K-Mart Comercial Late 1970's

Here is a Kmart commercial frequently run to announce Kmart Grand Openings. The store manager is played by Danny Wells, known for bit parts including bartender on The Jeffersons.

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[andrewps84]

I miss the old Kmart logo...

[Mcnzlea]

Guess what - Kmart is selling refrigerators again, this time Kenmore.

[MattJFisher]

@Neville6000 I miss Kmart. Many of the stores (but not all of them) in Canada have been replaced by Zellers, which itself is unfortunately expected to be replaced by Target in 2013 (not that I don't like Target; I like it better than Walmart anyway). Apparently not the same since Zellers was sold to a man from South Carolina.

Danny Wells as the store manager? Wasn't he also the voice of Luigi in "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show"? He did sound exactly like George Carlin.

[RANDOMYURI123]

THAT WAS SO A CHEEZEY 1970's Kmart ad!!!!!! LOL! :)

[TheTrusouldj]

I meant "love", not "live".

[TheTrusouldj]

i used to live this commercial; kind of looked for Danny Wells on the roof whenever we passed a K-Mart. :)

[RK831]

I remember Kmart as having an extremely negative connotation. If your parents shopped at Kmart, you were considered poor. Adolescents can often be very harsh.

[MegaJustGeorge]

@tsntana I know that the K-Marts i went to during my youth had them, and I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one who remembers them.

Thanks for the memory, friend!

[tsntana]

Who's around to remember what K-Mart was like back during this time period.

As a child, I remember they had a small cafeteria style grill section toward the back (not to be confused with K-Cafe at the Super K's nowadays). I remember I always had chicken, mashed potatoes, and corn.

Did all K-Marts have that grill section back then?

[TheSudser]

That is the happiest 1 minute of my life right now. I'm barely old enough to recall the big days of Kmart in the 70's, but it must have been a big deal for them to put this ad together.

[Kalkas53]

@MrScream4 why lash out at me for manager incompetence

[MrScream4]

@Kalkas53 So let me get this straight your related to the guy who founded K-Mart? I work for K-Mart their the cheapest place I have ever work in my life, they give you so many hour, they cut your hours all the time. What can I do with a Hundred dollars a week, nothing I can wipe my ass with that. That's why I don't work at that dump.