I remember the warm smell of popcorn and cookies when enter Kmart, they used to sell icees and ice cream. There was an electronic store called the silo, my uncle bought the first vcr called beta max, it was the coolest thing for me back then, great times
Sometime in the 1960's, Sears released a catalog accidentally that had men modeling underwear with their penises peeking out the side of the underwear they were wearing. They had a massive recall on the catalogs but less than a third were actually returned.
The computer age was and still is the demise of familiar store. Everything you see in them can be bought on line and delivered to your home. In the day people had to travel sometimes miles to obtain the merchandise they were looking for.
Toys 'R Us was a kid's heaven, like a toy department store. I miss it. Also loved Woolworth's, K-mart, Montgomery Ward, Service Merchandise, and Sears (especially the Christmas Wish Book which I looked forward to every year!).
I remember majority of the stores mentioned and so sad about the demise of their existence. Shopped in these stores and bought alot of things lots of memories especially during Christmas because of how they were decorated.
Gold Circle, Kresge's, Zayre's, W.T. Grant, Western Auto, Giant Tiger, Uncle Bill's, Fisher's Big Wheel, Sears, Sterling-Linder, May Co., Federal's, U.S. Merchandise, Higbee's and Halle's were all department stores that existed at SAME TIME in, Cleveland, Ohio.
K-Mart's in store Blue light specials were fun, I miss the store. I loved Woolworths store and their food counter served pretty good food. I grew up with these stores. Online stores still aren't the winners over these iconic stores.
Growing up in East Central Illinois, my family usually shopped in Champaign-Urbana. I remember Zayre (which in the last week or so leading up to Christmas, would stay open 24 hours a day), Kmart, Ayr-Way (morphed into Target), Goldblatt's, and Venture. (Champaign also had their iconic Robeson's for many years).The original mall, Lincoln Square in Urbana, was anchored by Carson-Pirie-Scott. There was a Circus World toy store (later replaced by Toys R Us), and for a while, a Service Merchandise, but for even longer there was a sort of knockoff of that was called K's Merchandise, another catalog showroom where I worked for a couple years. Before there was a Home Depot, Lowe's or Menard's there, there was Furrow. There wasn't Tower Records, but there was Musicland and Camelot. Lament the loss of the bookstore chains too. Really miss those places. In nearby Rantoul there was a short-lived Grant City, which later became a Pamida (now a Rural King). And there was the Family Video. I miss them all as much as I miss Top Boy and Burger Chef. "...those days are gone forever, over a long time ago..." - Steely Dan
The ones I miss the most is Zayer, Montgomery Wards, Ventures and Jacks. My first job was at Zayre I believe I was making $3 hr. Even though I went to many Circuit Cities and Sears it was only to look I always bought items at other places, same with KB Toys and TOYS R US. Wow Yes I noticed that Atari Jaguar controller in the BlockBuster section. Lot of these are east or west coast places so I never heard of most.
The Kaufman's shown at time stamp 12:24 was located in Old Town Mall in East Baltimore. Trust me if there is any building I know by sight it is the old Kaufman's building. In 1981 I brought my first dining room set and my first living room set from this very building. Kaufman's is the first place I was able to open a credit account. I went on to be one of their best customer's. I got lots of cheap champagne as a gift for being a loyal customer. I was invited to the special extra low price night sales. I got to ride on that buildings old rickity elevator. That was 45 years ago, yikes. So Kaufman's was not just out west. They had a Baltimore, Maryland location also.
The demise of both Zayre and Hills can be blamed on one company - Ames. They bought out multiple retailers (Neisner Bros. In 1978, King's in 1984, G.C. Murphy in 1985, Zayre in 1988, and Hills in 1998) to become the fourth-largest retail chain in the USA. What happened to Ames just four years after the Hills acquisition? Bankrupt. Out of business. DEAD. (There are rumors that Ames may be coming back from the dead in 2026, but we'll see.)
yes, but not Eddie Lampert, it was Ed Brennan that ruined Sears ... Sears had successfully diversified into a financial services giant with a retail arm, and Brennan had the harebrained idea to go back to their "core business" - retail - and "undiversified" them. An old man who thought catalogs and storefronts were the future. The corporation collapsed under that decision.
Hills and Woolworth were some of my favorite stores. I miss Hills, Woolworth, Kmart, RadioShack, Toys R Us, and Sears. By the way, Tower Records is actually back in business, but as an online store. Eddie Lampert's greed and ignorance was what put Kmart and Sears out of business.
