Current Events > I visit the Last Kmart in New Jersey which is closing soon

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1F4OWLM6Rw

Nice, don't think I've ever been to this Kmart. Had family living in Westwood, been to the town a few times but we only visited their house. We lived a few towns south of there and never really had a reason to go up there, much less even Kmart.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/7/AAcI8BAAEwMF.jpg

Kmart had no video games just iphone5 covers

dude legit starts his tour with the bathroom stall

edit: and then buys a literal chris chan shirt (t shirt version but still)

Naysaspace posted...

dude legit starts his tour with the bathroom stall

edit: and then buys a literal chris chan shirt (t shirt version but still)

it was a cheap t shirt but honesty not my typical buy

Is this really, TC?

This reminds me of when Crono showed us his YouTube channel and it was strangely really interesting

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Is this really, TC?

This reminds me of when Crono showed us his YouTube channel and it was strangely really interesting

Yes, that is really me.

The end of an era. Soon there probably won't be any of these left at all.

mercurydude posted...

The end of an era. Soon there probably won't be any of these left at all.

That is true. By october, there will be no more Kmarts in New Jersey and only two left in the whole Continental United States- one on Long Island and the other in Miami.

Dying stores always make me sad. They are just things, but they are also places where memories are made. Where people meet, chat, browse, and buy. Where stories are told, dreams are shared, and emotions are felt. There is something lost when a store closes its doors for the last time. A part of history, a part of culture, a part of life.

I know it is hypocritical of me to say this, as someone who shops online now. I know I am part of the reason why stores are dying. I know I should support them more, visit them more, shop in them more. But I also know that online shopping is more convenient, more affordable, more accessible. It is hard to resist the temptation of clicking a button and getting what I want delivered to my door.

But sometimes I miss the feeling of walking into a store, smelling the scent of new books or fresh flowers, touching the fabric of a shirt or the cover of a magazine, hearing the music or the chatter of other customers, seeing the colors and the shapes and the styles of the products. Sometimes I miss the human connection, the interaction with the staff, the smile or the nod or the thank you. Sometimes I miss the thrill of finding a bargain or a treasure or a surprise.

I dont know if stores will ever come back to life, or if they will fade away into oblivion. I dont know if online shopping will ever replace the experience and the joy of shopping in person. I dont know if I will ever stop feeling sad when I see a dying store.

It they also remember me a time when I was happy. I was healthy and I had the world at my fingertips. But depression and fear let that slide by. The passage of time is walk down the hall way of regret , and old stores are a monument to that. Forever frozen in time. Or worst it dying sell to be infested with a seasonal store.

That was fun to watch lol >_>

Your voice sounds like a League of Legends streamer I follow, lmao

cjsdowg posted...

Dying stores always make me sad. They are just things, but they are also places where memories are made

It makes sense. Blue light special has become a part of popular culture, the look of a Kmart is in our memories.

People create things during their lives and as people we acsribe value to these creations, big and small. When they die it reminds us that both the things we create that give us pleasure and sentimental feelings are impermanent, and so too are we. And so too is humanity.

It's just a chain store, but humans are good at recognizing ourselves reflected in the world. As a kid things like K-Mart and David Bowie and the school we went too seem as much a part of the world as the sky and the stars, but they all pass in time.

Kmart always had a late 80's vibe to it right to the end.

cjsdowg posted...

They are just things, but they are also places where memories are made. Where people meet, chat, browse, and buy. Where stories are told, dreams are shared, and emotions are felt.

...at a Kmart?

cjsdowg posted...

Dying stores always make me sad. They are just things, but they are also places where memories are made. Where people meet, chat, browse, and buy. Where stories are told, dreams are shared, and emotions are felt. There is something lost when a store closes its doors for the last time. A part of history, a part of culture, a part of life.

I know it is hypocritical of me to say this, as someone who shops online now. I know I am part of the reason why stores are dying. I know I should support them more, visit them more, shop in them more. But I also know that online shopping is more convenient, more affordable, more accessible. It is hard to resist the temptation of clicking a button and getting what I want delivered to my door.

