{"id":20443,"date":"2022-04-12T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=20443"},"modified":"2022-04-12T23:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:05:21","slug":"i-knew-it-was-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=20443","title":{"rendered":"I Knew It Was Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600061.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600061_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600061_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600061_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/11\/kmart-down-to-3-stores-after-nj-closing\/\">But it's worse than I thought!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the shelves are bare, though, at the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, picked over by bargain hunters as the store prepares to close its doors for good April 16.<\/p>\n<p>Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the US \u2014 once well over 2,000 \u2014 will be down to three last holdouts, according to multiple reports, in a retail world now dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it wasn't inevitable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a study in greed, avarice and incompetence,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cSears should have never gone away; Kmart was in worse shape, but not fatally so. And now they\u2019re both gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetailers fall by the wayside sometimes because they\u2019re selling things people don\u2019t want to buy,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn the case of Kmart, everything they used to sell, people are buying, but they\u2019re buying it from Walmart and Target.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roadtrip?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kmarts continue to operate in Westwood, New Jersey; Bridgehampton, on New York\u2019s Long Island, and Miami.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But it's worse than I thought! Many of the shelves are bare, though, at the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, picked over by bargain hunters as the store prepares to close its doors for good April 16. Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the US \u2014 once well over 2,000 \u2014 will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1708],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-20443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-kmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}