Ed Brennan living in the past and trying to move Sears backward into a retail only business rather than forward as the financial services giant it had become is what killed Sears, not Eddie Lampert. By the time Sears and K-mart joined, it was all over.
Blockbuster and Hollywood Video was a family event. From going on a Friday and choosing 2-4 movies to watch Friday and Saturday evenings and grabbing some popcorn and candy
Where Blockbuster REALLY blew it was when they refused to buy Netflix when the company was offered to them. Blockbuster never thought that on-line videos and videos by mail would never take off.
The only way we will get that blue light special is a clean sweep changeing of the gaurd in D,C, this November the powers that be seam to not have your best interest in mind
@@thecajunphoenix My last purchase from Wards was a small TV. It was on sale, but only by mail order at a store. They didn't tell me that I couldn't take one from their inventory until I had paid, but promised delivery in under a week. It took months, and I finally got it after a shoting matvh with that store's manager that it would soon be 90 days, for what wwas to have been a Christmas present before he finally gave me one from inventory. I don't miss them! In the early '80s they had a large distribution center in Cincinnati. I would go there about once a month to look through the discontinued and returned items. Sadly, that was he only well run Wards store that I ever visited and it closed a few years later. Sears also had a similar store nearby, but the prices weren't very good except on items that were in stock for too long. I bought a nice $300 drafting table there for $75..
@spaceace1006 Siilvertone should have been named 'Lowest bidder of the year' The model number told who actually made it. The digits before the period was the OEM code and after was the model number TV shops hated Silvertone because very few parts were available outside of Sears own repair centers. I once needed a rebuild kit for a spray gun. I went to their store, only to be told that they had never sold that model, so they couldn't order the kit. As I was leaving the service counter I stopped in the tool section, to find about a dozen of them hanging from a hook. I took one back to the service counter, only to be told that if it wasn't in their files, it didn't exist. I once ran into an engineer from one company that built Electronics for Sears. He hated dealing with them, because they would demand changes to lower the price and quality. I told him that Sears was listed as number one on the list of brands not to service, where I lived. The list was called, 'The Sorry Seven. W.T. Grant's house brand was number two. Magnavox was on the list, because they only sold parts to authorized dealers. Curtis Mathis was another. Every TV sold by a local furniture store was defective, straingt from their factory. They were supposed to sell the sets, before they would authorize a warranty repair. Packard Bell was another. They were only sold on the west coast, but some GIs would buy them and bring them to the midwes. I don't remember the others, after 50+ years.
@@michaelterrell I had a Silvertone guitar- my first electric guitar. But it didn't stay in tune very well, so I bought an Epiphone Les Paul. Not perfect, but a step up.
I loved radio shack as the place to go to, to get parts like resistors, diodes, and other electronics. They Fry's Electronics filled that niche. Now they are gone too. Now you can only get online and in bulk. Ugh.
Mine too. Before it shut down for good in the late 1990s-2000s, I ordered a cheeseburger and an apple pie shake at the Woolworth's where a Winn-Dixie now stands.
Me too. I bought my brown wallabees and Havliceks there for school… pretty damn comfortable except for the Havliceks. I had to switch to Nike High Top Blazers!
my local Woolworth had a luncheonette and as kids mom would take my sisters and I to it and once one stepped inside the smell of popcorn and hotdogs was pure Heaven !
Sears ....was my favorite store ... When I was a kid I always dreamed of working at sears ... Then my dream came true ... I work for sears at East Town in Knoxville for 40 years ....
Kmart was mismanaged. They were already declining before Eddie Lambert merged Kmart with Sears. Instead of using their money to fix up and renovate their stores, they chose to buy other reailers.
Yup. The one in my town has been vacant for over 10 years and is starting to cave in on itself as well as leak water into the walls of the store attached to it. Nobody can afford to fix the issue in such a poverty stricken area.
Sears was my favorite store. I can remember my mom buying jeans from there. They were called Toughskins and came in different colors. Man, I miss those days.
When you buy online, you don't get to inspect the product for defects and you never know in what condition products are going to get shipped to you in.
Me too. I miss it a lot. Tower Records is still thriving in Japan with 83 stores and a 9-story flagship store in Shibuya, Tokyo. Tower Records is now owned by telecom giant NTT Docomo.
Hills and Kmart were the main stores my parents shopped at growing up. They had what you needed and were cheaper than going to the mall. I definitely miss Hills. The popcorn and cherry slushies at the snack bar were a "must have" every time i would go!!