But sometimes I miss the feeling of walking into a store, smelling the scent of new books or fresh flowers, touching the fabric of a shirt or the cover of a magazine, hearing the music or the chatter of other customers, seeing the colors and the shapes and the styles of the products. Sometimes I miss the human connection, the interaction with the staff, the smile or the nod or the thank you. Sometimes I miss the thrill of finding a bargain or a treasure or a surprise.

I dont know if stores will ever come back to life, or if they will fade away into oblivion. I dont know if online shopping will ever replace the experience and the joy of shopping in person. I dont know if I will ever stop feeling sad when I see a dying store.

It they also remember me a time when I was happy. I was healthy and I had the world at my fingertips. But depression and fear let that slide by. The passage of time is walk down the hall way of regret , and old stores are a monument to that. Forever frozen in time. Or worst it dying sell to be infested with a seasonal store.

Don't feel bad about this. Kmart did it to themselves honestly. <_<

They could still be around if they didn't make crappy decisions over the years.

Other stores have done a lot of mistakes as well. There is a reason why Target is still around and not Kmart.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

That was fun to watch lol >_>

Kmarts are always a fun time. >_>

AI_TechGam3FAQS posted...

Your voice sounds like a League of Legends streamer I follow, lmao

Oh really? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? >_>

Iyami posted...

It makes sense. Blue light special has become a part of popular culture, the look of a Kmart is in our memories.

People create things during their lives and as people we acsribe value to these creations, big and small. When they die it reminds us that both the things we create that give us pleasure and sentimental feelings are impermanent, and so too are we. And so too is humanity.

It's just a chain store, but humans are good at recognizing ourselves reflected in the world. As a kid things like K-Mart and David Bowie and the school we went too seem as much a part of the world as the sky and the stars, but they all pass in time.

I miss David Bowie but his music will live on! I will miss Kmart too because it was something I grew up with. There were two Kmarts within a one mile radius of where I lived and man have I seen it go from thriving to a barely there dump. I remember when Kmarts had long ass lines on Saturdays a few years back when I used to buy water bottles from them but no more. I remember at one point in time, Kmart had electronics but it has been over a decade.

Serious_Cat posted...

Kmart always had a late 80's vibe to it right to the end.

Yea Kmart never shook off that 90s vibe to it.

Every Kmart I've ever been in always smelled like leaking ink pens. No exceptions.

Questionmarktarius posted...

...at a Kmart?

Yeah even at a K mart. I remember a Rose's very well. It was before Rose's turn into these little stores that are in between dollar Geneal and Walmart. They were department stores. And I got Ultra Magnus. Every time I past the place where it use to stand. I think about my mom getting it for me. I think about the gun I had with it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/1/AABqjYAAEwNj.jpg

Questionmarktarius posted...

Every Kmart I've ever been in always smelled like leaking ink pens. No exceptions.

kmart does have a smell from the 90s

crazy that place still is so...90's

KaZooo posted...

crazy that place still is so...90's

Kmart basically stopped doing capital improvements to stores around 1988, so yeah.

KaZooo posted...

crazy that place still is so...90's

it definitely is a 90s kinda place

Kmart was a gold mine for finding hard to find games. I remember finding a copy of Dragon Quest V for DS there years ago. It was still retail price but it was after it was long out of print and hard to find for a decent price anywhere else.

PeteyParker posted...

Kmart was a gold mine for finding hard to find games. I remember finding a copy of Dragon Quest V for DS there years ago. It was still retail price but it was after it was long out of print and hard to find for a decent price anywhere else.

kmarts day of having video games has long past. Its been over a decade since Ive seen a Kmart with some video games in it

SwordMaster13X posted...

kmarts day of having video games has long past. Its been over a decade since Ive seen a Kmart with some video games in it

I remember. That particular location closed years ago but there was another one by me that stayed open much longer and they had nothing.

