By Mark Matthews
By this time everyone knows the Brooklawn K-Mart is closing. The store is PACKED with shoppers. My wife was there on a Friday night and said every register was open! I was tempted to drive over to witness it! If all it took was to knock 20% off of everything to pack the store, why didn’t they do it years ago? J
Walmart continues to grow and in my opinion definitely squeezed the life out of our K-Mart (or K-mart continues to let things slip to a level that consumers choose to drive a little further for other shopping options).
But Walmart is not done. Opening this fall is ANOTHER Walmart for our area, at the Somerdale Plaza. Most of us know the center simply for its Cinemark Movie Theater and a bunch of failed and empty stores. Walmart has been planning and building this location for a long time. It was delayed several years waiting for the state to simply approve the installation of a traffic light. The core of the old Shopping Center will remain, and the Walmart is in a new building which will be facing the shopping center in what were previously woods behind the Pizza Hut on the pike.
While the developer’s website says opening in October, a friend who works in another
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