@@r.thomaslee8417Yes, thank you Blockbusters was named aptly, they bought out all of the reasonably priced mom and pops video stores in order to charge exorbitant prices. I was so happy that Netflix came along with their mail order video renting. That took the steam out of Blockbusters, and video venders at convenient locations at grocery stores and other locations, finished them off. I , for one was ecstatic that Blockbusters was finally busted. They got so smug and greedy as to charge exorbitant fees for very old movies, let alone the new ones, and charged the same prices for late returns. Don't miss them at all. The mom and pops video stores gave you an extra movie or two for your continued business. Them, I still miss.🎉
Great narration and informative; well done 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾... I guess Fedco, Miller's Outpost, Levitz, Carpeteria, and Federated weren't popular enough to make the list?... I guess we all have our own memorable lists...& perhaps not famous enough?
I remember going to Hudsons, Woolworth, Kmart, Toys R Us (not use) Sears, Radio Shack and Blockbuster. My favorite was Hudsons, whose downtown store was one of the biggest and classiest in the world.
I worked at Kmart down the street from me when I was about 19 or 20. I used to walk there it was so close and I like working there because at the time their backroom Wearhouse was closed on the weekends. They moved that store a few blocks away from me, and I'm curious if it's still there or did they change it out for another store. So happens that there was a standalone Block Buster where I could checkout movies to watch on the weekends. So many years ago, WOW. I was about 20 now I'm 63, Yikes. O.O
Thanks for sharing this great video. It brings back many great childhood memories. I remember Sears, Woolworth, Caldor, RadioShack, Kmart, Blockbusters, Toys R Us, Service Merchandise, Marshall Fields, Tower Records. A couple you didn't mention Ames, Alexanders, Conway, Bradlees, Town Fair, Filenes & Filenes Basement, Child World, Mandela, Easy Pickens, Circuit City, Kay Bee Toys, FAO Schwartz, Sam Goody, Crazy Eddie's, J. Silver aka $10 limit, Express, Fye, The Limited, New York & Co. They all were my favorites.. As a kid I loved Woolworth & Town Fair because it was a one stop shop and we always got lunch before or after shopping.
My first job the next day after high school graduation (1971) was at K-Mart sporting goods. I was making $1.85 per hour when minimum wage was $1.65 per hour.
You did not mention Goldblatts in the 1960s & 70s we shopped the store on Harlem Ave in near west suburban Elmwood Park Illinois and farther west suburban Addison Illinois on Lake st in the Greenmeadows shopping center and one more a discount store named TOPPs on Illinois rt 64 ( north avenue ) west suburban Villa Park Illinois behind the World famous Portillos Hotdog stand
The Guam store (which is part of the original chain) is alive and well, thanks to the fact there isn't either Walmart or Target on the island. Kmart's only real rivals are AAFES (Air Force BX) and the Navy Exchange, but only people with exchange privileges may shop there. Guam's Kmart even has a Little Caesars Pizza Station. There are also four Kmarts in the US Virgin Islands. (The store in Puerto Rico closed last year.)
It’s sad that KMart is no longer in existence. It was one of my favorite places to shop for back to school items and cassette tapes. I don’t know if Wal Mart lives up to that same expectation like KMart did. Ohh well. Time to move on
I remember Zayre, Woolworth, Woolco, Jefferson Ward(worked at snack bar), KMart, Circuit City, Service Merchandise, Mervyns (worked here) Sears, Montgomery Ward, Toys R Us (worked here), Foleys, 😢😢 JByrons(worked here), JM Fields.
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Which of these stores do you remember visiting in the 1970s, and what's your favorite memory from there?
What about zody’s ? Late 70’s early 80’s , in the San Fernando valley, may have been other locations not sure I was a preteen
How about all of the May Co. Stores i.e. Famous Barr, Ayres, etc?
Edwards 5&10. We called it the dime store.
ToysR Us started out as Bargain Town on North Ave in West Suburban Melrose Park Illinois “Oh”Yeah!!!
Neisners 5&10 Winston Park shopping Plaza at North Ave Illinois rt 64 & 9th Ave Melrose Park Illinois the greatest place on Earth 🌏
80s babies stand up!!!...i remember going to 80% of these stores😢❤
I’m 70’s but still remember
K-Mart use to smell like popcorn and warm cookies. Miss that place.
💯😄😄
Come by our house the smell is there.
Yes I forgot that smell but I can smell it now.
Facts friend👍🏾... but don't forget that "ICEE" logo bear with the hat & sweater slushy machine with red or blue flavors😊
)l)
I remember the warm smell of popcorn and cookies when enter Kmart, they used to sell icees and ice cream. There was an electronic store called the silo, my uncle bought the first vcr called beta max, it was the coolest thing for me back then, great times
I loved the Sears Christmas catalog. Now i got the feels.
