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Let's go to Kmart and see if they have any new PS2 games! You can play War of the Monsters there for free too!
Maybe we can pick up a pizza at the cafe if it's still open.

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There is still a kmart near me, your nostalgia bait had no effect

Is it employed by the heartbroken and depressed poor?

what happened to kmart?

There's a Kmart near me that is more hick than Walmart

You clearly haven't been to a Kmart recently. Broken as fuck store.

People don't want to shop there anymore so it turned to shit. They are so deep in debt that closing all the stores and liquidating everything would still render the owners in debt. Buying sears didn't help them at all.

>bought out by sears roebuck
>refused to make the stores appeal to anything
>continued making deals with known criminals to sell certain items which nobody bought due to shoddy quality
>got rid of staples like blue light special and in house cafe
>CEOs continue to sit around picking their nose wondering why there's no profits as stores shut down one after another

>You clearly haven't been to a Kmart recently. Broken as fuck store.
It's been like that since way before the PS2 era

Yeah but the difference is that they are long past the point of no return. Like, the stores literally shouldn't exist anymore. They don't have cash.

weird
here in Australia kmart is doing fine
they're ooening up a new one just 5 mins from where I live

Honestly GameStop employees have gotten less insufferable since the store started shilling collectables.

Also I still know an active KMart and it feels like a time machine. I bought my GBA there back in the day.

Kmart bought Sears.

Speaking of PS2, I'm curious. What years does one have to be born in to be considered an "early 2000s kid"?

95-99?

it sucked when my Kmart stopped selling games
in 2014. i noticed when they weren't getting new games, but when they said "no, we don't have Smash 4 in stock" only 2-3 months after it came out

That IS the weirdest shit I've ever heard considering the fuckton of debt they're in.

I was born in 1990 and either loved or had friends who loved all the things in pic related

I was thinking kid as in

Local kmart closed and became a dollar tree and conns in the place. I got a good deal on lots of tech shit there. I got a floor model TV that still had it's box, remote, instruction manual, and it was basically brand new, for $40. 1080p60hz LCD, only thing is it's an offbrand and the on-tv buttons don't work to turn it on and do shit like raise volume so I have to use the remote.

Got a vita 3G model for $25 right when it was closing, still brand new in it's original sealed packaging, and bought my PS4 there for $125.

tons of deep deep discounts before it closed. RIP kmart, I bought glover there, and the cashier who sold it to me told me about emulators.

I don't think they're related to the US Kmart

damn, my kmart shipped off all their systems and shit to other stores, only thing i got was a $12 PS4 camera, which at the time was worthless but now needed for the fucking PSVR

in the past month, I have had to inventory 5 Kmarts. These fucking stores have no concept of low overhead and their constantly getting more and more shipments even though no one fucking shops at Kmart. Fuck this stupid chain of stores.

>their

All global corporations consist of multiple and legally independent entities. They do it to better manage and track division profitability as well as tailoring their operations to local law and economic peculiarities.

Retail is dying.
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>be me a few months ago
>randomly drop by local Kmart to see if there's any cheap vidya
>it's almost too dark to see inside
>no customers
>like two employees
>no electronics section anymore, let alone games

I think game section got liquidated from all K-marts like 2 years ago.

My nearest kmarts don't have electronics sections. Are they all like this

Yes.

I was born in '93 and my memories generally start around '00.

I work for a Kmart that is being shut down. We haven't even had an Electronics department for years.

>continued making deals with known criminals to sell certain items which nobody bought due to shoddy quality

Source? im curious

Really? The age of 7? I remember being the age of 4 playing DKC.

nowadays yeah.
electronics are super expensive to maintain and keep up to try and sell to people, and frankly, people shopping at kmart likely aren't gonna have the cash to buy new stock, so you either buy cheap chinese brand shit and run the risk of one of your consumers buying a TV that explodes, or just ditch the electronics alltogether, save for some mp3 players. Even those kinda went out of style with every phone supporting mp3 playback though.

hey user whats corn syrup what happened to sugar?

>He hasn't seen how far K Mart had fallen the fuck off

It's a ghost town at this point and the only one that seems to be alive from what I've seen was the one in Goleta

The Kmart at my town doesn't have any games. I was surprised.

>Go to local Kmart out of curiosity
>Store looks as if it was abandoned with hardly any customer and employees
>Half of the clothes in the clothes section were lying on the floor
>Electronics section was mostly empty with TVs on display showing Garfield: the movie
>Food in the food section was mostly out-of-place or just looked bad
>Leave without buying anything
Don't have much of a nostalgia boner for Kmart, but it really is sad to see a store like that go under. Pretty sure Kmart will go bankrupt and shut down all their stores no later than 2020.

Former Kmart employee from #3060 on southern New Jersey here.

From my time with the company, my best guess is that the top-level execs decided long ago not to compete with Walmart and Target and instead have been letting the company bleed money for years.
They don't care because they're not going down with the ship. They'll tuck away plenty of cash from their $100k+ salaries every year till the company finally shutters the last store -- and then they'll hop on over to upper management at any of a hundred other retail chains (Walmart, Target, Costco, etc.)

