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Sam06
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The one here is closing.
I think the Sears is going too.
2 very large business that were power houses but couldn't compete in the age of the internet. Heck Sears was the Amazon before the internet with their mail order business and K mart was along selling cheap crap before Walmart got bigger than 1 store.
Evolve or die is true in business and nature.
I am hoping for a Trader Joe or maybe a Lidl store(like Aldi but better IMO) to go in the building.
I think the Sears is going too.
2 very large business that were power houses but couldn't compete in the age of the internet. Heck Sears was the Amazon before the internet with their mail order business and K mart was along selling cheap crap before Walmart got bigger than 1 store.
Evolve or die is true in business and nature.
I am hoping for a Trader Joe or maybe a Lidl store(like Aldi but better IMO) to go in the building.
RLTW
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Kmart on the other hand was always a crap hole, the last Kmart here closed over a year ago and Sears is gone this year.
Sears started on a downward spiral years ago when they went to centralized check out rather than department specific check out and employee assistance on the floor disappeared.
At one time you could order a house from the Sears Catalog.
All the department stores seemed to have had great Sporting Goods departments back in the day.
Abercrombie and Fitch was no urban clothing dealer! It was a first class sporting good outfitter.
KMart was cheap, a lot of junk but they also carried some brand name goods back in the day. Colt, Marlin, Winchester, Abu Garcia to name a few.........
same here,
The Place was packed and everything is on sale 15-75% off.
It has been all down hill from there.
Another is refusing to deviate from the business model and product line that got them where they are even when it is obvious that a new ship is on the horizon. Kodak WAS photography for 100 years. In 1975 Kodak invented the digital camera, but shelved it in favor of their old tired technology. Now the company barely exists as a packaging outfit or some such.
when the ones here closed they shipped stuff in from the other closed stores that hadn't sold, marked them up above regular retail then took the % off the higher price. I figured they were gonna close, a year or so before they closed they got rid of most of hunting equipment and firearms/ammo, then the hardware was reduced to one or two aisles, about all they had was clothes ........ as others said won't miss them or Sears
It's actually worse than that. They had acquired several small digital companies that would have given Kodak everything they needed to continue their dominance in the photo market.
But before the digital market opened up new management came in and they wanted a good quarterly "bottom line" so they started selling off the companies that had been acquired cheap and were now worth much more.
And when the digital revolution hit they had nothing left.
Another case of management myopia :roll:
Also gone are J.C. Penny's and a whole bunch of other retail establishments and not a single pawn shop left either.
The markets and shoppers are changing.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
And THAT damn near bankrupted Sears. They were heavily into the Sears house program- all kinds of different floor plans, sizes, business was BOOMING- and Hello Depression. Sears suddenly had a crap load of homes they were owed for, had to foreclose on- and could not sell them. Nobody had the money to buy a house.
The last Sears around Richmond VA closed about a year ago. K-Mart about 4 years or more. Funny thing is, Craftsman brand tools are still being sold. By Lowes.
Kind of like throwing good money after bad.
I also read about and know of a Lustron Steel house.
Pretty cool history on those too...........At least I think its Lustron. Maybe from Indiana?
I'll have to look it up........
Too bad.
Wife says the Mall is looking at turning the Sears store into an office building because not many go to the mall to shop.
I have a Sears Craftsman tool set from the early 70's my parents got me for x-mas. It was a mechanics tool set and was used but it has a lot of tools all SAE. I have an old Sears tune up box for checking old cars that have points, it measures dwell, timing has a timing gun all that old stuff. Come in handy when working on my 74 power wagon.
I bought a VW bug motor from Sears in the 70's to put in a Bug I bought with a shot motor.
I remember Sears had a great Camping section with all kinds of Camping equipment.
Was Coleman owned by Sears? I have a 2 burner stove and lantern my Dad got at Sears.
When I was a kid I always wanted to go in the Sears store to look at stuff like guns and tools.
Die Hard Batterys
Tires
Sears had it all...............mismanagement and not evolving destroyed them.
Sears sold off the Craftsman brand of tools some years ago. Also some Craftsman branded tools were/are made in China .. like their 3/4" socket sets, etc. and are so marked.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
Sears never actually manufactured any of their products. They were made by a mfg company to specifications Sears drew up and low bidder got the contract. A Kenmore appliance was made by various major appliance mfgs .. depending on the year the contract was issued. Same with batteries, Die Hard was just the sears brand name :-)
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock: