Venture

[Anonymous]

Oh,one thing:Are there more Venture pics?

[d_fife]

this kmart was a venture in amarillo tx and it bought hte venture in 1998 and closed a few years ago

from businessjournal.net/ index040699.html

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by d_fife
this kmart was a venture in amarillo tx and it bought hte venture in 1998 and closed a few years ago

from businessjournal.net/ index040699.html

but not all venture locations were tunred into kmarts though

[d_fife]

Originally posted by Caldor1999

Originally posted by d_fife
this kmart was a venture in amarillo tx and it bought hte venture in 1998 and closed a few years ago

from businessjournal.net/ index040699.html

but not all venture locations were tunred into kmarts though

yah, just 48 ventures were turned to kmarts and some of those venture turned kmarts closed

[Anonymous]

Kmart's a cool shop than Venture!

[d_fife]

what was the quality of venture's merchandise?

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by d_fife
what was the quality of venture's merchandise?

bacley te same as caldor and bradlees from what i know since it was on the upper side of the discount market

[Anonymous]

Venture lived a long time in the retail world: 1970-1998

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Anonymous
Venture lived a long time in the retail world: 1970-1998

thats not that long thats only 28years jamesway dident laast that long earther 1961 to 1995

i think anything over 35 years is a long time but venture was kida short lived

[Anonymous]

Some Ventures had a black and white tipped stripes on the entry!

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Anonymous
Some Ventures had a black and white tipped stripes on the entry!

kida like this one=

[Anonymous]

If Venture was still there,what merchandise could there be?

[Anonymous]

And how many Venture logos are there?

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Anonymous
If Venture was still there,what merchandise could there be?

it was a discvount store so obudley they would sell simaler stuff if they were around today it probley wouldent chage that much the only diffrence is that they would prbley be more stores thats all and i think they always used that logo they were creatied by the may company inn 1970

[ameskmart1]

Former Venture/Kmart

[Anonymous]

I remember our Ventures here around Indianapolis.  There was one on U.S. 40 next to the K-Mart that is now a parking garage for the Indianapolis International Airport.  I don't remember this store as well...

The Venture in Greenwood, IN, off Shelby Street and U.S. 31 closed, reopened, and then closed again to become a K-Mart.  I remember frequently going to that store when K-Mart was there, but it closed in summer 2002.  It was a good thing it WAS closed because it was hit by an F4 tornado on September 19, 2002, and everyone in the store would've been killed had it been in business.   (The roof collapsed, which caused most of the building to collapse, as a result.  The Pier-1, Burger King, Shoe Carnival, and Stuart Anderson's Cattle Company in front of the shopping center were completely leveled.  The Galyan's next door was also leveled in the process.)

The shopping center that the Venture was in has since been repaired/rebuilt and the outlet that Venture occupied is now a flower place (Flower Factory, I believe).

Although I was rarely inside a Venture store, I miss them.

[videogamer75]

Check out this YouTube video showing the interior of the former Venture in Fairmont City, IL, now a classic car showroom with some nice cars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiM9nThOMVg

[videogamer75]

this kmart in forest park IL is definitely an old venture.

billburmaster.com/lecentre

[videogamer75]

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[Mobil]

Originally posted by d_fife
this kmart was a venture in amarillo tx and it bought hte venture in 1998 and closed a few years ago

from businessjournal.net/ index040699.html

Actually Kmart bought the Venture in 1996. In 1996 Kmart bought all the Ventures in Texas and their Texas distribution center. The chain closed in 1997-1998. I can vaguely remember going to one in Houston soon after the conversion, when I was 3. I got a Hot Wheels
1997 Ford F-150 at that store. :yup::bouncing:
Kmart closed many of these stores during their early 2002 bankruptcy.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Joplin High School in Joplin, Missouri, is currently operating some of their classrooms out of a temporary home in the former Venture (which later became a ShopKo) store at Northpark Mall. The original Joplin High School was damaged by a tornado just this last summer.



http://ksmu.org/article/nixon-state-funds-will-help-joplin-school-district-offset-loss-local-property-tax-revenue

[Caldor1999]

here is the inside of a venture store gives you an idea of what it was like when it was open. the sale signs they have reminded me alot like the ones they had at caldor

[nims57]

Around when were those pics taken? 80's? Was the store in the process of opening?

[Retail_247]

The Meijer store in Orland Park, IL used to be a Venture

https://retail247.blogspot.com/2022/11/quick-look-former-venture-store-orland.html

They didn't remodel much on the outside, and you can still see the Venture labelscar

[108CAM]

In Australia, there used to be a department store called Venture. The Australian and American chains were not related in any way and the Australian stores slogan was "Venture - Where Quality Costs Less"
The Australian chain used a Black, White and Blue colour scheme with Blue being the main colour.

These are the only images I could find that show what the front of an Australian Venture Department Store might have looked like. I say might because the images are screenshots taken from an old 90's TV commercial and I think the storefront may be a computer generated image and not an actual storefront. It's still the closest I could get to what it would have been.