An extended 1978 television ad for Kmart, including promotion of their new store in Solon, Ohio.
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@samtracy80726 жыл бұрын
If department stores suddenly started making commercials like this again, it would legit attract a lot of attention because it'd be seen as "innovative" because nobody has been making musical-type/cheesy commercials like this for a while! Plus, it'd create brand recognition cause the jingle is catchy and people would memorize it and sing it, thus popularizing the store. Essentially, the store or brand would become a part of pop culture.
@trickolas78 Жыл бұрын
People don’t watch commercials unless its vintage commercials on youtube lol
@hume7171 Жыл бұрын
Those times were better than today especially 70's and 80's better quality for families
@PTEC Жыл бұрын
Old Navy certainly tried Dec 2022 😬
@The70sChick7 ай бұрын
@@trickolas78Because the vintage commercials are far more entertaining than the junk they waste money on today.
@niks_crazy_world6 жыл бұрын
The Kmart in this commercial has since closed down :(
@philipdefibaugh56833 жыл бұрын
So has the Kmart in my area. Before it closed about 3 years ago, it was filthy inside and the employees were rude as hell. The building years later is still standing abandoned. I wish another tenant would go in or they tear the building down, I hate seeing buildings like that empty, such an eyesore.
@loydkline4686 Жыл бұрын
Surprise, really, ❤️ kmart popcorn, toys, shoes ,
@orvillemeadows3492 Жыл бұрын
No really I can’t imagine why
@NS-Sirens4 ай бұрын
It’s now burned down lol
@3devGamingROBLOX2 ай бұрын
It’s demolished now😮
@lexbeltran13546 жыл бұрын
Kmart brings back a lot of childhood memories for me. Sad that they are gone.
@Variety19854 жыл бұрын
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA ... the LAST Kmart store in the entire state! All Sears stores in NORTH DAKOTA have CLOSED!! ONLINE SHOPPING is DOING HARM to LOCAL TOWNS and LOCAL JOBS ... and, if you have a SMALL BUSINESS wanting to sell online you are now required to follow more GOVERNMENT RED TAPE and CONSUMERS are made to PAY MORE TAXES!! (see LETTER TO THE EDITOR ... LINK below) DON'T BE FOOLED ... these big stores WANT YOU to SHOP ONLINE and they are happy to CLOSE MORE STORES if they can. Why have several hundred stores in the U.S. serving LOCAL COMMUNITIES and provide LOCAL JOBS ... just have two or three WAREHOUSES to do the very same thing! Having NO stores allow businesses to make a lot more profit with less overhead ... but expect HIGHER PRICES with less stores to compete with them. Most of these warehouse jobs can be moved to Mexico for even CHEAPER LABOR costs ... ROBOTS are already doing the work in these warehouses. And think of all that TRASH ("packaging") you toss from ordering online!!! SHOP LOCAL and see what you are buying and help SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY and LOCAL JOBS, too. And, to add to this LETTER ... are all those businesses in China that ship to U.S. states also COLLECTING and REPORTING the SALES TAX or are they void of the burden now facing small businesses in the U.S.? www.journaltrib.com/articles/commentary/online-sales-tax-collections-challenged-2/?fbclid=IwAR1CQtNLHmje05-DePJocFoWoR0r-VnymbYyBkiWxjiwtFii5fUT4369rc4
@michaelcornett444 Жыл бұрын
@@Variety1985 Sears' downfall was due to mismanagement; that's well known. Their CEO had weird ideas of how to make a business work (including making the departments compete against each other....WHY???) that ultimately shot the company in the foot. By the end the CEO was openly lining his pockets with the sale of corporate properties....he singlehandedly brought down the company, nobody said no to him, and he walked away a multimillionaire. Kmart's merger with Sears was a huge mistake as it accelerated the failure of both companies. Kmart has also bought Borders Books and ruined that with mismanagement; I knew people who worked there who were bewildered by the corporate decision-making and knew the axe was going to fall.
@scottr34846 ай бұрын
Keep voting the DemoRATS in. No symphony from me
@michaelcornett4444 ай бұрын
@@Variety1985 The problem with Sears is that the chain was very badly mismanaged and later had a board that was more interested in lining their own pockets than helping the business survive.
@EvilDarkCow5 жыл бұрын
Catchy earworm of a song, great choreography, and some pretty darn good camerawork. I know that if I were around then, I definitely would've thought about this commercial while driving past a KMart. They don't make them like this anymore.
@michaelbowie32699 жыл бұрын
Sadly, I sang this jingle when I was a child and looked it up on KZbin just today.
@shanerollins37366 жыл бұрын
ME TOO! Of course, my nostalgia is finding this online when I was a "kid" about ten years ago, so yours is way better. It's a shame when I'm singing this for my kids, I'll have to hear them ask "What's KMart?"
@DrFrankensteam4 жыл бұрын
Did the same thing! Lol!
@smithys_exploration2 жыл бұрын
@@shanerollins3736 I'm a kid (sort of) and I know what Kmart is, Kmart is legendary. You need to make sure your kids know a lot about Kmart.
