KMART- MARSHAL MICHIGAN
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Travel back in time with me to 1990 as we explore this pristene 90s era Kmart. This is nicest kept and busiest Kmart i have seen since the late 90s. If only it had an electronics department and updated merchandise. Ill also be giving you an in depth look at a rare gem, the Little Caesers Pizza Cafe.
I’d like to see Kmart make a comeback. Perhaps we should organize a Save Kmart movement
Sounds sounds like something Manny Quacia would say LOL I do highly agree that Kmart’s need to be saved when I visited the one in Marshall Michigan I had a chance to meet the manager of the store and he was really nice I told him what I thought of the store and that if this one ever closes it would be an absolute shame to not have a kmarts in the state where it was first conceived. I told him at least one store and especially this one should be preserved. I told him he should do some sort of a franchise or buy out the building so he can continue to run it as kmarts once the actual kmarts company decides to completely close down. I told him that there have been instances of restaurants or other businesses continuing under their current name after the company folds someone privately buys it out and continues operating it and this should be done it would also Allow the store to be modernized with more updated products and I think the store would thrive even more than it already does
Someone needs to figure out how to break off some of these remaining kmarts from Eddie fart face The new movement should be called free the Kmart‘s from Eddie fart face that way we can save them and preserve a few of them maybe even modernize them so that they will be more profitable you know do exactly what all the other big box stores have done over the year update
I hope hang on for another 50 years
Yeah u fortunately that’s not going to happen
This KMart is very clean and well stocked. The employees must really care about making the store presentable.
Yes they do
This is a really nice Kmart hope it stays open
Still open as of June 1 2021 no closing announcements yet
Yes and I plan to go back and I will for sure film it when it closes
I love Kmart the last time I was there I was a little kid
Heard this location is closing too, now. I miss our old local Kmart here in New Jersey. Went from a Kmart, to Big Kmart, to Sears Essentials, and back to Kmart again before it was shuttered for good a few years ago. Their early 2000s prices were really good, but after it became Sears Essentials, while still a nice place to shop, was disappointing when their prices started to go up more. They stayed that way even after Kmart reverted back from it. But definitely a cool store overall. Kind of sad to see our old store still vacant and empty. Wish Walmart would move into it or something.
Yes it’s closing
@@TiltedTripodMedia F**k. F**K!!!
@@DangerKennyB what?
@@TiltedTripodMedia There was a part of me, in the back of my brain, that was happy there was a Kmart out there, still sellin' goods and servin' up hot pizza. I know it was inevitable, but still, I hate it.
I worked 5 years for Kmart we use to have a huge electronic department I worked from 2013-2018 and we had a huge electronic department just like Walmart and around 2015-2016 Kmart started phasing out the video games and focusing on furniture and tvs
I remember all of this. I’m a 90s kid and kmart is in my blood. My family worked for kmart and most of my family grew up in Detroit going to the original kressge in downtown. Kressge is the og Kmart
My uncle was friends with the owner of kressge
Good thing I did research. The Kmarts I planned on going to were long closed and some websites, even Kmart's, list them as still open. This was the only one I found near Illinois that is truly open.
Staff was as friendly as could be. (Something Walmart gave up on a decade ago.) The cashier asked we'd like to join a loyalty club (or something akin) and if we'd like to apply for a store card. I like their, "Never say die" attitude, but the store has seen better days. And corona has certainly not helped.
Still, if I can cut the route down to 2.5 hours one way (instead of 4) I'll go back whenever time and finances permit.
Red Smitty it’s my closest kmart as well and takes me roughly 4 hours from Cincinnati. But it’s in my home state where I grew up so I’m happy to visit anytime
Tilted Tripod Media The one in bloomingdale illinois was my local Kmart. Then after that closed it was the one in elmhurst illinois. Then it was the Des Plains Kmart and I made 2 videos on it during closing. I wanted to go on the last day but then i could not because of Covid-19.
malls, trains, and gaming 555 that sucks. Did it just randomly close without warning due to COVID?