I liked them as well.
Sometime in the 1960's, Sears released a catalog accidentally that had men modeling underwear with their penises peeking out the side of the underwear they were wearing. They had a massive recall on the catalogs but less than a third were actually returned.
JCPENNEY was up there
You can still get the Sears catalog. Sign up for it.
You may not know this but Service Merchandise and Montgomery Wards are still in business but online! Radio Shack is in the process of going online.
I love Woolworths.
Toys R Us too is missed...
Play world toy store
Kay Bee Toy Store.
I still see the old buildings in Ohio. 😢
I loved Kmart and sears a classic gone but not forgotten
They still exists in nyc
K- Mart was always better than Walmart.
I agree!
Most definitely!!
The cloths lasted longer. They didn't fall apart in a matter of weeks. I miss Kmart
Yes I loved it so much I got a shopping cart that says K mart I purchased on the last day of store open
Walmart prices are way better than K-Mart prices were.
I Remember Kings,Bradlees ,and Five and Dime Stores
My mom loved Kings.
I loved Woolworths, K Mart, Jamesway, Hill's and Ames and miss them all 😢
The computer age was and still is the demise of familiar store. Everything you see in them can be bought on line and delivered to your home. In the day people had to travel sometimes miles to obtain the merchandise they were looking for.
Toys 'R Us was a kid's heaven, like a toy department store. I miss it. Also loved Woolworth's, K-mart, Montgomery Ward, Service Merchandise, and Sears (especially the Christmas Wish Book which I looked forward to every year!).
What's sad is I'm only 25 but I remember most of these stores growing up I honestly miss many of these shops
Marshall Field's and Bonwit Teller (and I'll add Lord & Taylor) are sorely missed in a world of lowbrow Macy's dumps.
Zayres, Marshall Fields and Kmart were all of my favorite stores I also loved Value City department store when it was open
These stores are my child memories. I grew up with a lot of these
Growing up in Southern California. My favorite stores. Were Kmart, Zodys and Sears. 😢
What about Leo’s Stereo
I remember majority of the stores mentioned and so sad about the demise of their existence. Shopped in these stores and bought alot of things lots of memories especially during Christmas because of how they were decorated.
Robinson May was my favorite.
Treasury, Richards, Gold Triangle, BEST, Service Merchandise, Lurias, Builder's Square are some others I remember
Born in the 80's and remember so many of these stores 😔
I love Kmart and there was no reason for them to take that away
the fact that it was operating at huge losses year after year and nobody but broke hicks ever shopped there doesn't seem like a good reason to you???
Gold Circle, Kresge's, Zayre's, W.T. Grant, Western Auto, Giant Tiger, Uncle Bill's, Fisher's Big Wheel, Sears, Sterling-Linder, May Co., Federal's, U.S. Merchandise, Higbee's and Halle's were all department stores that existed at SAME TIME in, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sears should have downsized and just sold appliances and tools.
You forgot Boston Store, an icon in the midwest for many years. I was so sad to see them close. 😢
What about zodys I remember going shopping with my parents in the late 70s and early 80s
K-Mart's in store Blue light specials were fun, I miss the store. I loved Woolworths store and their food counter served pretty good food. I grew up with these stores. Online stores still aren't the winners over these iconic stores.
Growing up in East Central Illinois, my family usually shopped in Champaign-Urbana. I remember Zayre (which in the last week or so leading up to Christmas, would stay open 24 hours a day), Kmart, Ayr-Way (morphed into Target), Goldblatt's, and Venture. (Champaign also had their iconic Robeson's for many years).The original mall, Lincoln Square in Urbana, was anchored by Carson-Pirie-Scott. There was a Circus World toy store (later replaced by Toys R Us), and for a while, a Service Merchandise, but for even longer there was a sort of knockoff of that was called K's Merchandise, another catalog showroom where I worked for a couple years. Before there was a Home Depot, Lowe's or Menard's there, there was Furrow. There wasn't Tower Records, but there was Musicland and Camelot. Lament the loss of the bookstore chains too. Really miss those places. In nearby Rantoul there was a short-lived Grant City, which later became a Pamida (now a Rural King). And there was the Family Video. I miss them all as much as I miss Top Boy and Burger Chef.
"...those days are gone forever, over a long time ago..."