@GoGetEm19778 жыл бұрын
The first K-Mart was built in my home town of Garden City Michigan and as this video shows, it had a complete major appliance dept. I also bought my first couple bowling balls there and they even custom drilled the finger holes. Had a full sized restaurant called the "K-Mart Cafeteria" that served fresh cooked meals. It is still in operation, but sadly has been updated with the small junk food cafe and has gone down hill from K-Mart glory days in the 1960's-1990's.
@Jman9267 жыл бұрын
There was a restaurant in the Kmart I grew up near (Hyannis, MA) and is was called simply the GRILL. In the 90s (I think) it was replaced by a "K Cafe" (Little Caesars) which has since become the baby diaper shit department....
@chargermaster36767 жыл бұрын
GoGetEm1977 now they closed the garden city Michigan Kmart the first location no longer exists instantly can tell it was 1978 by the rolls royce. shown in front of the Kmart
@mysocalledknife074 жыл бұрын
I remember those K Mart kitchens in the 80's in NJ. Some of the best meals I've ever had, and everyone laughed at me when I told them how good it was.
@andrewps842 жыл бұрын
Okemos had the cafeteria too…hot and fresh meals whenever you wanted.
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
@@chargermaster3676 2 minor nitpicks: The car is a Bentley (Basically the same concept as Buick VS Cadillac, Bently was the SLIGHTLY cheaper Rolls-Royce as a Buick then was a SLIGHTLY cheaper Cadillac then.) and the car is in front of the "Hotel Franklyn", I assume a chauffeur was ready to whisk the owner to the Kmart for the values. That's NOT a stretch either: The Trumps were "caught" shopping at Kmart in the 1990s! "The Donald" drove his own Mercedes-Benz to the Kmart though.
@elineff38958 жыл бұрын
I wish Kmart still looked like this one in the video, looked like everybody cared about not only the store, but their customers too. TOTAL opposite then nowadays
@chargermaster36767 жыл бұрын
ELI NEFF once apon a time before best buy target and the internet people shopped at sears and Kmart.
@melissaann14014 жыл бұрын
The customer abandoned Kmart before kmart abandoned the customer
@philipdefibaugh56833 жыл бұрын
@@melissaann1401 both abandoned each other.
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
@@chargermaster3676 K Mart, then a division of the S.S. Kresge Company started in 1962. Target and Wal*F**k also started that SAME YEAR. Eddie Lampert DESTROYED K Mart (And Sears) as part of a REAL ESTATE scheme.
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
@@melissaann1401 I never left K Mart, the closest Wally*World to me was 1/2 the size of my closest K Mart!. So, Wally's was NOT EVEN on my list of places to shop. I'd STILL be going to K Mart...Except It's been DESTROYED by Eddie Dumpert.
@KyleHartley_crazybangles6 жыл бұрын
Love this commercial! Very catchy jingle, but the fact that they are dancing on the roof near the end is just beyond me. Nobody does that anymore. Anyway, great commercial! Love it!
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
I can't say this about EVERY Kmart. But I worked at a VERY early one (Opened 1963!) and 2/3 of the stock was on the SECOND FLOOR (Not just "in the back"). There was also an access hatch up there to get on the roof. So, this ad was quite "doable" without any "effects" or special equipment to get up there! As far as I know, Modern "big box" stores Like Wally*World are only 1 level. There were lots of hidden corners up there. Several coworkers were known to be having...Umm...Errr Personal "Blue Light Specials" upstairs! LOL. There was a LOT going on behind that huge K Mart logo! AH... The old days!
@bluesky4385 Жыл бұрын
The USA sucks now for retail. There is nothing but Walmart and Target as the major discount dept stores. There use to be a number of other discount dept stores and they are all out of business now. Then and this is pathetic Dollar General and Dollar Tree. Many areas of the country don't even have a Target. All they have is Walmart and Dollar General. I doubt there is a Kmart left in the USA. Every Mall in the country is either dead or dying, or is in the process of being turned into something else. I really don't think the country has to be like this. It's a sign of how a society has changed for the worse. There is next to nothing for competition in business in America anymore. I wish there was a Kmart around still. I'd go in to buy something and just for the nostalgia of better times.
@DP-hy4vh5 жыл бұрын
Recognized two of the actors in this commercial; The singing guy in the suit played the bartender on The Jeffersons. The construction worker looking through the tire played Sgt. Zale on M*A*S*H.
@philipdefibaugh56833 жыл бұрын
I was right then, the singer is the same guy from the Jeffersons and the Super Mario Supershow. Danny Wells I think is his name.
@BradRoss633 жыл бұрын
@@philipdefibaugh5683 I just Googled him and was surprised to find out he was Canadian. The way he sings that jingle, I thought perhaps he was a Southern boy. Love this jingle - actually the whole commercial is great. Kmart was my favorite place for toys when I was a kid in Calgary, Alberta in the late '60s/early '70s.
@gnashvillecat66543 жыл бұрын
I thought he looked like a young Ray Stevens.........lol
@fromthesidelines2 жыл бұрын
Johnny Haymer was the "construction worker".
@armorybrunotjr.32042 жыл бұрын
That is Danny Wells, who was Charley the Bartender from "The Jeffersons" as the singing store manager.
@CAUGHTUINTHEACT10 жыл бұрын
This was in the good ole days when moms shopped at Kmart for your school clothes. Nowadays, everything has to have 'The North Face" on it or they won't wear it.
