In suburban Miami, Kmart's last 'Blue Light Specials' flicker
Voice of America
Customers leave the only Kmart store left in the continental United States on Oct. 22, 2024, in Miami, Florida. FILE - Kmart shoppers mill around the flashing blue light, sign of the "Blue Light Special," at the first Kmart ever built, in Garden City, Michigan, on March 1, 1982. FILE - Shoppers rush into a Kmart store in Chicago on Nov. 25, 2011, for the Black Friday sale. An empty-handed customer exits the only Kmart store left in the continental United States on Oct. 22, 2024, in Miami, Florida.
The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits at the west end of a busy suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored.
Longshoremen bow for a prayer during a strike at the Bayport Container Terminal, Oct. 1, 2024, in Houston. FILE - Ship to shore cranes and gangs of longshoremen work the container ship YM Witness at the Georgia Ports Authority's Port of Savannah, Sept. 29, 2021, in Savannah, Georgia.