Abandoned Update At Kmart - North Versailles, Pa

[@Rammstein45]

I used to go there with my grandma all the time when I was a kid. It's long gone now...

[@doug9066]

Seeing these closed Kmart stores it really makes me miss Kmart even more. I need to remember to shop online with Kmart or drive to Hobbs, New Mexico to shop at that one which is the closest Kmart (for now) from West Texas. Thank you for sharing Walie.

[@HeatherHugs]

I’ve shopped at this Kmart many times with my grandma, who only lives about 5 minutes from there. I also ate at that Burger King in the same parking lot earlier in 2019. Great video!!!

[@robertpsarudakis3474]

I don't care what anyone says, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! And thanks for all you do w/ documenting these videos. It's getting to soooo addicting waiting for the next!!! Thanks Wallie and Kayla Happy New Year too!

[@robertpsarudakis3474]

P.S. the ol Cavalier Looks great too!

[@kimberlykovach6236]

Miss Kmart 😪 Thanks for the great video! Stay awesome!

[@evar3119]

Wallie an Kmart icon Legend thanks for keeping Kmart Alive. Even though its gone the memory will last forever because of you.thanks wallie.

[@SM-qs3jr]

To bad you didn't make it up to the area sooner. You could of also filmed the Kings Restaurant that was across from the Burger King. It closed around last winter/spring (2019) and is now torn down (early summer they tore it down) to build a Get-Go. This was the very first Kings Restaurant location. Keep up the great videos!

[@FreeCandy.]

Back in the day not only did the K Mart have a Little Caesars but it also had a supermarket and a restaurant/bar back in the day.

[@natestaub5113]

Right like casa d'ice restaurant and BTW please tell wallie to do a video about casa d'ice for me

[@natestaub5113]

Because if you do it I will forever be grateful

[@Wild1995]

We would shop here when I was a little kid. You just brought back a memory. YES, there was a K foods there in the 70's. Good call. Also the vacant land to the east (opposite side of 22) used to have another shopping mall structure that had stores and our first Little Ceasars pizza back in the early 1980s. That part of the mall was demolished sometime in the late 80s. My mother would let me drive the car around exactly where you are driving when I was 14. You could say its where I learned to drive. So sad to see Kmart, Burger King, and Kings all close in this area.

[@toddament8035]

It did have a Little Caesar's. When I worked for the Radio Shack in the plaza annex we would get two pizzas for the entire day and balance them on a space heater.

[@ScareFestTTV]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and Kayla!!

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

Old school Wallie video, very much enjoyed, thanks .

[@OwenConcorde]

Awesome video! I used to go there and even the Latrobe Kmart. I miss shopping at both places even though my last visit was several years ago.

[@srtdetonator5272]

I remember there was a automotive center on the side where the garden center is. There was also a small strip mall to the right of the store in the lot. Also, at one time there was a auto parts (maybe Whitlock auto) store and a bar /restaurant in the right side of the building. Kmart got greedy and tore out the strip mall and expanded the store into a super type Kmart. It went downhill after that move.

[@toddament8035]

Casa D' Ice started out as a simple Gulf station with a beer distributor built next to it.

[@letapearson2043]

Thanks for sharing this video, Wallie! Sad to see another business closed, I will be sure to watch your video about the abandoned Burger King! Happy Holidays to you and Kayla! 🎁🎄

[@quuxummephitida1219]

I grew up in North Huntingdon and lived in Trafford for many years; I went to this K-Mart quite often. My mum's cousin was a manager here back in the mid 80s. 8:19 - That was a separate unit which was some other business I've since forgotten. I seem to recall K-Mart knocked down the wall and expanded into it in the early 90s. Over on the far right of the lot, there was another smaller strip mall which had a tobacco shop and a Radio Shack; it too was torn down in the early 90s.

[@jroto]

I've noticed that most of, if not all off, the Sears and Kmart stores that have closed since 2019 have left the signs up on the stores or malls they're in.

[@seanblack4749]

I used to play video games after school at the store next to that kmart 30 years ago.Bought all my fishing gear in that kmart as a kid.

[@melodybeitzel5378]

Thank You For The Update

[@A65impalass]

Burger King closed because they leased the land off Kmart. Costco and Giant Eagle was interested in the land. Giant Eagle is building a Get Go across the street at the old King's restaurant location. Costco beat Giant Eagles offer to buy but back out, not sure if Giant Eagle will move forward now or not. It was rumored they wanted to build a Market district in this location.

[@cak5171]

I used to work at this Kmart. I couldn't bring myself to go in when it was dying. I wanted to remember what it looked like back in 2006.

