In suburban Miami, Kmart's last 'Blue Light Specials' flicker

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.