Post WWII and interstates, automobile ownership, and social setting, gave rise to the "Mall Culture". Now you've got friends and goods on your smart phone.
More likely K-Mart. You were more likely to find the little items people bought at Woolworth's at a K-Mart. Sears may have carried them too, but we usually went to Sears for bigger, more expensive, or more specialized things.
“A catalog and the US Mail did the same thing to every tn in the early 1900’s until post WWII. Every town had a Woolworths or general mercantile. Sears killed them off.”
Our hometown had all of the stores up to about 2+ decades ago. Wards was one of the first go and end up with basically a mail order place for a few years.
Woolworth was the last as they moved from a high rent area. Then Sears got smaller and so did the local Kmart.
The, Kmart closed and brought in a Walmart, and a new Home Depot helped to close down the remaining stores. Sears became a small catalog only store.
The mayor at that time was shown the sales taxes paid by our city’s shoppers at Homedepot, Walmart and the chain drug stores without a store here.
So he and the city council allowed/brought in the big name stores and the sales taxes.
He felt like he had bought a couple of decades for the new and old stores.
With significant cost items, I check via computer online re the prices of the big box stores, here versus Amazon or the Army/Navy exchange. Amazon’s free delivery and low prices usually win. Sometimes, on my Chromebook, Amazon has in the upper right corner the price on the items. we need or want to buy while on line with Walmart or Target.