Tilted Tripod Media Nope. The one in Des Plaines had it’s last day a couple days before the lockdown. And my closest one was only announced for closing through a local newspaper ad. They never mentioned it on the news or in a store closing list.
Tilted Tripod Media This was the bloomingdale one. ua-cam.com/video/pD_4GStxqeM/v-deo.html also my mall is dead and I made 2 videos on it. Plan on doing a COVID update, it is owned by namdar. Plus Kmart videos
Oh wow! We literally visited this location not more than three weeks ago and it looks like it may be going down hill unfortunately... presumably because of Covid. The little Caesars is not open anymore, it looked a lot more dead than this, and the video and movie section is used for storage and blocked off by shelves now. I had assumed that it had been like that for years!
Or at least I'm pretty sure about the little Caesars.
Yes it’s closed and going down hill
How does this only have 8K views?
I constantly ask myself how my channel isn’t growing and making $$ I know my content is good and I put 40 hours or more a week into my UA-cam. I see people make dumb videos on random stuff and they get millions of views 🙄
@@TiltedTripodMedia you did a great job though! This video made me want little ceasers
@@TotosSword thanks. The little chasers at Kmart is actually good especially the square pizza. Defined not the best pizza ever but worth getting. Not Kmart little Caesars is nasty.
@@TotosSword hmmm well it’s definitely not all the same quality
Love this 😭 I miss my local Kmart ... so many memories ... thank you 😊
Annie Sykes your welcome. Glad I could bring back memories. I miss my childhood kmarts in Detroit. They were where kmart started and were special. Where I live now Ohio has none.
Tilted Tripod Media I live in Yuma , Arizona and my Kmart closed In 2003 ... we still have the Kmart signs outside the abandoned store. I sometimes just buy big gulp and park outside to think or just relax ... I was so happy inside that Kmart when I was little ... seeing this video made me feel I was there ❤️ thank you again !
Annie Sykes aww anytime I have way more kmart videos and some to edit and post. Some of them are weird ones that even have multiple levels. Check out my urbex playlist for some more kmarts. I think you’ll enjoy the nyc ones
Tilted Tripod Media i will check them out for sure ! Never stop uploading you have a real talent ❤️ love from AZ
The last of one of the best Kmart's around. I still live near a Kmart in Freedom, CA as of 10/17/20 but it is not as good as this one. Lucky people that live in Marshall, MI
I agree with that. I have to drive 4 hours to get to this one
@Coleman Fink I don’t believe it did
5:50 you know that Music & Video section WAS electronics at one time, right? They had electronics, including video games until about 2014-ish when they began phasing them out. A worker told me back then it was because of the smaller margins, which is true, most stores make just pennies off electronics, it's the clothing with higher markups, and look what Kmart has gone heavy on- clothing! Sure, it looks good on paper, but it ignores the fact that someone may want a video game, buy it, but while there also may pick up a shirt or something. The games bring people in, the clothing gets the profit! Moves like getting rid of electronics shows why Eddie Lampert has no idea how to run a retail store.
I agree with you and yes I did know they use to have an electronics. I remember buying stuff from it in the 90s. That’s why I bought the music and video sign and now it’s in my studio
Christopher Robinson most of the kmarts left are on the east coast
Christopher Robinson hmm trying to remember. In July 2020 Pennsylvanian, Maryland New York New Jersey New Hampshire and possibly Delaware and Massachusetts
@@TiltedTripodMedia There is one in Maryland, I think Silver Spring. . Our Hagerstown store was nice but it closed in February 2020. It used to have a big electronics section but it shrank to almost nothing. Years ago they had a big garden center and a big cafe. With only about 30 left the only way they could make a comeback is if some chain bought them and put some serious money in them. Since there are so few discount department stores left it might work. When it's only Walmart and Target people will miss Kmart, Ames and the others.
