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Sears to accelerate closings, shutter 235 stores
CNBC ^ | December 4,2014 | Krystina Gustafson

Posted on 12/04/2014 12:42:34 PM PST by Hojczyk

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To: txnativegop
bring back the inexpensive, reliable store-brand guns you used to sell maybe it help.

I have a Sears Ted Williams shotgun that was passed down from my Dad.

43 posted on 12/04/2014 1:12:54 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Maelstorm
Sears is. Sears Holdings also owns Kmart

More accurately, K-Mart owns Sears Holdings, since K-Mart bought out Sears not vice versa. I don't know how either stays open. Our local K-mart has a huge parking lot, always empty, even during Christmas season, very few cars in the lot.

44 posted on 12/04/2014 1:13:00 PM PST by Graybeard58 (V.33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Corinthians 10:)
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To: Hojczyk

Sears will be acquired by Chinese investors.


45 posted on 12/04/2014 1:13:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
It would be ironic if we get to the point at which the big department stores that outcompeted local specialty stores will go away - because of online buying - and that local specialty stores (that can provide unique products, and provide products immediately locally), will make a comeback.
46 posted on 12/04/2014 1:14:48 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: F15Eagle

I hear you. My resumes are going down the hole. No one is hiring my age range, my stay-at-home mom status for 25 years, and my degrees are worthless. A requirement now is Fluent Spanish and I’m not anymore.


48 posted on 12/04/2014 1:24:44 PM PST by machogirl
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To: fatnotlazy

When I was a kid, the Sears by me had a little candy stand inside. I’d go upstairs and by a $2.99 LP and downstairs and buy 1/4 lb of vanilla stars and ride my bike home.


49 posted on 12/04/2014 1:26:00 PM PST by machogirl
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To: WhiskeyX

We have a winner.

What they should do is train their 9 dollar employees to stand out front and push people into their stores.


50 posted on 12/04/2014 1:28:01 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: George from New England; US Navy Vet

Actually, K-Mart bought Sears a couple of decades ago. Thus these “bad decisions by Sears” are actually being made by K-Mart.

My 30 year old Kenmore refrigerator is still working, although the oven died last year.


52 posted on 12/04/2014 1:34:05 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: US Navy Vet

And that’s sad. When I was a kid, we had a Kenmore refrigerator which lasted throughout my childhood and teen years.


53 posted on 12/04/2014 1:38:54 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: trisham
I have had my vacuum cleaner from Sears for at least 20 years. It’s the best appliance I’ve ever owned, as is the refrigerator that’s now in our basement. That’s even older.

Sears use to put out good products. Most of the supportive comments about Sears talk about "I've had this (fill in the blank) item for years and years and it's great... Has anyone said that about their newer junk?

54 posted on 12/04/2014 1:41:49 PM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos's a snake in the grass and a dem operative. Wilson should never have trusted him.)
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To: trisham

Sure. Anything from 20 or more years ago is fine. But anything purchased, say, 10 years ago or less is hunk.

My first washer/dryer pair was the Kenmore brand. Lasted 28 years.


55 posted on 12/04/2014 1:41:55 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: machogirl
My dad loved the gummy candies — Juju bees or something. Mom would always buy them for Dad anytime she stopped at Sears.
56 posted on 12/04/2014 1:44:02 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Graybeard58
"More accurately, K-Mart owns Sears Holdings, since K-Mart bought out Sears not vice versa. I don't know how either stays open. Our local K-mart has a huge parking lot, always empty, even during Christmas season, very few cars in the lot."

Same here. Our Kmart is a refugee from the early '70s; more like a junk shop than anything else. I never go there.

Our Sears store at the mall closed a couple of years ago. Liberty University bought the building; their online university is based there.

57 posted on 12/04/2014 1:44:08 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: GOPJ; fatnotlazy

You both made the same point, and it makes sense to me.


58 posted on 12/04/2014 1:46:06 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Yo-Yo
bring back the inexpensive, reliable store-brand guns you used to sell maybe it help. I have a Sears Ted Williams shotgun that was passed down from my Dad.

I have a sears J.C.Higgins shotgun that I got for my 8th grade graduation in 1953....still fires just fine!!

59 posted on 12/04/2014 1:49:05 PM PST by terycarl
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To: Hojczyk

The management went counter-culture a long time ago. Everyone’s going to Walmart.


60 posted on 12/04/2014 1:52:33 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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