Kmart

Ever since KMART bought out SEAR’S, They’ve seemed to become a clearance center for the stuff they couldn’t get rid of in the Sear’s stores

I feel like I should call this place Zombie K-​Mart, because all the renovations for the rest of the South Hills Mall appear to have sucked the life out of this store. They spent money to improve the outside; they should have spent money improving the inside. It feels somewhat dreary and dismal inside. There doesn’t appear to be enough of any inventory to make it competitive with nearby stores. Maybe they didn’t find it worth the effort given there is another K-​Mart on the east side of Poughkeepsie.

I don’t know why they ever bother keeping this store open. All the products have that less quality look and feel to it. They don’t even have a good DVD/​Blu-​ray selection unless you like to watch low budget non memorable movies. They don’t really have a gaming section in their electronics department but it looks like the case rack they are in are almost empty. In the twenty years they pretty much gutted a lot of departments or shorten some of them such as the Men’s clothing department, Electronics department, toy department, and sporting goods. The store use to have their own café in the back and in the front of the store there was a snack bar. At one point you could even get your tires and get or fill a prescription. It seems to me this store doesn’t really get a lot of repeat customers unless they are looking for the basics.

Although this place sells quite-​discounted items, I was pretty amuzed with their service up until I got to the register area. The lanes in the register area aren’t handicapped accessible (with the shopping cart, it too, is a tight squeeze itself, to get that item through the lane). Of all the regular K-​Marts I had ever visited (not counting any Super-K’s and Big-K’s that had ever existed), this place is a dire must mist. If you are handicapped accessible, you’re only hope is to use the Customer Service counter in the front of the store when there is someone behind it, as this area isn’t limited in space as to differentiate between that to regular-​checkout.
Although K-Mart’s provide layaways and has online pickup, the desk in the back near the restrooms is rarely ever stocked, and you need to call someone to help you, if you got the message saying something had come in to this store’s layaway area. (By the way, K-​Mart still has a Layaway counter/​layaway service, as compared to most other chain-​stores selling big-​ticket items. Ask an employee (wherever they are available) for details (but don’t expect the employee to really put something in layaway, for real, at this store, even though they say they did… it won’t be there when you come to pay back the remainder of the price of the item).
The bathrooms, well, let’s just say, I’d rather use a Port-​o-​potty than use these broken and faulty toilets in a well beat-​up area (which is especially the case yesterday, when I used the men’s room toilets)