Do you like kmart?

[bmacd]

Has the filing of chapter 11 had any effect on your shopping at kmart? Do you shop there to do your part or do you avoid it like a bad plague now? What are your complaints of kmart?

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[Ryan]

I have always avoided Kmart. It just seems like a crappy store full of cheap shiznit. I like target

 

[Ladies Man]

haven't stepped foot in a kmart in about 5 years

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
haven't stepped foot in a kmart in about 5 years

any reason why?

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[gopunk]

*notice* i own 100 shares of km *notice*

not particularly, but i think they have potential to turn themselves around.

 

[Jugernot]

The only Kmart that I cam stand is the one here in town... it's much nicer than any other I've seen before. We don't have a Walmart or Target, so it's either Kmart or Fred Meyer.

Jugs

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
The only Kmart that I cam stand is the one here in town... it's much nicer than any other I've seen before. We don't have a Walmart or Target, so it's either Kmart or Fred Meyer.

Jugs

is Fred Meyer the same as Meijer? I wanna say that Fred Meijer was the name of the guy who founded it....

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[ohtwell]

I go to Kmart sometimes because you can find things cheap there. Other than that I don't shop there.


: ) Amanda

 

[yakko]

I prefer K-mart to Wal-Mart any day and I would like Target best of all if their toy department wasn't so crappy.

 

[ElFenix]

haven't been in one in a while... i had to drive by a couple wally worlds and targets to get to one.

 

[athithi]

The more you earn, the less you visit Kmart. I like it because there was a time when most of my furniture came from Kmart But it didn't take me very long to realize that Kmart was not a good place to buy clothes - not even underwear or socks

 

[Gunbuster]

With Meijer, Walmart, and Target in town to compare it to ...... No

 

[fatbaby]

i really don't have any reason to...

Officedepot and target usually have the cheapest school supplies

I get all my electronics from bestbuys or frys

Groceries are mainly at costco

And furniture from ikea

 

[T2T III]

Why did the automotive department get shutdown at K-Mart? I thought they used to do tire and exhaust work there before, but now all of the service bays have been closed for some time.

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: wje
Why did the automotive department get shutdown at K-Mart? I thought they used to do tire and exhaust work there before, but now all of the service bays have been closed for some time.

splitting penske was part of the settlements of the chapter 11.

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[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: bmacd

Originally posted by: Jugernot
The only Kmart that I cam stand is the one here in town... it's much nicer than any other I've seen before. We don't have a Walmart or Target, so it's either Kmart or Fred Meyer.

Jugs

is Fred Meyer the same as Meijer? I wanna say that Fred Meijer was the name of the guy who founded it....

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No, it's Meijer a furniture store? Fred Meyer is a supercenter type store in the northwestern states.

 

[bmacd]

meijer=major supermarket here (in michigan)

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[PlatinumGold]

meijer is Mid East, Fred Meyer is North West. I lived in Oregon and went to school in michigan, i've been to both.

as far as i know, they are different.

Kmart, the one in our neighborhood went belly up. they closed.

 

[MrPhelps]

I think Kmart's will come back up, But they need to kick the employee's in the ash. They never are very helpful. I guess I might be that way if I was about to lose my job. NOT


I work hard regardless of anything else or I would go elsewhere.

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah, I like going to K-Mart. Their stuff is priced right, and their isn't a Walmart around where I live.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

They have stuff that sells for cheap - but that's just what you get: cheap quality.

nik

 

[Linflas]

I am not surprised at the troubles kmart is having. For years now I would rather visit the dentist than enter a kmart. The stores are cluttered and frequently dirty, the service non-existent, the checkout lines long and slow. A few of my coworkers and I were discussing this at lunch today and it was amazing that we all pretty much had the same impression of them. This is the image they will have to overcome if they are to have any hope of recovery.

Above it what I posted in the thread back in January when they filed. I have not been to one since that time to see if the above has changed since we have a Target here. For what it is worth I pretty much avoid Walmarts like the plague as well although much of the above is not found at Walmart.

 

[brtspears2]

K-mart usually has some strange, non-eye pleasing interiors. Every k-mart I've been in have low quality toy department.


But hard to beat their in store ICEEs, though some wal-marts have McD's and Targets have PizzaHuts / Taco Bells ...

 

[arcas]

I second the ICEE comment. Those rock. Probably the best thing about K-Mart.

K-Mart kinda dug itself into a hole in the late 80s/early 90s when they tried to shift their focus from being a discount retailer (comparable to Wal-Mart but perhaps aiming at an even lower-class consumer) to being a classier discount retailer (comparable to, say, Target). See, when I was in elementary school and junior high school, K-Mart kind of had the reputation of being a store that sold cheap quality goods at cheap prices (blue light specials and whatnot). Unfortunately, those kinds of mental associations are hard to get rid of. When K-Mart tried to shift strategy, they alienated at least some of their existing customers while failing to convince the Target-type audience that they were worth a second look.

I rarely shop at K-Mart these days. Doesn't help that they closed the two stores closest to me but even before those stores closed, I rarely went there. In general, I found their prices to be higher than, say, Target or Meijer both of which where closer. IMO, though, their K-Gro brand lawn fertilizer is pretty good stuff and they're usually the only place in town that has the large bags of Hyponex potting soil so I'll still shop there for that.

I also second the opinion that K-Mart stores are generally dirty and the isles are narrow. About like a "regular" Wal-Mart store (the super Wal-Mart stores, on the other hand, have nice wide isles...and they sell Michelena's pizza's for $0.88! Damn shame those things have almost 500 calories each).

 

[CubicZirconia]

I never shop at Kmart. A few years ago I bought a cheap tshirt there and amazingly one sleeve was longer than the other. It was cheap, but still. Now I stick to target.