[@toddament8035]

Originally a K Foods grocer which became a Shop N Save. When Shop N Save closed a Whitlock Auto Parts went in. Everything to the right of K Mart including a small bar went away when K Mart expanded.

[@brandonb.6099]

Thanks for the update, wallie. That store is in rough shape on the back side.

[@TrainmasterCurt]

I remember KMart growing up in Winnipeg, and Woolco, two stores I really miss, along with Zellers, which I hope HBC resurrects them

[@JoseOlalde]

Alot of other Kmart are going out of business on 2020(Side note includes Sears)

[@syxepop]

Jose Olalde, there are some lists out there of remaining Kmarts (as of February 2020) and the latest I saw counted a total of 58: 46 in Continental US, 7 in Puerto Rico, 4 in the USVI and 1 in Guam. Most likely Kmart won't sell trough another Christmas season and will perish by Fall 2020. In the case of Sears count the same death 6 months to a year later than Kmart, only remaining the Hometown and Outlet franchised locations after the company owned stores close.

[@JoseOlalde]

@@syxepop All the Kmart and Sears will go out of business on Year 2020. There starting with stores that perform alright. Then they will close the rest. Almost everyone goes to Walmart, Target or even shop on line at Amazon. Kmart is bankrupt like Toy R us and has to fire alot of people.

[@syxepop]

@@JoseOlalde, what I see is that if these were ordinary business leaders Sears and Kmart would have been closed SEVERAL YEARS AGO (actually 3 of the 4 largest US banks proposed to close the chains ALMOST EXACTLY A YEAR AGO [between Christmas and New Year Day 2018-19]. I have to believe Kmart would close first, as they have already fewer stores (Sears still got ~ 150, as Jake Williams told in a brand new video his imprint, Bright Sun Films, has just debuted on Sears downfall) not lasting the whole of 2020, while Sears and their company-owned concepts would close before mid 2021, leaving the use of the name to just the franchised ones.

[@10cpaul]

Guy my grandmother lived near there and used to take me there in the 70's!! yes old here lol... It actually had a blue light and an auto center, she would get her car serviced and we would walk around the store ... Pretty sure my first fishing rod came from there...

[@crackerjack606]

hey. i love your videos. idk if you could travel all this way, but there is an abandoned kmart here in paintsville, kentucky

[@adamsATSfan415]

Goodvideo wallieb26 cool the sign is still up even though it's been closed for 10 months

[@user-ci9ri4fl5pBuckeyeChessie]

I agree 100% that was a K Foods, they did a good job blocking up the entrance, I wonder if K Mart utilized that section after K Foods became defunct. AWESOME video as always!!!

[@samma1999]

They did utilize the space. If you go inside the store, you can notice where the original wall was. The ceiling was slightly lower in the old grocery side.

[@doug9066]

Putting the trailer against the wall like this one is keeps people from opening the trailer doors if loaded or empty. Usually when a driver goes home they will drop the trailer. With the garage doors in part of the fence I'm willing to bet that would've been the auto care center.

[@tinoswrld]

Wallie you should do an update on the bridgeville kmart

[@rictkac105]

World Gym was just past the US Mailbox and then Michaels Bar. There was also an Annex building that had a Tabacco, Newspaper and magazine store and a couple others. When they kicked out the other tenants to turn the K-Mart to a Big K Mart. Bad move, the gym had over a thousand members, and I know we all would stop in to pick up things we needed after or before working out.

[@rictkac105]

World Gym was where the awning you asked about was.

[@robertpsarudakis3474]

The net is to keep birds out from nesting. At Grand Union, we had to do that w/ our outside loading area.

[@talesfromthelotuspodcast]

Hope you and kayla had a amazing Christmas

[@marcosadventures6140]

There was a K-mart foods here, Because the 60s Kmart stores had a pattern on the side of the K-mart sign holder, And they left part of the 60s thin metal shade in the old Kmart foods.

[@ambikawolf664]

Mind blowing. They didn't even take the sign down. A Meijer grocery here closed not too long after it opened... I was there only twice.

[@adamhall9579]

What part of p.a did you grow up? I feel like I grew up with you

[@FlameDragon]

Shame you couldn't get inside. I enjoyed this store when it was open it was huge and actually nice inside compared to the outside appearance.

[@patrick_9393]

I always liked Kmart. It was a nice quick in and out store. The rumor is this spring our old Kmart building is being torn down. For a HyVee to go in. The building is too far gone to be fixed. Was in bad shape even when they where open.