@davidmitchell6873 Жыл бұрын
I remember when you could get a Hershey and a cherry fizz for a nickel.
@QuadMochaMatti Жыл бұрын
The cool cheeky kids were wearing "The South Butt" apparel at the time of your comment.
@zrrifle.3 жыл бұрын
When ads were still classy, catchy and entertaining.
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
Catchy IS the word, This "jingle" has been rattling around in my head for 45 years! (along with various beer ads from the '70s, LOL).
@davidmitchell6873 Жыл бұрын
I remember when you could get a Hershey and a cherry fizz for a nickel.
@CybernautZero Жыл бұрын
That's the nostalgia talking. Ads have always sucked.
@racheljohnson2219 Жыл бұрын
I agree. Even though I wasn’t born in this time, I can say that the commercials and ads now are terrible!
@pillbox12409 ай бұрын
That’s classy? It’s fun to watch because it reminds me of how pathetic people were 50 years ago
@ghostrepublic13 жыл бұрын
The guy who is leading the crowd is actor Danny Wells (aka Charlie the bartender on The Jeffersons)
@leeann31711 ай бұрын
Wow a commercial for a retail store instead of a big pharma medication!
@erickrobertson70898 ай бұрын
I miss commercials with showmanship.
@fromthesidelines2 жыл бұрын
The opening scenes on the "neighborhood block" was actually on the backlot of the Columbia {Warner} Ranch- where all the exteriors of their Screen Gems sitcoms were filmed from the 1950's through the 1970's {"FATHER KNOWS BEST", "THE DONNA REED SHOW", "DENNIS THE MENACE", "HAZEL", "BEWITCHED", "I DREAM OF JEANNIE", et. al.}.
@sears1211 Жыл бұрын
That's pretty interesting
@TruSoulDj3 жыл бұрын
Never realized how much this sounds like a Gospel song. I guess that’s why I loved it so much. And Danny Well’s voice is reminiscent of BJ Thomas (“Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” and Growing Pains theme song)
@michianaelevators25829 жыл бұрын
Dreams do come true at Kmart!!
@minnesotaoutdoorwarningsirens4 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@SteveL-qw4rp9 ай бұрын
luigi
@12lfme12 Жыл бұрын
That's the guy who sells Whopper Choppers.
@zaq552 ай бұрын
Danny Wells
@WildDieWoodard12 жыл бұрын
FYI, much of this was shot on the Warner Bros. Ranch backlot in Burbank, CA (I worked on that lot for almost 10 years) and as far as I can tell, that's the Burbank, CA K-Mart which is STILL there!
@DP-hy4vh5 жыл бұрын
Not anymore. They're closing this year.
@dreamcicle197720065 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid, K mart looked like what was in the video. When I was young, it was the place to go before Walmart was even though about. In Erie, we had 4 K Marts at one time and one in Meadville as well. Now three of them and Meadville are permanently closed. The last K Mart in Erie (West 26th & Peninsula) is closing March, I believe. I'm very surprised that location held on as it did. When I was in that K Mart last year, it made me very sad. It looked nothing like it was, but everyone was friendly though..
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
I am also from PA. Although Kmart and Walmart BOTH began in 1962, I never even HEARD of Walmart until the 1990s! Kmart was KING. The big competitors to Kmart in my (Pittsburgh) area were Zayre, Hill's and G.C. Murphy.
@dreamcicle197720062 жыл бұрын
@@jamesslick4790 Walmart wasn't introduced in Erie (Pa) until about 1995, and another in 1999. Both stores relocated to newly built supercenters years later. Since then, more Walmart supercenters sprouted up in Erie, and nearby towns, like weeds. As for KMart, we lost them one by one. The last location closed in 2018, so we have not more here. I also heard only a couple exist now in the country. I liked KMart, because the employees were always friendly, and knew what they were doing. Walmart is a different story.
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
@@dreamcicle19772006 "Walmart is a different story". You got THAT right. I went to a Wal*Fart (as an "emergency") to buy some cheap earbuds, so I could listen to a podcast (so the CHEAPEST would have been fine...) It took almost 45 mins to get someone to open the damned locked up $10 earbuds... Really?!?! Next time I'll get that kinda shit at "Five Below". 🤦♂️
@sunsetshimmer50387 жыл бұрын
Even though K mart is dying at least it had some good times
@anthonymeans74394 жыл бұрын
It did!Lot to memories for a lot of american families!
@lexbeltran13543 жыл бұрын
People who grew up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, it was a part of their daily lives
@philipdefibaugh56833 жыл бұрын
Walmart and the Internet badly damaged Kmart. Target will be next thanks to Covid.
@spartanumismatics81653 жыл бұрын
@@lexbeltran1354 even in the early 2000s
@usa0213 жыл бұрын
The ending v/o for the K-Mart Ad was former longtime WJW FOX-8 announcer and WEWS Alumni, Bill Ward.
@CrestwoodRocks3 жыл бұрын
Yes. He was at WEWS TV5 at the time he announced the ending of the Kmart commercial.
@phillymamba27914 ай бұрын
This brings back so many memories. Loved this commercial as a kid
@951oct6 жыл бұрын
Sing it for me children
@michaelbowie32696 жыл бұрын
Still singing.
