User:LegoK9/K-Lumbo (lost Kmart safety video; 1990s)

Status: Lost

K-lumbo, possibly titled K-lumbo: Safety is No Accident, was a Kmart safety video and Columbo parody created circa the early 1990s.

According to former Kmart employees, the safety video starred a Peter Falk-type actor as a detective named "K-lumbo" who investigates the safety protocols of K-Mart employees. One former employee remembered the video covering shrinkage prevention.

The confirmation that this safety video existed is the 2001 court case Torres v. K-Mart Corp:

7. Kmart did not act in accordance with the safety requirements set forth by Kmart Corporation for wet floors in safety video known as "K-lumbo."

8. Kmart did not act in accordance with the safety requirements set forth by Kmart Corporation for wet floors in safety video known as "Safety Is No Accident."

Testimonies

Weeble Weeble Wobble on the Ars Technica forum (2006):

All retail stores have horrid dreck like this for their training videos. You think this is bad? You should try sitting through the old K-Lumbo shrinkage prevention video K-Mart used to show (do they still?). I'm still haunted by that, 13 years after working there.

Alan Scherstuhl on Twitter (2013, 2017):

Training at K-Mart in '91 I saw a video in which Peter Falk-like detective K-lumbo investigated why K-Mart employees are so safety conscious

In 1991, on my first day working at K-Mart, we watched a training video in which the detective K-lumbo cracked the case of employee safety

YouTuber Quinton Reviews, via his father (2021):

Personal lost media:

My Dad worked at Kmart a few times in the '90s, and he INSISTS that one time they showed him an instructional video starring an investigator named "K-Lumbo"

we must find and preserve 'K-Lumbo: Safety is No Accident'.

Quinton's father seems to remember the title as "K-Lumbo: Safety is No Accident". However, the court case seems to refer to "K-Lumbo" and "Safety is No Accident" as two separate Kmart safety videos.