Venture Sign reappears.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Venture was the beginning of the model that Target is today. They had many stores in KC and St. Louis and other places in the midwest. They either went bankrupt or got bought out. They were like K-Mart only had better stuff. There was one at I-70 and Noland in Independence that became a K-Mart when K-Mart moved from US 40 and Noland. Now there's a big Hy=Vee where K-Mart used to be, and the old Venture store location is currently vacant.

The failure of Venture always struck me as weird, because they didn't really slowly fade away or turn into shit holes like other failing department stores.

It's like they saw WalMart coming and decided to cash out. Kmart stayed and fought to diminishing returns for decades.

Lots of other places start promising, slowly get shabbier and shittier, then they have endless closeout sales, then they shut their doors. Seemed more like Venture was going fine one day, then were just gone.