@sirekumasutra70223 жыл бұрын
Who knew Luigi had pipes?
@Youngstown5295 жыл бұрын
Solon (Ohio) Kmart closed in 2014 after being rebranded as a Sears Grand.
@martint85724 жыл бұрын
It is now an Aldi and Hobby Lobby.
@Youngstown5294 жыл бұрын
@@martint8572 Hobby Lobby owned by Jesus freaks!
@albear97212 жыл бұрын
Wow! this looks like the North Hollywood K-Mart store on Sherman Way! Still to this day. Even has the gigantic AC vents on the ceiling as this one and the walkway outside.
@kevinc19685 жыл бұрын
no more kmart where I live...miss that store...
@Variety19854 жыл бұрын
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA ... the LAST Kmart store in the entire state! All Sears stores in NORTH DAKOTA have CLOSED!! ONLINE SHOPPING is DOING HARM to LOCAL TOWNS and LOCAL JOBS ... and, if you have a SMALL BUSINESS wanting to sell online you are now required to follow more GOVERNMENT RED TAPE and CONSUMERS are made to PAY MORE TAXES!! (see LETTER TO THE EDITOR ... LINK below) DON'T BE FOOLED ... these big stores WANT YOU to SHOP ONLINE and they are happy to CLOSE MORE STORES if they can. Why have several hundred stores in the U.S. serving LOCAL COMMUNITIES and provide LOCAL JOBS ... just have two or three WAREHOUSES to do the very same thing! Having NO stores allow businesses to make a lot more profit with less overhead ... but expect HIGHER PRICES with less stores to compete with them. Most of these warehouse jobs can be moved to Mexico for even CHEAPER LABOR costs ... ROBOTS are already doing the work in these warehouses. And think of all that TRASH ("packaging") you toss from ordering online!!! SHOP LOCAL and see what you are buying and help SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY and LOCAL JOBS, too. And, to add to this LETTER ... are all those businesses in China that ship to U.S. states also COLLECTING and REPORTING the SALES TAX or are they void of the burden now facing small businesses in the U.S.? www.journaltrib.com/articles/commentary/online-sales-tax-collections-challenged-2/?fbclid=IwAR1CQtNLHmje05-DePJocFoWoR0r-VnymbYyBkiWxjiwtFii5fUT4369rc4
@scottr34846 ай бұрын
Glad that store is GONE along with Sears. All where dumps.
@markwicker26642 ай бұрын
Maybe the greatest commercial of all time.
@jamescombs83163 жыл бұрын
The USA in better times...I think I need a hanky....
@dmana31729 жыл бұрын
Let keep it going for us Kmart! :))
@chargermaster36767 жыл бұрын
dmana3172 Kmart the Wal-Mart of the 1960s and 1970s.
@Joyjoy-ih1ie4 ай бұрын
RIP. Your memories carry on. 💗
@cade32X Жыл бұрын
The guy in the ad is Danny Wells, a.k.a. Luigi from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show.
@williamnimbach64194 жыл бұрын
I miss kmart!! They started going down hill tho and getting cheap about things!! Kmart with the kmart cafe used to be where it was at!!! I loved that place!!! I miss kmart from back in the day more and more as the years go by!!
@paulaward67646 жыл бұрын
My mom loved Kmart and gibsons
@bobonit77879 жыл бұрын
This was shot at the same studios of Bewitched, I Dream Genie and many others!
@NYC16 жыл бұрын
Those good old days
@mrg85813 жыл бұрын
Garden City Kmart no longer exists. It was demolished earlier this year.
@jeffmissinne386611 жыл бұрын
A great mixture of salesmanship and salesmanship! Wish commercials were still this much fun instead of herniating themselves trying to be "cool."
@krunkle51362 жыл бұрын
I love how they even have working class people with hard hats singing in a K Mart.
@westonhuffman79088 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful commercial, it's too bad that K-Mart is dying.
@arnowrld8 жыл бұрын
It's not their fault, blame Sears!
@pafootball0757 жыл бұрын
Aaron Olden The blame is not on the fault of Sears but from many different fronts. The brand was already bubbling up before and after the merger, and the CEO did not make matters better. The company is on a gradual decline, with only a handful of stores that make a residual effort at keeping their brand profitable. It will go down at some point within a five-ten year period, as the company has made more off of real estate transactions and brand leasing to third party companies. I know of a few that have worked for the company since the 1970's, and I feel it for them. I just hope corporate does not ravage pensions and retirement funds for those who contributed to the finest hours of their company.
@myusernameissoobnoxiouslyl14667 жыл бұрын
Sears's CEO will go down as the worst administrator in business history. He killed off two successful giants....
@excavatoree6 жыл бұрын
Sears didn't Force Kmart to buy them.
@ErickGainesSanders4 жыл бұрын
Alas, the last Kmart stores in Ohio closed earlier this year: North Canton, Massillon and Tallmadge. I miss it so much.
@davinp6 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1978. My childhood Kmart opened in 1980 and closed in 2014. They lost customers to the nearby Walmart.
@W4ZFN4 жыл бұрын
This needs to be played at a kmart when the store is about to close for good as a way to go out with people uniting to sing this great old tune!
