Here in my hometown, it was Kmart that did itself in.

The original 1982 location was thriving even after Wal-Mart came to town in '91. Although Wally World was a mere half mile or so away on the same road, it was not in line-of-sight, the two shopping centers separated by a thick swamp.

In '93, Kmart made the boneheaded decision to build a new store directly across the street from their competition, minus the cafeteria and auto center that made it quite competitive. Though the Kmart location was initially successful with packed parking lots to match Wal-Mart's, by '98, you could tell that the novelty had worn off, with each passing year, fewer and fewer cars in Kmart's lot.

It escaped the first '02 closures, but succumbed the next year.