- Steely Dan
Mexico has Sears and Woolworth still ❤❤
Now Walmart and Target are facing the same fate high prices
The ones I miss the most is Zayer, Montgomery Wards, Ventures and Jacks. My first job was at Zayre I believe I was making $3 hr. Even though I went to many Circuit Cities and Sears it was only to look I always bought items at other places, same with KB Toys and TOYS R US.
Wow Yes I noticed that Atari Jaguar controller in the BlockBuster section. Lot of these are east or west coast places so I never heard of most.
Montgomery ward has a catalog and has online shopping peace
I’m Canadian and we used to have a store called Zellers.
The Kaufman's shown at time stamp 12:24 was located in Old Town Mall in East Baltimore. Trust me if there is any building I know by sight it is the old Kaufman's building. In 1981 I brought my first dining room set and my first living room set from this very building. Kaufman's is the first place I was able to open a credit account. I went on to be one of their best customer's. I got lots of cheap champagne as a gift for being a loyal customer. I was invited to the special extra low price night sales. I got to ride on that buildings old rickity elevator. That was 45 years ago, yikes. So Kaufman's was not just out west. They had a Baltimore, Maryland location also.
The demise of both Zayre and Hills can be blamed on one company - Ames. They bought out multiple retailers (Neisner Bros. In 1978, King's in 1984, G.C. Murphy in 1985, Zayre in 1988, and Hills in 1998) to become the fourth-largest retail chain in the USA. What happened to Ames just four years after the Hills acquisition? Bankrupt. Out of business. DEAD. (There are rumors that Ames may be coming back from the dead in 2026, but we'll see.)
Eddie should be in prison for what he did to Sears!
yes, but not Eddie Lampert, it was Ed Brennan that ruined Sears ... Sears had successfully diversified into a financial services giant with a retail arm, and Brennan had the harebrained idea to go back to their "core business" - retail - and "undiversified" them. An old man who thought catalogs and storefronts were the future. The corporation collapsed under that decision.
Hills and Woolworth were some of my favorite stores. I miss Hills, Woolworth, Kmart, RadioShack, Toys R Us, and Sears. By the way, Tower Records is actually back in business, but as an online store. Eddie Lampert's greed and ignorance was what put Kmart and Sears out of business.
Ed Brennan living in the past and trying to move Sears backward into a retail only business rather than forward as the financial services giant it had become is what killed Sears, not Eddie Lampert. By the time Sears and K-mart joined, it was all over.
Also, we had T G & Y, Ben Franklin, Gibson's in Oklahoma.
He forgot the Wherehouse music Store. I used to buy Cassettes and CD's there if Tower records were sold out. And also the Hollywood Video.
Unless I'm mistaken, didn't both Payless Shoe Stores and Footlocker both close down also?
Child hood memories
I miss the days of Blockbuster and simple non smartphone.
Blockbuster and Hollywood Video was a family event. From going on a Friday and choosing 2-4 movies to watch Friday and Saturday evenings and grabbing some popcorn and candy
Where Blockbuster REALLY blew it was when they refused to buy Netflix when the company was offered to them. Blockbuster never thought that on-line videos and videos by mail would never take off.
We seriously need a blue-light special for our entire economy.
For real
Well vote the Democrats out !
I miss blue light specials.
@@Angelo-fo8deabsolutely
The only way we will get that blue light special is a clean sweep changeing of the gaurd in D,C, this November the powers that be seam to not have your best interest in mind
Miss these stores especially Kmart and Sears
I know.
Montgomery Ward exists as an online retailer now, though.
@@thecajunphoenix My last purchase from Wards was a small TV. It was on sale, but only by mail order at a store. They didn't tell me that I couldn't take one from their inventory until I had paid, but promised delivery in under a week. It took months, and I finally got it after a shoting matvh with that store's manager that it would soon be 90 days, for what wwas to have been a Christmas present before he finally gave me one from inventory. I don't miss them! In the early '80s they had a large distribution center in Cincinnati. I would go there about once a month to look through the discontinued and returned items. Sadly, that was he only well run Wards store that I ever visited and it closed a few years later. Sears also had a similar store nearby, but the prices weren't very good except on items that were in stock for too long. I bought a nice $300 drafting table there for $75..
@spaceace1006 Siilvertone should have been named 'Lowest bidder of the year' The model number told who actually made it. The digits before the period was the OEM code and after was the model number TV shops hated Silvertone because very few parts were available outside of Sears own repair centers. I once needed a rebuild kit for a spray gun. I went to their store, only to be told that they had never sold that model, so they couldn't order the kit. As I was leaving the service counter I stopped in the tool section, to find about a dozen of them hanging from a hook. I took one back to the service counter, only to be told that if it wasn't in their files, it didn't exist.
