Bradlees ran a pretty standard version of IBM's General Sales Application, though I see a few user exits programmed in for their sale and exception pricing. Those machines were very sturdy.
Indeed. John Lewis Department Stores used them up until around 2008/2009 with their original printers intact, even having C&P added when the UK was phasing out swipe. Then they went to SurePOS systems before replacing them with DN to standardise with Waitrose, who switched to Wincor Nixdorf/DN after decades of Fujitsu ICL.
1995 age 23. Mom and I shopped at Bradlees in Burlington and Bordentown NJ. At the Burlington Bradlees in the late 80s, Mom bought a 4 set of wooden chairs that she kept for many years. She still has one left. I was very sad when Bradlees closed. This was a very nice store.
Holy crap. Where were the Bradlees, ames and caldor? Clover was well in the clover center in bodentown and that's all I remember. There was a something next to quakerbridge mall. I think now it's a fitness center. I recall all these names but can't put my finger on it.😂
Looks like she was breaking in a new card, she hadn't even signed the back of the card yet! I'm kinda suprised that nobody complained about the person filming zooming in and holding on the shot of their credit card info being recorded.
OK I just have to say this. Michael Jacksons you are not alone playing in the background is the saddest, but happiest vibe ever! Rest in peace, Michael hope to see you again one day
I worked at the New London CT store for 27 years, The First Bradlees #880. My co-workers they were my family. Our store closed in 1999. As an after thought, today the store still is a retail store, Burlington Factory Coat Store.
That is a long time Jane. Lots and lots of memories for sure. Obviously you were sad to see it close of course but at least something moved in it's place.
@@vampirerobot Yes, thank you for your kind response. Sadly, today at nearing 70 so many friends have passed. So many stores went out of business due to Massive Walmart influx. Two Guys, Caldors, not to mention small businesses. Sad.
Hey Jane. Bradlees was one of my favorite stores growing up. The amount of memories I have there is incredible. Particularly the one in Stratford, CT on The Dock. We went there multiple times a week. I could tell you the exact layout of the store. That's how well I know that place. Mind you.. I was between 1-15 when I went there. It's just not the same anymore. I stopped by it yesterday for the first time since 2003. So 19 years since I been in that parking lot and it's a shame. All stores completely different. They knocked down Bradlees and built a BJ's Wholesale. So the entire store is not even the same shape or anything. Completely different structure. They had a water fountain ⛲, knocked that down for addition parking. Walmart across the street. Gym. Storage facility. I'll never go there again. Just curious, since you worked at Bradlees. Do you have anything from there with the Bradlees name on it? For example a vest or shirt? Bags? Anything really.
@@bL3dbL4k No I got rid of all the blue coats. I do have masses of th slide cutters we used to open boxes...and "somewhere" I have a "Bradlees "B" button that were passed out for excellent customer service. Take Good Care
@janedoe09 I worked at Bradlees store #841 in Lewiston ME for nearly 15 years! I was quite young when I started at 20 yrs old. I was hired part time then offered a full time position not long after. As you said, we were like family! We had many long term employees of which I became one. I was a cashier and also helped with layaway, service desk, training new hires, some supervising and cash office with an occasional short period helping in ladies fashions. Our store sadly closed in early June of 1996. The end of an era 😢.
They had cell phones at that time and pagers 📟 you didn’t see people with them out chatting away because it was expensive to use them. We use them much more now because it’s far cheaper. Unlimited calls and texts these days and it also contains our entire lives in it. Don’t be fooled though, long before cell phones people still had their heads down be it through music players, newspapers, computer usage (obviously not in a store) and books. Those fortunate enough to have a cell phone were able to get important messages from their loved ones or work, rather than roaming around all day and having no way to contact anyone without tracking down a pay phone.
OMG!! I've been looking for Bradlees or Caldors footage like this! This is incredible! Those 2 stores were my favorites as a kid, and footage is extremely scarce. Brings me back to the 90s. Thank you!! Is there anymore Bradlees or Caldors footage? Immediate sub!
