Death of a store ?
Jun 4, 2016 10:24:32 #
Then there's this: http://www.chainstoreage.com/article/study-shrink-costs-us-retailers-42-billion-employee-theft-tops-shoplifting
Jun 4, 2016 10:34:46 #
Similar large Sears near Leesburg, VA, (northern VA). Could not find a sales person, so I left.
Jun 4, 2016 10:35:22 #
spdmn54 wrote:
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. 
And we can almost certainly thank Walmart for helping to eliminate healthy competition for business that would ultimately benefit us consumers.
Jun 4, 2016 10:46:51 #
remember when you could buy a motorcycle at sears , at the car section .in the 70 s it was a great store , even got my car insurance there .have not been there in over 20 yrs .same at Kmart .
Jun 4, 2016 10:52:43 #
I grew up with the sears catalog, LOL Sears used to be the place to go. over the years their repair service got really bad. I don't know exactly what happened. But Part of your story rings so true, here in mid size town. No one is hiring full time employees, and even sams / hardware stores only have 1/2 checkouts open. People notice this happening. I think it has to relate to part time only help.Maby you have seed the guy in California who interviews people going to the beach He ask Questions like Who is the Whitehouse named after, they look so confused, He ask why do we celebrate memorial day, they sign potitions, to abolish the first amendment . I thought this has to be a scripted deal, no one is that unplugged. Well a friend and I was ordering lunch at a zaxby's my friend ask our cashier do you hire any full time employees ? She looked like a deer in the headlights, I saw wheels start turning, after a while she sad I don't know, so she walked over to a different employee, same thing, they both went to a third employee, and it was like a huddle before a play. They concluded, we don't know, my friend then ask well are any of you fulltime NO, he said I think that is your answer. I saw this with my own eyes, so sad but iithe guy at the beach is for real. Cant imagine 10 years from now. Sorry for long talk but I was and still in shock.
Jun 4, 2016 11:01:27 #
Sears quality went down the tubes when it was bought out by Kresge--aka K-Mart. There isn't much difference in the two anymore. Craftsman used to mean something, but not anymore.
Jun 4, 2016 11:08:48 #
Jun 4, 2016 11:15:03 #
hj
Loc: Florida
Sears was down the tubes long before K-Mart.... why do you think K-Mart was able to acquire?
jaymatt wrote:
Sears quality went down the tubes when it was bought out by Kresge--aka K-Mart. There isn't much difference in the two anymore. Craftsman used to mean something, but not anymore.
Jun 4, 2016 11:57:17 #
Bob Yankle wrote:
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.
When I was in high school back in the '40s Sears was my second part time job. I pushed an order cart around the many floors of the warehouse tower plucking things off shelves to fill mail orders. It was a good company in those days - you could order a whole Craftsman house with or without Craftsman tools. Sad to be seeing it fade into history. I think our young ones will eventually rue the day that their flocking to just a very few online stores buried the alternatives.
Jun 4, 2016 12:01:00 #
Archiefamous
Loc: Manhattan
I remember the Sears catalog with 30 pages of enlargers and darkroom equipment
Jun 4, 2016 12:10:03 #
Jun 4, 2016 12:14:12 #
Heather Iles wrote:
Obviously not good for business if the products are lasting too long. We have a store here who is suffering the same fait (no name mentioned) as I too have clothes from them that goes back 20 years. The younger generation want to have new things, not ones that last. Times have changed and shops must change to cater for the next generation, otherwise they don't survive.
Heather, that's sad but true. The gas clothes dryer my folks bought in the 60's, from Sears, is still going strong!
Jun 4, 2016 13:39:41 #
LambertJooe
Loc: napa
I like Sears! This week, after checking EBay, Amazon, etc., I ordered a 10" table saw on Wednesday with a promised delivery a week later. Well it got here in two days. free delivery and the best price around. Now what the hell is an 83 year-old going to do with a new table saw?
Jun 4, 2016 14:21:45 #
travelwp wrote:
I think Paddy and I witnessed the death of a store... (show quote)
Sears just announced that they are selling the Kenmore, Craftsman, and DieHard names - they have basically given up and are just trying to sell their brand names off for some last minute cash.
Jun 4, 2016 15:24:28 #
Heather Iles
Loc: UK, Somerset
Marionsho wrote:
Heather, that's sad but true. The gas clothes dryer my folks bought in the 60's, from Sears, is still going strong!
Wow! That must be a record.
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