I once ran into an engineer from one company that built Electronics for Sears. He hated dealing with them, because they would demand changes to lower the price and quality. I told him that Sears was listed as number one on the list of brands not to service, where I lived. The list was called, 'The Sorry Seven. W.T. Grant's house brand was number two. Magnavox was on the list, because they only sold parts to authorized dealers. Curtis Mathis was another. Every TV sold by a local furniture store was defective, straingt from their factory. They were supposed to sell the sets, before they would authorize a warranty repair. Packard Bell was another. They were only sold on the west coast, but some GIs would buy them and bring them to the midwes. I don't remember the others, after 50+ years.
The service at Sears was nonexistent.
@@michaelterrell I had a Silvertone guitar- my first electric guitar. But it didn't stay in tune very well, so I bought an Epiphone Les Paul. Not perfect, but a step up.
Radio Shack became a "We don't have it, but we can get it for you" store, I miss Sears and Woolworths.
I loved radio shack as the place to go to, to get parts like resistors, diodes, and other electronics. They Fry's Electronics filled that niche. Now they are gone too. Now you can only get online and in bulk. Ugh.
Radio Shack was better in the 1970s.The Source store is now garage.
Woolworth's was my favorite store as a kid... food, candy, clothes, games, toys and more!!!
The wood floor that creaked and squeaked. No music playing.
Mine too.
Before it shut down for good in the late 1990s-2000s, I ordered a cheeseburger and an apple pie shake at the Woolworth's where a Winn-Dixie now stands.
Me too. I bought my brown wallabees and Havliceks there for school… pretty damn comfortable except for the Havliceks. I had to switch to Nike High Top Blazers!
my local Woolworth had a luncheonette and as kids mom would take my sisters and I to it and once one stepped inside the smell of popcorn and hotdogs was pure Heaven !
@@mitchjay2108
Woolworths!!!!
Remember the creaky wood floors, enhanced by the lack of muzac?
Heaven!
Sears ....was my favorite store ...
When I was a kid I always dreamed of working at sears ...
Then my dream came true ...
I work for sears at East Town in Knoxville for 40 years ....
You must be Houdini. Sears was at East Town from 84 to 2018, 34 yrs.
I wish some of these stores would come back im sick of Walmart
YES!!!!!!
EXACTLY I AGREE TOTALLY 👍
I miss all of them😥. Grew up in 60's and 70's and loved going there. Now all we have is Walmart 😬😥
i dont like walmart as much but ill just go where the deals are if its cheaper somewhere eles ill go there
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And tArGeT the alphabet group’s grooming house.
Yesss😭😭😭😭😭😭
I agree
K Mart is still in Australia and Woolworths is one of Australia top retail stores
How wonderful they still exist
australia is a cool place
Also Kmart store on 1 penn plaza on 34th st in nyc
Ooo another reason I want to visit Australia. Is there anyplace burger chefs restaurant are still located? I loved their burgers
Australian Kmart is not part of US Kmart. It is similar to Sears in Mexico. It is not part of US Sears.
Lord &Taylor was not mentioned, one of my favorites!
Circuit City gets my vote.
KMart, the smell of Little Caesars while you shopped was the best! ❤❤
K-Mart gave Lil Caesars a new lease on life. Lil Caesars were on their way out until they merged. Pizza - Pizza.
Wow my childhood wrapped up in this video.... But missing a few :Gemco, Fedco, payless😍
Almost forgot about gemco they had one on the corner of Hawthorne blvd 182nd st in Redondo Beach Ca
They also used to have one on van nuys blvd In pacoima/ Arleta ca.... Now the lot houses Arleta High School 😍
How in the hell did Gemco go under...
It was the original Walmart/ Target 😢
There was also one in Cerritos off of Bloomfield near DelAmo Blvd
Payless 👡 🩴 love them for summer ☀️ time as a teen.❤❤❤😂
They forgot Carson Pirie Scott and Circuit City.
Kay Bee toys and Spencers Gifts?
Kmart was mismanaged. They were already declining before Eddie Lambert merged Kmart with Sears. Instead of using their money to fix up and renovate their stores, they chose to buy other reailers.
Kmart BOUGHT Sears and Lambert used Kmart to prop Sears up. Kmart would have survived had it not got into bed with Lambert and Sears.
Yup. The one in my town has been vacant for over 10 years and is starting to cave in on itself as well as leak water into the walls of the store attached to it. Nobody can afford to fix the issue in such a poverty stricken area.
eddie labert could have fixed it up but he was very greedy with a cost of people losing there jobs
@@scursio2011 He liquidated both Kmart and Sears to line his pockets.