This video reminded me that Bradlees used two different keyboard configurations on the IBM 4683s, depending on where the register was located. Front end checkouts used the standard POS keyboards and two line display, jewelry and electronics used the full alphanumeric keyboard. They probably had some GSA user exits that prompted for alphanumeric entry in these departments, so they needed the full keyboard. Also, Bradlees was one of the few big chains I was in that used the LCD customer displays; many chains used the double-sided alphanumeric display (Ames) or had two single alphanumeric displays (Hills). I'd love to see what user exits they incorporated into General Sales Application at the time.
That software IBM General Sales Application now owned by Toshiba is still in use Today by Walmart and Academy Sports all tough heavy modified and with a touch screen GUI on top
I have about 40 of the physical film photographs from the grand opening of the Bradlees in Bridgewater, New Jersey in 1994 and it looks almost identical to the store in this video other than the food court having a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut (the Haagen-dazs and overall style of the snack bar looks exactly the same though) and the dept banners hanging from the ceiling are exactly the same and even the ceiling/light fixtures are almost exactly the same. I would imagine that this location opened at almost the same time and was fairly new when this video was shot. It is strange to see such nice Bradlees stores built in the mid 90s compared to the majority of them that opened in the early/mid 70s that most of them were. The chain was starting to fail by this point but the newer locations were good looking stores. Reminds me of the Ames in West Lebanon, NH that opened in 1997, that was also an extremely nice store compared to most other Ames
The Bradlees in this video was the Jersey City/Newport Bradlees and, just like the one you have the photos of in Bridgewater, both stores were built by Kmart as Pace Warehouse Clubs and were only a year old when Kmart closed this business. The store in Jersey City never actually opened as Pace. It was built and outfitted but Kmart pulled the plug before it could open. The Bridgewater and Jersey City stores were identical-and there were others in Paramus and East Hanover. All became Bradlees for a short period.
I forgot cash registers made that noise when ringing up items. I also remember my mom writing checks and writing her purchases in the checkbook and no one was rushing anyone out.
i was born in 93 that baby prob a year younger then me i wonder whats shes up to these days. wonder if she even know this video of her and her mom exist
I remember when this store was in Saddle Brook, NJ and me and my Aunt Julie went there a long time ago. The Bradlees in Saddle Brook, NJ became a Walmart.
I've never heard of Bradlees. Must've been a regional store. Almost reminds me of the small Walmart stores we had in my neck of the woods years ago. It even had a little food court/cafe like shown in this video. But not the good places like Taco Bell and Pizza Hut though lol
@@cabuco2006 I grew up in Chelsea (late 80s to 90s), there used to be a Bradlees in what is now called the Parkway Plaza Shopping Center. It was off Revere Beach Parkway. Miss those times!
My family and I used to shop at Bradlees in Toms River, NJ all the time when I was a kid. Funny enough, it was right across the street from Caldor🤣🤣🤣. I miss the old retailers 😔. Seeing this brought back some good memories. Thank you for putting this up! Just out of curiosity, do you have anything from Caldor or Jamesway? I've yet to find any footage from there
Bradlees existed in the Northeast from 1958-2002, and was once owned by the Stop and Shop grocery chain. Another smaller store that was shredded by Walmart and Target.
Honestly i feel K-mart buried Bradlees more than those other two stores....Walmart and Target didn't really start entering New England until Caldor and Bradlees were already falling apart. I don't believe there was ever a town that had a Walmart and a Bradlees at the same time. Target didn't come to New England until 1999, and Bradlees announced the chain was closing a few days after Christmas 2000, not 2002, I remember it well because I had classmates who worked there and I remember coming back to school after Christmas break '00 and they were upset they were losing their jobs. It was Ames that closed in '02. But really through the entire 90s, the northeast was K-Mart country with a bunch of regional chains fighting for the scraps. Then Walmart & Target swooped in and crushed K-Mart.
Most Bradlees had a Stop & Shop very close by. The ones I went to, they were both in the same plaza. I never knew they were connected until I got older, and it made sense to why they were always located near eachother.
