“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.
“I mentioned how we used to get everything at sears except for food.”
Sears used to sell houses. They would be shipped in railcars. They came with detailed plans (over a hundred pages, I believe) and tools. The houses are still standing in some neighborhoods, and are referred to as Craftsman houses.
I mean that company came out with so many marketing wins: Diehard batteries, Weatherbeater paint, the Discover Card, Dean Witter brokerage, Allstate Insurance and there are surely others.
It is truly stunning how disastrously they have failed and fallen.
Do not forget the iron on patches for the worn-out knees and your toughskins pants. They may hve been toughskins but we could still wear the knees on those things playing as little kids