It is a shame.
I used to regularly shop at the K-Mart in Richfield (closed now for 10 years), a first ring suburb of Minneapolis. I liked what they had for selection.
There was no difference between buying my shampoo or dress socks there versus a Wal-Mart or Target.
Somewhere along the line (back in the early 90’s), K-Mart just went numb. They didn’t keep on the appearance of their stores, they didn’t keep on the kind of merchandise that people wanted their employees started getting a ‘hood attitude, etc.
It wasn’t just a case of K-Mart being unable to compete with the Internet. It was almost like they collectively went on auto-pilot sometime in the early 90’s. By the time they realized “Wait, we might have a problem here”, it was too late. Wal-Mart and Target passed them by.
About the only Kmart that I can think of is on Lake Street. I have to go to Sears every few years to get filters for my shop vac. Beyond that I dont care.
With all the stores they have around the Country, they can compete with Amazon by storing all their merchandise in their stores & shipping them out to customers in record time