How is needing layaway to shop at K-Mart fiscally responsible?

It's not, hence the burn.

It's a bait and switch.

oh goddamnit.

That's not really what Bieber's abs look like, right?

Closed down and full of hobos.

If they are actually open they're pretty much like cognitive said above. You'll see maybe 3 employees and 6 other customers while in the oddly dimly lit store. They're rarely fully stocked despite the lack of customers and they're generally disorganized if not out right dirty. And then when you finally check out they're actually more expensive than Walmart or other comparable stores.

They feel like they're perpetually filled with people who just don't give a shit.

The look like Wal-mart if Wal-mart had a drinking problem and quit his job.

Dim lighting seems to be a common occurrence, I see. I thought it was just ours.

The only kmart I know of is really a liquor store with a kmart attached. It has an entire half aisle of products thinly disguised to help you beat drug tests. The ubiquitous dim lighting is probably about cutting costs on utility bills. Kmart is higher priced than walmart while somehow maximizing its own depressing atmosphere.

The Kmart in my town hasn't been remodeled since the late 1980s, whereas Wal-Mart has built two new stores and remodeled them both like three times since then.

If it wasn't for the people who shop and work there, the Wal-Marts in my area would actually be nice places to shop.

You mean BigK-Mart, right? Ours Voltroned with Big K.

Meme you ignorant slut. Kmart, Big K, Kwash, super duper K or whatever they were called, and Sears are all the same animal. That's why Kmarts sell sears shit and sears sells kmart shit. They've expanded and contracted the different versions of kmarts over the years before and after bankruptcy and sears merger.

To be fair, though, meme, I thought Kmart was still operating under a prolonged bankruptcy workout from whenever I was in high school. In a way they still are, I guess. The Kmart experience is pretty much what I would expect a bankrupt company to look like.

big roaches.