I agree. I was actually talking about this stuff at work about 2 weeks ago.
I mentioned how we used to get everything at sears except for food.
Camping hunting fishibg tools clothes kitchen appliances washers dryers....you could get your home auto and life insurance in their stores (allstate did the home and auto) and even music lessons and of course family pictures.
Now the only things left wirth shopping Sears for are being sold off.
“I mentioned how we used to get everything at sears except for food.”
My family too. Back in the day - as they say - a middle class family could find and afford just about anything they needed at Sears: tools, appliances, clothes (not flashy, but good quality that would last many years), shoes, sporting goods, jewelry, etc. You could get new tires and batteries for your car, new carpet for your house, a new TV for your den, whatever.
We weren’t rich by any means. We were strictly middle class and we shopped at Sears all the time. It pains me to see it fall apart because of poor management and changing times. Same thing for K-Mart. Many middle class families shopped at K-Mart. Now, tied to Sears, they’ll go down together.