Because of its age, a few relics can be found:
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| 'Auto' previously occupied the white space to the left. |
Interior:
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| Cosmetics & Jewelry up front next to the entrance. |
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| Because this store has lower ceilings, (this is common in these smaller stores) the various promotional signage hangs lower than usual. If I really wanted to, I could of reached up and touched the signs pictured here. |
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| Baby basics is setup differently by having the furniture run perpendicular to the rest of the main aisles for the dept. |
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| Clothing Actionway |
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| Plus sizes and big and tall departments can still be found even though it is a smaller store. |
Electronics before:
Electro-applioncs after:
This store is among the few to still have a sporting goods desk. It is the only one I know to have the sign for licences hanging.
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| These baskets were set right next to the desk. |
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| The shelf on the left is a wall for what was the auto center. |
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| Outdoor portion of the garden shop in use. |
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| This store did not get the re-vamped pantry. |
Rating: 8 out of 10. Even though it is small, it is still easy to move around and had plenty of customer traffic. Mismatched tiles and a feeling of being surrounded by tall aisles (due to the cramped aisles) bumps the store score to 8.The store was average on Kmart cleanliness. A remodel would bump this store to a perfect 10.
In Danger of Closing?: Unlikely. As you can see from the last photo, this store appears to be doing well. With no other big-box discounter in town, it makes perfect sense. This store has nothing to worry about as a proposal to open a Walmart in Bath was rejected by court officials.
Footnotes:
1. The Super Kmart Blog Spot has a really nice article going into detail listing the rank of the smallest Kmart store to the larger stores in this prototype. Please note that this post is outdated and some of these stores have closed. Also, many of these locations were not originally Kmart; they started life as Grants.
Well, it may not have gotten a full Pantry section, but it got enough of the Pantry to warrant updating it to Big Kmart in the 90's. The whole point of Floyd Hall's era was to differentiate Kmart from the stale, drab Kmart from Antonini's era into something that more young adult women would want to shop at. It worked for a time, with profits increasing in 1999 due to the change, but after resigning, his revamps were mostly converted back to regular Kmart's (likely due to the supply issues with food vendors).
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