@@TRJ2241987 Yeah, Target started coming in 1999 at the end of Caldors & Bradless shutting down. But Walmart came around 95-96, so I could see it playing a part. I liked K-Mart as well, but I shopped much more at Bradlees and Caldors. Whatever the case was.. It still upsets me til this day. Wish they were still open.
Got any Venture Stores footage? I don't think I've ever seen any online. I was born in 90 and I went there with my mom semi-frequently until they closed. Always loved the atmosphere of that chain!
Not so! I worked at a Bradlees and we were trained (and reminded frequently) on providing excellent customer service! None of this "Sorry it's not my department " as the clerk walks away. We were trained on greeting the customer, making eye contact, smiling, offering assistance proactively, and thanking them for shopping in our store. I also remember multiple instances where one of us went "above and beyond " for our customers. Sure, there were a few complaints over the years but to this day, I run into former customers who long for Bradlees to return!
I wonder if these kinds of videos were filmed by the stores themselves or by customers. Because other than just simply documenting what other purpose do these serve?
Where is Mrs. Bradlees from 3 men and a baby movie? Btw I still have my Bradlees store credit card 💳 ( 4 which I still owe them and along with the creditors collection agencies )1995 locked 🔒 up in my security chest along with other store charge cards. And Idk why I still have them @fter all these years later. I guess 4 memories?
As you said, they competed in the same area.. Very similar to what Walmart & Target is now. Although I don't like Walmart or Target. Bradlees and Caldors were great!
@SupaNami Reaganomics had already been put into place before this. And it's only gotten worse in the decades since. Reagan was the worst president for the economy and making corporations rich while stealing from the middle class. We're still suffering from his trickle-down bullshit today.
That's why it was a very civilized habitable society Those were some great times Now there is too many satanic demonic mentality disturbed weirdos that roam around society today And it's also because of too much black supremacy today And because of the third world barbaric savages that come to the United States and bring their third world barbaric savage culture with them They don't want to respect American people or culture or assimilate to the American way of life or don't want to learn or speak the English language Godliness, Goodness, Greatness, Gloriousness and Graciousness must reign again God Bless
I love seeing old retail videos like this, and especially the technology that was in use at the time. Those IBM 4683s bring back memories!
Facts
The 4683 Model 2 printer sounds are music to my ears.
Bradlees ran a pretty standard version of IBM's General Sales Application, though I see a few user exits programmed in for their sale and exception pricing. Those machines were very sturdy.
Indeed. John Lewis Department Stores used them up until around 2008/2009 with their original printers intact, even having C&P added when the UK was phasing out swipe. Then they went to SurePOS systems before replacing them with DN to standardise with Waitrose, who switched to Wincor Nixdorf/DN after decades of Fujitsu ICL.
@@snotloutisagod2956 These printers are also used in some Soriana stores in my chilhood, as well, in Cimaco (a local department store in my city.).
That baby is like, almost 30 now.
Imagine being that baby in the video and seeing this video on UA-cam that must be really cool
Yeah hard to believe. She’s so cute 🥰
My sisters age lol
Or ☠💀who knows
I was just telling my wife the same thing. I didn't even see your comment. How funny.
1995 age 23. Mom and I shopped at Bradlees in Burlington and Bordentown NJ. At the Burlington Bradlees in the late 80s, Mom bought a 4 set of wooden chairs that she kept for many years. She still has one left. I was very sad when Bradlees closed. This was a very nice store.
Holy crap. Where were the Bradlees, ames and caldor? Clover was well in the clover center in bodentown and that's all I remember. There was a something next to quakerbridge mall. I think now it's a fitness center. I recall all these names but can't put my finger on it.😂
@@ToMaToEsGrOwThere was a Clover on Route 130 South in Cinnaminson NJ, became an Ames store in the 1990s.
Everyone pays with a credit card nobody pays the bank back 😮
Damm, she got all that stuff for $166.00, today that would cost 400.