[@nicksmith522]

I got all my star wars action figures at this Kmart when I was young

[@toddament8035]

There was a Little Caesar's when I worked at Radio Shack in the plaza.

[@DavidLand91]

Its weird how they have stopped taking the signs down

[@stevent9179]

They had our K-Marts sign down within a week of closing, Chambersburg PA Dec 1, 2019.😭

[@cak5171]

I worked at this one and would love to have a sign lol

[@Optopolis]

God I feel that entirely that waiting too late. Sadly the same is true for my Kmart and my Sears... It really kinda sucks to miss places, and looking back, I think everyone who does this (videos or pictures) could wish they started sooner. Kinda gotta accept it for what it is and get what you can.

[@crystalscan2002]

also if you looked at the register it still has power and connected since if you look at carefully you see the monitor light on

[@news89]

Thanks for the update. No shoppers today, damn Eddie.

[@robertscott4329]

I'm pretty sure there was a tile / flooring store where the second canopy was at one time when it shut down kmart expanded to take the entire space. Not sure what year that happened.

[@EJCatoz]

Sad to see another abandoned place

[@ZeeMann_Retail]

Great video!!

[@jet34thehawk]

Awesome video

[@GLeibniz1716]

Your empathy for these structures is admirable; a big dead empty space - apt words, and yet Wall Street shrugs it's shoulders they don't care about this economic hollowing out.

[@RocksConcreteMinerals]

It's not necessarily wall street but the LAZY CONSUMERS who want to sit at home and have things delivered. People stopped going there for a multitude of reasons but LAZYISM is the real cause most retailers lately have died. Hopefully, as we raise the next generation, the LAZYISM is being removed.

[@Leanne-mw8nm]

​​@@RocksConcreteMinerals I KIND OF AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT POINT. I NEVER LIKE TO DO ANY SHOPPING ONLINE CUZ IT DEFEATS THE PURPOSE. WOULD'NT A CUSTOMER RATHER GO INTO A PHYSICAL STORE? I'D MUCH PREFER TO PUT MY EYES/ HANDS ON THE ITEMS I AM TRYING TO GET TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WOULD FIT ON ME COMFORTABLY, AND THAT IT FITS ME RIGHT. IDK ABOUT YOU, BUT I FOR ONE WOULD MUCH PREFER TO PHYSICALLY GO TO AN ACTUAL LLOCATION ION TO PERSONALLY SEE IF I WANT AN ITEM OR NOT. IT'S ALLL A BIG DAMB SHAME!!!!

[@WinDogeFromYouTube]

In Le Sueur, the mall owners told the hardware store owner no, when he wanted to move his store into the old Alco Department Store space, the gift store owner said it might have been because it's too much money to heat, and they don't heat it soooo, the mall owners decided to cover the gate with office cubical walls to decrease the draft, the funny part, the door is unlocked, and there is no 10% power, it's 0% power, I think the fire panel is off even, (do I send a tip to the county???) This mall I am talking about literally isn't open anytime that the drug store isn't open, other than for events, Its dead, the gift store is on its 3rd year of existing even though they had moved for the summer, the bad part about there new location was: it had mold, no air conditioning, it was small.; So after the summer they moved back to there mall store were there was plenty of space, but just on December 14 or 21 I heard they were moving to the basement because the main floor had in adequate heat. I honestly hope they can last and make it to have multiple stores, that store sells stuff such as canned goods, handmade crafts, mostly what a small town shop would sell, the catch about the owners.... They live in the populated town of Mankato which is were the closet Wal-Mart and same club is, a mall that is for a larger town, they used to have a sears, kmart, gander mountain, herbergers, gordmans, Dress Barn which it's last day was December 26 2019, a Pier One Imports which is currently in the process of closing(5-20% off I think), Lowes, Shopko. Mankato has a Fleet Farm, Scheels, Kohls, Old Navy, Hy Vee, Cub Foods, Shopko Optical, Target, Walmart, Tj-Max, 3 different movie theaters, And more. Most of those closed down stores such as: Sears, Kmart then Gander Mountain,Gordmans, Herbergers, Lowes, and Shopko(the optical center is still in the store) are all empty stores. In St Peter just 15-20 mins. South of Le Sueur the Shopko Hometown closed and they had a pharmacy there, When the store was still open, Hy Vee bought it, and in 2020 Hy Vee is going to open a Grocery Store there, had part is, I heard the pharmacy is gonna go the-bye which is a shame cause Shopko way back when bought out the pharmacy in St Peter and operated out of that space as a Shopko Pharmacy until they opened the store in 2013? I think, and now the only pharmacy is in the Family Fresh grocery store. If you want to contact me about more abandoned places in the Le Sueur are email me at my public email: [e-mail] I only created it for Discord as an alt email too.

