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It’s depressing that Sears has taken this long to die. If a human, the surviving family would deserve our pity for the decades of false alarms by which the hospital would call to notify the family to make a final visit - over and over and over. It’s interesting that a line of good vs evil is being drawn between WMT & AMZN vs Sears. I suspect the small local retailer was not overly enthusiastic about Sears’ business plan at its peak. | |||
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I remember when Sears used to mail out thick catalogs. There was a time when I perceived Sears to be a wondrous store. I was young so not sure how real it was. But as a I grew older, I associated the brand with cheap shit. It paled against Macy's and Emporium Capwell at that time. It was likely, at that time, their tools were still above par. However, I grew up with a different perception - their clothes were cheap. They sell cheap stuff. So, I wouldn't buy anything else from them. To me, that was their downfall. Cheapening the Sears brand cheapened their other brands, even if the products were actually above par. This was back in the late 70's, early 80's. I'm surprised they lasted this long. Last time I went to Sears was 20 years ago.... "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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Yep, they had a really thick one and at Christmas time they had the thinner Wish Book. I spent many hours looking at the back of the Wish Book at model train sets. And spent a little time with the thick one looking at the lingerie section (admit it, if you were a boy in the 70s, you did, too.) _____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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My 70’s childhood would definitely not be the same without Sears and it’s catalogs. I noticed a big decline in the cheapness of the clothing in the late 80’s and by the 90’s the interiors of the stores looked extremely cheap and out of date, especially compared to other stores in the malls. What a shame. No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Sears stores have been depressing for many years now. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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I have an Honor Built Modern Home catalog packed away that was from my grandparents house they built in 1934. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Then there’s Ted’s predecessor- JC Higgins. I have a Jc Higgins .22 revolver (made by High Standard), and a JC Higgins .30-30 (made by Marlin). | |||
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I was borne,raised and grew up on the Jersey Shore. In 1999 at the age of 33 My wife(who was also raised on the Jersey Shore) and I moved to Florida. It is a shame Sears is not surviving. Over the years I spent a lot of money there. My first credit card was a real Sears credit not the Discover card. Growing up as a kid, going to Sears was always a treat. As soon as we got to the store my mother would go one way and I would wonder the store. Tools were a big thing for me. I also bought my first real good camera, a Cannon AE1 with all the lenses,a bag and the such. I now live in central Florida where we have what might be one of the last Sears stores at the Florida mall that is always busy and may be making money. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State NRA Life Member | |||
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It IS sad  but part of the evolution of business.I think SEARS (original) may have been my very first Credit Card. It is not entirely SEARS fault (not that it matters) but they bear some of the blame. Not entirely fair but such is life and business. | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
When I started seeing craftsman tools with made in China or made in Taiwan stamped on them, I knew the end was near. Our local Sears is long gone, as is our JC Penny and our KMart. Just empty storefronts in strip malls now. | |||
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I was stationed at Fort Sam in 71 and we got a vacuum cleaner from Sears on layaway. I was an E-5 making $500 a month and no one else would give us any credit. I still have a 5 rd box of Sears branded 00 buckshot that I bought after I was discharged and had a job with some not so great clientele. | |||
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Speaking of the Wish Books, there's a website with a number of them scanned in. Right about Columbus Day, they'd arrive in the mail and there was always a race between us younger kids, the older siblings, and parents to get the catalogs first so as to hide them until Thanksgiving.  http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/ | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
This started to kill retail before the internet came along. Stores stopped having competent employees, and then the internet came along and everyone decided if Im going to get shit service or no service anyway, might as well just buy it from the net, and have it sent right to my house. No more stupid useless employees wasting my time, driving to the store, etc. Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Childhood in Detroit, Michigan 1940-1960 involved a lot of shopping at Sears, Wards, and J. L. Hudson's (largest store in the US at that time). Many memories of wandering the aisles of Woolworth's and Kresge's, too. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
Ever wonder why every episode of Alaska State Troopers has at least one segment of chasing a meth head around Wasilla? My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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| drop and give me 20 pushups |
Sorry to see but a lot of the large retailers overbuilt and got too big for their britches. have many fond shopping memories of Sears and JC PENNY and even Montgomery Ward. Still have a Garcia Ambassador 5000(red) bait casting reel 1963/1964 vintage purchased in Baton Rouge, La. and it works like new. .....................................drill sgt. | |||
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| Family Man |
I have a lot of fond memories of going to JC Penny and Sears for school clothes when I was a kid. If they didn't have it in stock, they would send it to the store. We used to get two of the JC Penny Christmas catalogs, so we could cut pictures out of one for our wish list and keep the other intact to look through. Our Christmas lists were very ambitious! | |||
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Sears did it to themselves. the t-rex didn't last forever, either. I won't miss them, but their real estate is worth millions/Billions.This message has been edited. Last edited by: downtownv, _________________________ | |||
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I've got my Dad's J.C.Higgins (Hi Standard) 30/583.70 .22LR rifle (beautiful little gun). He bought it in 1951 at the Tucson, AZ Sears. | |||
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Sad to see Sears at this point, and it was sad seeing others fail over the years as well. In Houston where I grew up, I watched Montgomery Ward fail a long with lesser department store like Sage, Globe and Fedmart. Now Penny’s is going down, too. Really sad. Retired Texas Lawman | |||
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