Kroger in Southgate MI

Wallie putting in the O.T. Lately with the daily vids!! Hope all is well with you buddy take care!

Hi Wallie👋 i miss KMart, Ames, and Hills😢 childhood memories gone. Do you remember a store called Heck's ? I miss that store too,right along with Magic Mart i almost forgot 😢

Next time you're in Michigan, check out a couple abandoned Kmarts that are in Pontiac and Flint. Stay safe as you visit, and I don't recommend going inside, but just seeing them from the outside is crazy enough. The Pontiac location in particular might be the longest standing closed Kmart (and was also one of the first to open!)

wow so cool place that one person he was very mad at his wife he turn around did he need cill out

They like left every thing but the inside

The flooring looks original to Kmart the tiles I mean.

I use to live a half a mile from this store when it was Kmart.

Wow cool video man

honestly working at Kmart for three years this was the same layout as the Kmart in Uniontown so as you're walking through it I'm like there's where this department was theirs with his department was and it looks kind of like what Kmart would have been like with a lot of money especially when you showed the garden shop

You need to lay off those little Debbie cakes they’ll mess your figure up lol great video as always!!

There’s an abandoned Super Kmart in Port Huron, Michigan. Check it out before it gets redeveloped. It closed in 2014. I never been to Super Kmarts wish I had. Where I live there were no Super Kmarts. Only Big Kmarts. Sucks Kmart went bankrupt.

Thanks for being my fave youtuber

I like the Taco Piñata it would come in handy if someone had a birthday on a Tuesday

Wallie - BUCEES is coming to Dayton, OH (Huber Heights). News as of mid August 2023. 74,000 sq ft one.

As always great video. 👍

Meijer also took over the abandoned Kmart in north canton, Ohio too

K mart was a awesome store

I wish we have one in iron mountain mi a Meijer

I remember seeing a Super KMart on Virginia Beach Boulevard. You can review that one if you want to, Wallie. This Meijer looks like a Target too. I love Target. Also, I just saw a news footage about a stolen Wallet at the Meijer in East Gate, Ohio. I think you've been to that one, haven't you? Please, be careful at that one.

I have a former kmart that got converted to meijer but meijer demolished the kmart building and built a new one

If you were to went down the street to across from the Southgate mijiers the Kroger is the Southgate Kmart. Also Southgate big lots is in a old toys r us and the Southgate Sam's is in a old Kmart still looks like Kmart

no one is talking about the fact that the title says Lincoln Park despite the video having nothing to do with the band lol

My area in Wisconsin was supposed to get one (Meijer)...then covid happened and it still hasn't been built...other stores like Five Below, Big Lots, Ross, Hobby Lobby and more are being built (some are going in an old Walmart and some in an old grocery store shopping center...Walmart years ago built down the street.

Wow. I thought the guy qas running into your car.....

Wallie, big fan of your work. Years ago I was visiting Century III and just so happened to have bumped into you on the lower level near that random ATM. Thanks for the hand shake! Hope Pittsburgh has been well to you, keep up the awesome work!

Hey not too far from me! Sweet!

Thank you Eddie Lampert

I remember getting a Saturn 5 rocket stuck on a roof of a k mart here in westerville ohio off of westerville road back in the early 90s

I like the style.

makes me wish we had a Meijer but never did

I love that it’s in a former Super Kmart! I love Meijer and I actually used to live in an apartment complex directly behind the Meijer in Waterford Twp off Pontiac Lake Rd. Just walk through the woods and you’re there

I think that store has been a Meijer for a long time

Went to the one in Columbus but wish there was one closer to south east ohio.

We need this in Georgia

The lack of a drop ceiling is very disorienting. I don't like buildings that don't have drop ceilings.

Nice buddy

There are Meijer all over the place in Metro Detroit. I love that they're so convenient and prior to Covid many were open 24 hours. I love Meijer for their produce selection.

Quick update it was always meijer because if you look at the photos on Google Maps it was the older style Meijer

Hey Wallie! will you be visiting the Westwood Kmart anytime soon? the store is set to close for good at the end of the month.

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It said that this meijer was here for at least a decade.

I've never seen or been to one these what are they close to store wize like around here we're I'm from Uniontown I have no idea..looks like a wallmat if you ask me..

Wally can you go back to the Uniontown Kmart soon because Big lots moved in over there and the original Kmart from the 60s is off Morgantown Street call tractor supply now

Can you come to Fayetteville nc

Meijer. Vs walmart? Is Meijer owned by Kroger. I haven't looked it up yeat. Stince Kroger owns a ton of grocery stores chains from East coast to West coast.

This Kmart closed in 2003. And meijer came in 2004.!

I would sooner shop here than Ghetto Mart. Our local Walmart is awful. Target has gone downhill. I would like to see them come to New York.

When they removed the dropped ceiling, they could have made the ceiling white instead of black

Too bad the medina super kmart is in poor shape it would have been cool to see meijer reuse that store