David Smith I filmed silver springs kmart
This location will be closing in late November 2021. Kmart is not totally out of business, they still have some remaining in select markets in the USA. Also, there is a separate and very successful Kmart found in Australia and New Zealand. Here are all of the non liquidating Kmarts in the USA and US territories as of September 26, 2021: 1. Tauming, Guam 2. Grass Valley, California 3. Key West, Florida 4. Miami, Florida 5. Hamilton, Montana 6. Avenel, New Jersey 7. Westwood, New Jersey 8. Bridgehampton, New York 9. Bronx, New York (The Shops at Bruckner) 10. Bronx, New York (Bay Plaza Shopping Center) 11. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 12. St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (Sunshine Mall) 13. St. Croix, U.S Virgin Islands (Sunny Isle Shopping Center) 14. St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (Tutu Park Mall) 15. St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (Lockhart Gardens Shopping Center). Liquidating Kmarts that are temporarily still open are 1. White Plains, New York 2. Brooklyn, New York (located on the ground floor of a liquidating Sears) and 3. Marshall, Michigan
I remember back in the day, I used to work for Kmart when it was owned by S.S.Kresge Company. When,I worked for Kmart it was from 1985 until 1996 in Mt.Clemens, Michigan located at Groesbeck Hwy and Cass Ave.
Kmart Corporation closed the store in 1996, because the store wasn't making money.
The store then became a Farmer Jack, which went out of business. Now, it is a Planet Fitness, in the Kmart section, in the garden shop section of Kmart is a Subway.
In the supermarket section was a Kroger which closed before Kmart. The Kroger, is now a Dollar Tree store.
that's some cool info
That really was a great store. All kmarts in my town are gone
Yeah its so sad that they are all gone in ohio as well. such a simple solution to save them. Update the stores and the products to compete duh
Dang, I remember when Little Caesers was inside the Gainesville, FL Kmart. So many great memories going to Kmart as a kid with my mom. It's where I got my Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color, Sega Dreamcast, PS2 and Xbox. I got a Sega Genesis 3 there too, but returned it and didn't get another one. Was sad to hear about them doing away with their electronics department several years ago. It's just an absolute shame what has happened to Kmart.
I agree
AWESOME JOB!!!!
Thanks
Love what you're doing. Nostalgia hitting hard. Keep it up bro. You've earned a sub
Thanks for the support it’s people like you who who will help me to finally achieve my dream and help me to have a sustainable job preserving history.
Sears is dead and it’s not coming back but Kmart still has a chance. Someone just needs to take Kmart out of the hands of Eddie.
Kmart just needs to update the stores then it would make more $ for Eddie vs liquidating them to make a quick buck. Well he's to stupid to realize this and that's ok because he doesn't even deserve the assets he has.
Correct someone must take Kmart away from Eddie Lambert as soon as possible .
Kmart have possibility to come back couse not killed completely.
Someone should take over to stop closing that little remaining stores.
The kcafe part of it is super nostalgic for me. I remember going and getting pretzels at mine when it was still open. I miss it very dearly in addition to my store as a whole.
This one is still alive so visit while you can 😃
@@TiltedTripodMedia I will say I'd love to if I lived closer! I'm all the way in Wyoming, so while it's doable... time and money make that a bit of challenge unfortunately.
@@Optopolis awww that's sad. Did Wyoming ever have Kmart? Never been to Wyoming I've heard its beautiful but very remote. AKA no cities
@@TiltedTripodMedia You are correct in saying it's remote; the largest city, Cheyenne, only has about 64k residents.
Also, on the contrary; Wyoming did actually have many Kmarts. Cheyenne and Casper, in fact, had three total each over time!
Wow you are brave for living in Wyoming. No major cities brutal winters from what I’ve heard and the Yellowstone super volcano at your doorstep. Ugh but I want to visit so bad as a nature photographer. But it’s far from Ohio.
Sadly this Kmart is no longer open
Yes I know I grew up in that state and documented it’s closing
This store looked exactly like the Kmart I worked at. My store was opened brand new in 1991, and closed in 2016, exact same layout, except we had a K-Cafe, and they moved our electronics to the back of the store and added a sliding door were electronics was for access to the garden shop. Our hardware was in front of Layaway. I miss Kmart!