All the best DMs and GMs have already done that.

93 here, how the hell do you not remember the very late 90s at least

'97 here and I can still vaguely remember an image of my parents hosting a millennium party.

hey man, bayonne, by any chance?

Nah, Mantua.

ah, damn. I used to work at a kmart in bayonne and noticed pretty similar shit. Granted I worked there in the early 2000s.

>had a local kmart
>walk in
>its like a goddamn portal back to the 90s
>unnattractive layout
>the only reason people are in there is because there's a Little Caesars in there, which is so shitty that the pizza tastes even worse than it usually does
>it closed about a year ago
>now is just an empty building that has a lot that people sell used cars in

I honestly dont miss it. K-Mart and Sears are brands that refused to change with the changing times and will die with them. Good fucking riddance.

>here in Australia kmart is doing fine
Wut? I'm in Vic and every fucking Kmart has an absolutely awful selection of products.
You're better off shopping at literally any other retail giant for things.

Dan Bell is great. I wish he would do more spooky explorations. He just films and keeps commentary at a minimum. Exploring with Josh could learn a thing a two, he never shuts up.

They shut down my local K-Mart and plan on shutting down one of the remaining two so i'm pretty sure that final K-Mart will only last for about a year. Damn shame. I used to steal YuGiOh cards and get games from K-Mart because they always had insane deals but looking at this thread its clear to see its not just where I live. Its already been stated that the stores are messy and ghost towns its almost creepy.

Most of the Kmarts around me are the same shit you expect out of a Kmart; broken and dying. Most of them are liquidating assets right now and closing. There's one that's middle of the road and staying open because it's not too bad off. Then there's one Super Kmart that defies all logic by being clean, organized, well stocked, having a significant food section, and having tons of daily customers. The local Sears looks like a ghost town, meanwhile.

Sadly, even the good Kmart has a shit vidya section.

>Kmart bought Sears
Ex-sears management here.
The instant we had our meetings where it was revealed that K-mart was planning a "merger" with us, I started to look for another job. Sears and K-mart both had fucking awful CEOs that had no idea how to adjust to a internet world. Their outdated stores and terrible websites reflected at just how out of touch the companies were with modern day retail. Stores cannot survive on just retail alone, you must expand to online. I left in 2007 and never looked back.

My local one was selling a Switch during launch day.

>walmart
>hick
dont you mean spics and niggers?

I'm in Toronto, North York area...
I remember we had a Kmart in the local mall that became a Zellers which then became a Target which is now a Lowe's...

I feel like Kmart bought Sears because Sears *used to be* their main competition. I feel like it was done with the intent to eliminate the competition so that they could both do better. Issue I see is that both store chains were doing crappy so it basically pissed money with no real gain.

I think the last time I was in a Kmart was in 2010 or something. Shit was trashy.

I know Kmart still exists because i've seen a few on the side of highways in the past couple of years, but damn they're really circling the drain. It's not surprising, every K-Mart i've been to in the past 15 years has been in horrible condition. They're always dirty, in rough secluded parts of town, and have decades outdated branding (Apparently they introduced a new logo in 2004, but you wouldn't fucking know it because every K-Mart store I've been to since then has the logo from the 90's out front.) It's kind of sad. I bet if you were to ask say a high school aged kid what a Kmart is today they would have never heard of it.

My local Kmart closed back in December and i went in to see if i could buy some bath soap and maybe a cooking pan when they were liquidating. Place looked like something out of Fallout. Shelves were toppled over, items piled on the ground, floor and walls were in bad shape, you name it. It wasn't in the nicest part of town but there's no way it could get that bad unless they just didn't care

Hey, even though it closed, Targets at least hold some standard. Definitely not a time machine like Kmart is.

Why does every store always end in "mart"?

Bought the GBA and the GCN at midnight launch at kmart. Practically no one in line for them.

my local Kmart is full of customers 24 hours a day, they will probably never go out of business.
too bad the cafe closed in the mid-late 90s.
its weird to find a Kmart thread cause i considered going there like an hour ago.

Need a filename anons.

I assume he meant Martha Stewart

>I bet if you were to ask say a high school aged kid what a Kmart is today they would have never heard of it.
They really aren't missing out. The fact nobody goes to Kmart is the real death sentence for the company.

One of the few Kmart doing well then. Probably won't close right away if it generates revenue.

If he was, he should do a little bit of digging on Comey, who is now a former director of the FBI. He had a hand in all of that.

The part that upsets me is Sears had a chance to turn things around in 2003. Sears did an independent study and found out that 25% of the people they surveyed bought clothes online. Instead of realizing that the future for retail was online shopping, they decided to bolster the stores by bringing in more name brand clothing and going for a more "aggressive" approach. Most department stores now are nothing more than a way for customers to try on clothes, find the sizes and colors they like, and then proceed to buy them online at a discount. Macy's, JCPenney, and Dillards are now almost nothing more than a glorified fitting room. Kohl's is trying to cut its loses now by closing stores but I think they are going under in a few more years. You just can't survive anymore just by being a clothing store. I despise Wal-Mart's business model, but its works damn well.

