Sears stores need customers.
Jul 16, 2019 19:26:45 #
Sears department store in Greensboro at midday on a big sales event. Wonder how much longer the lights will stay on.
Jul 16, 2019 19:37:09 #
I used to buy from Sears a lot. They had good tools and they had brands of work boots that fit me and lasted fairly well (when working I would go through 2-3 pair of work boots per year). Their prices were reasonable.
The Craftsman brand tools got sold and I retired so I don't go through work boots like I used to. I moved and the local Sears doesn't carry work boots nor laces. I have all the tools I need except screwdrivers. For some reason the local woodchucks are breaking into my shop and stealing my screwdrivers. I can never find the one I want. I used to have that problem in grad school also. One time in frustration I bought a gross of screwdrivers (12 dozen). Everything was fine for about 3 weeks and then the woodchucks found out about it.
The Craftsman brand tools got sold and I retired so I don't go through work boots like I used to. I moved and the local Sears doesn't carry work boots nor laces. I have all the tools I need except screwdrivers. For some reason the local woodchucks are breaking into my shop and stealing my screwdrivers. I can never find the one I want. I used to have that problem in grad school also. One time in frustration I bought a gross of screwdrivers (12 dozen). Everything was fine for about 3 weeks and then the woodchucks found out about it.
Jul 16, 2019 19:37:25 #
Ours closed last year. The entire mall is gradually going down with it, store by store.
Jul 16, 2019 19:39:51 #
waldron7 wrote:
Sears department store in Greensboro at midday on a big sales event. Wonder how much longer the lights will stay on.
That would be a lot easier to accomplish, if they hadn't closed the majority of them down! There is not one to be found in 200 miles here anymore!
Jul 16, 2019 19:42:40 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Ours closed last year. The entire mall is gradually going down with it, store by store.
Same here. Sears woes are self-inflicted, but malls and shopping centers are taking a beating everywhere. All our Sears stores have closed and so far, and they’ve taken two very large malls with them (both malls have been sold at auction after the anchor tenants left).
Jul 16, 2019 19:57:13 #
Sears started going downhill when they took out the knowledgeable salespeople and put in checkout registers. I used Sears because I could go in, ask a question, buy what I needed ( and didn't need) with no hassle.
Jul 16, 2019 20:09:03 #
Sears could have been bigger than Amazon. Had the catalogue and the mail order system in place but failed to embrace technology and online sales....oh well.
Jul 16, 2019 20:35:16 #
All brick-and-mortar stores are slowly being choked to death by on-line buying.
(I just had to order something from Smuckers on-line as three grocery stores near me quit carrying it.)
Kinda like how the family car and trucking choked the railroads to death.
(Only older people will understand that unfortunately.)
I'm going to hate not being able to try on clothes in a store before I purchase them.
The higher end stores will have the biggest problem, Target & Walmart might outlast them.
For a while. Then there might be one.
(I just had to order something from Smuckers on-line as three grocery stores near me quit carrying it.)
Kinda like how the family car and trucking choked the railroads to death.
(Only older people will understand that unfortunately.)
I'm going to hate not being able to try on clothes in a store before I purchase them.
The higher end stores will have the biggest problem, Target & Walmart might outlast them.
For a while. Then there might be one.
Jul 16, 2019 21:01:25 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
I used to buy from Sears a lot. They had good tool... (show quote)
Thank God I have all the tools I need, 96% Craftsman. Does Lowes sell Craftsman now? Just in case?
Jul 16, 2019 21:11:01 #
Longshadow wrote:
Thank God I have all the tools I need, 96% Craftsman. Does Lowes sell Craftsman now? Just in case?
Lowes now sells the entire Craftsman line, but I have heard some bad reports as to how robust their tools are now (made in China?). Most of my Craftsman handtools are at least 40 years old and very solid, but I recently replenished my screwdriver assortment (where do they go?) with a set of Craftsmans from Lowe’s. If they don’t pan out, there’s always old reliable Snap Ons. And I never buy anything from Craftsman with a cord on it.
Jul 16, 2019 21:16:47 #
TriX wrote:
Lowes now sells the entire Craftsman line, but I have heard some bad reports as to how robust their tools are now (made in China?). Most of my Craftsman handtools are at least 40 years old and very solid, but I recently replenished my screwdriver assortment (where do they go?) with a set of Craftsmans from Lowe’s. If they don’t pan out, there’s always old reliable Snap Ons. And I never buy anything from Craftsman with a cord on it.
Ditto on the age of mine!
China, ARRG!
Yea, used to be able to get all kinds of repair pieces parts. Not anymore.
Jul 16, 2019 22:35:13 #
The Sears in Fayetteville, NC has been closed for over a year. Sears may be gone at the mall here but the mall isn't shutting down. Shopping is really the only thing to do here and all the major stores/shopping centers are located in or around the mall. This is the first place I have lived where all the major shopping was in one area. Don't be in a hurry to get from one side of town to the other because the main road that connects the north side to the south runs right through the middle of it all.
Jul 17, 2019 05:47:44 #
waldron7 wrote:
Sears department store in Greensboro at midday on a big sales event. Wonder how much longer the lights will stay on.
I started dealing at Sears in the 1950s, My first set of wrenches (used) were craftsman. Over the years Craftsman tools ceased to be a quality tool,(made in Tiawan) and By the 1970s I buying mostly Snap-On with a smattering of Mac, S&K,Matco and a few others, I retired in May of last year and I still have My first set of Craftsman Box wrenches and some sockets and ratchets, still have my first Snap-on wrench and it has been abused and held up when the newer Craftsman had failed.
I also purchased appliance, bedding and clothing from them, however over the years the quality dropped as did the service. As some have stated they failed to keep up with the times.
Jul 17, 2019 06:05:22 #
TriX wrote:
Same here. Sears woes are self-inflicted, but malls and shopping centers are taking a beating everywhere. All our Sears stores have closed and so far, and they’ve taken two very large malls with them (both malls have been sold at auction after the anchor tenants left).
Amen. And remember prominently above every entrance...'satisfaction guaranteed or your money back'.
Long gone
Jul 17, 2019 07:05:59 #
The last few tools I have bought have been Pittsburgh tools from Harbor Freight, probably made in Pittsburgh, China.
Fortunately I don't have to do heavy repairs to the extent that I used to.
The wrenches are not bad but the screwdrivers leave something to be desired.
OTOH, the last screwdriver I broke was a Kobalt I bought at Lowes. The phillips drive lost a couple wings on a screw.
Fortunately I don't have to do heavy repairs to the extent that I used to.
The wrenches are not bad but the screwdrivers leave something to be desired.
OTOH, the last screwdriver I broke was a Kobalt I bought at Lowes. The phillips drive lost a couple wings on a screw.
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