Did your family members still with Sears until they retired?
I wondered if they an an inside view of the company’s demise.
It still seems unreal that such a store could wither and die. Was such an American icon. We did not have a lot of money growing up but on occasion my mother needed to stop in and buy something we needed.
I just loved walking through the place and looking at all the new products, neatly displayed, the display models - all of it. It just seemed like a different world!
Yes, Sears was still tops when they retired on good pensions. They also owned Sears stocks, plus Sears had one of the first and best profit-sharing benefit programs in the U.S.. a new concept at the time.
Remember, we're talking the Sears heyday time period.....decades and decades ago, the thirties, forties, fifties. All the uncles are long gone now...and it's a bet that some of my living first and second cousins are looking at their inherited Sears stock shares and probably weeping.
Leni