I’ve watched this video a few dozen times now lol, so yes I enjoyed it. We’ll long story short but this was my Kmart growing up and we moved almost ten years ago and I’ve only been back a few times, we were always Kmart shoppers. Just a update but they’ve closed off more of the store and Little Casers is gone now. Thanks again for the great video!!!
This store did have an electronics section tho i dont know why it was removed
Most kmarts got rid of the electronics long ago
Haven't been to a Kmart since 2002 when they all closed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Yeah I noticed that when I lived in Dallas Fort Worth more specifically Little Elm Texas they were no cameras and I lived there from about 2013 to 2015.
a potty lid? This guy is awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed watching his commentary. I also love how people from the Midwest pronounce "Kmart".
thanks im so glad you enjoy what I do. Do I really say kmart funny? Actually since kmart was founded and headquartered in Detroit and I was born and raised in Detroit. I'm probably saying it as it should be and as the founder of kmart would say it.
I never said “funny”! It’s just the way the Midwestern accent pronounces the ‘a’ in “mart”. It’s very endearing. I also love how you say “absolutely” as in “The Little Caesar’s is "absolutely amazing”. It’s just the ‘a’s. I am from New Jersey and we also have an accent. We tend not to pronounce the ‘r’ in Kmart...haha. Not trying to make you self-conscious. It’s very cute.
purple orange I wasn’t upset. Thanks 😊
This K-Mart at this location is closing down.
Yes I know I’ve been up there recently
I miss shopping there kmart was the best better than walmart they shut all ours down i cant find one in sandiego anymore bummer for me
Cherilynn Sorensen yeah it sucks nine here in ohio
@@TiltedTripodMedia its nice that you guys have those store's left
That’s so sad! You should move to a place where there is one, so you can sit by it when you’re feeling down. If that one closes, you could always move to another place where there is one. 😔😔😔
Damn. I wonder how many Kmarts are left now?
Not many. Under 30 I believe and shrinking
@Coleman Fink sad I just went on a road trip documenting a bunch of Kmarts
Coleman Fink Been to all of those except for the West Coast ones and the Florida ones
BIG Kmart
Well Too Bad it's closing Next Sunday.
Yeah unfortunately I don’t think I’ll make it back
It was really well stocked, when you saw it, because all the other stores that were closing in Michigan at the time, shipped all their merchandise to that store, but currently they were looking bare !!!.
Christopher Westhoff that’s a good point you bring up I probably feel that it’s better now because the end is near for the store. That’s probably the real reason that it’s there they don’t see any reason in restocking if they’re going to end up closing it
Outside of Des Plaines, IL they're all stuck in the 90's like that. The BIG Kmart renovation was the last time they saw any real renovation done to the building.
Yeah it’s sad because all they had to do was update the products over the years and keep the prices competitive and they didn’t. I miss it so much from back in the 90s when it was equal to other big box stores.
Coleman Fink never made it over there
Coleman Fink I just filmed a bunch of them on an east coast trip so hopefully soon
Coleman Fink thanks
Coleman Fink that’s cool. My family has a lot of history with kmart. Having all Grown up in Detroit including myself they remember going to assess Kresky and watching Kmart build its empire even a lot of them works at the stores
In Fairbanks Alaska we had a Super K until it got shutdown in the late 90s early 2000s
Never knew they were in Alaska
Excuse me Tilted Tripod Media, Do you have a video of Little Caesars Family Fun Pizzeria in Sylvan Lake from when you were three?
No sure that comment was meant to be rude. Well I’ve been to sylvan lake many times but never a little Caesars there. Never heard of the family fun pizzeria maybe it was before my time?
@@TiltedTripodMedia yeah well maybe it was before your time that was before they changed the name to Caesarland
@@dangoldin6000 I never spent time in sylvan lake mostly just when I passed through going somewhere
Some of the non closing Kmart in Pennsylvania wally visited had whole section block off.