@TiltedTripodMedia Жыл бұрын
while traveling the country to document all the Kmarts there was one store on closing day that played one of the Kmart jingles and everyone joined it it was amazing but incredibly hard to witness emotionally.
@W4ZFN Жыл бұрын
@@TiltedTripodMedia I appreciate your response! It's nice to hear that a store actually did that, even though it must have been a bittersweet moment for everyone involved. It must have been a touching tribute to the employees who dedicated years of their lives to that location. Such a cool event would have undoubtedly created lasting memories for all those present. Also, I had a look at your channel and I have seen your content before as outside of youtube I am a big nerd when it comes to Urban Exploration and Showbiz as I'm from the Orlando FL area and which my parents know of EX Showbiz Voice actors such as Jeff Howell and see them frequently. Wish you nothing but the best in creating content and enjoy documenting history around the globe.
@TiltedTripodMedia Жыл бұрын
@@W4ZFN wow thanks man that was a very kind comet
@MikeAinslie694207 ай бұрын
@@TiltedTripodMedia What store was that?
@TiltedTripodMedia7 ай бұрын
@@MikeAinslie69420 I don’t remember off hand I’d have to go back through the hundreds of stores I visited and documented over the last 5+ years.
@skywolfx764 жыл бұрын
rest in peace. guess there was no room in the big world for the K-mart chain
@excuseyou7710 жыл бұрын
I miss Kmart. There are none here in my area anymore.
@danfifepsu10 жыл бұрын
where you from then? is it somewhere in the SOuth as that area lost Many of their Kmarts.
@54CFC9 жыл бұрын
The Kmart stores here in SE MI are closing left and right.
@danfifepsu8 жыл бұрын
why in MI cause of more and more Meijers are there?
@54CFC8 жыл бұрын
daniel fife I know both Kmart and Meijer were started here in Michigan. When Kmart was in business here in SE MI; the stores were almost always vacant. Know if I want to go to Kmart I have to go 30-40 minutes out of the way.
@danfifepsu8 жыл бұрын
but meijers seems to do more than Kmart, Kmart has just sat there, some remodeled stores have closed, showing Kmart is just too far gone
@devinbiz Жыл бұрын
Such a shame that at some point, KMart just stopped making an effort
@TheXtro10110 жыл бұрын
I was going to Kmart starting back during the late 1970's when I was a young little kid 10 years before hearing about & going to Target.
@lisadillon369810 жыл бұрын
I miss our kmart they closed 4 in our area and 2more in december
@Variety19854 жыл бұрын
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA ... the LAST Kmart store in the entire state! All Sears stores in NORTH DAKOTA have CLOSED!! ONLINE SHOPPING is DOING HARM to LOCAL TOWNS and LOCAL JOBS ... and, if you have a SMALL BUSINESS wanting to sell online you are now required to follow more GOVERNMENT RED TAPE and CONSUMERS are made to PAY MORE TAXES!! (see LETTER TO THE EDITOR ... LINK below) DON'T BE FOOLED ... these big stores WANT YOU to SHOP ONLINE and they are happy to CLOSE MORE STORES if they can. Why have several hundred stores in the U.S. serving LOCAL COMMUNITIES and provide LOCAL JOBS ... just have two or three WAREHOUSES to do the very same thing! Having NO stores allow businesses to make a lot more profit with less overhead ... but expect HIGHER PRICES with less stores to compete with them. Most of these warehouse jobs can be moved to Mexico for even CHEAPER LABOR costs ... ROBOTS are already doing the work in these warehouses. And think of all that TRASH ("packaging") you toss from ordering online!!! SHOP LOCAL and see what you are buying and help SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY and LOCAL JOBS, too. And, to add to this LETTER ... are all those businesses in China that ship to U.S. states also COLLECTING and REPORTING the SALES TAX or are they void of the burden now facing small businesses in the U.S.? www.journaltrib.com/articles/commentary/online-sales-tax-collections-challenged-2/?fbclid=IwAR1CQtNLHmje05-DePJocFoWoR0r-VnymbYyBkiWxjiwtFii5fUT4369rc4
@GEMINITREKKER7 жыл бұрын
Great Commercial from the 70's!
@matty14523 жыл бұрын
Happy 59th anniversary from Kmart!
@justme-ll1qz4 жыл бұрын
Good lord , all I remember at my K-Mart growing up was that blue light special thing ,and people stampeding towards it
@ShakespeareCafe2 ай бұрын
I kry every time I enter a Walmart. Kmart was the best.
@BillWilson8310 жыл бұрын
My local Kmart just closed up 2 weeks ago. Kmart hasn't been on the same level as Walmart since the 90s IMO. I really think where Kmart failed was not upgrading its stores to Super Centers like Walmart did, nor did they build any new stores. Not that I didn't like my Kmart cause it still felt like being in the 80s or 90s with all the old lights it had hanging from above, and the same old floor tile and carpet.
@danfifepsu8 жыл бұрын
+Bill Wilson they tried that and that failed.
@papasmurfsmurfy63605 жыл бұрын
Bill Wilson The Kmart in this video is now closed.
@venom747992 жыл бұрын
Ahh a time where you didn’t have to worry about shootings, fights, and rampant theft in stores while shopping.
@ronp10188 жыл бұрын
My local Kmart store in Bridgeton Missouri is alive and well.
