Sears Demise

[drquest]

Well... Kmarts are closing along with Sears...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/sear...re-stores.html

My local Kmart of 38 years is one of them that's closing. My daughter has a friend that works there too. It's much closer and convenient than going to the local godawful Walmart(I hate that place).

[palitoy]

[QUOTE=cjefferys;1350149]Between the way the employees are being treated while execs still received big bonuses (for what, doing a crappy job??) and the deceptive pricing that's been going on with their closing sales, I've refused to step into the local Sears that's closing. I honestly feel bad for the employees working there, but Sears deserves to die, they turned into a completely crap store chain.[/QUOTE

Yeah once they screwed their people, the public checked out.

What's galling about this is how needless it was. Sears had the infrastructure that I could order anything I wanted and it would be sent for free, to a store across the street from my house in two days.

I never used this feature, yet I'd drive half way across town because Canadian Tire had the same item on their superior website.

[Hector]

...and to think Sears was largest store in the United States in 1989 (last year of being number one).

[cjefferys]

Between the way the employees are being treated while execs still received big bonuses (for what, doing a crappy job??) and the deceptive pricing that's been going on with their closing sales, I've refused to step into the local Sears that's closing. I honestly feel bad for the employees working there, but Sears deserves to die, they turned into a completely crap store chain.

[Hector]

I’ve tried to support the store over the last few years. But Sears just kept going downhill. Awful layout. Limited stock/selection. Disinterested and sometimes rude employees. Buildings with low ceilings. It was a monumental hassle trying to return items. Dark, depressing. They never modernized to keep up with modern times.

Sears is an old dinosaur of a store.

It was a cool store back in the day, but those days are long gone...

[palitoy]

Sears Canada's demise was all due to terrible management.

It was unbelievable that a company that built the long tail market had such a terrible, janky website.

They then use Mike Meyers brother as the face of the company for a year but then lay him off without severance during restructuring,

The media swarms on this famous, unemployed, in his late 50s man, it creates a massive backlash towards the brand especially on the news that the execs still took their bonuses.

[warlock664]

More Kmart closings announced today; 3 more in WV, leaving just 3 still open in the state.

[enyawd72]

Ach, Conley's--that was a lovely little Ohio discount chain. I miss it, too.

Yep...I forgot to mention Nichols too. Another little department store gone.

[Brazoo]

My wife's best friend was a service dispatcher manager for Sears. She worked there for years. She was 7 months pregnant when this was announced (due in a couple weeks now). Makes me ill.

[PNGwynne]

In the last 20 years my area lost Sears, J.C. Penney, Carlisle's, Hills, K-Mart, Dahlkemper's, Woolworth's, Conley's and Ben Franklin, as well as two newsstands.

So many memories...I can pick out specific ones. I remember being home sick from school with the flu, and my mom taking me to Hills to pick out a MOTU figure. I picked Mer-Man. I remember getting comics and candy at Ben Franklin.

Ach, Conley's--that was a lovely little Ohio discount chain. I miss it, too.

[warlock664]

After 16+ years working for Kmart as a pharmacist, my store announced they were closing on November 2. At the time, I was negotiating for a position with another pharmacy chain, so I was able to start a new job a few weeks later. I had seen the end coming for a few years, but it's hard leaving a company you've enjoyed working for. Kmart/Sears Holding has no one to blame but the short-sighted executives in charge, though. Their stores have been an eyesore for a couple of decades, and they've been slow to adapt to the times in a changed retail world. In 2 years there will be no more Kmart or Sears stores. Kmart has gone from roughly 1600 stores when I started there to I believe around 200 now.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Sears pulled out of the big mall in Lexington about two years ago. There was an outlet store in a closer outlet mall for a bit, but it's gone too.

There are no K-Marts left in this area at all. The last one closed down spring of last year.

Chris

[Sideshow Spock]

Never had a Sears near me growing up so I don't have that nostalgic connection to them a lot of people do.
Closest thing to me was a Sears "Catalog Store" which was a tiny hole in the wall at a run-down strip mall ...

We pretty much had all the stores in my small city (all gone now), but I rarely got to them as a kid. But man, did I devour those JCP and Sears catalogs. There was nothing more exciting than going through the toys and sports sections. I remember picking out an NFL team jacket and a digital watch in particular..

1980searscatalog.jpg

[enyawd72]

In the last 20 years my area lost Sears, J.C. Penney, Carlisle's, Hills, K-Mart, Dahlkemper's, Woolworth's, Conley's and Ben Franklin, as well as two newsstands.

So many memories...I can pick out specific ones. I remember being home sick from school with the flu, and my mom taking me to Hills to pick out a MOTU figure. I picked Mer-Man. I remember getting comics and candy at Ben Franklin.

[Mikey]

Never had a Sears near me growing up so I don't have that nostalgic connection to them a lot of people do.

Closest thing to me was a Sears "Catalog Store" which was a tiny hole in the wall at a run-down strip mall ...