[MinuteGal]

One branch of my family was almost all Sears-connected. In the forties, my aunt's brother-in-law was Chief Treasurer and Comptroller for world-wide Sears. Several of my uncles were Sears buyers, travelling the world to buy products for their particular departments. These were lucrative jobs in those days.....topped-off with the added benefit of Sear's pioneering, almost unheard of (at that time) profit-sharing plan.

Since I was a blushing bride decades and decades ago all my appliances have been Kenmore no matter where I moved. My kitchen and other appliances today are still Kenmore. They have all worn like IRON.

Any minor repairs have always been promptly and perfectly carried out by Sears' skilled repair crews.

Although I have known the company's downfall was and is inevitable, this knowledge gives me the real blues in a big way.

It's not like most other big companies going under...while you were growing up and when you became an adult homeowner Sears was always somewhere in your house just like a member of the family.

....and the wishbook catalogue....

(....gloom)

Leni

[DoughtyOne]

I agree Leni.

What I would urge Sears to do, if it wishes to continue to be a national entity, is start selling on E-Bay like a lot of other businesses do.

Craftsman was a great product. Not sure if it still is, but I wouldn’t refuse to join the 21st Century and die.

We used to get the Sears and J. C. Pennys catalogues Those things were great to look through. I was always looking at various gadgets in them.