@whoasuckaa6 жыл бұрын
Ron Peterson Not any more. Bridgetown, MO closed January, 2018.
@jackson51165 жыл бұрын
@@whoasuckaa all but 1 in the St Louis region (Crystal City) are now closed.
@Variety19854 жыл бұрын
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA ... the LAST Kmart store in the entire state! All Sears stores in NORTH DAKOTA have CLOSED!! ONLINE SHOPPING is DOING HARM to LOCAL TOWNS and LOCAL JOBS ... and, if you have a SMALL BUSINESS wanting to sell online you are now required to follow more GOVERNMENT RED TAPE and CONSUMERS are made to PAY MORE TAXES!! (see LETTER TO THE EDITOR ... LINK below) DON'T BE FOOLED ... these big stores WANT YOU to SHOP ONLINE and they are happy to CLOSE MORE STORES if they can. Why have several hundred stores in the U.S. serving LOCAL COMMUNITIES and provide LOCAL JOBS ... just have two or three WAREHOUSES to do the very same thing! Having NO stores allow businesses to make a lot more profit with less overhead ... but expect HIGHER PRICES with less stores to compete with them. Most of these warehouse jobs can be moved to Mexico for even CHEAPER LABOR costs ... ROBOTS are already doing the work in these warehouses. And think of all that TRASH ("packaging") you toss from ordering online!!! SHOP LOCAL and see what you are buying and help SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY and LOCAL JOBS, too. And, to add to this LETTER ... are all those businesses in China that ship to U.S. states also COLLECTING and REPORTING the SALES TAX or are they void of the burden now facing small businesses in the U.S.? www.journaltrib.com/articles/commentary/online-sales-tax-collections-challenged-2/?fbclid=IwAR1CQtNLHmje05-DePJocFoWoR0r-VnymbYyBkiWxjiwtFii5fUT4369rc4
@AkiraLionPilot8 жыл бұрын
It's frickin Luigi.
@cdp20177 жыл бұрын
Makes me want to get an icee and some popcorn. And what's the blue light special today? Plus browse the 8 tracks!
@janejayne81524 жыл бұрын
Yes ! The Blue Light Specials , ha ha ha !! Blast from the past.
@pizzaeaterlegostudio24054 жыл бұрын
0:19 the nostalgic Kmart logo.
@haileygrove.5 жыл бұрын
This commercial didn’t make me ship my pants
@ericpurkey75025 жыл бұрын
Sad news Sears to close 80 stores by the end of the year leaving 114 stores that will close in 2020 thus the end of kmart after a 58 year run.
@Variety19854 жыл бұрын
@@ericpurkey7502 MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA ... the LAST Kmart store in the entire state! All Sears stores in NORTH DAKOTA have CLOSED!! ONLINE SHOPPING is DOING HARM to LOCAL TOWNS and LOCAL JOBS ... and, if you have a SMALL BUSINESS wanting to sell online you are now required to follow more GOVERNMENT RED TAPE and CONSUMERS are made to PAY MORE TAXES!! (see LETTER TO THE EDITOR ... LINK below) DON'T BE FOOLED ... these big stores WANT YOU to SHOP ONLINE and they are happy to CLOSE MORE STORES if they can. Why have several hundred stores in the U.S. serving LOCAL COMMUNITIES and provide LOCAL JOBS ... just have two or three WAREHOUSES to do the very same thing! Having NO stores allow businesses to make a lot more profit with less overhead ... but expect HIGHER PRICES with less stores to compete with them. Most of these warehouse jobs can be moved to Mexico for even CHEAPER LABOR costs ... ROBOTS are already doing the work in these warehouses. And think of all that TRASH ("packaging") you toss from ordering online!!! SHOP LOCAL and see what you are buying and help SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY and LOCAL JOBS, too. And, to add to this LETTER ... are all those businesses in China that ship to U.S. states also COLLECTING and REPORTING the SALES TAX or are they void of the burden now facing small businesses in the U.S.? www.journaltrib.com/articles/commentary/online-sales-tax-collections-challenged-2/?fbclid=IwAR1CQtNLHmje05-DePJocFoWoR0r-VnymbYyBkiWxjiwtFii5fUT4369rc4
@youdontknowme59692 жыл бұрын
the sad thing is, my kmart still looked a lot like that inside when it closed down for good around 2015...
@tkaye213 жыл бұрын
Give me that ol' time Kmart religion! There must be a cast of about 30 people here... this was a pretty elaborate production for a one-minute spot! I'd guess they used it any time they were opening stores in an market -- and they opened a lot of them in those days. I wonder if the Solon Kmart is even in business anymore.
@GummyDinosaursify5 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, it's not. If you google it, you get videos of people exploring it.
@Variety19854 жыл бұрын
Kmart "religion" ... "K-men"
@aaronhuffman485211 ай бұрын
I thinks it a hobby lobby now
@2011paramedic11 жыл бұрын
i wish that all of the KMART stores were back and open again in my hometown city of texas in SAn Antonio Bexar County
@Trey32683 жыл бұрын
They knew a place...
@ricardocarrero82437 ай бұрын
I ain't complaining .....gospel music for a shopping center ......well ...😂
@tuxedomark12 жыл бұрын
@ghostrepublic Also Luigi from "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"
@KmartCult5 жыл бұрын
Great ad, I love it.
