A once powerful mass merchandiser that was brought to its knees by Wal-Mart and Target - now is in bankrupcy. Used to be a fairly good store in the 70's and 80's but the corporation never updated stores or merchandise. Prices were high, employees were always jerks and the quality of K-Mart clothing was and still is horrible.

Wal*Mart's bitch

A deptmartent store getting their asses handed to them, by Wal-Mart and Target.

Something cheap and unwanted.

A department store that sells, among other items, notoriously unfashionable/poor quality clothing. All clothing brands are licensed exclusively to K-Mart (i.e. Route 66) and quite unsuccessfully attempt to mimic current trends.

Associated with a demographic that is either low income, cheap by choice, or fashionably inept.

Derogatory adjective describing objects of poor quality or shabby appearance, or untidy people.
Originally used in primary schools in Wagga Wagga, a city in South Western NSW, Australia in the late 1970s and early 80s. To my knowledge, it has never spread, but is a nice little piece of juvenile social history.

so low has to have Martha Stewart