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It is a shame.

I used to regularly shop at the K-Mart in Richfield (closed now for 10 years), a first ring suburb of Minneapolis. I liked what they had for selection.

There was no difference between buying my shampoo or dress socks there versus a Wal-Mart or Target.

Somewhere along the line (back in the early 90’s), K-Mart just went numb. They didn’t keep on the appearance of their stores, they didn’t keep on the kind of merchandise that people wanted their employees started getting a ‘hood attitude, etc.

It wasn’t just a case of K-Mart being unable to compete with the Internet. It was almost like they collectively went on auto-pilot sometime in the early 90’s. By the time they realized “Wait, we might have a problem here”, it was too late. Wal-Mart and Target passed them by.


12 posted on 05/31/2018 2:45:01 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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About the only Kmart that I can think of is on Lake Street. I have to go to Sears every few years to get filters for my shop vac. Beyond that I don’t care.


14 posted on 05/31/2018 2:49:45 PM PDT by shelterguy (Bigdeal)
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If I was Sears I would focus all my resources into ONLINE

With all the stores they have around the Country, they can compete with Amazon by storing all their merchandise in their stores & shipping them out to customers in record time

17 posted on 05/31/2018 2:52:08 PM PDT by KavMan
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