Did your Kmart have a little diner that sold pretzels and slushy’s and of course, these

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

No idea, we just called them punchy balls😄

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digdugnate@reddit

ours had the diner as well :) All in 70/80s burnt orange, brown, and red.

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

I still preferred two guys in the 70s myself🤣

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Ours had a full-blown diner. Funny, because I worked at Walmart at the time. (RIP Sam, and the respect for employees). Anyway, we would walk across the street in our Walmart vests and eat at the diner there once a week.

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Altruistic_Relief189@reddit

Yep. And they had the best sub sandwiches too.

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TC_Stock@reddit

One of my earliest memories is mom pushing me in the cart while I drank an icee and sometimes I got a pretzel!

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Ryokurin@reddit

While they did sell those balloons, they were in toys, not the cafe. Also for unknown reasons the icee machine was up front with customer service, not in the back with the cafe. Actually, writing this I figured out why. Because kids like I was would likely see it better and ask for one checking out.

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Top_Management7550@reddit

Of sold popcorn. You smelled it as soon as you walked in.

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ChatnNaked@reddit

And popcorn!

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erilaz7@reddit

When my sister was in high school, she got a Kmart-branded ketchup packet from the Kmart cafeteria and made a pendant out of it.

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inot72@reddit

Yes! They had the best potato wedges.

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Glum_Season7904@reddit

Yep. Not slushes, though. ICEEs.

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

Yeah, you’re right. That’s the one with the polar bear.

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acousticat@reddit

Blue raspberry flavor

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Glum_Season7904@reddit

Yep.

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donofrioms@reddit

Blue light special!!

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tbonescott1974@reddit

The slushies were Slush Puppies fyi.

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tbonescott1974@reddit

The slushies were Slush Puppies and remember always being disappointed by the Blue Light Specials

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ahutapoo@reddit

Ours were Icee's

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adelec123@reddit

Our KMart definitely sold Icees with the polar bear, had to go to a convenience store for Slush Puppies.

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Wacko_Banana_Pants@reddit

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TheJokersChild@reddit

See you there on Friday. I think I'll wait for the Mexican spaghetti.

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

Yum

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TheJokersChild@reddit

We had one with an actual restaurant with a counter and booths where you could watch everyone coming in and out of the mall while you were eating.

Had to wait until high school when the new mall opened to get Icees at that KMart (which is now a Kohls, and is the only part of the mall that's still standing).

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popotheclowns@reddit

Potato wedges and Superman ice cream in southeast TN.

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Nanojack@reddit

I remember shopping with my grandmother and we would stop there for lunch. It was a full service cafeteria. More recently, the Targets used to have a snack bar with popcorn, pretzels, icees and even hot dog rollers. Those have all been replaced by Starbucks

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

I worked at the Sears sporting goods and toys department in the 80s and we had a little snack bar that sold loose candy hotdog and something called a chimichanga dog, a hotdog with chili and cheese and deep-fried in a chimichanga shell🤤 can’t find them anymore!! And my wife’s first job was working at the Woolworth diner .. it’s funny how shopping back then was a full experience

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adelec123@reddit

I remember the Sears candy counter!

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Certain-Ordinary8428@reddit

We used to load UP on bulk candy from Sears and sneak it into the movies. Those generic Sno Cap chocolate nonpareils.

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

Yep the arcade and the movie theater was right next to the Sears at Neshaminy mall where I worked in Pennsylvania

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Reddiculusness@reddit

I used to take my kids to target just for hotdogs and popcorn if we were out and they had behaved all day

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Colibri918@reddit

God I loved those things

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Real-Emu507@reddit

Ours had sandwiches and fries and stuff like that too. My husband's best friends mom worked at ir so we'd always stop by lol

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MrsMoeNo@reddit

The cafeteria was covered in brown faux wood paneling, the booths were orange and yellow. My mom would often stop there with her shopping cart and add up the contents of her haul before going to the register. It was my last chance to ask for toy before going home.

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Responsible_Trash_40@reddit

All you can eat fish on Friday

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

Fishy Fridays, huh?🤣

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alzheimerscat@reddit

Every other Sunday my mom would take me to Kmart shopping. It didn't occur to me that it was on paydays. Part of the trip - the best part of the trip was getting a submarine sandwich from the diner cart. Huge, cheap bologna and salami, smothered in a bit of crappy lettuce and a MOUND of onions and a squirt of mayo and mustard. It would last me days.

I can still taste it. Hell, i bet of you were in the room with me, you could still smell it.

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rrrrrrez@reddit

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antartisa@reddit

We had to cross the border into Washington to visit Kmart I always asked for a blue slushy and I remember hotdogs but not the balloons.

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Stillwater-Scorp1381@reddit

Yes!

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maog1@reddit

I remember the ham and cheese sandwiches and the icees.

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Wacko_Banana_Pants@reddit

Icees and popcorn were up front by the registers but ours did have a cafeteria/diner in the back with things like open face roast beef, mash potatoes, meatloaf, and such

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Somedaydreamer22@reddit

My first job was at a Kmart cafeteria. We didn’t have slushies as I recall. But we made good food—fried chicken, patty melts, taco salads. I would have to make blue light special announcements for fried chicken deals. I hated it.

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automator3000@reddit

But consider that your introduction to public speaking.

My first job was at a fast food joint. Because we didn’t have screens or multiple printers or something like that, whoever was at the register had to repeat every order into a microphone that would then blast their voice into the restaurant. I credit those awful two years of smelling like fryer grease and having to say “two cheeseburgers, one large fry, one small curly fry, two medium cokes” with how comfortable I am at karaoke.

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

Attention, Kmart shoppers!! Chicken is ready!!

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Own_Celebration5462@reddit

Don’t forget popcorn. I can still smell that KMart. 1983, summer vacation in California.

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ST0IC_@reddit

I remember when they put a Little Caesars in our Kmart in small town Iowa.

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

Yep I think that’s why they’re so few of them around my way and they disappeared for years because most of them were in the Kmart

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bughunter_@reddit

I remember when they had foot long chili dogs.

6yo me regularly destroyed those.

Been craving one recently...

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Marigold1976@reddit

Frozen coke or frozen cherry. Tough decision.

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External_Side_7063@reddit (OP)

Both mix

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Rays_LiquorSauce@reddit

Smelled like popcorn

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RunsWithPremise@reddit

Ours had a Little Caesars.

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Flababulous@reddit

I remember the diners there, but not if I ever had a meal. Did rock the slushies and even some Little Caesars when some stores brought those on (and when LC was actually decent).

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