Abandoned Kmart - Somerset, NJ

[@bjv93]

This was originally a W.T. Grant, looks like Kmart didn't change the building much since they bought it. So cool and vintage

[@PapipuJP]

I knew it was a Grant's by the exterior!

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

Wow! Never knew about Grant. I was thinking maybe a Rickel or Pathmark. Very unique and plain exterior.

[@elijahtorres2688]

Some Grants Kmarts did looked nice (decent later over the years, cause of age, obviously). They sort of had a department store feel to them, unlike other vintage Kmarts.

[@lindamikel7913]

Thank You Wallie and Kayla for Reaching for 46,000 Subscribers You are Awesome.

[@MariaLBD]

It was Grant's in the 1970s before it was KMart. Grant's had a little lunch counter inside that ran along the front of the store to the right of the entrance. The lunch counter was no longer there after Kmart took over. I don't remember the garden center being in use anymore when I worked there in the mid to late 80s. The restaurant on the corner was called Hunan Delight. If you continued around the corner of the restaurant and kept going, you'd see another door that was an emergency exit for Kmart.

[@christiangonzales7429]

The writing is on the wall for Kmart now. TransformCo announced they are seeking tenants to fill their last 3 remaining stores.

[@gaylenewood7707]

Well quincy Illinois had finally sold the kmart building to someone who is gonna put two different stores in the building just glad someone finally gonna do something with the building now for the old Jack's store I hope they find somebody to buy it as well.

[@gaylenewood7707]

Well quincy Illinois had finally sold the kmart building to someone who is gonna put two different stores in the building just glad someone finally gonna do something with the building now for the old Jack's store I hope they find somebody to buy it as well.

[@Rob_1515]

I find your videos very relaxing and enjoyable! Thanks for the great content.

[@bobimbordino3024]

It’s sad seeing my childhood stores going under. I grew up shopping at Kmart & sears. Thank you for sharing. Gave me great memories with my mom.

[@davidsquires154]

Hi Wallie and Kayla, Congratulations on your 46,000 Subscribers ! Kroger, has been looking at Detroit, Michigan area Kmart's stores for years. And, Meijer has been looking at the State of Ohio Kmart's stores for years.

[@ElCalamardo69]

Another blast from the past! Thanks for sharing!

[@nicolemacpherson3908]

Wow! 3 Kmarts in one trip! You're very lucky! 😀😀

[@BarryBlaxtone]

As several others commented, this was indeed a WT Grant (aka: Grant City) before KMart moved in. I grew up right behind this shopping center. Before Stop & Shop moved in & expanded, the building was originally a cinema. The Chinese restaurant next to KMart was a Szechuan restaurant for at least 35-40 years. The Burger King closed within the last year or two and that was there since the late 70’s/early 80’s. Thanks for making this video. Brought back a lot of memories.

[@JJMCB26]

Yay! Congrats on 46K subscribers, Wallie! Been following you since January 2018. I was housebound recovering from a broken leg at that time due to an accident I had at work before Christmas but your videos really cheered me up 🙂

[@gaylenewood7707]

Dang it no egg rolls for our bud😉😁👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.

[@gaylenewood7707]

I hope your leg is better sir.

[@adamsATSfan415]

Goodvideo I like your Kmart videos also this was a grants :) before Kmart like the one in Williamsport etc you did this closed in sometime in august 2018 2 months before Kmarts bankruptcy happened.

[@georgetrains6168]

So sad to see what happened to Kmart

[@pauldaley6382]

Thank you Eddie Lambert.!!!!

[@teresagremling8467]

I work for a grocery store that really sells alot of of plants starting spring through the summer and every once in awhile we have we have a couple people people filling up there car with plants and drive off and not pay

[@andypritchard9644]

Cool to know Kayla likes it in Cincinnati. You two are more than welcome in this nice city. Additionally, I think that's northeast drivers in general. The drivers in Baltimore were horrible when I went there a month ago.

[@matthewnorton7838]

On that same road (Easton ave) there’s one of the very few (possibly only) old school McDonald’s remaining in central Jersey.

[@alanlough638]

A really cool abandoned KMart video, Wallie! I enjoyed the pictures of KMART when the store was open. Though, I was hoping that we'd have a picture of Eddie with a noose around his neck. Have a KMartlicious Day!

[@brandonb.6099]

That's an awesome vintage building; there is a bench next to that old kmart trash can. Enjoyed the video Wallie.

[@MrTodh]

Happy Belated Birthday, Wallie !

[@studioa9728]

I remember when this location was open. You’re right about it closing in late 2018 - early 2019, I tried to come down here before it did end up closing. It was a very nice store, one of the last few original Big K’s that NJ had left

[@adamsATSfan415]

This was a former grants department store when grants went out of business because of Kmart etc, Kmart took more then 50% of there locations a few other Kmarts he did were former grants Williamsport pa, etc.

[@tompen8859]

​@adamsretailworld964 when was it Grants?..I grew up in Franklin greens right behind it and I always remembered it as K mart since the mid 70s..

[@ZeeMann_Retail]

Sad to see another one gone. Great video!

