Death of a store ?
Jun 3, 2016 03:21:27 #
I think Paddy and I witnessed the death of a store:
We were out and about on a drive to nowhere and Paddy suggested we stop at Sears to buy the toaster oven she found on the internet. The GPS told us that Sears New Brunswick, NJ was the closest and we found It to be a very large store.
We discovered the Kenmore toaster oven on the lower level of the store, but the box data didn’t tell us how high the bake counter would count. For baked potatoes, you need about 70 or more minutes. We looked around for a sales associate, BUT in this huge lower level of the Sears store there was NOT ONE SALES PERSON and no customers ! We were alone in the lower level and it was rather spooky for a huge store !
I carried the box a hundred feet away to a comfortable sofa in the furniture department. I thought if I started opening the box, surely the security cameras would see us and people would come running. NOPE ! I spent at least 10 minutes opening the box to find the manual and nobody came. The manual said one could raise the counter past 30 minutes but it didn’t say how high It would go. Also inside the box was a phone number for expert help, but they couldn’t answer the question and put me on hold.
After a few minutes we got our answer: 99 minutes. Great, I repacked the box and went to the upper level looking for a sales rep. In this huge store there was only two reps for a very large store? But it was a good match for the two customers in the store.
We bought the toaster oven and got the distinct impression that this store couldn’t survive for too much longer. Pretty soon Paddy and I will join the millions of others who no longer shop in stores but shop for everything on the internet.
We were out and about on a drive to nowhere and Paddy suggested we stop at Sears to buy the toaster oven she found on the internet. The GPS told us that Sears New Brunswick, NJ was the closest and we found It to be a very large store.
We discovered the Kenmore toaster oven on the lower level of the store, but the box data didn’t tell us how high the bake counter would count. For baked potatoes, you need about 70 or more minutes. We looked around for a sales associate, BUT in this huge lower level of the Sears store there was NOT ONE SALES PERSON and no customers ! We were alone in the lower level and it was rather spooky for a huge store !
I carried the box a hundred feet away to a comfortable sofa in the furniture department. I thought if I started opening the box, surely the security cameras would see us and people would come running. NOPE ! I spent at least 10 minutes opening the box to find the manual and nobody came. The manual said one could raise the counter past 30 minutes but it didn’t say how high It would go. Also inside the box was a phone number for expert help, but they couldn’t answer the question and put me on hold.
After a few minutes we got our answer: 99 minutes. Great, I repacked the box and went to the upper level looking for a sales rep. In this huge store there was only two reps for a very large store? But it was a good match for the two customers in the store.
We bought the toaster oven and got the distinct impression that this store couldn’t survive for too much longer. Pretty soon Paddy and I will join the millions of others who no longer shop in stores but shop for everything on the internet.
Jun 3, 2016 05:18:52 #
picturedude
Loc: Yosemite natl. park, Ca.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Whenever I can't find an employee, I step into a fitting room, wait a few minutes, then yell "there's no toilet paper in here"!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Jun 3, 2016 05:45:19 #
Sears is the pits and has been for over 20 years. Anyone who shops there is asking to get screwed and taken to the cleaners.
Jun 3, 2016 06:42:54 #
Heather Iles
Loc: UK, Somerset
whitewolfowner wrote:
Sears is the pits and has been for over 20 years. Anyone who shops there is asking to get screwed and taken to the cleaners.
No wonder it will be no more. We have one here too, but I wouldn't mention its name.
Jun 3, 2016 07:31:16 #
We have one here that is still surviving just barely tho......
they have cut way back on hours that they are open...
I have been in it a couple of times over the last month.....four employee's, one basically in each corner of the store....
Sears is dying a long , slow, ugly death....
they have cut way back on hours that they are open...
I have been in it a couple of times over the last month.....four employee's, one basically in each corner of the store....
Sears is dying a long , slow, ugly death....
Jun 3, 2016 08:50:12 #
whitewolfowner wrote:
Sears is the pits and has been for over 20 years. Anyone who shops there is asking to get screwed and taken to the cleaners.
You got that right.
Jun 3, 2016 09:30:30 #
whitewolfowner wrote:
Sears is the pits and has been for over 20 years. Anyone who shops there is asking to get screwed and taken to the cleaners.
Yupper, bought a grille for $300+ dollars and it rusted out in 2 years.
Sarge69
Jun 3, 2016 10:01:41 #
Years ago I used to use a Sears Credit card. Then I stopped to read the statement one day ...... they were charging 22% interest. I cut up the card with scissors and used Visa at their stores, which they were only too happy to accept. I, for one, am old enough to regret the passing of a Sears. It was a mainstay in my youth.
Jun 3, 2016 11:01:06 #
Bob Yankle wrote:
I, for one, am old enough to regret the passing of a Sears. It was a mainstay in my youth.
I'm not old enough to remember using the Sears Catalog for toilet paper, as a whole generation of people did, but I also remember Sears to be a mainstay store.
Today it appears to me that Amazon is replacing stores with online sales in all kinds of shopping categories and they deliver quickly.
Jun 3, 2016 11:02:39 #
picturedude wrote:
Whenever I can't find an employee, I step into a fitting room, wait a few minutes, then yell "there's no toilet paper in here"!
!!!
Jun 3, 2016 11:59:19 #
I used to like Sears and Roebuck. Got my first Sports Jacket there.
Sarge69
Sarge69
Jun 3, 2016 12:27:30 #
sarge69 wrote:
I used to like Sears and Roebuck. Got my first Sports Jacket there.
Sarge69
Sarge69
When I was a kid I'd order ice skates as soon as the winter cat. would come out. They usually came in by the following July!
Jun 4, 2016 06:24:12 #
Craftsman rocks big time. Have 2 25 year old lawn mowers that won't die, 30 year old battery charger and air compressor that still provide good service. Kenmore washer and dryer over 20 years old. The Performa I bought there in 97 still works. Hand tools my father used. Come to think of it have a Wards TV that still works. Think Sears and think quality long lasting maybe to much so.
Jun 4, 2016 06:40:25 #
whitewolfowner wrote:
Sears is the pits and has been for over 20 years. Anyone who shops there is asking to get screwed and taken to the cleaners.
Wrong. Sears like Kmart will be soon gone. Buying what they sell is not getting screwed. Sears manufactures nothing. How is buying a toaster or say a Samsung TV getting screwed?? Pricing being equal to another box store.
Jun 4, 2016 06:41:48 #
It was just on CNN,by the end of the year Sears and KMart will be bankrupt and closed. In out area alone, most have closed, and the ones that haven't, should be. 
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