Down to the last great store...
Posted on 09/23/2024 12:35:36 PM PDT by Red Badger
The doors to the last full-size Kmart store in the United States will close forever on October 20.
WJAR reported on Sunday that an employee confirmed the location in Bridgehampton, New York, will close up shop on that date.
“Kmart has been slowly closing stores for years since merging with Sears in 2005 under the management of hedge-fund CEO Eddie Lampert. Sears Holdings, the parent company of Kmart and Sears, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018,” the report said.
According to Fox Business, the department store chain ran about 2,300 locations in the 1990s. Transformco, which owns the smaller location in Miami, also owns a few stores in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“Transformco says on its website that the first Kmart discount department store opened in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan,” the Fox article stated.
“The Miami Herald reports that the Kmart store there leased out nearly all of its former space to home goods store At Home. That Kmart location has now been reduced to what used to be the garden department of the original store,” the outlet added.
In August 2023, Fox 5 reported the last Kmart in New Jersey was shutting down, and residents shared their thoughts on the move:
VIDEO AT LINK..........
“It’s the end of an era. It’s yet another franchise that is gone. The whole world is changing, stores are disappearing,” one woman told the outlet.
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Lol.. Kind of like the translation of a slut in Japanese: “public toilet”.
"last one out the door please turn off the lights"
Montgomery Wards
Are all Dillard’s stores closed now? I thought some were still open and doing pretty well...
Down to the last great store...
Dillards is still around. Though the one nearest to me - their flagship store in Scottsdale, AZ - is never very busy.
About once every two months back during the 1950s, we would all get dressed up in suits and ties and go shopping in downtown Los Angeles. My father, a school music teacher and a church music director, would go to a music company to buy sheet music, while the rest of the family spent the day at the May Company, a huge department store at Eighth Street and Hill Street. We would eat lunch at the store's cafeteria, and if we were still there at dinner time, we might eat at the Italian Kitchen across Eighth Street.
Our last visit to that May Company was in 1966, and it closed shortly afterwards. I continued to eat at the Italian Kitchen when I was a grad student at USC, but that, too, is long gone. For several years, May Co. expanded into the suburbs but disappeared decades ago.
About 30 years ago Kmart decided to quit selling firearms and ammo. They took a beating for that.
But it is Target that wins the prize for going woke. Yet folks still shop there.
I did not know about Kmart’s abortion stance.
But I remember their anti 2nd Amendment move.
Go woke, go broke.
I don’t think there are anymore in the United States or even the world. I believe they closed them all down.
Kmart was one of the places I worked as a teen. It was nice having a cafeteria right there to eat meals at. I’m old enough to remember sitting at Woolworths little dining area as a kid.
Sears had an excellent website towards the end but they were already at the point of dead man walking.
Lambert gutted the company. He spun off all of the value and left the remains holding the bag in all of the debt. The big thing was the real estate. Sears had multi-billions of it, mostly in prime locations. Lots of stories in the trade media an about why he was doing/did as it was happening.
Total leadership failure prior to Lampert. The had literally everything in place to be Amazon except the vision. Of course Amazon started as a book store and expanded.
They still had nicotine-stained ceiling tiles. It was depressing. A handful of employees just standing around. And everything was super expensive.
Merged with Sears in 2005? How did that work out? Are there even any Sears left?
And yet today every dead mall in America has 200,000 sq' of empty retail space that used to be a Sears anchor store.
When I was a kid there was Zayre, Venture, Sears, JcPenney, Montgomery Ward, Madigans, Dominick’s, with only JCPenney still being around and very few stores at that. Of course you had your Macy’s, Lord and Taylor, Nordstrom, and Von maur, all of which are strangely enough, still around and in malls close by. I’ve got a Macy’s a couple blocks away and they do have some clothing that is affordable I guess I used to lump them together with the other mentioned stores that are super expensive because my mom never went there when I was a kid.
.....and Newberrys
None that I know of...............
Woolworth, Caldor…
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