Former Kmart #3824

This month's Kmart tour is another now closed location in Hermitage, PA. This location was a '80s built store and would wind up closing spring 2018. This overall was a typical Kmart store with no special or unique features. When I visited this location in February 2017, it felt clean and organized; but seemed to lack customers. The electronics department also had a noticeable waste of space.

Shenango Valley Mall

The Shenango Valley Mall, just like most malls today, has fallen on hard times. Closing signs have appeared for many of the stores here and nothing hit it as hard as when it lost two of its three anchors at the same time. The mall's anchors were Sears, JCPenney and Macy's during its heyday, but it is now left with just JCPenney. The following photos come from two separate 2017 trips. One of which captures the two anchors during their closing sale (which can be found on my Flickr photostream); the other after they closed down. 

Pay attention to the area with no numbers in blue. We'll talk more about that later.

When I visited the first time I was unaware of the hidden mall wing. This area is the unnumbered blue area I mentioned in the mall map's photo caption. To access it, you go down this:

And you have stepped back in time:

Rue 21 and FYE would follow Sears & Macy's by also closing their stores here