PeteyParker posted...

I remember. That particular location closed years ago but there was another one by me that stayed open much longer and they had nothing.

it is miracle Kmart is even still going. They should have shut down years ago

SwordMaster13X posted...

it is miracle Kmart is even still going. They should have shut down years ago

There's only two left in the mainland US. Guam and Puerto Rico Kmarts keep hanging on.

cjsdowg posted...

Dying stores always make me sad. They are just things, but they are also places where memories are made. Where people meet, chat, browse, and buy. Where stories are told, dreams are shared, and emotions are felt. There is something lost when a store closes its doors for the last time. A part of history, a part of culture, a part of life.

I know it is hypocritical of me to say this, as someone who shops online now. I know I am part of the reason why stores are dying. I know I should support them more, visit them more, shop in them more. But I also know that online shopping is more convenient, more affordable, more accessible. It is hard to resist the temptation of clicking a button and getting what I want delivered to my door.

But sometimes I miss the feeling of walking into a store, smelling the scent of new books or fresh flowers, touching the fabric of a shirt or the cover of a magazine, hearing the music or the chatter of other customers, seeing the colors and the shapes and the styles of the products. Sometimes I miss the human connection, the interaction with the staff, the smile or the nod or the thank you. Sometimes I miss the thrill of finding a bargain or a treasure or a surprise.

I dont know if stores will ever come back to life, or if they will fade away into oblivion. I dont know if online shopping will ever replace the experience and the joy of shopping in person. I dont know if I will ever stop feeling sad when I see a dying store.

It they also remember me a time when I was happy. I was healthy and I had the world at my fingertips. But depression and fear let that slide by. The passage of time is walk down the hall way of regret , and old stores are a monument to that. Forever frozen in time. Or worst it dying sell to be infested with a seasonal store.

retail isnt dying. It's just only the strong can survive.

Buy that last bike, go in the parking lot and do stunts. Make your channel "Doing BMX in this last stores parking lot" themed. Profit.

We still have the one in Minneapolis, although it should be getting torn down soon. Ish. At least within the next decade.

We never had a K-Mart, but it's still a little sad. It was one of those stores I'd always hear about in life and I had an uncle who managed one. I never went to Blockbuster, but was a little bummed it went under too for the same reason. I guess it's more about the time period than the stores themselves, but it's weird when something you've always known to have existed goes away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81EJNZHAUcE

Kmart was good in the 90's to 2005

When my local KMart was closing and had their "discount" sale, my SO noticed that they actually raised the prices on a lot of things (we were looking for a kitchen table at the time and had visited the store a couple days earlier).

Heres some vids someone took of an abandoned one in Lake Zurich IL several years ago. It was torn down soon after these were taken.

https://youtu.be/EWRPeqnyG1I
https://youtu.be/AbZjo1VwwOY

And a video from 1990

https://youtu.be/4-R0Tp7sQQs

The kmart website is a mess, full of sketchy sellers similar to Amazon from a decade ago or Walmart from five years ago.
...and everything seems about 10-15% overpriced compared to Walmart, just like classic Kmart.

Worked in the West Orange,NJ Kmart about a decade ago and it seemed like it never got past the 90s

mohomad posted...

Worked in the West Orange,NJ Kmart about a decade ago and it seemed like it never got past the 90s

I lived near Kearny and Belleville nj kmart. The stores just were stuck in time not getting better

Questionmarktarius posted...

Every Kmart I've ever been in always smelled like leaking ink pens. No exceptions.

Every one i've been in had the smell of that buttery popcorn they used to sell. Even after they stopped selling it, the store continued having that smell.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

That was fun to watch lol >_>

Sword's videos are awesome.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Every one i've been in had the smell of that buttery popcorn they used to sell. Even after they stopped selling it, the store continued having that smell.

Sword's videos are awesome.

thanks. I remember when Kmart used to sell popcorn and icees too but that went away a long time ago