@donhawk576311 жыл бұрын
Yes! Can I get a K-men?
@whatdidoursurveysay5 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna steal this and use it someday.
@doctorwhofan63404 жыл бұрын
K-men brother! Long live kmart! Even in death it shall live on!
@Billtexan3 жыл бұрын
K-men
@Ash-uo8sp3 жыл бұрын
K-men!
@mrbubetube10 жыл бұрын
Kmart should bring back the big red K with the small turquoise mart sign. It's unique and distinctive, unlike their current logo which is dull and looks exactly the same and as bland as the target and walmart signs. They fixed nothing by changing that sign, they just broke it. why?
@jsb07149 жыл бұрын
So very much this!
@marcosanchez1037 жыл бұрын
are you talking about the k with the word mart inside of the k
@mrbubetube7 жыл бұрын
Marco Sanchez kmart needs to just lay down and die and get it over with
@thisisabadchannel.stopsubs29527 жыл бұрын
mrbubetube NO SAVE THE BIG KMARTS MINE DIED FOR THE OTHERS!
@missmoxie91887 жыл бұрын
mrbubetube it's too late
@lazerpeabody80627 жыл бұрын
rip Kmart 1899 to 2019/ 2021/2022 with only 9 stores left in America
@jackson51165 жыл бұрын
Looks like it'll be at least 1899-2019, as it's guaranteed to make it through Jan 1, 2019. But beyond that, who knows.
@brianhoward39475 жыл бұрын
The fact that they filed chapter 11 instead of 7. Means they will restructure the company and rebuild/reorganise. I'm confident K-MART, will make it! I'm sure SS KRESGE ...would be very disappointed! He made K-MART a retail GIANT!! and to see it today.....so sad!
@jackson51165 жыл бұрын
@@brianhoward3947 Toys R Us filed Chapter 11 before changing it to a Chapter 7, so 11's aren't guaranteed they'll figure it out, it's still has Fast Eddie involved, so who knows what he'll do...
@stephenholloway68935 жыл бұрын
They'll make it til at least 2020. But beyond that, we'll see.
@Ash-uo8sp3 жыл бұрын
@Jack Son Kmart had filed for Chapter 11 before back in 2002 after merging with Sears. So this isn't their first rodeo. It's true that previous brands like Toys R Us, Blockbuster, Ames, etc filed for chapter 11 before ending up filing for chapter 7 shortly after but in some cases, they come back in a newly revised form after different company buys the brand and the rights to the name, like what happened with Toys R Us. I believe that that'll be the case for kmart , they'll file for chapter 7 bankruptcy, shut down all their stores, some other company will buy the brand and the rights to the name, and relaunch kmart in a different form, probably a newly improved website.
@ELAW677 жыл бұрын
...cool upload...love Kmart...thanks.
@kurtkauffman432611 ай бұрын
All Kmart Stores across the Country are now closed.
@michaelcornett444 Жыл бұрын
Back in the 80s, when I had my first "real" job, I used to enjoy going to Kmart and looking for fun/cheap stuff, like cheap VHS copies of old movies. We shopped at Kmart a lot but we never mistook it for anything luxurious. I remember buying clothes there that fell apart after a few washings, or shoes that wore out in a couple of months. By 90s Target had come around, and Kmart came to be viewed as where the trailer trash went to shop. I'd moved by then and went to a Kmart in the new area and was very disappointed; lots of cheap garbage. Never went back. I visited my hometown Kmart a few years ago, just before it closed, and much to my surprise it was now "upscale" with higher prices. As of now (August 2023) there's only 20 Kmarts left in the US....4 in the Virgin Islands (!), 3 each in Puerto Rico, NY, and NJ, and one each in Guam, NC, IL, CA, VA, and MI.
@preschoolguy20106 жыл бұрын
Give me that Ol time K-Mart Religon!! Amen!!!
@Variety19854 жыл бұрын
"K-men!!!"
@robothunter10352 жыл бұрын
Kmart starts with a capital "K" and that rhymes with "A," and that stands for "pool."
@14DaveHunter4 жыл бұрын
Loved the late Danny Wells, as Charlie the Bartender and Luigi. It's just sad his legacy is connected to a dying company. A company that began killing itself, in the 1990s. Misguided management, that customers eventually saw.
@jacksoncollier59344 жыл бұрын
my dad was about 2 years old
@TiltedTripodMedia Жыл бұрын
WOW crazy to find one of the only copies of this commercial and it's the Kmart in the state I live in. Ive been there many times. Cool to see this after having documented hundreds of Kmarts across the country.
@philipdefibaugh56833 жыл бұрын
I think the singer in this commercial is the guy who played Luigi in the Super Mario Bros. Supershow.
@cade32X Жыл бұрын
Correct!
@timcombs27302 ай бұрын
I had a dream that I met former NFL commissioner Pete Rozell at the Kmart on 122nd in Portland Oregon. He looks a lot like the main guy in this commercial
@mikeymopar440 Жыл бұрын
S.S. Kresgee..( where the K in Kmart came from )..there was one for years in Brockton, MA at the corner of Main and School Street.
