The very last Kmart is closing.

There was always a Sears and a Montgomery Ward Catalog in my parent's home when I was growing up. We bought most of our dry goods from them.
 

I remember the time when Saturday morning required a trip to Kmart.
It’s been years since they disappeared from our area.
 

Funny how many of those stores left the cities and reestablished themselves in suburb shopping malls. Same for the movie theaters in a certain city in PA.
 
Kmart is one I remember from the days when I worked in Rochester Mn. I stayed in a hotel just a short walk from Kmart and I bought quite a few things there. It's just the same everywhere. There's a huge gap in Union St. - the main street in Aberdeen - that used to be British Home Stores. There are grand plans for a futuristic shopping arcade, but It might never get off the drawing paper.

We still have a lot of small independent shops here, but the 'discount' stores like Lidl and Aldi have taken a big chunk of the grocery and home ware market.
 
spectratg said:
Yes but who remembers that before the stores were Kmart they were Kresge stores (S.S. Kresge Company)? In 1977, Kmart sold the remaining Kresge stores to fully concentrate on discount merchandising via their Kmart stores. I fondly remember in the 1950s sitting at the lunch counter at the "Kresge five and dime," sometimes a family event!
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When I first met my "wife to be" she was working at a Kresge 5&dime. That was back in 1953. We married in '56 and she's still with me today.
 
In my area, Kmart used to rule as the preferred one-stop shopping site if you didn’t want to go to a “fancy store.” Their “lay away” department was popular, and plenty of folks used it for bigger ticket items and Xmas gifts. When Walmarts moved into the area, I could see Kmarts begin to struggle, deteriorate, and fail. Kmarts were never the overcrowded, thronging masses of humanity that Walmarts became, and I always felt safe in their parking lots there. I miss them…
 

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