Me too...bye Sears.Originally Posted by MegoMark71
Me too...bye Sears.
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The sad part is Sears will soon be gone completely. The franchise continues to lose hundreds of millions of dollar a quarter and the current CEO is in the process of selling off anything of value. He currently is taking bids for well known brand names like Craftsman. Now, you know when Sears is letting go of Craftsman it's all over. The days of catalog shopping and walking through department stores are quickly becoming a thing of the past. I hear that Amazon is going to build enough warehouse space to eventually compete with Walmart for top retailer. When a mail order company is pushing aside a behemoth like Walmart, that is certainly a shift in consumer habits. Of course I can't argue against it. I utilize Amazon and Ebay alot. And often find significantly better deals for common items than I could going to a store. Times are ah changing...
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Sad to see it go. They are tearing down the local indoor shopping mall near us and are going to replace it with an outdoor shopping experience. My wife and I were trying to fathom why people would rather have a "mall" where you can be rained on or cold, etc compared to one where you could go on a bad weather day. Of course, if it is good weather I guess you get more business, I don't know...
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The mall is a dying breed. The things I see surviving would be clothes, home improvement, jewelry. You can't try on online clothing. 12' wood doesn't squeeze into a box too easily. Who's gonna buy an engagement ring online. I'm sure some other stuff as well. Electronics, DVD's, tools, all can be bought online nationwide and shipped from one or two warehouses, versus multiple brick and mortar stores. The overhead is just no where near the same. We're losing two malls within 35 miles of my house in the very near future, and there are at least two more that I suspect will be gone within the next two years. Every time I go into them they're ghost towns. Hundreds of stores and thousands of jobs gone. They are talking about converting one to a casino.
GFY!!!
I'm sure our parents generation lamented the fall of downtowns with the advent of malls, our kids will likely miss the "box store" concept when that becomes passe.
The one thing I miss about malls when is the unique flavor they once had, now it's all chains and they contain the same stores/selection the mall closest to your home does.
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For me, back in the 70's "the mall" was like going to Disneyland
Today, it's a super chore I try to avoid at all costs.
My local mall is basically a collection of small overpriced clothing stores.
I miss record stores, comic shops, video stores, head shops and toy stores.
My local mall lost them all --- it dont even have a pizza place and arcade anymore
Last edited by Mikey; Aug 21, '12 at 10:05 AM.
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Yeah, I hate setting foot in the place myself. Our local mall used to have a "Sunrise Records" and they carried action figures, books on horror movies and cult DVDs. So if my wife wanted to make the trek, she just deposited me in there for a half hour. They closed up last year and I think I've been to the mall three times since. Each time I was dragged.
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The K-mart we had here in the 70's is still here. Also I believe the Sears my parents sometimes shopped is still a Sears (At far as I know from my last trip there). I had a Mall within walking distance from my house though, BUt it has been levelled since the 90's. My Mego purchase experience is limited to a Wards Store in a strip Mall type place that still stands. Sadly, I tried to reminisce with Mom about the day she bought me my Batman, Robin and Batmobile on my one birthday. She can no longer remember the store or that particular event. That Wards is now a Servicestar Hardware store.
On a happier note though, If ever I want to re-live memorys of a Mall I visited a few times in my youth. I can just pop in the original "Dawn of the Dead" in the DVD player. The Monroeville Mall is still operating and in buisness. But The one in the Movie is the Mall of my youth. Too bad they did'nt film a lot action in the toy ailses!
Thats to cool, a great pc of the past with a found memory. The building still looks good, hopefully someone will make good use out of it. Would make for a great skate park or the likes of.
Around here K-Mart is a shell of it once was.
I can't believe they're still in business considering their only customers are a few old people loitering around their restaurant - which DOES still make a good burger
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