Looks like she was breaking in a new card, she hadn't even signed the back of the card yet! I'm kinda suprised that nobody complained about the person filming zooming in and holding on the shot of their credit card info being recorded.
We where make wages like $5 In dose days.
@@jared4walsh some places still have close to $5 wages, the minimum wage in some states is 7.25
The pay was different they got paid less
Minimum wage was like $5 per hour back then
OK I just have to say this. Michael Jacksons you are not alone playing in the background is the saddest, but happiest vibe ever! Rest in peace, Michael hope to see you again one day
Why, so he can diddle your kids?
Best thing about this is no one has a smartphone glued to their face 😂😂
People had beepers/pagers back then 📟 it was clipped to their pants.
@@luxuryqueen42 True but people weren't staring at their beepers 24/7
I worked at the New London CT store for 27 years, The First Bradlees #880. My co-workers they were my family. Our store closed in 1999. As an after thought, today the store still is a retail store, Burlington Factory Coat Store.
That is a long time Jane. Lots and lots of memories for sure. Obviously you were sad to see it close of course but at least something moved in it's place.
@@vampirerobot Yes, thank you for your kind response. Sadly, today at nearing 70 so many friends have passed. So many stores went out of business due to Massive Walmart influx. Two Guys, Caldors, not to mention small businesses. Sad.
Hey Jane. Bradlees was one of my favorite stores growing up. The amount of memories I have there is incredible. Particularly the one in Stratford, CT on The Dock. We went there multiple times a week. I could tell you the exact layout of the store. That's how well I know that place. Mind you.. I was between 1-15 when I went there. It's just not the same anymore. I stopped by it yesterday for the first time since 2003. So 19 years since I been in that parking lot and it's a shame. All stores completely different. They knocked down Bradlees and built a BJ's Wholesale. So the entire store is not even the same shape or anything. Completely different structure. They had a water fountain ⛲, knocked that down for addition parking. Walmart across the street. Gym. Storage facility. I'll never go there again.
Just curious, since you worked at Bradlees. Do you have anything from there with the Bradlees name on it? For example a vest or shirt? Bags? Anything really.
@@bL3dbL4k No I got rid of all the blue coats. I do have masses of th slide cutters we used to open boxes...and "somewhere" I have a "Bradlees "B" button that were passed out for excellent customer service. Take Good Care
@janedoe09 I worked at Bradlees store #841 in Lewiston ME for nearly 15 years! I was quite young when I started at 20 yrs old. I was hired part time then offered a full time position not long after. As you said, we were like family! We had many long term employees of which I became one. I was a cashier and also helped with layaway, service desk, training new hires, some supervising and cash office with an occasional short period helping in ladies fashions. Our store sadly closed in early June of 1996. The end of an era 😢.
Damn, he was homing in on those credit cards.
Im 42, the atmosphere, the SOUNDS really bring me back in time. I loved going to Beadlees and Caldor with my family in the late 80s ad 90s
I miss Bradlees. Thanks for the footage!
When i was in my early 20s...notice how quiet and pieceful it is there...and not a cellphone in sight
They had cell phones at that time and pagers 📟 you didn’t see people with them out chatting away because it was expensive to use them. We use them much more now because it’s far cheaper. Unlimited calls and texts these days and it also contains our entire lives in it. Don’t be fooled though, long before cell phones people still had their heads down be it through music players, newspapers, computer usage (obviously not in a store) and books. Those fortunate enough to have a cell phone were able to get important messages from their loved ones or work, rather than roaming around all day and having no way to contact anyone without tracking down a pay phone.
Oddly enough, I miss the sound old registers made. 😅
The dot matrix receipt printers 😀
Oh me too! ❤
OMG!! I've been looking for Bradlees or Caldors footage like this! This is incredible! Those 2 stores were my favorites as a kid, and footage is extremely scarce. Brings me back to the 90s. Thank you!!
Is there anymore Bradlees or Caldors footage? Immediate sub!
Hmmm...I don't know about Caldors. If I do, I'll upload them for you.
i would love to see caldor too i grew up shopping there i hope you got something.
