{"id":10633,"date":"2019-01-22T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10633"},"modified":"2019-01-18T01:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T07:23:31","slug":"last-walk-through-webster-city-kmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/last-walk-through-webster-city-kmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Last walk through Webster City Kmart"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the June 18, 1981, Daily Freeman-Journal<\/em>, “several hundred people” were waiting when the new K-mart opened its doors in Webster City. It was the most prominent big-box retailer to have a store in Hamilton County. Webster City already had a Gibson Discount Center, which in the late 1970s was co-branded and then replaced with the Pamida name, according to this timeline from the Omaha World-Herald<\/a>\u00a0(reprinted via\u00a0Kearney Hub<\/em>)\u00a0that covers the purchase and rebranding of all Pamida stores as ShopKos earlier this decade.<\/p>\n

But now Webster City will have neither a Kmart nor a ShopKo Hometown, because the former got the ax with Sears’ bankruptcy filing in October<\/a> and\u00a0the latter will be closing in February.<\/a><\/p>\n

YouTube user “Midwest Retail” has posted a walkthrough<\/a> of the Webster City Kmart, “one of 4 tiny Kmart’s remaining.” The store is less than half the size of normal ones reflecting the smaller population area. Its last day, according to the user, is Jan. 31.<\/p>\n