Is the K-Mart in the poor section of your town?

We don't have a K-Mart but the Tar-jay is in the affluent part of town.

oh wait, I just realized we do technically have a kmart. It's on the highway but within city limits.

All the K-Marts were shut down and then reopened with Sears or something, right?

Either way I don't even know where/if a K-Mart is here.

The ones I have seen stayed the same (did not close down) but did get signs with the new 'big K' logo. All the buildings are still grody and have hell of stained scratches in the linoleum.

I live in the 99-cent store district

Local K-Marts closed down here about ten years ago. Before that, the one in the middle of town was in an okay area. It was pretty middle-class when the store opened (before I was born) and slowly trended downward over the years. Later on they opened a Super K or Big K or whatever the enormous one was in a new development south of town.

Central K-Mart was the last place I remember seeing a layaway counter where you dropped off whatever you wanted to buy and they held it there.

They still have that here!

I was somewhere recently with a layaway but I can't remember where. . .

Ross & Marshall's have them too

does K-Mart still have blue light specials?

My local KMart is in a perfectly decent neighborhood, but they never have anything on the shelves, and the store is always grotty.

K-Marts are so gross and dirty and disorganized. They're operating in bankruptcy but I hear they're essentially ceasing operations soon.

as a kid i always wanted something from the K-Mart snack bar.

I like that they're so grody. They are like Wal-Mart with no fronting. (Wal-Mart = gross but attempts to not appear to be, with mixed success. K-Mart does not give a flying fuck.)

My pals and I's hangout in HS was the K-Mart snackateria.

year old pretzels and cherry iceez

I KNOW IT'S SWEET SHIT, nice little environment to be teenage weirdoz trying to play Exquisite Corpse and making up bad jokes.

Ross

This is hilarious but also sad. Putting some $3 tee-shirts on layaway.

Yeah, I know, my mom-in-law would always hold eight-dollar sneakers and then spend at least two weeks pondering whether she actually wanted to buy them.

We always used to call it "Kame-Apart".

The one in my hometown closed down years ago. It wasn't in a poor section of town, though, just a shitty mall.

i like that they still have those coin operated kiddy rides out front

Yeah that's why I like Kmart! It reminds me of the '80 when basically everything was gross and disorganized. I was in a Kmart a couple of weeks ago, the worst(slash best) one I've ever been in, and I simply could not believe they were operating a snack bar! I love your dirty stinking store but I'm not gonna eat your hot dogs!

the same hot dogs have been spinning around on that thing forever

I am going to apply for the Kmart snack bar guy. Get some serious reading done.

anyone for Cali remember GEMCO?

there are nothing but "poor sections" of my own

town, even

Anyway I was in Kmart looking for a prepaid phone card... the electronics people had no idea what I was talking about, so I went to customer service who had no idea what I was talking about, then I talked to the seriously pale and creepy manager who just grunted... So I looked for them myself and found them.

I sort of remember Gemco, I remember having to go there every month or so for a 99 cent 8x10 picture in black and white.

Oh, oh, the K-Mart here (and others I've seen) still has a B&W four-photo photobooth, and it's only a buck!

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it's like a really vague memory to me. i remember it had groovy architecture

i love those picture booths.

Remember the Treasury? I think it was like a Kmart run by JC Penny's or something. I just remember it because it was across the street from the Kmart.

totally remember The Treasury too

my mom used to drag me to all these places

Me too, my only pleasure was hiding in the center of the circular clothing racks.

Yesterday I bought a perfect and wonderful bra at K-Mart for $8. Not bad!

K-mart filth reminds me of the '80s/early-'90s when even chain movie theaters were pretty crappy and the pre-show entertainment wasn't programmed nationally with NBC advertising. Stadium seating is nice, but I think I'd give it up for the theaters to feel like they did when I was little.

OTM

Do all their prices still end in .97 cents?

In my hometown the K-Mart is just in a giant strip mall. Aldi is in the poor neighborhoods.

Our K-Mart is located in the western part of town - a little faded but still plenty of affluent households within a mile of the place. The other K-Mart was demolished to make room for the arena.

does K-Mart still have blue light specials?

They still advertise them on television. The commercials feature a talking blue siren light as it weaves in and out of aisles on a shopping cart, Naked Gun-style.

http://www.superfuture.com/city/reviews/review.cfm?ID=1358

AWESOME

this is in front of it:

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Early_Morning_Alamo_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/800px-Early_Morning_Alamo_by_David_Shankbone.jpg

I had my cell phone stolen there!

It's located in a really average part of town, right in the middle by the high school and a bunch of businesses, so I'd say no. But it's not in the big new development a couple miles west, either.

xpost - whoa photos!

So much so that's it's not even in this town.

The Oxnard K-Mart was in a decent part of town, and close enough for the 11 year old me to walk to and have fun for hours. It was rare that I bought food at the cafe, but I liked it when I did.

So much so that's it's not even in this town.

That's just like Northfield. The KMart is technically in the little (much cheaper to live in) town next door. Northfield is also so idealistic that when Target wanted to come in on the same road - but in NORTHFIELD, it was a huge fuss in town and there was a local election. Allowing Target to come in passed by a very small margin. (As if KMart wasn't already basically here...)

Honestly, I was happy to have somewhere to buy diapers for a decent price that *wasn't* KMart, but I have kind of come around to KMart's Martha Stewart line. I like bakeware that I can toss in the dishwasher.