Yeah im hoping to visit them asap but its a 7 hour drive
@@TiltedTripodMedia they wasn't officially closing but it like they tried making it look artificial full by blocking off sections.
blue internet the one in Warren Michigan did that too
17:35 "waitaminute, this is not easy to do one-handed." That's what SHE said.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
No idea why it's still open.
It's sad seeing kmart dying the last time I went to a kmart was my freshman year of high school that was in 2010 so that was a decade ago
This is more than likely the last year for Kmart and Sears there are rumors going around that they are going to close all of them very soon still no legit news from like ABC or Fox or CNN just waiting for a legit source to post the news about them all closing
@@TiltedTripodMedia that sucks I wish kmart can be saved
@@justicefonfara17 me too😭
Seritage Properties is closing its Kmart stores that they had leased
Eddie Sucks So Much For Making Kmart Dying. He Did Not Know What The Hell He Was Doing And Ruined The Company
He knew exactly what he was doing. He was only in it to make a quick buck and bounce. Get rich and bye bye. If only he had invested in the company and made it successful, he’d be even richer but I guess people like him are stupid and lazy.
Wow kinda reminds me of the very last K-mart on Green Springs Hwy in Homewood, Al back in 2016 or 2017 before it was shut down and turned in to Floor & Decor
That sucks
Kmart is much better then floor and decor
This guys looks like he might be on the spectrum.
I never been in a Kmart in my life
Dash Gaming ooooh that’s sad ☹️
i've been to one
twice
flip889 congrats
I'm 53, and have never been in a Starbuck's. Top that!
I subscribe
Thanks
Tilted Tripod Media your very welcome 🙂
“ it’s OK to say toilet” 😂😂😂
Both are accurate 🤣
@@TiltedTripodMedia lol I know I just thought it was funny to randomly hear her say that in the video
@@taeverlee oh cool
That pizza thooooooo
It was so good
People never try the Little Caesar's deep dish. It's great.
@@atomzero1 I agree it’s great
Our Hagerstown MD store closed in February this year. There used to be stores in Frederick Md, Chambersburg and Waynesboro Pa and Martinsburg WV all within 30 minutes from Hagerstown. We have two Walmarts here. Big whoopee. I'd rather shop at the Salvation Army thrift store.
David Smith I agree and I visited a bunch of east coast kmarts in July including edgewater md
@@TiltedTripodMedia I think Edgewater closed or is closing.
David Smith u are correct
In the 1980s Kmart was the nation's leading retailer. Now it's Wal-Mart.
Much rather support kmart than Walmart. Sad to say that as bad as kmarts ceo Eddie lamprt is Walmart tops him by a long way when it comes to it’s crazy customers, crappy work ethics, rally’s for supporting China and the list goes on. Boy I miss kmart
Coleman Fink I love the Marshall Michigan one it’s fantastic and always busy yes they should have closed them to where each area at least had one
Coleman Fink Thanks unfortunately I live about 10 hours from all of those Kmart on the East Coast
I worked at Kmart for 6 years
@@damienreacts3238 congrats
Kmart sucks! Stuck in the 70's like this, pathetic! Go to a real store, go to Walmart!
Walmart is the worst company ever. Trust me I worked for them. Super shady. That’s unfortunate because the produces themselves and the store itself is nice just hate the company behind it. You should try meijer or target. Meijer is pretty fantastic if u live in the Midwest.
This dudes voice is grating.
Jeremy Staples sorry about that I’ll change it for future videos😂
@@TiltedTripodMedia nah man, your voice is fine
@@brianb7423 thanks
Kmart's decline began the day that they stopped selling Ammunition and firearms.
Richard M hmmm I think it was probably more when they stopped updating and selling electronics and being competitive with stores like target. So yes guns were a factor in all of it yes
Maybe guns played a part in killing kmarts in Texas and the backwoods of the south. As spongebob once said Texas is dumb. Having lived there I agree. I miss kmart