No, I mean Roebucks
Posted on 12/03/2015 7:21:55 PM PST by EveningStar
Sears has been crashing for the past decade.
The retailer, which also owns Kmart, reported a loss of $454 million in the third quarter. The massive loss is the latest in 10 years of declining same-store sales.
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No, I mean Roebucks
Sears had its own brand of everything, and it was all good stuff, back in the ‘50s at least. There was Tower Brand cameras, enlargers, chemicals and photo equipment, J.C. Higgins bicycles and rifles, Hillary tents and camping equipment, and some others cannot remember.
If I HAD to have service, the insurance went smoothly...and the repairmen are johnny-on-the-spot, conscientous and very competent.
Despite all the anecdotal complaints on this thread there are zillions of women across the fruited plain who will be very unhappy if and when Sears goes down the drain.
Leni
Memories :) I remember their Catalog.
Now, we mostly buy their Kenmore appliances.
It’s a lot of fun to go through those. Big time memory lane for me. My favs were always the GI Joe’s. I’m still kicking myself for selling my epic collection when my parents moved in 78 thinking I had out grown it. If I’d only known eBay was 20 years away (or whatever). I wound up re-buying an original Mobile Support Vehicle (Radioactive Satellite) for my kid off eBay about 10 years ago. Sad part was he wasn’t half as excited as I was about it. What with Nintendo DS’ and stuff it’s no wonder. Silly me.
I know there are Roebucks... the name was still on Sears clothing as of a few years ago. As a kid of the 70s, though... I got Toughskins... handed down from my cousins.
Go figure! I don’t recall those but thanks for sharing. Those prices!!
Sears had everything! If the didn’t you could order it. The only store that had Santa Claus (without going downtown Houston) was Sears. He arrived every year by helicopter. It was very exciting for us kids.
Sears went very politically correct with policies during the ‘90s, so it’s no surprise.
They just started those again
It is the largest K-mart on Earth and is a major tourist attraction
Indeed.
Go big on the internet. Sears and K-Mart could open virtual stores where surfers could walk through and buy what they want.
Probably before your time !
Thanks for the link to those old catalogs.
Those old Sears catalogs are great.
We did the same thing, marked the pages and circled the things we wanted.
It took a few years for my little brother to understand that there was more than one of something available and that we could both circle it and ask for it!
Hard to sell a lot to “middle class working people” when Obama has got 104,000,069 working-age Americans without jobs.
Sears is a child of the railroads and telegraph.”
And their catalog served a great purpose in the outhouse on the farm.
I hate to see them go because of the memories.
When we were kids my grandmother would let my brother and I each choose a back to school outfit from the Sears catalogue. She didn’t have much but was always there for us.
When my own kids were young they would spend hours choosing toys from The Wish Book. Happy times.
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That sounds so creepy
My brother just bought one (already assembled and on site).
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