21 St. Louis Malls and Stores That Are Gone But Not Forgotten

By Jaime Lees on Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:16 am

Shopping is always popular in St. Louis because this is the Midwest and we're bored. We also like to look our best just in case we happen to run into John Goodman at a restaurant.

We've been thinking recently about all of the places we used to love to shop at that have disappeared from the local landscape.

Some of these spots were St. Louis originals, some of them are chain stores that were particularly hot in our area, but all of them are missed dearly. Shopping just isn't what it used to be the age of Amazon, and these are the places we remember most fondly.

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Kmart
The vibes at Kmart were always tragic, but the prices were low as heck. If you need a three-pack of crappy t-shirts for $2, Kmart was the place for you. This made it the No. 1 store to torture your children at when buying them back-to-school clothes, because who wants to spend good money on clothes for kids when they’re just going to outgrow them a few months, anyway? Many of the locations had a mini Little Caesars location on site (kind of like the Starbucks counters in Targets now) so you could grab an easy dinner on your way out the door and then your kids could spill tomato sauce on those new shirts and that, friends, is the circle of life.

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