My Kmart close when the PS2 came out, fuck off.

Out of curiosity, is your local Kmart located in any sort of popular shopping center? The still quite good Super Kmart near me is part of a large shopping mall area that keeps growing over the years. All the other shitty Kmarts I see are in similarly tired and run down parts of town.

Still have one by me in a part of town that is pretty well off. I go in every other month or so with a friend. Still manages about 25-30 customers at a time walking around. They're all older or obvious poor families. For those people, there is a very, very busy Wal-mart. But the black employees are so, so lazy and indifferent.

fuck, wave of memories
kmart used to be badass back in the early 90s. always went there for games and toys as a kid. had a kb toys next door too.

>be 10
>wake up saturday morning
>parents drop me off at kb toys
>play in pokemon card game tournaments
>do gym battles
>get badges
>win cash and boosters off of duels
>go buy kickass toys at kmart after

we have to go back

Kmart near me was rundown for years still had early 90's decor they shut it down and turned it into a church every time you would go in their for years it would be a fucking ghost town they were still selling vhs tapes

Do you know if loss prevention is still active when Kmart is in the middle of closing?

>local stores gets killed by big department stores
>Department stores now are getting killed by online warehouses like Amazon.

Like clockwork, I don't like Amazon, but I don't like department stores either.

You decided to buy all the Dinky the Dinosaur toys

The local K mart near me still had Generation 6 games.

this is in australia, just a medium size strip mall type thing.
its a 24 hour store in a immigrant area with kebabs, pizza, etc on the same block so arabs will just loiter there all night long.

You live near the only remaining Super Kmart which is in Ohio of all places.

>going around to every big box store to use fake coupons back several years ago
>go to kmart
>ceiling lights are dim and flickering, its actually somewhat dark inside
>not a single customer or employee encountered on the way to electronics section
>they dont even have 3DSs to buy
I think I actually wouldve felt bad using one there

any canucks here remember zellers? i remember walking into my local one a few years ago as it was selling out everything and it was an absolute mess, things were lying around on the floor and shelves were bare. the one i went to got replaced by a wallmart

I'll always remember Kmart for its giant old ceiling fans that looked like ports on the Death Star.

Well I worked for Sears but I left in 2007. However, loss prevention did a lot more than just prevent merchandise theft so I'd assume they are still around. They secure all registers at night, PC terminals, lock down the building, secure money pick ups, and arm the security systems if it isn't a 24/7 location.

That's true. Kmart is no great cultural touchstone, but it's still sad to see things that were once well known become irrelevant and die before your eyes.

The only thing more convenient than online retailers would be on-demand, same day deliveries. We'll see if Amazon can get it's drone service going or use its growing delivery fleet.

What kind of behemoth will step up someday to kill Amazon?

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I also went to Kmart recently, the trash bin here was full of water. The only employees I saw were ringing people out. I never really went to Kmart except to abuse coupons but it's been a shithole for as long as I can remember

I bought a Tingle plush and a gumball

Happened with Blockbuster.

Fuck Macy's. Shit always seemed expensive. JCPenney and Kohl's might be ok. Went to a Kohl's recently and there were people around shopping. I swear to god though, lines in Kohl's always seem to be jammed with stupid people buying a bunch of stupid shit. Meanwhile all I'm buying is like a pair of socks or something simple.

I work at a Sears. Ask me anything.

Jesus fuck I didn't realize it was the only one left. Though by the sounds of its Wikipedia section, they only open a tiny handful in Ohio alone to begin with. It's still pretty well maintained and quite busy, so I suspect it won't be closing anytime soon. The mall it's in the vicinity of is also slapping up massive renovations and new buildings, so I guess business in the area is booming.

Feels good not being a burger and not getting cucked by Amazon. Maybe Trump will finally go after Amazon like he said he would and stop millions from being out of a job.

How is the tool department now that Sears sold off craftsmen? I was a tool consultant for a few years when I was in college.

I remember these too. Shit.

Man, I still remember Ames existing (and Hills, before Ames bought them). They went out so long ago that I barely remember what they were like inside. The old Hills/Ames store near me stayed vacant for ages, occasionally being a Halloween shop for a few months.

Then do you think loss prevention will care as much, it actively look for theft since they know the location is closing and will probably lose their job?

Just so you guys know K-Mart stopped selling games almost three years ago.

really makes you think.

As of right now, it's pretty much the same as before they sold the brand. Fairly active and "healthy", so to speak, from what I can see. They still are the only Craftsman seller for a few more years, iirc, so expect to see the real effects of that deal in the long term (not that Sears will be around much longer).

I mean you can certainly try, but getting caught shoplifting at a fucking K-mart would be really depressing. Most loss prevention managers are ex-cops, well they used to be.

I can't even imagine. It would have to be something that does what Amazon does but better.