[@dootuss83]

Based on the exterior, it was a W.T. Grant store prior to being a Kmart. When W.T. Grant went out of business back in 1976, Kmart opened numerous locations where the former Grant's stores were. My Dad worked at W.T. Grant's around the late 1960's-early 1970's and that location would become a Kmart too.

[@bobbelloff4588]

Correct. It was a WT Grant. I remember when Grant closed it.

[@shemstock]

Hi there...the Somerset K Mart that you visited opened in 1973 as a Grants. Used to shop there all the time. Next to it was a great Chinese Restaurant - Hunan...

[@Onceuponanadventure1964]

Someone mentioned it I’m sure but the globe lights suggest an old Grant city store…we had one similar in my hometown

[@MrIceman22]

Happy birthday wallie awesome video you had here :D

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

Hello from Utah! Stateside, I’ve never been east of Texas, I enjoy watching your videos from Pennsylvania.

[@ronaldadams6217]

The Kmart in Easton Pennsylvania still sitting empty been closed since December 2019.

[@davidlewis4609]

The Kmart by me closed in 2018 and the Shop Rite next to it closed in 2000.Both are still vacant.Kmart was a Grants.A video was done of this on TD3s channel:Dutchess Center Poughkeepsie, ny.Blockbuster video is still abandoned there as well.Congrats on 46k!

[@jamesluke6603]

We have a Kmart here in Pueblo Colorado and it closed 2 years ago and the building is still abandoned and nothing been done with it.

[@shemstock]

the Light bulbs at the K Mart Somerset..those are relics from the 1970s when it was a Grants!

[@siltstridersftw]

If you're heading to NC, it would be awesome to see you do the Mayberry Mall in Mount Airy, also you should stop by the Libby Hill right next to it. Great fish and dill tartar sauce, also they sell my favorite beverage Cheerwine. Last time I had it, they had it

[@misterhat5823]

Is there anything left of Mayberry Mall? I though it was closed off?

[@saxman112]

That was a cool one! From what I remember for any of the few K-Mart locations I've been to here in the midwest in my home state of Wisconsin and now Minnesota, I don't recall any of them having those globe lights outside like this one did. Also, speaking of Wisconsin, when I saw the name Somerset, it immediately made me think of a town by the same name just over the MN/WI state line on the Wisconsin side, just about a half hour from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

[@devinwhitlock5918]

wallie the restaurant part of the Kmart building looks like it may have been a hunans Chinese restaurant and bar love you guys always like family and may God bless you guys always hope to hear back from you guys soon 🎉💩💩💩💩💩🦠🪰🐾🐛🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰😂🎂🧁 happy birthday wallie dear on this special day you turn" 16 " and are the prom king right hope you have a great one my friend 🤠

[@richardbarkley9909]

Back in 1976-77 we watched a shopping center here in Palm Bay, Florida being built. It would house a K-Mart and a Publix grocery store. The K-Mart closed probably 10 years or more ago and sat empty for several years then UHaul bought it and completely refurbished it into a beautiful rental and storage place. You'd never know it was ever a K-Mart. UHaul has a plaque on the wall outside saying something about them refurbishing the old K-Mart instead of building a new building of their own.

[@NaomisAdventures]

Good video

[@jonathancreveling8699]

4:51 If those 2 doors swing both ways, why does one have a door closer on it?

[@stangdude360rs]

Ayy you visited the bk! I’ve been messaging you about it! I believe route 34 has an abandoned big k sign still in tact

[@stangdude360rs]

***** route 36 west long branch big Kmart last time I drove by it the sign was still intact

[@davidw3534]

Oh man you missed the coolest feature of this Kmart which was leftover from Grants…there was a second entrance/exit on the left-hand side of the building which fed directly into the strip plaza. I was waiting for you to walk around the left hand side!!

[@gaylenewood7707]

Wallie I think you and kayla need to find a place that is warm cause winter is still hanging on😭.

[@ryanclifton7033]

Here in North Texas it's supposed to get close to 100 tomorrow

[@robertpsarudakis3474]

My local Kmart in Honesdale PA had the same glass globes before it closed 1992 and moved to the new format!

[@kimiastewart6293]

I like your tee shirt Wallie Good video thanks for sharing

[@danestegman155]

Good video! I would have laughed if someone would have answered that bell, when you tried them! Sure is a different kind of K-mart! Tagalongs are my favorites too!

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

What's the name of the song at the end? So funky!

[@discoron77]

It's crazy that the closure of Kmart, this store in particular, involved much retail history. So much of it is gone now.

[@ericbechler9903]

Nice wallie 😃

[@ScareFestTTV]

Hey Wallie! Cheers from New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦

[@minpinbear]

Someone said Grants. That would be my guess as my hometown Kmart had been a Grants before it was a Kmart.

[@jet34thehawk]

Wow 👌 awesome

[@joeydersario2470]

Good old Kmart

[@alexandermiller7655]

Almost 90% positive it was a grant's with that pea green floor and those light fixtures.

[@snomans]

Stop & Shop does indeed own the Giant Stores that you see in the Philly/Baltimore region, that’s why you see the same logo for both stores, kind of like Hardee’s & Carl’s Jr., I do not remember WT Grant. I’m going to have to look them up.