You spelled retailers wrong.
Sears was my favorite store. I can remember my mom buying jeans from there. They were called Toughskins and came in different colors. Man, I miss those days.
The only things I ever bought from Sears were major appliances.
Kohl's is almost identical to Mervyn's.
What about Fashion Bug?
I loved Service Merchandise!!!!❤️
Woolworth was the best. Alot of memories going to that store with granny. She always got us a treat. Miss those times
I would rather go to a store then buy on line. I still don't buy on line. I want to see and touch before I buy.
I like buying online because it ensures no one has been pawing over the merchandise like you do
@@Marcel_Audubon xD priceless
When you buy online, you don't get to inspect the product for defects and you never know in what condition products are going to get shipped to you in.
@@Marcel_Audubonhow do you know the employees didn’t wipe the tables with their products?
@@noellecms what tables, dear? what products? what are you talking about??
Nevermind, just be sure not to skip your medication tomorrow, 'kay?
Tower Records. I loved that store!!!!
Me too. I miss it a lot. Tower Records is still thriving in Japan with 83 stores and a 9-story flagship store in Shibuya, Tokyo. Tower Records is now owned by telecom giant NTT Docomo.
Hills and Kmart were the main stores my parents shopped at growing up. They had what you needed and were cheaper than going to the mall. I definitely miss Hills. The popcorn and cherry slushies at the snack bar were a "must have" every time i would go!!
Aww look at Jaleel white @ 5:56 Before we knew him as Urkel❤
Wasn’t Lohan the little red head girl in one of those ads as well?
Bradlees, Nobody beats the Wiz, Crazy Eddie, Woolco, Topps, WTGrant, and Kaybee Toy. For your Entertainment FYE weren't mentioned.
Miss these stores K mart and Sears and Block buster
Block Buster needed to go down because twas over priced
@@r.thomaslee8417Yes, thank you Blockbusters was named aptly, they bought out all of the reasonably priced mom and pops video stores in order to charge exorbitant prices. I was so happy that Netflix came along with their mail order video renting. That took the steam out of Blockbusters, and video venders at convenient locations at grocery stores and other locations, finished them off. I , for one was ecstatic that Blockbusters was finally busted. They got so smug and greedy as to charge exorbitant fees for very old movies, let alone the new ones, and charged the same prices for late returns. Don't miss them at all. The mom and pops video stores gave you an extra movie or two for your continued business. Them, I still miss.🎉
Circuit City was my joint.
@@nickchislom9499 That's my J, too
Our Kmart had a cafeteria in the back. I loved their chocolate pudding. My first experience with brain freeze sucking down a slushy
I miss Woolco, Woolworth, & Gold Circle stores.
Yes! Gold Circle especially.
Loved going downtown Detroit, Woolworths, Krekges
Montgomery Wards, Sams, and Hudsons.
I agree wow miss that and Downtown Day's !!JLHudson store the 🍪 😢the best day's Downtown Detriot🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great narration and informative; well done 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾... I guess Fedco, Miller's Outpost, Levitz, Carpeteria, and Federated weren't popular enough to make the list?... I guess we all have our own memorable lists...& perhaps not famous enough?
I loved K Mart because it had items that no other stores had.
I worked at kmart for 10 years. Loved it. Everyone i worked with was so nice.
Growing up on the weekends we'd either eat at the lunch counter at Kresge or Woolworth
I wish they would come back
Montgomery wards is still in business but online, Woolworths still in business in Africa
Kids loved going in to toys r us
Radio Shack was my Dad's favorite. Love and miss you Dad!
Oh God, I hate Radio Shack is gone.
Kmart is going strong and is hugely popular in Australia and New Zealand. USA may not have the store - but is extremely successful here.
There is a Kmart in Miami, Florida.
Our gift from America.
i loved kmarts but the owner of kmart here in the usa messed it up thats the main reason why theres no kmarts here
I remember Kmart
@@scursio2011 It was a combination, but mostly competition from so many new chains. Or sources. On a broad scale.
I remember going to Hudsons, Woolworth, Kmart, Toys R Us (not use) Sears, Radio Shack and Blockbuster. My favorite was Hudsons, whose downtown store was one of the biggest and classiest in the world.
You missed so many. Hearts/Big Bear, Gold Circle, Rinks, Children's Palace, Woolworths, Woolco, Sun TV, A&P, JC Penny and Lazarus.
Also, Payless.
