Current Events > In the 90s and 2000s which of these stores was nearest to where you lived?

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All three tbh. The sprawl here in the Twin Cities is vast.

There was a KMart in town.

none since I'm not from the us

Kmart, but in the mid 2000s a Walmart opened up that was closer then.

The Kmart hung on for quite a long time. It closed sometime in the 2010s, I believe. It was a shadow of its former self for years, though.

The town actually used the old Kmart building to give out covid shots back when they were just first widely available. Kmart had been closed for a while by then.

Kmart. Didn't get a Walmart near me until mid 00's.

I still remember how Kmart smelled - that stale yet oddly pleasant sterilized odor. Target smells like stuffy yarn. Walmart smells like Kmart + old newpapers.

Kmart technically. I picked up Mario 3 at the Kmart when I was in middle school. They were around first, Target came later and was accessed by a common parking lot. We didnt get Walmarts until after I had moved on to college. More of a Meijer town.

K-Mart and later Target were across the street from each other less than 5 minutes away from where I lived if you drove.

Wal-Mart was 10-15 minute depending on traffic and lights

There was never a Kmart real close. The nearest one was like 40 minutes away. A couple Walmarts popped up nearby in the early 90s. I don't remember any Targets around here until the late 2000s.

Our local department store before Walmart destroyed it was called Ames.

Kmart was slightly closer (just under 6 miles) than Walmart (just over 6 miles) from my parents house. Kmart was a few miles closer from my grandparents house. There was a mountain between us and the nearest Target, probably 40 minutes.

It was Target actually. I could walk there. But I remember a Hills not being too far either hah but definitely a longer walk conpared to Target. I am not positive when the Target was built by me but it was definitely later 90s and was closer than Kmart or Walmart.

Walmart, though all 3 were in the same general area until Kmart closed.

Kmart but we never really went there even it's prime.

I lived in the middle of nowhere, so despite it being closest, Walmart was still a half hour drive away.

Actually K-Mart might have been closer. The two were very near each other and I don't remember which one we technically would see first.

Before that Target it was probably K-mart. But c'mon like I am going to calculate this all precisely but K-Mart while staying open here for a while still was going kaput by the time Target was making a name for itself.

Not sure about the 90s because I wasn't driving yet (and over 20 years ago). Also different in the early and late 90s since that was three different places.
2000s and on has been walmart.

Of those we've only had Kmart here, and apparently it's not the same chain as the American one.

Though I have been to a Target before many years ago in Australia. I remember buying some cool Simpsons trading cards.

Not that I remember much from where I was born since I moved at a pretty young age, but pretty sure it was K-Mart. In my hometown where I grew up it was definitely Target. We had a Wal-Mart but it was away from town IIRC and there was a lot of active effort into keeping them from building a Super Wal-Mart.

Kmart and Venture were the ones nearest my house.

Target was about 2 blocks away, until it closed and turned into a super target down the freeway. Now its an Academy

Mechu posted...

none since I'm not from the us

Kind of this but Asda was owned by Walmart so technically that.

All three depending upon which house you're talking about, there were at least 2 of each store in my city.

They were all about the same distance, in the same general area.

Target

When I was young, there was an actual mall with Target in it, hen they changed everything into a strip mall before malls went out of fashion

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Hills is where the toys are.

Went down and out about 1995.

Targets everywhere

In the early 90s, in the suburbs, only Kmart. Then I lived in cities where none of the three were near. Now I can walk to a Target (in a city).

I only had K-Mart. There was a Walmart but it was about 20 minutes away. Target didnt get here until early 00s. Flash forward to now and we have a bunch of Targets and Walmarts but the last K-Mart closed like two years ago.

Mechu posted...

none since I'm not from the us

This.

ICA Kvantum was the closest larger store and the closest biiiiig supermarket was Obs!, which eventually turned into Coop Forum.

We lived out in the sticks. The closest Walmart was 20 miles away, but the closest Kmart and Target were even further away than that.

Walmart. It's the only one of those my town has had. Never got a K Mart and still haven't gotten a Target, though there's been talk for the longest we are getting one, but who knows.

Our last K-MART shout down about 2010. And Heilig-Meyers shut down earlier. Don't know why they even keep the old buildings there. Just a waste of space for something new.

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Walmart, but Kmart was right across the street. That holds true for both towns I lived in during those years.

Walmart

The closest Kmart was 11 miles away
The closest Target was 6 miles away
The closest Walmart was 3 miles away

There was also a Venture store that was across the street from the Walmart and was my family's primary retail store until Wally ran them out of business.

kmart until we moved in 95, then walmart

K-mart for a while, then a Super Target opened on the opposite side of the freeway intersection and was just so slightly closer to where I grew up than the K-mart.

All three could be found off the same road. Walmart was closest, then Kmart, then Target

I lived in several places in those 20 years. I actually worked in a Target for 3 of them. I avoided Walmart like the plague it is, but it was never closest anyway. I think Kmart was always the most conveniently located.

In one town I lived in we had a Pamida which was basically the same thing. It was closer then the Walmart which was just a bit further down the main street, but I would've walked an extra mile if need be just to avoid Walmart.

I think there was a KMart in town, but Target was in the next town over so that wasn't far anyway. There was no Walmart anywhere close to me.

Technically Walmart, as they owned Asda in the UK for a bit.

KMart (RIP)

Target has gone from 0 to 3 in the last 15 or so years. No Walmarts in the 5 boroughs.

Kmart. We didnt get Walmart and Target until the other similar stores in the area went out of business: Zayre, Ames, Bradlees and Caldor.

Late 90s to early 2000s I was around 8k miles away from any of them

lived in Cali briefly In the mid 2000s tho. I think maybe Kmart was closer to me at the time

In the 90s, KMart and Walmart were both a little less than mile away from my house. I don't think Target opened until the 00s, maybe the late 90s, but that was still further than either.

KMart was there from the 80s. But then in 98/99 Walmart built the towns first Super Center across the street.

Then we know what happened to KMart a few years later.