[@elijahtorres2688]

Stop & Shop and Giant are owned by the same company: Ahold Delhize.

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

There was probably a oil dump container next to that no dumping sign.

[@matthewcampbell7985]

46,000 subs good work.

[@nathankutrich1011]

Happy Birthday man 🎉🎊

[@craigjensen6853]

Look below the video, where it says "Abandoned Kmart" real big.

[@bencove1118]

that second abandoned store was a Chinese restaurant a sit-down place it was very good

[@railsofcentraljersey]

This Kmart closed at the end of July 2018. I went inside it before it closed.

[@crystalscan2002]

looks like a old grants type

[@bobbelloff4588]

The restaurant was a Chinese restaurant called Hunan Delite.

[@vegasmarc7252]

Have you guys considered moving to Nashville??? It's a good midway point between Texas, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, North Carolina. Seems like a no brainer.

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

We have an old K-Mart building about 2 blocks from where I live. It’s been repurposed as an NPS (shirt for, Nice Place to Shop). Anyways, it’s been painted over in a dark blue/gray color, but you can still tell it used to be a K-Mart.

[@misterhat5823]

Our Kmart sat empty for 20 years before becoming a Rural King. (Ghetto Tractor Supply...) There's an ancient Kroger (remodeled, but original to the shopping center) with it.

[@DalmationProductions]

Closed August 2018

[@CR7659]

Might have originally been the Grants restaurant on the end.

[@gregmartin4099]

It was a Grant City store when Kmart to over.

[@paul-roblox5174]

C is for cookie and it is good enough for Wallie :)

[@misterhat5823]

When I was in middle school, the rough kids would go to Kmart and throw Nintendos over the garden center fence. That's the reason for the prison yard, not plant theft.

[@supermama4748]

Levin Properties, of North Plainfield, wants to demolish the vacant Kmart in the Easton Avenue shopping center and build in its place a four-story apartment building called The Cosmopolitan at Somerset Town Center.

[@bobbelloff4588]

I worked there in late 1987/early 1988.

[@aprildotray6491]

They torn the Kmart in Lancaster Ohio and it's now a Kroger's clothing store

[@otpmetairie4862]

Good afternoon

[@markbaxter5027]

You could open a new store there and model it after Kmart when they were profitable. You could name it Wmart. Lol

[@jenniferrinaldi8808]

My aunt's sister in law worked there for years.

[@kilebogart]

Wallie. You could Take Kayla to Jacksonville, Florida for her birthday

[@ronaldareyes9899]

Hi 👋 There.

[@Fred-xf5kx]

What happened to the Z24?

[@WallieB26]

We still have it!

[@Fred-xf5kx]

Awesome thank you Wallie for keeping the memories of Kmart alive

[@dreweisenhofer5985]

Have you tried the abandoned Kmart in Maple Shade NJ?

[@WallieB26]

I didnt get the chance on this trip. Perhaps next time!

[@dreweisenhofer5985]

It's pretty cool. We got our mini Christmas tree there before it closed in 2017. Also, there is an abandoned Exon station about 15 mi south on route 38.

[@jasong3652]

NJ has the worst drivers of any state I’ve ever been!

[@Oldsvito2999]

The west orange NJ kmart videos gone

[@WallieB26]

I have to fix something on that video and then I'll make it public again.

[@Oldsvito2999]

@@WallieB26 ok you deserve 5b subs sometime

[@Oldsvito2999]

@@WallieB26 and the rite aid on e 71st and Harvard one too is gone

[@willbygosh4887]

Hopefully,it will be repurposed into somethung.

[@gaylenewood7707]

Aw man no egg rolls?😉😀..

[@kyriebates2997]

Probably a Caldor.

[@katsudon2048]

It all Started on a dodgy shirt

[@drew_999]

Yooooo

[@mrsixflags9453]

Hey

[@Oldsvito2999]

1st

[@adamsATSfan415]

JW is first

[@chrischandler8528]

Who cares

[@chrischandler8528]

No1 cares if any1 is 1st, 37th, or 98th

[@misterhat5823]

@@adamsATSfan415 Who cares? People who post "first" ride the short bus to school.

[@towhidsofficialadventures]

I Remember The New Jersey Pranksters Has Filmed This Before And Get Kick Out Of This Playing With a Baseball & Doing They Intercom At This Kmart Before It Closed It Was a Funny Memory But It Will Still Be Remembered 🥲

[@rodneyconaway1600]

Congrats on your 46,000 subscribers let's see if we can get it up to 50,000 by the end of May, if everybody who subscribes to the channel please, just post a video now and then on your Facebook account Instagram TikTok, When you post a video that's really helps these KZbin channels. I'm from Ohio and it seems like big stores like that K mart as nice shape as it's in, Somebody could rent it and make indoor flea markets. In Ohio flea markets are only usually open Friday, Saturday and Sunday you could rent little spaces out, How do I know this because I do it in Ohio But it's not even near as big as K mart. its a Dollar General store. Keep posting the good video's. Is keep making good content.💯👍