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Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
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| September 16, 2021
| Lauren Thomas
Posted on 09/16/2021 4:05:17 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
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"Sears was founded in Chicago in the 1890s."
They had a good run.
To: American Number 181269513
To: American Number 181269513
When they went bankrupt in Canada, I bought a Timex watch for 30% off.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:09:29 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
To: American Number 181269513
Last interaction with Sears was being told that it was my $ liability that their two separate maintenance guys couldn’t find a floor-destroying leak in their house-brand dishwasher.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:09:48 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
To: American Number 181269513
Sears Roebuck had a good run. I know people who said their Craftsman tools were the best quality. Ditto the Kenmore appliances.
Does anyone else sell Craftsman tools anywhere else? Or Kenmore home appliances such as washing machines?
To: American Number 181269513
first place i ever rode an escalator
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:11:32 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
To: American Number 181269513
They sure did. Sears Roebuck was the Amazon of its day.
To: American Number 181269513
They shouldn’t have closed all of the Kresge’s stores. Those five and dimes made a comeback with Dollar General and Family Dollar.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:12:12 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: American Number 181269513
I remember when the Sears Catalog...all 400 pages of it...was eagerly anticipated in every middle class household in the country.IMO “Sears” means Middle America...the American Dream.
To: American Number 181269513
“They had a good run.”
Yeah, until the management decided that new internet thing was just stupid.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:12:23 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(Slouching towards Woketopia)
To: American Number 181269513
So is Sears closing all their stores? What about JC Penny?
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:12:31 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
To: noexcuses
Growing up the Sears Christmas catalog gave us many hours of wishing.....
To: American Number 181269513
In the early 80’s Walmart was rapidly expanding into numerous states. In a TV news report about the expansion, the reporter asked the then-president of Sears what he thought of Walmart’s rapid expansion. He replied, “Who do they think they are? Sears?”
At that time, Sears had a store in nearly every mall in North America.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:14:00 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
(!)
To: Jonty30
When they went bankrupt in Canada, I bought a Timex watch for 30% off. Old ads said it takes a licking and keeps on ticking. But the store couldn't make it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NHq3Yze6s0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_fKppH8B0g
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:14:28 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: TomGuy
Walmart will have the same demise.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:15:45 PM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Ace Hardware sells Craftsman tools.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:16:08 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: American Number 181269513
We have several excellent large appliances from Sears.
I so looked forward to the Sears Wish List catalog, as a child.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:16:21 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Chode
My very first credit card was issued to me from Sears back in the early 1980s.
I had a whopping $400 credit limit which seemed very heady at the time. Got some Craftsman tools, a pair of blue jeans and a boombox player with a cassette deck.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:16:27 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 296 days away from outliving Andrew Gold)
To: American Number 181269513
Companies like Sears and Kodak blew it.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:16:27 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Lowes has Craftsman now. But the quality is no better than Home Depot’s Husky or Harbor Freight’s upgraded brands. A Craftsman 3/8s ratchet I bought about 10 years ago gave up pretty quickly. Good riddance.
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posted on
09/16/2021 4:16:28 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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