Kmart

My mom and I usually come here just to look around or after we’ve ate at sonic but she likes it mainly because they carry inexpensive clothes for bigger women.
It’s pricy if you’re shopping for home supplies.
The place is usually pretty clean and organized
I’ve never had to deal with any rude employees and The cashiers are always nice and smiling.

I remember shopping with my parents when I was a child It was the place to shop it would get busy on the weekends and I also remember it had a restaurant in the back. Now it’s dump.

Do not shop here, do not online site to Store pick up here, do not do business with them at all. Customer service is a joke. They are rude and don’t know what they are doing at all. When asked to speak with the manager the assistant manager would not even tell us her name and walks off. My brother in law out of state placed an order and set my husband for 3^rd party pick up. We go to pick up the item and they are all rude saying they won’t give us the item because our name is not on the order. We even show the email with the order number and his name and they still won’t release the item. I’m telling my brother in law to get a refund and order from Walmart instead.

We use 2 shop here so much as a kid b-​4 Walmart and Target came along. Now it’s just an older run down store. I wish it was a little cleaner and not so cramped and cluttered. Plus there prices are ridiculous.

Considering this is the only Kmart around, you would think that it would look better than this. I only walked just passed the women’s section and I wanted to leAve. The racks are over crowded, too close together, and have no sort or arrangement. The whole atmosphere screams ‘ghetto’. I will continue to shop online.

Close to home, I shop there for the couple of items they carry and I need but by far they have the worse customer service in salinas! Cashiers r constantly talking about personal issues, loud, checking their cell phones, and they ignore the customer. Rarely hav I had a cashier greet me. I’ve even heard managers yelling their directions and questions across the registers to the employees! Ridiculous.
Another thing, the lighting in the store very poor. I don’t know if they r jus trying to save on their electric bill, forget to turn em all on or if the store is jus old and the lighting is bad.

If you’re planning on returning any merchandise, do not do it at night!!! The lady that runs the customer service area cannot multi task and because of that she gets unfocused and frustrated. She’s so stressed when there’s 2 people in the line (me included).
So I was returning items or I should say exchanging them, she returned my items and then started helping the lady behind me. My boyfriend asks what are we suppose to do with the stuff were suppose to buy and she said you need to fall in line again! I’m already in line so why do I need to go to the end and fall in line again?!
So I ended up falling in line on a non-​customer service register. Luckily, the cashier is nice.
By the way, the lady who can’t function on a busy work area is TONI! I think she’s better off working in a library. So watch out for her.
The only thing pleasant with my K-​Mart experience is Ashley. She’s the friendly cashier that rang us up.

kmart has been in salinas for at least 30 years. it has become a real dump. i always considered it a reasonable alternative to walmart but not so much anymore. stock out of order, on the floor, under clearance but oops not really it was shelved wrong, etc. maybe they should just shutdown for a week to get themselves in order. i dont see a future for them and thats too bad.

I live in Hollister and was shopping in Salinas today, going into Kmart for the first time in years. This one is a lot larger than the one in Hollister and the store is arranged differently. i stopped to look at some books while in the store today. it reminded me of the large Kmart in Gilroy that closed years ago. This is one of the few towns in this area that still have a Kmart (as does Hollister).

Great place for when you want to avoid the crowds, 5 stars because they carry Dallas Cowboys clothing here.

I don’t know why but this place just feels sketchy inside.
It’s like someone tried to make a Target and just said screw it half way through.

I feel bad leaving a 1 star review, but I have to be honest, right?
We are from out of town and 1 night while staying across the street in a hotel I was about to wrap some Xmas presents and I had no wrapping paper, tape or scissors. I thought I would just run into KMART and pick these things up. I walked in, saw the hoards of people waiting in line to check out and I turned around and left. I was not going to stand in line for 30 minutes to buy 3 things so I ran across the street to Office Max and there were no lines. Yay for me!
OK, so another night came where I had to pick a few items for me and my family while staying in a hotel. I completely dreaded going in but I had to. My children depended on it! There were a lot of people in lines but not as bad as before. The store is not laid out well at all and I honestly couldn’t find the aisle with the baby diapers. Seriously. I found an aisle full of baby wipes and an aisle full of adult diapers, but no baby diapers. I also had to pick up some shoe laces for my husband and that was a hunt as well.
Finally I was about to leave and I got lost while walking to the registers. It’s like there are mountains of merchandise that needs to be put out on the shelves but no one has done it or will ever do it. While I was searching for a way to the front of the store I found the diapers hidden in the back! How come the diapers are not next to the wipes?
So I made it to the front, had a very short checkout (I think that was luck) and while I waited outside to be picked up by my husband some 20 year-​old guy who looked far from homeless was asking me for money. Yuck.

I have fond memories as a child growing up in Northwestern Montana and traveling with my parents over 100 miles to go to Gram & Papa’s house every few months which usually involved stopping at the K-​Mart in their town, as our tiny town did not have any big-​box store in those days. Oh, how I loved that little, 25 cents a ride, horsy carousel out front of the K-​Mart, …you know the one with three little colorful horses that chase each other around in about a 4′ diameter! …and Oh how I loved the selection of toys inside!
FAST FORWARD SEVERAL DECADES… I had a few bad experiences at K-​Marts so I have successfully avoided them over the years. However, a few months ago I heard an ad on the radio where there was a «BIG SALE» on «Craftsman» tools at the K-​Mart in Salinas. Now I had heard that Sears bought K-​Mart several years ago, and like all men, I absolutely love «Craftsman» tools (which are the Sears brand). So, I decided to drop in to this K-​Mart several months ago, and the store was an absolute mess! I finally fought and clawed my way to the «tool aisle», and all I found were a few little screwdrivers, and a little claw hammer, and a few other «household» tools! I thought what the Efff! Even Bob-​the-​Builder wouldn’t be happy with these pathetic little things they called «Craftman Tools». So I left, and I’ll probably never return. The End! :)

Prices are not always the lowest but I like the fact that is never crowded like most other department stores, its shame it may close alongside with all other Sears. One complaint is when they do get busy they don’t really have the staff to handle.

For some reason I very much prefer this Kmart location versus other «larger» nearby similar stores. I feel like it’s not crowded and you can just get what you need and bounce all while getting super low prices.

Be careful at this KMart — they are notorious for posting that the price is X, but when you get to the register you find out that it’s actually a higher price. When you ask why, the standard response is «the price only applies to style number ******». Next time, annotate it on the sign, or at least annotate it in something other than 4-​point font.
All in all, a bit overpriced for the quality.