Damn caldors is throwback
Yea we had a Caldors plaza right next adjacent to a Bradlees plaza. Weekends were always packed
1:02 that woman got the hell out of the camera frame!
She's got warrants.
VHS copy of Batman '89 yes!!!!
This video reminded me that Bradlees used two different keyboard configurations on the IBM 4683s, depending on where the register was located. Front end checkouts used the standard POS keyboards and two line display, jewelry and electronics used the full alphanumeric keyboard. They probably had some GSA user exits that prompted for alphanumeric entry in these departments, so they needed the full keyboard. Also, Bradlees was one of the few big chains I was in that used the LCD customer displays; many chains used the double-sided alphanumeric display (Ames) or had two single alphanumeric displays (Hills). I'd love to see what user exits they incorporated into General Sales Application at the time.
That software IBM General Sales Application now owned by Toshiba is still in use Today by Walmart and Academy Sports all tough heavy modified and with a touch screen GUI on top
I just love watching these old vids, it's the best thing we have to a time machine.
The 80s & 90s best time
I have about 40 of the physical film photographs from the grand opening of the Bradlees in Bridgewater, New Jersey in 1994 and it looks almost identical to the store in this video other than the food court having a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut (the Haagen-dazs and overall style of the snack bar looks exactly the same though) and the dept banners hanging from the ceiling are exactly the same and even the ceiling/light fixtures are almost exactly the same. I would imagine that this location opened at almost the same time and was fairly new when this video was shot. It is strange to see such nice Bradlees stores built in the mid 90s compared to the majority of them that opened in the early/mid 70s that most of them were. The chain was starting to fail by this point but the newer locations were good looking stores. Reminds me of the Ames in West Lebanon, NH that opened in 1997, that was also an extremely nice store compared to most other Ames
The Bradlees in this video was the Jersey City/Newport Bradlees and, just like the one you have the photos of in Bridgewater, both stores were built by Kmart as Pace Warehouse Clubs and were only a year old when Kmart closed this business. The store in Jersey City never actually opened as Pace. It was built and outfitted but Kmart pulled the plug before it could open. The Bridgewater and Jersey City stores were identical-and there were others in Paramus and East Hanover. All became Bradlees for a short period.
I forgot cash registers made that noise when ringing up items. I also remember my mom writing checks and writing her purchases in the checkbook and no one was rushing anyone out.
i was born in 93 that baby prob a year younger then me i wonder whats shes up to these days.
wonder if she even know this video of her and her mom exist
I was born December’95 was probably still baking in the wound when this was recorded
I worked at the Bradlees in Middletown, NJ. The one in Hazlet, NJ still stands vacant 22 years later.
I miss Bradley’s!😢
I've never heard of Bradless. It looked like a nice store. Was it similar to kmart or Ames? It looks huge with eateries in it.
Yes very similar
I am 36 years old and I remember and miss bradlees
I remember when this store was in Saddle Brook, NJ and me and my Aunt Julie went there a long time ago. The Bradlees in Saddle Brook, NJ became a Walmart.
I've never heard of Bradlees. Must've been a regional store. Almost reminds me of the small Walmart stores we had in my neck of the woods years ago. It even had a little food court/cafe like shown in this video. But not the good places like Taco Bell and Pizza Hut though lol
🤣🤣🤣
Northeastern chain of discount stores along with ones such as Ames and Caldor. Bradlees was like a nicer kmart.
I grew up in Massachusetts and bradlees use to be my favorite store I mother would take me too
I’m from Connecticut. I remember my mom used to take me to bradlees quite a bit. I think it was mainly a northeastern store
@@cabuco2006
I grew up in Chelsea (late 80s to 90s), there used to be a Bradlees in what is now called the Parkway Plaza Shopping Center. It was off Revere Beach Parkway. Miss those times!
Never heard of this place but I find this video fascinating ❤
With her Marlboro miles t-shirt
1:02 🤣🤣 little did she know what was around the corner with videos and selfies 🤣🤣
Too bad there's no vids of the Bradlees in Concord NH, that would bring back lots of memories.
