They have made a LOT of boneheaded moves through the years; surprised they’re still around, actually.
My Dad always bought just about EVERYTHING there from tools to appliances to lawn mowers to clothing. I, too, in my younger years went there for appliances and a water heater and a lawn mower - it was THE place to go.
The end of an era.
I don’t know how all of these stores remain open. I have not been in a store like Sears for years. Online shopping has eliminated the need - in fairness, I have always hated shopping. Maybe some like it or consider it entertaining.
Buying K-Mart was dumb. They should just jettison the name and try to rebuild Sears.
Now that Craftsman tools are made in China, I have no reason to ever shop at Sears again. I just wonder who will move into my local Sears store once it closes.
Sears has been on the brink of catastrophe for fifteen years. I’m surprised they have hung on this long.
They just had massive store closures last summer and frankly I am not surprised. Not only has their quality tanked over the years there is zero customer service almost to the point of being rude. I had to fight for a week to exchange an unused shop vac filter and finally it went to the district manager who approved it. That is ridiculous.
I’d better get those broken sockets in post haste!
I hope target doesn’t buy them out. i still remember going to Sears this year and there were changing rooms for both men and women, not homofags..
Talk about a skeleton crew. Except the Sears skeleton is missing an arm, a leg, a couple of ribs and a jaw. That's how bad the place was.
hang on sears. things may be looking up in 2017 and beyond.
I remember Sears.
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!
Sears is part of Americana...I hope they can be saved.
The last time I went to a Sears was 8 years ago...At that point said would never go again. Bought a TV...mind you the closet Sears to us is over 90 miles away.
Took home the TV...broke within 2 hours. Drove all the way up there. Some punk kid tells me I cannot return the TV.
Told the kid....you are very confused, you are giving me a refund right now. Kid tried to tell me again....well I got the refund. kid probaly will never forget me. LOL. I am sure I ruined his day.
SEARS screwed up big time. They were the Amazon of 1920.
They had it all catalogued.
No different than Motorola.
Chicago has some bad mojo going on.
It’s a shame. They had some very reliable products. I still have a canister vacuum cleaner that we bought 20+ years ago.
The retailer announced on Thursday that it would close 68 Kmart locations and 10 Sears stores
this summer, leaving Kmart and Sears with fewer than 900 and 700 stores respectively.