[@curtg7396]

I always wonder if the USPS still checks the mail in those blue mailboxes at these abandoned stores.

[@unknownuser..._...]

Merry Christmas Wallie And Kayla and to Eddie... SCREW HIM! lol also The G is faded because it says Bi Kmart Bye

[@fordguyjames]

this store opened in 1964 and it was updated in 1998 also you missed the former kmart foods that shop and save ran and they closed it and boarded it up

[@timothyarts8969]

Fordguyjames Hi would you know if this is the first Kmart in the East side? I think the one in Monroeville was first -along with Sears - Penn Center-both opened in 1963 Thanks

[@fordguyjames]

@@timothyarts8969 actually no wallies home town one was the first in the state

[@EvilDarkCow]

It sucks, but I fully believe Kmart will be completely gone by this time next year.

[@Nathan-xt6gz]

Quick question, are you going to film the Family Dollar in Millvale post remodel? You said you would in March, but was the remodel a bust and they closed?

[@racheldehaan1331]

How sad

[@TheHobbyShopFilms]

This is/was a Kmart owned building (not leased).

[@jackson5116]

that means they have to either pay taxes on it, or default and let the city/county take ownership of it.

[@toddament8035]

The original sign by route 30 had a revolving K in the 70's

[@Max23465789]

Looks like they don't even bother to take the signs down anymore. I guess you can expect things like this to happen when you use when atlas shrugged for your business plan.

[@gwenjarbothenickbeebiesfan2008]

Hope this will be a Micro Center or a Petco.

[@slackingpacking]

Interesting how some of the fixtures was never sold.

[@mallaholicretailadventures]

You should another Eddie bashing in another Kmart or Sears video. Sucks that there are none by you anymore. Hope you had a merry christmas.

[@bigted1955]

Good video

[@rictkac105]

U Haul rental and storage now!

[@dengekitomato]

This guy is hilarious. IM subscribing

[@DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES]

Nice video Wallie, this Kmart is cool looking

[@FreeCandy.]

Any chance on getting a video of the closed Burger King in the same plaza?

[@WallieB26]

Yep! I filmed it right after I did the Kmart. I'll have that video up in the next couple of days.

[@danielbrewster5182]

@@WallieB26 Have you ever filmed an abandoned movie theatre?

[@Leanne-mw8nm]

​@@danielbrewster5182 GOOD QUESTION, AS I WORK AT A MOVIE THEATERE..

[@stevent9179]

Where did it all go wrong?! I hate this, we lost our K-Mart Chambersburg pa dec 1 2019.

[@Mrcruisefever1]

Can you do a update / Re visit in 2023 on this Big Kmart - Burger King ( like to see you do re visit vlogs - like TD3 does on his channel , of Re visit )

[@bobkraus3476]

that right side you ask about might have been KROGERS

[@toddament8035]

K foods then Shop N Save. Whitlock Auto Parts was in there for a while also. There was a small bar at the very end but everything went when K Mart expanded.

[@matthybel955]

Wonder if this was always a kmart! The lights in the parking lot look like old Ames or Zayre lights and even the inside doesnt look to have the big round air vents in the ceilings. Very odd but far as the exterior this looks like and old 60s kmart

[@jackson5116]

but it's got a 70's/80's style awning, with a 60's/70's style sign.

[@mikespikedog5293]

I have relatives in North Versailles.

[@timothysimpkins3664]

It’s like completely dead area mate!

[@Cloudy134Blade]

Does anybody know about the Kmart at Hoffams blvd Pittsburgh pa right across from Kennywood park

[@CetiasCrazyLife]

I shopped there a few times

[@DalmationProductions]

As Always #SavetheKmarts #SavetheSears #EddieLampertforJail

[@JoseOlalde]

Is to late to save the Kmart and the Sears. Some Kmart and Sears close for good starting January 2020. Don't know the specific date.

[@DalmationProductions]

@@JoseOlalde well there still time to hastag em it will give them attention

[@jacobahejew6344]

@@JoseOlalde they will open 400 stores

[@JoseOlalde]

@@jacobahejew6344 But how will go to Kmart? Everyone knows amazon, Walmart and Target sell the same things as Kmart but on a lower price. Not saying it will happen but if Kmart/Sears finds someone else that will take them out of bankruptcy. Then they will be save. But untill right now there is no way. They won't pay attention because they already made the decision to close Kmart and Sears in 2020.

