Thread Number: 78528
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
When did local department stores stop selling major appliances? |
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Post# 1025371   2/22/2019 at 19:00 (1,861 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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With the discontinuance of sales at JCPenney, I was just musing about when various local department stores stopped selling major appliances? I think Boscov's still sells them in their territories; I recall Shillito Rikes in Ohio still selling them in the 1986-7 time frame; LS Ayres was not selling them in their Cincinnati stores in 1986/7 (and leased their electronics department as well). Marshall Fields leased space to Silo in the 1990 time frame...anyone have any more definitive information?
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Post# 1025374 , Reply# 1   2/22/2019 at 20:00 (1,861 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 1025379 , Reply# 2   2/22/2019 at 20:44 (1,861 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Boscov's around here just sell small appliances and vacuums....they stopped the larger ones a few years back...
seems back in the 70's, a lot of Dept Stores sold major appliances....Kmart, Grant's, TwoGuys…. surprised WalMart doesn't sell them in stores.....granted you can order some stuff online... I remember Grant's having washers on endcaps hooked up to water/electric like Sears used to...with a Plexiglas lid... |
Post# 1025383 , Reply# 4   2/22/2019 at 21:13 (1,861 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Post# 1025384 , Reply# 5   2/22/2019 at 21:41 (1,861 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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We had Rich's (Atlanta owned and operated, thank-you) until Federated decided that everything had to be Macy's. I do remember that the Rich's at Brookwood Mall (Birmingham) had appliances until maybe the late 1980's - certainly before the Macy's name replaced Rich's. They lost major appliances, luggage, and electronics all about the same time. I remember major appliances at the Rich's store at Cobb Center in the late 1960's. Seems like their main offerings were General Electric.
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Post# 1025407 , Reply# 7   2/23/2019 at 12:01 (1,860 days old) by HiLoVane (Columbus OH)   |   | |
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JCPenney has been selling Major Appliances for a while, now; GE; LG; and Samsung. |
Post# 1025408 , Reply# 8   2/23/2019 at 12:51 (1,860 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 1025414 , Reply# 9   2/23/2019 at 15:53 (1,860 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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here has 5 floors in their old store downtown, it's in what was once Binghamton's largest local Department store, Fowler's. It's getting old and creaky but is the closest to the kind of big city department stores I grew up with: Hutzler's "Palace" building on Hownard St in Baltimore. Our Boscovs is a real throwback, escalators, elevators, a "Basment" bargain floor, a restaurant that just closed a few yrs. ago. I highly recommend a visit to anyone passing thru the area, it's close to what stores used to be, minus the proper # of salespeople of course. Last time I was on the upper floors they did have some, but not a lot, of full size appliances. I'll have to make a visit soon to check.
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Post# 1025428 , Reply# 11   2/23/2019 at 18:49 (1,860 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 1025486 , Reply# 12   2/24/2019 at 08:58 (1,859 days old) by HiLoVane (Columbus OH)   |   | |
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Almost immeditely after I posted that JCPenney sells appliances, I read elsewhere online, that they will no longer sell major appliances quite soon. This is supposedly part of a restructuring, as JCP has not been doing well, in general. |
Post# 1025510 , Reply# 14   2/24/2019 at 13:32 (1,859 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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No dept stores in my home-town. The next big town over for shopping had Sears, JCP, Kmart, Lacks (a small local-area furniture/appliance chain), FedMart (carried Whirlpool), Gibson's (carried Hotpoint) and several local furniture/appliance stores. I don't recall a full MonkeyWards, only catalog/pick-up stores. IIRC, Goodyear tire stores carried GE. |
Post# 1025522 , Reply# 15   2/24/2019 at 17:52 (1,859 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 1025569 , Reply# 16   2/25/2019 at 03:13 (1,858 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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The Kmart in Florence, Alabama had Whirlpool appliances when I was little as did the Woolco across the street. G.F. Wilson in Florence had more compact appliances like twin tubs and such. I think Service Merchandise in Nashville had some appliances too, but I couldn't tell you which ones since they were not as close to us as the Alabama stores were. |