I was born in 1995! I’m probably the same or about the same age as the baby now, I’ll be 30 in July 2025!
So you missed out on this glorious store 😢
My credit card doesn’t even have a box to sign! I just noticed it vanished! Ha! 😂
My family and I used to shop at Bradlees in Toms River, NJ all the time when I was a kid. Funny enough, it was right across the street from Caldor🤣🤣🤣. I miss the old retailers 😔. Seeing this brought back some good memories. Thank you for putting this up! Just out of curiosity, do you have anything from Caldor or Jamesway? I've yet to find any footage from there
My family shopped at that same Bradlees store in Toms River.
when i watch this and i when i go to the store like this, it's different times
Hope the mum and her (28yr old) baby are doing well
The sound of the old cash registers gives me a dopamine boost lol
Great sound, right? 😉
Lmao
Bradlees existed in the Northeast from 1958-2002, and was once owned by the Stop and Shop grocery chain. Another smaller store that was shredded by Walmart and Target.
Honestly i feel K-mart buried Bradlees more than those other two stores....Walmart and Target didn't really start entering New England until Caldor and Bradlees were already falling apart. I don't believe there was ever a town that had a Walmart and a Bradlees at the same time. Target didn't come to New England until 1999, and Bradlees announced the chain was closing a few days after Christmas 2000, not 2002, I remember it well because I had classmates who worked there and I remember coming back to school after Christmas break '00 and they were upset they were losing their jobs. It was Ames that closed in '02. But really through the entire 90s, the northeast was K-Mart country with a bunch of regional chains fighting for the scraps. Then Walmart & Target swooped in and crushed K-Mart.
Most Bradlees had a Stop & Shop very close by. The ones I went to, they were both in the same plaza.
I never knew they were connected until I got older, and it made sense to why they were always located near eachother.
@@TRJ2241987 Yeah, Target started coming in 1999 at the end of Caldors & Bradless shutting down. But Walmart came around 95-96, so I could see it playing a part.
I liked K-Mart as well, but I shopped much more at Bradlees and Caldors.
Whatever the case was..
It still upsets me til this day.
Wish they were still open.
@@TRJ2241987My town absolutely had Bradlees, Walmart and Target all at the same time. Your dates are off on a lot of this.
5:07 eww house phones. Glad those went away lol
It's 2023 and I still have one. I only have a landline phone because I need it for the internet package with my provider for my home
Prank calls on the house phone..
Never did it?
The ceiling reminds me of that of my local DSW.
What’s DSW?
@@TravisAndArchersAdventures Designer Shoe Warehouse
@@Satoshi9801 oh okay
@@TravisAndArchersAdventureshow do you not know dsw
@@j6282 because there are no Designer Shoe Warehouse stores in my state at all.
Got any Venture Stores footage? I don't think I've ever seen any online. I was born in 90 and I went there with my mom semi-frequently until they closed. Always loved the atmosphere of that chain!
Never heard of it.
Where and what was it?
Back when most things werent locked up and you can actually feel the product.
Is there more footage of Toy R Us, Payless Shoesource, and Blockbuster by any chance?
If I see any I'll definitely post it. Thanks Mabel!
Those were great stores! 👍
Very cool store! Reminds me of Fedco. Do you happen to have any footage of a Fedco?
Bradleys was local to me, shame I was too young to remember any of them. My grocery store actually used to be a Bradleys!
That cashier knew to protect that card number by placing it upside down… way before online shopping was a huge thing.
Customer service back then was literally non existent 🤣
Not so! I worked at a Bradlees and we were trained (and reminded frequently) on providing excellent customer service! None of this "Sorry it's not my department " as the clerk walks away. We were trained on greeting the customer, making eye contact, smiling, offering assistance proactively, and thanking them for shopping in our store. I also remember multiple instances where one of us went "above and beyond " for our customers. Sure, there were a few complaints over the years but to this day, I run into former customers who long for Bradlees to return!