Man childhood memories. 😢😢😢😢😢
Life in the 1980s for yours truly.
I worked at Kmart down the street from me when I was about 19 or 20. I used to walk there it was so close and I like working there because at the time their backroom Wearhouse was closed on the weekends. They moved that store a few blocks away from me, and I'm curious if it's still there or did they change it out for another store. So happens that there was a standalone Block Buster where I could checkout movies to watch on the weekends. So many years ago, WOW. I was about 20 now I'm 63, Yikes. O.O
You spelled warehouse wrong.
Thanks for sharing this great video. It brings back many great childhood memories. I remember Sears, Woolworth, Caldor, RadioShack, Kmart, Blockbusters, Toys R Us, Service Merchandise, Marshall Fields, Tower Records. A couple you didn't mention Ames, Alexanders, Conway, Bradlees, Town Fair, Filenes & Filenes Basement, Child World, Mandela, Easy Pickens, Circuit City, Kay Bee Toys, FAO Schwartz, Sam Goody, Crazy Eddie's, J. Silver aka $10 limit, Express, Fye, The Limited, New York & Co. They all were my favorites.. As a kid I loved Woolworth & Town Fair because it was a one stop shop and we always got lunch before or after shopping.
Tower records! 😮😊i got my first Tupac CD there! By the way in city of Montebello they still have a circuit city I believe.
@@MarleneGonzalez-d9kwhere?
I miss Service Merchandise and I worked part time at The Limited so I could fill my closet with their clothes at a discount.
My first job the next day after high school graduation (1971) was at K-Mart sporting goods. I was making $1.85 per hour when minimum wage was $1.65 per hour.
I worked in Zollinger's for $1.90 an hour in 1971.
Those were the days. 😊
You made more than I did for sure.
I got .75 cents an hour chopping/hoeing cotton and cutting broom-corn.
Wow how times have changed
You guys should stop dating yourselves ;)
@@r.thomaslee8417 Why? I'll be 71 in June
and I earned every gray hair I have on my head. ☺
I've a copy of the 1974 KMart Christmas music they played overhead as we shopped.
I liked radio shack, Western Auto, and the five and dime stores
Loved Western Auto when I was a kid.
You did not mention Goldblatts in the 1960s & 70s we shopped the store on Harlem Ave in near west suburban Elmwood Park Illinois and farther west suburban Addison Illinois on Lake st in the Greenmeadows shopping center and one more a discount store named TOPPs on Illinois rt 64 ( north avenue ) west suburban Villa Park Illinois behind the World famous Portillos Hotdog stand
Radio Shack My first computer. TRS80 4k how far we have come.
The Guam store (which is part of the original chain) is alive and well, thanks to the fact there isn't either Walmart or Target on the island. Kmart's only real rivals are AAFES (Air Force BX) and the Navy Exchange, but only people with exchange privileges may shop there. Guam's Kmart even has a Little Caesars Pizza Station. There are also four Kmarts in the US Virgin Islands. (The store in Puerto Rico closed last year.)
No more K-mart in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
But there are four in the Virgin Islands.
My very first job after graduating from HS was working at Zayre's in Catonsville in 1989 to 1992 and then again late in 1992 to March of 1999.
Woolworths and A&P were my favorite
We still have K Marts in Australia.🇦🇺
my sympathies
Actually kmart isn't that half bad
Thank you, Amazon. How many people were put out of jobs? I still won’t use Amazon.
your loss, sweetpea
I don't use them either.
@@LindaZeno your loss, sweetpea
Toys r Us , Kmart , mcgomemry ward are all missed
You spelled Montgomery wrong.
From 1985 to 1993 I was a worker for Mervyns in the Montebello Town Center In California, any other alumni here from then :)
I usually went to the Mervyn’s in Alhambra. I never worked there but I shopped there a lot.
Lack of parking and later fear of crime killed the downtown anchor stores.
It’s sad that KMart is no longer in existence. It was one of my favorite places to shop for back to school items and cassette tapes. I don’t know if Wal Mart lives up to that same expectation like KMart did. Ohh well. Time to move on
WalMart sucks.
@@kentclark6420 I agree
It is. Kmart is still around in some places.
@@MrsOrganics Australia.
Bought my first washer from Wards.
Thanks for taking me back to the good ole days. Also Carson Pirie Scott
I remember Zayre, Woolworth, Woolco, Jefferson Ward(worked at snack bar), KMart, Circuit City, Service Merchandise, Mervyns (worked here) Sears, Montgomery Ward, Toys R Us (worked here), Foleys, 😢😢 JByrons(worked here), JM Fields.