Last 2 Kmart stores in Pa. to close
It appears to be an end of an era. Kmart, the store known for its discount prices and its “blue light specials” is closing its last two stores in Pennsylvania.
The last two Kmart stores in the state, including the last one in the central Pa. region, are part of Transformco’s latest round of store closures. Transformco is the parent company of Kmart and Sears.
The Kmart store at 2600 N. Willow S. in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, will close in mid-April. A liquidation sale has already begun. The Kmart store at 18 Mark Plaza in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, near Kingston, will also close in mid-April. Its liquidation sale began on Thursday.
In recent years, Kmart has closed stores in the Harrisburg, Hershey, Mechanicsburg, Enola and Carlisle areas as well as stores in York, Lancaster and Lebanon counties.After hundreds of closings in recent years, Forbes estimates that there are just 36 full-line Sears stores and 30 Kmart stores down from 489 full-line Sears stores and 360 Kmart stores in 2019.
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(I can just see the kids doing that!) 
I was amazed when the K-mart in the New Kensington area closed. It HAD to be one of their most successful places - always busy.
And I'll never understand how Sears tools and appliances would not be able to survive.
was the area's FAVORITE place to do donuts in the family car after the first snowfall! I laugh about that because I'm a driving instructor at a race track and we have to explain/teach understeer and oversteer (these are the 'donuts!') and so many of the attendees talk about going to Kmart parking lots! 
NOW get back to work!
When I started I was the poor bastard that had to go out and bring the carts back in and this was before cart corrals. Every so often I'd see one that someone had held next to their car, accelerated at a curb and let go of it allowing ti to smash into the curb, usually performing a somersault in the process. I saw it actually happen once and saw the evidence many times. The one time I saw it I have to admit, it was pretty spectacular! But yeah, it bent the ever-loving shit out of the front wheels...
Hey!
I graduated New Ken in '64.
Har-Brack - '65! Don't know whether I should wave or flip you off!
Even more ironic, after college I lived in New Ken for 30 years and my kids graduated from there. 
I used to shop in the K-Mart near me occasionally, but it was so sad to go in there. The stores got so shabby and the merchandise was terrible. It was hard to remain a customer at K-Mart when there were so many better options.
