Millions of middle and lower class American families used to depend on Sears for clothing, tools, car parts and service, home furniture, just about everything.
Now? Not so much.
Yeh Sears is a microcosm example of what has happened to a previously great America.
It was a great store once. I really loved shopping there. It takes senior management to run loyal customers out of your store chain.
We own a Sears Roebuck house dated early 1900s
The Sears Catalog, it was Amazon before Amazon was even a twinkle in anyone's eye. How easy it used to be to comparison shop. And to find the right size tool. Or that specialty tool. Or a tool you needed but didn't even know that it existed.
I'm sorry, but online shopping can't compare to having the catalog in hand. Grainger, DigiKey maybe a few others are OK with their online catalog. They are the exceptions. Maybe it's because those guys already know how to make a good print catalog.
They started dying when they did away with their catalog. If they’d switched over to Internet at the time they would be ruling the world instead of Amazon.
I used to buy stuff from Sears regularly. Why, I even had a Sears “card”. Then as the years went by and the buyers got older and their taste in clothes, and everything else got older, my kids began demanding we go to other stores like Target and WalMart where the “neat stuff” was. The end came when I wanted to replace my Craftsmen drill and found the tools were made in China. I try not to buy Chinese tools because they are not high quality overall.
The last time I went into a Sears store it looked like it was going out of business with empty shelves and sparse appliances and clothing. The worst thing was no piece of clothing was cotton, wool or silk...all synthetics.
Millions of middle and lower class American families used to depend on Sears for clothing, tools, car parts and service, home furniture, just about everything.
Yes, it’s a damn shame. I remember my dad taking me to the Sears in Camden, NJ back in the early 50’s pretty much every other week and it was the flagship store in the city. Of course Camden was decent back then too. Times do change.
Oh, well!