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Thread Number: 77890
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
Sears bankruptcy looming |
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| Post# 1019283 12/28/2018 at 10:26 (1,937 days old) by fan-of-fans (Florida) | ||
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With a deadline to buy Sears out of bankruptcy today, looks like the end could be as soon as tomorrow. CLICK HERE TO GO TO fan-of-fans's LINK | ||
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Post# 1019286 , Reply# 1 12/28/2018 at 11:29 (1,937 days old) by Marky_mark  (From Liverpool. Now living in Palm Springs and Dublin) |
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How the mighty have fallen
It’s a shame. The last time I was in Sears was in Edmonton about a year ago. At the front of the appliance section (in the middle of an aisle) they were displaying a portable dishwasher that was clearly missing one of its castors and was looking a bit sad. Unfortunately that’s Sears in a nutshell these days.
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Post# 1019287 , Reply# 2 12/28/2018 at 11:33 (1,937 days old) by LowEfficiency (Iowa) |
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| Post# 1019288 , Reply# 3 12/28/2018 at 11:47 (1,937 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
I have to say:
They have no one to blame but themselves.
First they put a real estate person in charge of the company. All he is interested in is the holdings. Second they fail to adapt. Sear's started the Mail order/catalog business. Don't put blame on Amazon for failing. The failure was Sear's in not adapting, taking on the sinking ship K-Mart, and overall providing some of the worst customer services in the retail arena, save Penny's. My opinion, all that's left is the liquidation and funeral. | ||
| Post# 1019406 , Reply# 5 12/29/2018 at 16:10 (1,936 days old) by sel8207 (naples, florida 34117) | ||
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intentional It was done intentionally. Not accidentally. | ||
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Post# 1019410 , Reply# 6 12/29/2018 at 17:01 (1,936 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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The SEARS Attempt at Reinventing Itself: There was Dental Care and then there was Home Care... Did those services make it like their Home Improvement and Eye Care, not to mention their stores (& Budget Outlets) promoting Customer Care?
Nope! And in this day & age there is NO Care, for anyone left of their clientele or themselves either...
And where once in a magazine there was an ad for a promising career in an up-and-coming retailer, (Sears And The College Graduate book you could order for jobs/careers there) there is no longer a bright future as much as trying to revive a now decayed past...
-- Dave CLICK HERE TO GO TO DaveAMKrayoGuy's LINK This post was last edited 12/29/2018 at 17:40 | ||
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Post# 1019451 , Reply# 7 12/30/2018 at 00:09 (1,936 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Will have to look in the Greenville Sears place-bet the buzzards are circling! | ||
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Post# 1019458 , Reply# 8 12/30/2018 at 08:04 (1,935 days old) by Jmm63 (Denville, NJ) |
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I was sad to learn they closed the Sears in Lincoln Park Michigan where I grew up. Was once one of their highest volume stores and now gone. Fond memories of my Grandmother taking us there, the smell of popcorn and new tires, the huge appliance and vacuum department. I'm sure they will tear it down in a heartbeat.
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Post# 1019460 , Reply# 9 12/30/2018 at 08:26 (1,935 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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We will soon be a Sears-free city, as will our capital city, Lincoln. There will still be 8 Hometown Sears stores around the state but given the condition of the company as a whole, those may not be long-lived.
Their flagship store in downtown Omaha opened in 1928 and was the first Sears location to sell farm implements on site. In 1960, Sears moved from downtown to what was at the time, the western edges of the city at the Crossroads Mall. The mall has been dying for a decade and redevelopment plans for the site have ebbed and flowed during that time with no definite plans to date. Sad to see that era of a shopping community come to an end. No more parades, Halloween parties and lines to see Santa. Even more surreal, the virtual end of Kenmore, Die Hard, Road Handler, etc. in the city. CLICK HERE TO GO TO gansky1's LINK
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| Post# 1019819 , Reply# 11 1/2/2019 at 14:19 (1,932 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Two of America's eldest retailer's were A&P for groceries, and Sears. A&P was founded in 1859, and Sears in 1883. A&P became defunct in 2010. Kroger is pretty long in the tooth as well. Today it has many banners under it's umbrella, as did A&P. | ||
| Post# 1019825 , Reply# 12 1/2/2019 at 15:37 (1,932 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
>Hard to believe when the mall was built, the Sears part wasn't there, and was added on a few years later.
One of the Sears stores that apparently closed last year was added onto the mall where my family shopped. In a way, it felt like it had been there forever, but also I can remember when the Sears first opened. Now it's gone. I have wondered if the period when that mall had no Sears wasn't a reason why parents didn't shop Sears very often. There was, apparently, a Sears in some downtown location, but my mother did not like going to that area. By the time that Sears showed up, other stores had become the default choice that Sears might have been. | ||
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Post# 1019847 , Reply# 13 1/2/2019 at 18:00 (1,932 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Post# 1019940 , Reply# 14 1/3/2019 at 05:18 (1,931 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Post# 1020155 , Reply# 15 1/5/2019 at 00:38 (1,930 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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I am going to visit the Sears in Greenville and see whats up-when I drive by it-the parking lot looks empty-----Is it closed-will go by there in the next few days and see. | ||
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Post# 1022280 , Reply# 19 1/24/2019 at 10:37 (1,910 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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| Post# 1022295 , Reply# 20 1/24/2019 at 12:58 (1,910 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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