The last Kmart in California, situated in Grass Valley, shut its doors for great on Sunday.
“I’m sad. I’ve been shopping here for 26 years,” said shopper Margaret Jacob.
She said she was not looking for anything specific but instead halted by on the last day to bid farewell.
Banners and posters — expressing messages like “Everything must go” and “90 percent off” — wherever clarified that the store would be shutting.
Teresa Dubrul was heartbroken as she left the store.
“I’m 58 years old, and this is the place where we always went,” Dubrul said.
It is the only store like it Grass Valley residents say they can go to without leaving the city.
“If you have to get anything else, you have to go to Marysville, Yuba City or Auburn and Roseville down the hill,” Maria Purvis said.
Kmart was once a fixture in the U.S., with stores all over California. Nonetheless, the organization filed for bankruptcy in 2002. Presently, a search on Google Maps shows a large number of location has permanently shut.
While many shelves in the Grass Valley Kmart were empty and inventory was very restricted, Dubrul tracked down a few things to grab on her shopping trip. She selected some garments for her granddaughter, alongside a store souvenir.
“I guess they were selling their hole puncher,” Dubrul said while laughing. “So, I’m like, ‘OK, memories. Gotta get it.'”
The store was scheduled to close at 5 p.m., however it kept its doors open somewhat later as clients kept on streaming in for one final shopping trip.
The Kmart will be supplanted with a Target, as indicated by Mesa Management, which runs the McKnight Crossing Shopping Center where the store was found.
Renovations are relied upon to take around 12 to year and a half and cost between $9 to $15 million.
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