29 Subscriber Special: I visited one of the few remaining Kmarts in the US (feat. a bus stop review)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Hey y’all, thanks for 29 subscribers! To celebrate, here’s a video of me visiting a Kmart in Charlotte Amalie, USVI! (Don’t worry, there’s still some transit-related content in this video: I also review a Virgin Islands Transit bus stop)
It was a Sears and now it's a Kmart, what a relic of the past
I did a little digging, and apparently Sears and Kmart are now both owned by the same company! Puerto Rico, which you can see from St. Thomas on a clear day, still has a Sears! I’m not sure if the store I went to was ever a Sears or if it was just using Sears branding for that sign, but the logo they used is not any of their most recent ones, so it’s definitely been there a while!
It was a Walgreens originally. I remember going down the stairs to look for something with my grandmother, practically all the shelves were empty, around 1983. I don't remember the elevator being there back then.
It must have been a big Walgreens then! Those entry doors do seem reminiscent of a typical Walgreens entrance, now that you mention it!
There are only two Kmarts left in the mainland US. There are three in the Virgin Islands and one in Guam. It'll be funny (and a bit sad) to see if Kmart just becomes a local brand in the US territories. Congrats on getting 29 subs! Here's to 299 or 229 or 2299 someday!
2299 one day would be a dream! Thanks for being an inspiration to me starting this channel!
There's one in Australia. I think it's privately owned and has no connection to the US stores.
@@hamblinhomestead4046 There's a whole separate Kmart chain in Australia and New Zealand. It used to be part of the US Kmart but spun off decades ago.
I almost died my first week in England, back in the 80s. My roommate saved my life. I was still thinking traffic came from the left. I looked left, road was clear, and stepped out. He caught my collar and pulled me back from the bus that would have flattened me. I learned fast but it still never felt normal. I was super aware after that.
I kept subconsciously forgetting about the whole driving-on-the-left thing so by the time I left the store, I had to be very quickly reminded that traffic comes from the right first!
Great video! I Loved K Mart miss it here in the USA
Thanks for watching!
There used to be a Big Kmart about a mile from my parent’s house. I never thought I’d miss a store so much in my life. That 90s /early 2000s aesthetics of stores was just something else entirely. All these new supermarkets are so sterile, gray, and lifeless feeling. I actually work right next to where the Kmart world headquarters was… they just finished knocking the whole thing down mid April of 2024. Even that was a beautiful building, the campus is massive, I visited (just the outside) right before demolition began.
Yeah, some modern stores somehow feel less homey. We used to have a Super Target (I don’t know if there are any of those left), but they renovated it into a normal Target and redid pretty much the whole store. Lots more gray now; I kinda miss the overwhelming amount of red coming from every direction. It’s too bad that the old Kmart headquarters is gone; if it was a sizable office building, it’s too bad no other company moved into it.
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2.9k views when im watching!
Ah sears Camden 😂😂
I love it! 29 sub special!! I should have done that!! I'm about to cross 5k subz! Only took 6 years all of my time and every single penny spent.. ahh youtube life..
wow what bizarre place. I must visit
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Went to St. Croix for my honeymoon last July, rented a jeep and as soon as I left the airport in the left lane I felt like I was breaking the law lol. Also the Kmart there (where I was in st. Croix) was closing when we were there, so everything was like a blowout sale and they had a little Caesars inside of it that had some very bored workers inside of it.
I’m sure most of their steering wheels still being on the left doesn’t help with the left-side driving! It’s too bad they lost one of the Kmarts, but at least the one I went to seemed to be doing okay. I hope the honeymoon was great! I didn’t get a chance to visit St. Croix, but the islands are all beautiful!
@@29downtheline if you get the opportunity to go to St. Croix you can be the first person to watch the sunrise and make sure to check out the tide pools! And you're definitely right, I don't know if I saw a right hand drive car. There was an option to rent one but it was like 30-40% more so I just dealt with it and looked like a dumb mainlander a couple times 😂
Much tidier than the K-Marts that were here on the mainland.
Thanks for the insight! I haven’t been to any other Kmart, so I don’t really have anything to compare it to. Other than the one corner of the lower level that was just empty boxes, it was pretty well-organized!
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Thank you!
This may be an actual Kmart, but it's not like it used to be. No custom background music, no deli/cafe, no blue lights, no ICEE machine, no special announcements, no special uniforms, and I didn't even see a music/electronics dept. There were alot of little things that made Kmart special when I was a kid that all disappeared.
@@solidaudioTV I never got to experience Kmart before the overall decline of many of these big retail stores, so I really have no benchmark to compare this location to. Maybe someday I’ll get to go to one of the mainland US stores before they close. All those little things sound amazing, though!
While I never got to experience Kmart in its prime, I do have fond memories of frequenting a Nordstrom (I know, I know, completely different store) with my family when I was younger, often for shoe shopping. They had a gigantic fish tank in the kids’ shoes department and a live pianist on the first floor of the central atrium. In that location’s final years, the piano was removed, and it just wasn’t as special. It’s been closed for years at this point. So at least in regard to not being able to experience a store as it once was, I think I can somewhat relate!
#40 because why not. 😂
Congrats on 80 subs!
Thank you so much!
@@29downtheline No problem.😁
2 way right (edit: left) turn lane is everywhere in USA.
I’ve seen the two-way lefts all over the place, too, I just thought it was interesting that it was applied to left-side driving traffic! It just seems weird making a right in front of oncoming traffic!
Minute maid is present in Puerto Rico
Interesting! Do they have both brands then?
I remember getting good food at the Kmart's back in the day when they had restaurants. Now I just feel dirty being in them.
They sell sears giftcards? Where the hell you gona go with that!
The nearest one is in Puerto Rico, so I’m not sure!
@@29downthelinegive it to some phone scammer
Nice video man!
Thank you so much for watching!
I never really knew why the U.S. Virgin Islands drive on the left. There's that story that when the U.S. acquired the Virgin Islands, it was possible to tell the residents to now drive on the right, but impossible to tell the donkeys you need to now walk on the right. To avoid head on donkey-car collisions, they kept driving on the left.
A local told us that, when the US got the islands from Denmark, Denmark was still driving on the left. This was in 1917 and Denmark has since switched to driving on the right, but the US never made the islands switch driving sides!
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Most definitely!