[@kimberlykovach6236]

Always have faith....they just opened up 2 Toys R Us stores 😁 Yes, I know! Dream on 😔

[@ZachArmstrong02]

Saw Eddie just sold the Diehard brand he just taking it all away pretty soon there will be nothing left

[@ZachArmstrong02]

@Dusk Raccoon Yea Kenmore will be gone next Eddie don't care anything about the company just the money The more stores he closes the bigger the tax breaks he will get

[@ZachArmstrong02]

@Dusk Raccoon It's almost to the end I don't think they will make it past 2020

[@clairelfhs02]

Sorry, Mr. Blue Light, but Kmart Smart ain't that smart...at least not now anymore. Cool video!

[@anandguruji83]

R.I.P BIG KMART IN NORTH VERSAILLES, PENNSYLVANIA

[@anandguruji83]

R.I.P BIG KMART IN NORTH VERSAILLES, PENNSYLVANIA

[@crystalscan2002]

its werid how they left all the registers normally they get all the registers and stuf

[@sidsid124]

Kmart why though 😭I miss kmart so much from all rhe way El Paso tx

[@garbage854]

WOW!!

[@wessleyk7382]

That location Needs to be updated on your video because they are making that into a U-Haul And storage place go check it out

[@michaelblair5767]

They just recently tore down what was the Plymouth Michigan Kmart

[@michaelblair5767]

They had Kmart warehouse just up the street

[@LoveClassicMusic0205]

@@michaelblair5767 That warehouse has been closed for years. I believe it closed not long after their first bankruptcy.

[@michaelblair5767]

Does the word had mean anything to you

[@LoveClassicMusic0205]

@@michaelblair5767 No need to be snarky. I was just pointing out that it's been closed for a long time. The store only closed less than 3 years ago.

[@michaelblair5767]

Ok do you know when the toys r us warehouse closed too by any chance

[@JD-tl7ld]

They finally closed the one in my hometown just before Christmas this year. It was funny, our store was a store out of time. It was literally like walking into a time warp and being back in the past 30 years. They never changed anything, never put a dime into the store, and it had a run down ghetto feeling. The die hard Walmart haters were the only ones that shopped there anymore, and they took to the local facebook pages to bitch about the going out of sale prices not being good, and how the Walmart put them out of business. It didn't seem to matter that this Kmart put the local Truvalue out of business, as well as a regional chain called Bigwheel. They also forget that Walmart popped up here like 15 years ago.

[@drfalcon4102]

A lot of truckers perfer to park in abandoned places like that, first easy access, second Less Lot lizards, my son parks his in a abandoned food lion, no biggie,,

[@peanuts_ma8965]

Well, you can still order online.

[@THEJORDANLONGCHANNEL]

I WENT TO THAT Kmart

[@brianleeper5737]

The net is to keep birds from nesting in there

[@garyholt369]

I don't understand why didn't he just try to sell Kmart to another person

[@syxepop]

Ask Vulture Eddie, he's "so weird"....

[@jackson5116]

he wanted their land. MSNBC themselves even said that Lampert viewed the value of the real estate to be worth saving in 2003. That's why he's been closing profitable stores, and selling off their land/leases. Horrible way to run a retail chain, because it's literally cutting off what you need to survive!

[@exploringretail2772]

January 27th to be exact

[@melodybeitzel5378]

There is one super kmart in Forsyth County North Carolina which i believe is closing .

[@spongebobsquarepants725]

i thought all the super kmarts closed already

[@melodybeitzel5378]

@@spongebobsquarepants725 i thought they did too , if it hasnt closed already

[@samma1999]

There are no more Super Kmarts. The last super kmart was in Warren, Ohio. It closed 2 years ago.

[@melodybeitzel5378]

@@samma1999 even in North Carolina ?

[@samma1999]

@@melodybeitzel5378 yes. There is a ton of news about the last super k. Google it and search it on youtube. A lot of people did videos documenting it in Warren, Ohio. A Super Kmart is not like a regular kmart. They are massive and have large grocery sections. They were very similar to Walmarts.

[@wessleyk7382]

They are marking this a uhaul store

[@adamsATSfan415]

Fun fact this was supposed to be a superkmart but failed

[@joeyloyer2366]

my grandma her bank rub store

[@salnaturile8653]

I was thinking the pronunciation should be like it's French namesake, Ver - sigh, rather than Ver-sails, but I guess not!

[@paulabiggs4392]

Ver sales is the Pittsburgh pronunciation 😊

[@robertmcevoy24]

Keep shopping online and it will be all gone

[@WinDogeFromYouTube]

Wallie you will not believe what I found in my grandpa's truck on a key chain, ask me about it and I will tell you what I found