Spotlight: Kmart - Cornelia, GA

365 Habersham Village Circle Cornelia, GA 30531

Today we are touring the Kmart store located in Cornelia, GA, a small town in Northeast Georgia not far from the South Carolina line. Opening in 1985 this Kmart was located in a shopping center with a Revco drug store and a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Today the Revco is a Hibbett sports store and the Winn-Dixie is a Big Lots. This store is on the smaller side at 82,832 square feet. It used to feature a K Cafe and an Olan Mills portrait studio in store, and there is no former auto center space. Unfortunately this Kmart is one of very few locations left in the state of Georgia and the only location in the Northeast Georgia region.

Current shopping center layout and tenant list.

Former Olan Mills portrait studio.

Former K Cafe area.

This Kmart is a prime example of why the company is in a free fall to extinction. The pictures don't do the store justice on just how messy the store was, in addition the shelves in many places were very bare looking. It also features the normal Kmart store staples such as mismatch colored floor tiles, dirty ceiling tiles, and signage in wrong places. Another item of note is the garden center inside part and outside part was completely closed off and inaccessible to the public. Some garden center items had been moved into the store including bird feeders, plant pots, fertilizers, and pesticides.

Empty shelves in the automotive department.

Messy shelves, random items sitting everywhere.

Mismatched floor tiles all over store.

Inside and outside garden center completely closed off.

One cool find at this Kmart was a very vintage Kmart stock cart sitting right outside of the entrance doors to the store. It is definitely original to the store from when it opened in 1985 with the old pre-1990 Kmart logo.

Stock cart original to the store opening in 1985.

There you have it, that is about all that can be said for this 31 year old Kmart store. Judging by the up keep of the store and the lack of customer traffic, this store is likely to not make it past 2017. Enjoy the rest of the pictures and leave your comments on this store below.

Edit: A few days after we wrote this post, this store was announced to be one of 100 Kmart's to close by spring 2017. So our prediction of this store closing came true even sooner than we expected.

Spotlight: Kmart - Las Vegas, NV

Located at 7501 W. Washington Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89128.

Today we are spotlighting a Kmart in fabulous Las Vegas! It opened on May 7, 2000 and is 101,107 square feet.This store has a unique building style which is more than likely used to blend in with the other Las Vegas architecture. It is not located in a shopping center but in a building by itself. It is located in a busy and dense area with a Lowe's across the street (see picture below.) This Kmart is brightly lit, well maintained, and fairly modern by Kmart's standards. Unfortunately like most Kmart's, the store was pretty dead in the middle of the day with hardly any customers inside shopping.

Located in a busy area of Las Vegas.

This Kmart has been updated with the newest red sign package and the current Kmart logo on the outside of the store. This store has 10 belt driven registers and no wall going into the indoor portion of the garden center. Because of those things it is possible that this store could have been a potential store within a store Super Kmart conversion. Some features of this store include a former Penske Auto Center that is now run by a local automotive shop called AA Auto Care Center. It has a former Olan Mills portrait studio at the front of the store along with a slot machine gambling area next to it. There's used to be a K Cafe at the front of the store. This store features a large Garden Center area but strangely the Garden Center entrance doors were chained shut and the doors to the outdoor garden shop area were chained shut too. The electronics department no longer has a counter area and instead has large appliances in it's place.

Former K Cafe area.

Mattresses added more recently to this store.

Layaway in the back left corner of the store.

Former electronics counter makes way for large appliances.

Old circular electronics sign is the only old school sign left in the store.

Open inside garden shop layout.

Entrance doors to the outside garden area chained shut.

Garden center entrance doors chained shut.

Former Olan Mills on the right, Slot machine gambling area on the left.

Modern jewelry counter.

This store still has 10 registers!

Belt driven registers.

Customer service desk.

These entrance doors were chained shut.

Former Penske Auto Center is now a local run auto center.

 

There you have it, hope you enjoyed touring this Las Vegas Kmart store! Questions, comments, anything more to add about this store please comment below.