Kmart

It’s Kmart. Not Bloomingdales.
Great place to buy household goods — sheets, towels, laundry detergent. Decent garden center. I just found beautiful spring bed comforters for $ 19.99 a piece. At that price I can afford to change bedding seasonally.
All 3 employees I encountered were friendly, helpful. They actually seemed happy.
Barely any grocery items.

I hope this place never closes. I once had a dream, a nightmare actually, that it was going out of business and turned into a Walmart. Whenever I’m back in the neighborhood, my sister and I always make it top priority to hit up KMart. So many great finds! On one visit we discovered a stuffed horse head a-​la The Godfather in the toy machine. The off-​brand snacks can’t be beat. You may even find (if you’re very lucky) Halloween candy in the middle of the summer! Where else will you find that?! We have also purchased many well-​received yet sensible Mother’s Day gifts here. The $ 1 DVD bin provides hours of affordable entertainment. The clothing department is always brimming with the latest styles. Who knew oversized fleece sweaters would make a comeback? And look no further than the fully-​stocked electronics department for a brand new Walkman so you can finally listen to your sweet tape collection everywhere. A fun activity to do here is a blind smell test of the (cleverly disguised) store brands vs. name brand shampoos. Who will win? You just never know!
Once I got locked out of KMart and became trapped in the garden center. Thankfully, an employee spotted me amidst the drooping, brown foliage and came to my rescue. That experience really affirmed for me that, while it may not be «modern» or glamorous, sometimes KMart is all you really need. KMart for life.

To quote Tina Fey from her book, this store is «the epicenter of all human grimness.» It really is a very sad little store. They probably don’t have what you need. If they do, it is not where you’d ever think to look. But if you’re ever feeling too chipper, it’s worth it to just come in, walk around, and feel kind of sad til you decide it’s time to go home.

I honestly don’t know how this place is still around. The McDonald’s that is in front of this I honestly don’t know how that is still around either. This is a complete eyesore and very depressing area of Acton.
Why hasn’t somebody demolished us and made a new building. It’s prime real estate in if I had the money I would have that place taken down in a heartbeat. let’s move past 1981 and get into 2016 for goodness sake. I don’t even want to give this one star by the way it makes my hair hurt driving by it.

Not sure why I haven’t written this review before now, but since I have a fresh experience to report this seems like an appropriate time.
I never expect much when I go here, but today the place was especially pathetic. Walked into the building and immediately wondered why. Half the lights were turned off, and no music was playing. A worker was pushing carriages toward me, so I asked if there were any hand baskets. She said, «We only have one, and it’s at one of the registers.» I chuckled and said, «Only one basket?! I’ll leave it for someone else.»
I have the Shop Your Way app for some reason, so I clipped some coupons before I got there; alas, the items either weren’t available or were too expensive. Found a couple of items I needed, then hit the registers. One cashier was working, and there were 6 customers in line before me. Service desk lady calls someone to their register, then learns that person can’t help ring. «I’m on break, I’m busy, that’s great» she says out loud. Another customer and I make eye contact and laugh. You have to laugh, because if you don’t you’ll want to cry.
Unfortunately, this is the only store of its type in the immediate area. Sometimes you don’t feel like driving 15 – 20 minutes to find a real store, so we settle for what we can get. I gave it an extra star because in the summer they have a selection of mediocre plants and garden supplies, and the bathroom is usually clean. If the place goes out of business, maybe a more appealing store would move in; given how many years this location has been sub par, they somehow manage to stay in business (perhaps saving money by using only half the lights, no music, a skeleton crew, and no a/​c in the summer.) Sad.

Worse store in the world. Went to get a few items when an employee began telling me what to do and following me around. I was looking at some items when she came out from behind the counter and followed me. I put my items down and went to leave emediately when i was then lectured about putting the items back. Worse service ever and the place is run down. I am never buying from this store again

The worst store in the area. The whole place is dirty and you deal gross leaving. Bring plenty of sanitizer with you! There’s always a strong odor of urine, my guess from all the nasty people from the Town of Maynard coming here so they can use their 50 cent off coupon. Cashiers are the slowest in the world and it’ll take you at minimum 15 minutes to cash out! So prepare yourself!

I’m pretty sure that this Kmart was designed by a ten year old hopped up on sugar playing The Sims. «Let’s put the hardware… HERE… next to the ramen and pet food. And let’s put the men’s clothing RIGHT HERE next to the kitchen appliances but not anywhere near shoes or other clothing departments. And let’s put displays of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE CLUTTERING ALL THE AISLES ALL THE TIME. WEEEEEEEEEE!!!»
Seriously, how can such a small chain department store have such a confusing layout?
I came here because I needed Gorilla Tape (my bumper had fallen off after I was rear-​ended and the fire department of Acton, MA reassured me that this would hold it on until I had driven the 2+ hours back to Maine). I found it mixed in with Duct Tape in what can only be described as a tape mountain haphazardly left on the bottom of some shelf which happened to be next to kid’s toys.
The store itself, as others have mentioned, seemed sad and undercleaned. I saw no smiles or felt no joy while shopping here; I also felt that not a single person had anywhere they needed to be at all. Everyone just sort of lumbered along, eyes glazed over. And the lines moved at (what’s slower than) a snails pace, both at the fault of the cashier and the customer. When it was my time to cash out, the young girl ringing me out couldn’t have been more sickeningly, cloyingly, and artificially sweet… or slow. It shouldn’t take close to ten minutes to cash out a person who is buying one item and made it very clear from the onset that no bag, no cash back, and no receipt was needed. But it did. Ugh.
Anyway, the Gorilla Tape worked… but this Kmart definitely doesn’t.

