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No more "Blue Light Specials" as KMart follows the trend of shuttered big-box retailers.
Do you remember going to Kmart and experiencing the "blue light specials?"
Do you remember going to Kmart and experiencing the "blue light specials?" You could literally stand in the store and wait until an employee rolled up a cart with a pole that went up a few feet above the average human head, which was topped with a flashing blue light similar to a police car beacon on top of a patrol car.
As soon as the light was flipped on, you'd hear an employee over the speakers in the store announce the new sale item, aka "the blue light special." Shoppers would scurry over to the half-price sale on tighty-whities, shampoo or slippers—whatever the store wanted to get rid of…
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