Overwhelming 😢

This is such a rare find. How many times do we really get to hear the final words of a corporation at the moment of collapse? And imagine this woman was tasked with delivering bad news to thousands of people suddenly out of work in an instant.

Believe it or not in a couple years this store might be making a comeback because by 2026. They plan on opening up 36 new locations in PA

Canty is just an octopus on this one.

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Kmart put them out of business because Walmart wasn't as big in the north them yeah they had some stores but its not even 10% as big as now and most weren't super centers.

I heard they’re coming back!

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So many memories associated with Ames. The thinks I used to collect there when I was a kid: - Wrestling T shirts. Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, etc - Music cassettes - Kris Kross/Totally Crossed Out, DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince/Code Red, Snow/12 Inches of Snow -WWF action figures - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures. - I got a Beetlejuice action figure for my 6th birthday there. - I got a Terminator 2 action figure for my 7th birthday there. The empty store looks so liminal. It looks scary. Maybe even a little sinister, because it is a husk of something that made us feel comfortable as younger people. But also brings comfort within that darkness. All I can think about is what a psychological bombshell it would be to walk through a portal and be THERE breathing the air of that era.

This used to be someone's life. All those Ames employees used to wake up every day for years to go there. They all worked and scrificed for something that one day would no longer exist. It became a part of their identities in a way. To know that Ames has been gone for over 2 decades at this point, seeing this is like taking a glimpse into a world that no longer exists. Watching this feels weird.

The training video being shown while the final voice-mail is playing is creepy with the foam Halloween tombstone as the last image.

Looks like Target.

My aunt worked for Ames, and she talked about this message frequently. She was in Rocky Hill.

Ames is making a comeback!

I remember working as a store employee from May 1996-June 2002. Months before Ames closed for good. I am so happy they are going to come back this year

she forgot to say "see you in 21 years" kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJfFi5mfZ9OheKs

21 Years later they are returning! My chikdhood! My heart is so happy lol!😍😍

It's so depressing. The happy lively store then empty store.

ames is coming back

Not anymore sister we back 2023.

Now it's coming back to life

I worked at Ames in ossippee NH I started out on stocking crew and got promoted to department manager of electronics I worked from January 1999 till October 5th 2002 I loved my job there if my store had not closed I would still be working there. My manger mr Farnsworth was the best manger I've ever had in my 25 years in retail. Sadly he passed away in 2014 I found out just two years ago . I loved working with everyone at the ossippee NH location God bless them all

I bet the quality of the goods at that store was better than what is sold at Walmart.

Who’s the person saying the message?

It's like when all the kids grow up and leave the house 🏠 to start there lives elsewhere.

All things come to pass.

Good luck and God speed.

Is the uploader still alive

i dont think we ever had Ames up here in Canada.If they wanna open up here in Canada we will welcome them with open arms. we got hardly any stores left.

This is sad to hear! I made a video on their history

I remember going to the liquidation sale very sad to see this store close but I always blamed walmart for this because they put a lot of these stores out of business such as ames caldor Bradless and Bennys I miss them all

Usually voicemail recordings get lost very fast but this one is a lucky survivor

It's too bad I never got to shop at Ames as they pulled out of Florida when both of my older sisters were babies at the time. If they were still in Florida back then, I would have went there with my family until I was five years old and my sisters would have remembered it. Unfortunately, it never happened.

I want to bring back Ames... It was a place for all and now we have Wal-Mart and Target... Target is a shitty store and you hardly see anyone shopping there.

I remember the Ames In New Hartford New York in the late 90s Early 2000s my parents went there they still have figures of the Grinch they got there the same year the movie came out the same year I went to see it at a theater that's no more at the mall but I remember the Christmas stuff the pine cones that smelled good the little village trees I also remember the Halloween stuff the shaking skeletons with moving jaws costumes scary music CDs playing animated decorations i actually found some animated Halloween stuff from the 90s with Ames stickers on the boxes I also got a Christmas village part with an Ames sticker I found them at thrifty shopper Thats at the same shopping center where it was that's pretty spooky like a ghost going to a new house seeing stuff changed

Here is the transcript: Just a couple of reminders, Tools need to be called in by 10:00hrs by Monday (9 September 2002), you may call at any point, leave a message on your Table Representative's voicemail, with the hours worked and salaries of the associates, and number of days worked. You may call that in at any time between Saturday night and Monday morning by 10:00. Please make sure that the Mail, the Post Office (USPS) has been informed of the forwarding address to Ames Home Office 2418 Main Street, Rocky Hill, Connecticut, 06067. Once again when leaving the building, set the perimeter alarms, by passive motion, and this will reduce the number of false alarms after we vacate. Interior Lights should be shut off by the breakers, leaving a few nightlights scattered around the salesfloor. Vacate checklist, locate anything thats been left by the fixture liquidators, such as phone equipment, ticketing equipment, If they haven't sold it, it will be left where it is. The main thing with all the fixtures and anything that has not sold, is that it is left in the building NEATLY. Once again the final vacate checklist, photos and stamps, should be mailed by Tuesday, 12 November 2002. Once again, i'd like to thank everyone for their help and cooperation over the past few months, and i wish everybody the best of luck in the future.

I remember before they went out of business I went there to get the Eminem show cd when it first came out that’s the last time I went them it’s sad they went out of business

0:10 Mom? Is that you?

I worked at AMES in Cheektowaga, New York in 1999.

I used to live in Dover, NH. There was an Ames there when I was growing up, next to the Hannaford. The old Ames space has been vacant for nearly 20 years; Hannaford uses it to store carts and such, but if you look inside you can still see the checkout lines, and a lot of the old brand advertising on the walls. Apparently, Hannaford has blocked pretty much every potential tenant, inadvertently preserving a retail time capsule. I loved Ames. It had an AMAZING hobby section; first place I ever saw Gundam model kits!

It’s 2021 February our local K Mart here in Pennsylvania is closing the last one 😢

Time Marches On

I remember calling in for this last message, it was horrible.

haunting

It is like a voice from beyond the grave.

Sad...

lol here is the funny thing i know the dude do u want me to share this whith him?

@ 2:03, obviously, she did that on purpose, because she had a crush on that dude, wonder what ever came of that?

They would be the next Walmart but they didn’t expand around the country

to know that the place this was recorded in also was abandoned with the stores.