The woman that did the commercials for Bradlees died in Greenwich Village New York years ago she was a actor
Any footage from Ames department store?
I wish! No I don't believe there is.
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Ames.
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I used to love clothes shopping at Bradlees
I've never been to bradlees, I was 6 when bradlees shutdown back in 2001.
I wonder if these kinds of videos were filmed by the stores themselves or by customers. Because other than just simply documenting what other purpose do these serve?
All of the videos on this channel are stock footage/b roll
I bought a lot of housewares for my 1st apartment at Bradlees and Lechmere.
Dam. Caldor, Bradley's, Rickels
Used to be a bunch of competitors
Where is Mrs. Bradlees from 3 men and a baby movie? Btw I still have my Bradlees store credit card 💳 ( 4 which I still owe them and along with the creditors collection agencies )1995 locked 🔒 up in my security chest along with other store charge cards. And Idk why I still have them @fter all these years later. I guess 4 memories?
Wow all that for 166 dollars i miss those days for sure
you know none of these people are gonna pay back the credit card 💳 bill
If they're anything like my mom they paid their credit card bills using other credit cards lol
omg i remember bradlees.
Like how the Crest toothpaste came with a toothbrush!
Neat idea, huh?
@@vampirerobot just more cost efficient that way. Seemed like companies then were looking out for its customers. Single toothbrush can cost $3.99
Holy shit Michael Keaton batman
That's the year I graduated high school. Never been to a bradlees.
Any videos of Caldor? if you got ones of bradless then there deff has to be some caldor ones lying around since they both competed in the same areas
Loved me some Caldors!
Caldors and Bradlees were my 2 favorite growing up.
As you said, they competed in the same area.. Very similar to what Walmart & Target is now.
Although I don't like Walmart or Target.
Bradlees and Caldors were great!
Bradlees ahhhhh
late 80s thru mid 90s went to the north Brunswick nj Bradlees and Caldor
My first job was Bradlees in North Andover Massachusetts way back when dinosaur roamed the earth 1986 lol
Looks kind of like a Target.
❤️
Handsome cashier 💜
More like grusome
@@charlesterrebonne-lw5ml😂
That poor baby.
what date in 1995?
I wonder why Bradlees failed but Target thrived...
Bradlees paid their employees well and offered full medical benefits. They were a union store.
Vampire Capitalists who extracted the money and left the smoking pile for the creditors and employees to take care of.
All that would be 100k dollars now, thanks Brandon!!! @ 5:32
You mean Reagan?
@@laurenlongfellow9714 This was in 1995 Reagan wasn't president then.
@SupaNami Reaganomics had already been put into place before this. And it's only gotten worse in the decades since. Reagan was the worst president for the economy and making corporations rich while stealing from the middle class. We're still suffering from his trickle-down bullshit today.
Why did that kady duck at 1:02
The house phone
1995 or 2001?
Batman new vhs 😭
9:12 that Bradlee's was poppin' lol taco bell/ haagen das in there?
That Baby is 28 like me
When Bradless close down
They went bankrupt in 2001 if I’m not mistaken
Notice the music Michael Jackson
I see their problem they tried to copy Kmart.
Bradlees, K-Mart, Walmart, Ames & Woolworths were basically almost the same stores but seems like Walmart had won the compaction.
Hey I don't think those shopping bags are biodegradable!
Never heard of consumer credit card
Back when it was OK to be white, straight, and Christian.
lol wtf
Lmfao 💀 wtf
That's why it was a very civilized habitable society Those were some great times Now there is too many satanic demonic mentality disturbed weirdos that roam around society today And it's also because of too much black supremacy today And because of the third world barbaric savages that come to the United States and bring their third world barbaric savage culture with them They don't want to respect American people or culture or assimilate to the American way of life or don't want to learn or speak the English language Godliness, Goodness, Greatness, Gloriousness and Graciousness must reign again God Bless
WTF would yousay something like that??
@@DevSodDribble Because alot of antiChrist filth today demonize the White Heterosexual today