An American icon, Sears has been around since 1886, 130 years and used to be the place for middle-America to shop for everything you’d expect from a department store. However, this is the destruction part of Capitalism, where ‘Names’ will die because they are no longer relevant. In my youth, I’d love to look at the Christmas Sears Catalog for what I could beg from my folks. (Still remember my Dad telling me that those spring-bottom shoes aren’t the magic that I thought they were!)
Now, they, like others, will leave those iconic stand-alone store buildings that have been converted into other uses. And the ones attached to the malls, well, those malls aren’t what they were either!
As the 1% continues to destroy middle America, there isn't a need for a store that caters to that market.
I wo der of the malls aren’t a part of the problem. I would probably shop there more often if they were in non-mall shopping lots. I don’t want to park at a mall just to go to Sears.