It has been over two years since I originally posted my review, and I am sad to report that absolutely nothing has changed at this store. It is still an eyesore on the community. The interior is still dirty and poorly lit. The shelves are still poorly stocked, and items are often placed over the wrong price tag. Service is still pretty bad, and checkout is still constantly short staffed. They also keep pushing their rewards program at checkout, which is really annoying. I go out of my way to avoid this store and shop here only when absolutely necessary.

This is the worst store I have ever been in. I went in this afternoon to grab ONE item, since I always dread shopping here but it is on my way to work. They had the video game locked in a case, with no employees around who could help. After wasting 15 minutes trying to find someone who could unlock the case with no lock I picked up a playstation store card instead to just download the game at home. I spend an additional 15 minutes waiting in line to check out an walked out. They had 2 registers open, both with several people waiting taking forever to check out one person. Every time I’m in there their cashiers can barely speak English or get customers cashed out in a reasonable amount of time. It is disgusting, horrible management and the worst run store I have ever been in! It does not even deserve one star!

Obviously, this place is awful. Fortunately the town is slowly working toward revitalizing the area with infrastructure improvements and possible zoning changes in the area that will make it more enticing for property owners in Kelley’s Corner to improve their properties. It is convenient to have a small place like this to run out to for basics but it certainly is an eyesore. I wonder if it is one of the worst Kmarts in the country. We live a 5 minute walk from there and we still would rather drive 30 minutes to Target to shop. I just don’t know what it would take to motivate the Sears corporation to upgrade this place.

Purchase spray nozzle in the fall of 2011. Started leaking to the point of being worthless. Took it back to the store, no refund since 90 days had passed.
Save your money buy only items your never will need to return… no return for poor products is not going to earn my business.

I have shopped at the Acton Kmart for years and have become a VIP customer which gets me cash points that I can use when I check out.
They seem as though they have improved on checking out as it used to be frustrating to wait in lines for a «price check».
I like shopping here because the prices are the best around (especially if you catch their markdowns). They are very helpful and courteous and have called other stores for me if I am hunting for a particular item that they are sold out of.
Great sale prices on incidentals. You just have to keep an eye out on items at the end of a season to get the best price. They move their stock and clear out at this time.
Also, if you have purchased an item and find that it went on sale after you purchased it, they request that you bring in your sales receipt for the sale-​price credit, or the credit card you charged the items on.
I have also returned items without a sales receipt and as long as you have the credit card that you used to buy the items they can quickly look it up and credit it back to your credit card, as long as it is within the time allowed on your receipt which comes up when they use the credit card reimbursement.
I am relieved that they did not close this store.

My wife and I call this place «Ghetto KMart» because I think the folks at the KMart corporate offices have forgotten this store actually exists and it hasn’t been remodeled since the Carter administration. It’s like walking into an 80’s Time Machine. We occasionally buy our detergents and bulk items there. It’s got everything a good KMart should have. It’s full of townies, has outdated kiddie rides in the front, the line of Huffy bikes left out in the rain, those red coin canisters with the cheap toys, the shelves are rarely organized, and a great selection of cheap underware. Love this place.

It is what it is… it’s a Kmart. We go for the toys and bark mulch. It is kinda dirty, and the stench of fertilizer is abit much! They do the best they can do, the building looks old, lighting is oh so 70’s. Ok, it’s damn depressing! I would never buy their clothes, but that’s just me.‘ If Target were closer we would go there, but it’s good for a quick run.

The other day, I went to a place I hadn’t gone in years: Kmart. I was looking for a plastic storage bin about the size of a shoe box and thought Kmart would have what I needed. Um. Wrong. They didn’t have what I needed, but then again, it was difficult to tell if they had it or not. It looked like a bomb exploded in this location. I’ve seriously never seen such disarray in my life. Inventory was paltry, and what they did have was a mess, with product strewn in the wrong section and items on the ground. Now I remember why I haven’t gone here in years. I will also never return. Yikes.

Just your average dirty, low-​cost Kmart.
The reason I am writing this review is to share a story.
When I was hanging with the bad crowd in Jr High, I actually got kicked out of this particular KMart because they thought we were stealing. I was really upset, until I found out one of my friends had actually stolen some candy. I haven’t heard from that kid in a while, but I imagine he’s probably in prison.