The familiar sights and sounds are still there: the scuffed and faded floor tiles, the relentless beige-on-beige color scheme, the toddlers’ clothes and refrigerators and pretty much everything in between.
There’s even a canned recording that begins, “Attention, Kmart shoppers” — except it’s to remind folks about COVID-19 precautions, not to alert them to a flash sale over in ladies’ lingerie like days of old.
Many of the shelves are bare, though, at the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, picked over by bargain hunters as the store prepares to close its doors for good April 16.
Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the U.S. – once well over 2,000 – will be down to three last holdouts, according to multiple reports, in a retail world now dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon.
Well his is sad to me because I’m old. Kmart was the Walmart in my youth.
It’s just the way things go…….
No, its not “the way things go”.
The local k-mart was a pigsty
I went twice, it was dirty and disorganized.
That’s a reflection of your community, which is employed there.
There are other stores in this area that reflect the same poor work ethic.
I was told that poor work ethic was the reason all the big players left this area/
I agree!
Whole country going to Hell !!!!
In a hand basket
With masks returning soon! Don’t laugh – its part of the script and control.
n. Walmart is a pigsty.
North Walmart is the worst run store of all of them. They must not have a manager. The cashiers are the rudest, most unfriendly of any other store around. I feel that if they hate their job that much, why don’t they quit??