At The Kmart
All month long you save your dough
payday’s here and it’s time to go
walking through those big glass doors
welcome to your Kmart store!
Attention all you Kmart shoppers
as for sales we have some whoppers
buy two sodas and get one free
Blue Light Special is on aisle three.
Cart is loaded but before you go
our Poor Boy Sandwich is priced real low
through the checkout, it’s time to leave
but you’ll come back it’s guaranteed.
Blue Light Specials and crazy schemes
savings stamps and layaway dreams
times remembered happily
family shopping memories.
© Rebecca Sanchez 2015
Shared with Poets United.
Capricious Poet 
brilliant one Bekkie!
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Do you write at Poets United too? I know you write at Haiku Horizons. Thank you!
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Lovely, a fun write
Much love…
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Thank you Gillena!
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Smiled all through the reading. Yup! That’s were we got our school clothes for many years. 🙂
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I hear ya! I miss them, they are not the same at all.
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My first job was at KMart. Probably not there anymore. I don’t know where you found the picture, but I can’t say I’ve ever seen one that busy. Great poem, nice flow.
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When I was a kid they were that busy and my mom used to fight over stuff at the sales tables. Lol!
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Such a delightful read ❤ 😀
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Kmart was a delightful place in it’s time.
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Such a joyful rhythm to this poem… and I do remember walking down Kmart aisles with a loaded cart!!!
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I was nuts about those Poor Boy Sandwiches they were 99 cents!
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love the joyful rhythm of the lines…
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Glad you enjoyed it.
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I agree with Jae there are stories and poetry in everything around us. All these secret writers observing and writing notes in their brains. Kmart is still going in Australia but plenty of competitors.
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Thank you Old Egg!
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Oh, very nicely done. You always make me smile.
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Happy to do so Rosemary!
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You might be able to sell this delightful rhyming poem to the chain itself, K-Mart is still as big as Walmart around Philly. It’s possible that Target may edge them out, but I am not sure …
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I am shocked to hear that Susan, since Kmart is failing miserably here in CA. It’s good to know they are still around.
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This made me smile. I don’t think we even have any K-Marts around here any more. They couldn’t compete with other big box stores, it seemed. In their heyday they did have some good deals though! An enjoyable walk down memory lane.
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The Kmart’s are gone here too. They couldn’t keep up with stores like Walmart anymore but they were something in their time!
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“Family shopping memories…..” How cool, made me think back to those busy years when my kids were at home,………….
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Shopping was at one time a family affair and Kmart was like going to the fair. Kind of…lol!
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I think every country has had its time of bargain companies… Sooner or later settling back to normality.
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More like time marches on and things get lost in the shuffle.
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Wow look at all those people lined up at that store! I remember when Kmart was the best place to go. Now, not so much, at least here.
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Kmart is disappearing and not at all what it used to be. Many are gone now replaced by Walmart and more.
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This one felt like it wrote itself – I loved every can in every aisle – everyday life is where the best stories are..no such thing as mundane if you look at things in the right way!
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It did write itself dear Jae! It was a kinder more gentler time, or at least it seemed like it. That’s how memories can be from the past.
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Interesting take on supermarkets….well written 🙂
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Kmart is not a supermarket it’s a way of life! Just kidding. Thank you!
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Bekkie this was such nostalgic fun….we used to chase the Blue Light specials and dream of things we could maybe layaway…what a concept at the time. I loved the way this flowed like a song…sweet bliss at the Kmart!
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You and I had the same experiences at Kmart, I’m so glad! After writing it I realized that might not be the case with many readers. Wasn’t it wonderful while it lasted? Although there’s a few Kmart’s still around, they aren’t the same at all.
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