I actually thought this would’ve been a hardware/DIY aisle, from the looks of the signs, but guess I was wrong
WEEK 27 – Columbus Kmart Closing, Set 3
I can say with much better certainty that the empty aisle seen in *this* shot was previously part of the bath department, based on the fact that some of those blue posters littered on the bottom shelf here say things like “bathroom scales” or “bath acc…”. Most of the other signs advertise Kmart’s layaway, online, and pick up options.
I do wonder how popular Kmart’s (and Sears’s) Free Store Pickup programs are. Do people even use the services? As usual, I’m guessing that this is yet another innovative experiment that was rolled out long before it became popular among other retailers, but faltered/failed in execution. Believe it or not, Sears and Kmart have had a great number of innovations over the years that were simply too far ahead of their time to succeed (and, you know, the lack of customers plus the company’s ineptitude didn’t help matters, either).
MyGofer is one that comes to mind, which I was discussing with Northwest Retail recently. Another example is one I talked about on Discord, and it’s décor-based: tell me Target's 2013-debuted signage (still in use currently) doesn’t look exactly like Kmart's (experimental, failed) green décor from 2002, over a decade prior…
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
I actually thought this would’ve been a hardware/DIY aisle, from the looks of the signs, but guess I was wrong
WEEK 27 – Columbus Kmart Closing, Set 3
I can say with much better certainty that the empty aisle seen in *this* shot was previously part of the bath department, based on the fact that some of those blue posters littered on the bottom shelf here say things like “bathroom scales” or “bath acc…”. Most of the other signs advertise Kmart’s layaway, online, and pick up options.
I do wonder how popular Kmart’s (and Sears’s) Free Store Pickup programs are. Do people even use the services? As usual, I’m guessing that this is yet another innovative experiment that was rolled out long before it became popular among other retailers, but faltered/failed in execution. Believe it or not, Sears and Kmart have had a great number of innovations over the years that were simply too far ahead of their time to succeed (and, you know, the lack of customers plus the company’s ineptitude didn’t help matters, either).
MyGofer is one that comes to mind, which I was discussing with Northwest Retail recently. Another example is one I talked about on Discord, and it’s décor-based: tell me Target's 2013-debuted signage (still in use currently) doesn’t look exactly like Kmart's (experimental, failed) green décor from 2002, over a decade prior…
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)