@jackson51162 жыл бұрын
Kmart was Walmart before Walmart was ever known. Kmart literally had it all, all you needed and all you wanted. It's a shame they couldn't hold onto that lead, slipping behind Walmart, then Target, now they're struggling for life, and signs are looking more and more like they won't survive.
@JimmyMichaelsMusic13 жыл бұрын
it's the future "charlie the bartender" from the jeffersons singing and leading the tune lol
@arthurharris3282 жыл бұрын
I was 4 year's old in 1978..my era was in the 1980
@ChristopherSobieniak11 жыл бұрын
Shame that it happens that way. The one just a mile from my house is still a Kmart after over 30 years.
@randyscott33865 жыл бұрын
This commercial alone could have saved K-mart and to think they used that creepy cartoon blue light character in their final years .
@usa0213 жыл бұрын
I used to shop there (the Solon location is now a Sears store) with my Mom alot when I was a kid including the one in Bainbridge on Route 306 across from McDonald's (which is still there known as "Big K-Mart).
@beneathdatrees0 Жыл бұрын
K-Mart was a magical place.
@barrontrump99172 жыл бұрын
I hear a blue light special!
@VectraQS3 жыл бұрын
This ad aired during the week of March 12, 1978. (The Solon store opened March 16th.)
@aliburns21503 жыл бұрын
How do you know?
@VectraQS3 жыл бұрын
@@aliburns2150 There's an excellent spreadsheet online that lists every Kmart location and what is known about it. Sources such as their own store directories and newspaper articles form the basis of the spreadsheet.
@aliburns21503 жыл бұрын
@@VectraQS Interesting, Since the American Kmart is closed down, we got a same version of Kmart in Australia.
@VectraQS3 жыл бұрын
@@aliburns2150 you're not going to believe this, but it's still around... with a grand total of *19* stores (down from 2500 at its peak in 1994). I give it two years max before it's completely gone. I read that Wesfarmers was planning to convert some 40 Target stores to Kmarts.
@aliburns21503 жыл бұрын
@@VectraQS It's like transferring a shop to one another.
@58twright Жыл бұрын
I miss Kmart
@stevent91794 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace K mart.
@chaaaargh Жыл бұрын
rip kmart 💔
@chrisdup35372 жыл бұрын
This has a southern church vibe
@sa3270 Жыл бұрын
First Baptist is your saving church...
@towardsthelight220 Жыл бұрын
The food supply was tainted back then. Look at how healthy everyone looked.
@The70sChick7 ай бұрын
It's sad that Kmart is three stores away from becoming extinct on the Northeastern part of the US. How many of us grew up with the wish book, not to mention the seasonal catalogs?
@DriftyAlison07 жыл бұрын
I have not had a kmart in my area since 2014 and in 2017 I got this jingle stuck in my head......help.
@Variety19854 жыл бұрын
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA ... the LAST Kmart store in the entire state! All Sears stores in NORTH DAKOTA have CLOSED!! ONLINE SHOPPING is DOING HARM to LOCAL TOWNS and LOCAL JOBS ... and, if you have a SMALL BUSINESS wanting to sell online you are now required to follow more GOVERNMENT RED TAPE and CONSUMERS are made to PAY MORE TAXES!! (see LETTER TO THE EDITOR ... LINK below) DON'T BE FOOLED ... these big stores WANT YOU to SHOP ONLINE and they are happy to CLOSE MORE STORES if they can. Why have several hundred stores in the U.S. serving LOCAL COMMUNITIES and provide LOCAL JOBS ... just have two or three WAREHOUSES to do the very same thing! Having NO stores allow businesses to make a lot more profit with less overhead ... but expect HIGHER PRICES with less stores to compete with them. Most of these warehouse jobs can be moved to Mexico for even CHEAPER LABOR costs ... ROBOTS are already doing the work in these warehouses. And think of all that TRASH ("packaging") you toss from ordering online!!! SHOP LOCAL and see what you are buying and help SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY and LOCAL JOBS, too. And, to add to this LETTER ... are all those businesses in China that ship to U.S. states also COLLECTING and REPORTING the SALES TAX or are they void of the burden now facing small businesses in the U.S.? www.journaltrib.com/articles/commentary/online-sales-tax-collections-challenged-2/?fbclid=IwAR1CQtNLHmje05-DePJocFoWoR0r-VnymbYyBkiWxjiwtFii5fUT4369rc4
@johnp40087 жыл бұрын
I see the guy from Super Mario Brothers & The Jeffersons as the singing store manager, & the guy from M*A*S*H as the telephone linesman.
@sirekumasutra70227 жыл бұрын
I thought that was Danny Wells. He is the guy who played Luigi on the Super Mario Bros Super Show.
@johnp40087 жыл бұрын
Well yeah, that's who I meant. He was also on the Jeffersons. Died recently, unfortunately.
@bro19656 жыл бұрын
The lineman was played by Johnny Haymer, who had a recurring role in M*A*S*H and also played an old-time comic in Annie Hall.
@MrMayDX086 жыл бұрын
Yes, Danny Wells was Charlie the Bartender on The Jeffersons. He also guest-starred on an episode of Sanford and Son (the episode where he cons Fred into selling tickets to win a cash prize that no one could win because the same number was on multiple tickets). Really great and underrated actor, one of those guys you may not know the name but you know the face.