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Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:43 am
by Rex
Yep.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:51 am
by Rex
Reading the actual article now, it looks like it is a Chapter 11 *for now*, but it's hard for me to see how they can survive.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:55 am
by Pruitt
Sears shuttered up here back in January.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:58 am
by Ryan
Now how am I gonna get into the actual mall?
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:16 am
by Rex
What was everyone's last time in Sears, other than to get to someplace else? For me it was around 2012 when I was mattress shopping. Tested a bunch of mattresses at Mattress Firm and Sears and then bought from someone else online.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:21 am
by rass
I actually bought a couple of pairs of jeans there in the past year. I didn't like what Macy*s had available, so I wandered down to the anchor store at the opposite end of the mall and Sears had Levis on sale. Nice!
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:22 am
by Ryan
Probably appliance browsing in 2004ish.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:26 am
by HaulCitgo
Sears sucks ass. Last in there maybe several years ago for a TV stand. Selection price service all sucked. Plexiglass shell around the electronics section? Mother bought me an appliance around 15-20 years ago on order Needed bigger size and was willing to pay difference but they killed me on a 15% restocking fee I couldn't justify paying out of principle so I returned it and went to home Depot for an admittedly inferior product that is still running now. Good riddance. Oh I did take baby pictures of the kids 10 years ago. Absolute money scam but better to shut up and smile than feel the wrath on that one.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:26 am
by Sabo
We bought our washing machine from Sears about 6-7 years ago.
I have a Sears snowblower that's lasted me at least 14 years. I thought it was finally dead last November but replacing the spark plug brought it back to life.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:28 am
by wlu_lax6
Maybe when I was looking for a new washer or dryer or such in early 2000s. Wife said we should go and see what they had after seeing the Sunday paper ciruclar (so I know it was early in 2000s as I was still paying for the WaPo). Walked in, had a terrible customer experience (bad customer service, knowledge, dirty, lighting stunk, etc), walked out.
The worst part is Sears impact to Lands End (a decent brand) and the continued death of Kmart (which is probably already dead for most of America). Also did not realize Sears sold Craftsman to Black and Decker last year.
Side note: Sears near my house/gym is standalone and a really strange looking building (across the street from the top notch Home Despot and Dogfish head Brew Pub).
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:29 am
by Ryan
Actually wait, this is very sad...
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:31 am
by HaulCitgo
That male nightshirt made me laugh hard
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:00 am
by degenerasian
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:36 am
by Steve of phpBB
Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:26 am
We bought our washing machine from Sears about 6-7 years ago.
Same. (Of course, we're the old guys.)
Well, at least the Sears Tower lives on.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:51 am
by Johnnie
Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:36 amWell, at least the Sears Tower lives on.
About that...
(Unless that's a joke.)
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:32 pm
by Steve of phpBB
Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:51 am
Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:36 amWell, at least the Sears Tower lives on.
About that...
(Unless that's a joke.)
Yes, but it's actually a meta joke because everyone keeps calling it the Sears Tower anyway.
Damn right, Sears.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:46 pm
by L-Jam3
Whatchatalkinabout, Jhonnie?
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:49 pm
by Ryan
I still call it the Jordan Marsh Building
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:09 pm
by HaulCitgo
One time for the combat zone.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:30 pm
by brian
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:46 pm
Whatchatalkinabout, Jhonnie?
Took me a "short" time to get that.
Re: Sears
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:42 pm
by The Sybian
Rex wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:16 am
What was everyone's last time in Sears, other than to get to someplace else? For me it was around 2012 when I was mattress shopping. Tested a bunch of mattresses at Mattress Firm and Sears and then bought from someone else online.
2005. Bought a dishwasher, and they fucked up the install. I went to a Jets game, my wife was home with our newborn baby and the kitchen and basement flooded. Sears displayed less than stellar customer service, and we officially boycotted.
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:39 am
by Rex
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:16 am
by Ryan
To help the mourning process, please hilariously list regional(?) department stores from when you were a kid.
Zayre
Rich's
Caldor
Bradlees
Lechmere
Service Merchandise
Ames
Jupiter
Wilson's
Special shoutout to Hilson, which I think was only local but was basically a big hardware store with that kickass fertilizer smell and then in about 1986 they started renting videos out of the back near where they serviced snowblowers and made keys, and I would rent roughly 93 WWF Coliseum Videos every week when my grandfather needed birdseed and tools.
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:22 am
by Nonlinear FC
Woodward and Lothrop... Commonly referred to as Woodies.
Not a department store, but another local retailer that ran things for awhile was Britches.
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:34 am
by rass
Roses
Jamesway
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:39 am
by HaulCitgo
Ann & Hope
Kmart
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:47 am
by Nonlinear FC
Is Kmart regional? Same question about JC Penny's.
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:35 pm
by Johnnie
Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:16 am
To help the mourning process, please hilariously list regional(?) department stores from when you were a kid.
Zayre
Rich's
Caldor
Bradlees
Lechmere
Service Merchandise
Ames
Jupiter
Wilson's
Special shoutout to Hilson, which I think was only local but was basically a big hardware store with that kickass fertilizer smell and then in about 1986 they started renting videos out of the back near where they serviced snowblowers and made keys, and I would rent roughly 93 WWF Coliseum Videos every week when my grandfather needed birdseed and tools.
Man, I recently had this discussion with someone and even went to the Wiki to learn more about Zayre and Ames because one replaced the other in Revere when I was little.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayre
To add:
Montgomery-Ward (when I lived in Salinas)
Woolworths (Was that a "department" store?)
Not department stores, but nostalgia-gasm inducing none the less:
Coconuts
Strawberries
Somerville Lumber
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:09 pm
by Giff
Montgomery-Ward and Woolworths definitely aren't regional.
We have one in Texas called Bealls. They're typically the only one in some of the smaller towns (20k or so). It's somehow become an inside joke between my wife and me based off this convo a couple years ago:
Her: How's LaGrange?
Me: They have a Bealls
Her (for reasons unbeknownst to me): uncontrollable laughter
So now I text it to her whenever I see one on my random roadies or we laugh when we pass them.
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:55 pm
by Pruitt
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:47 am
Is Kmart regional? Same question about JC Penny's.
KMart was even up here.
When I was a kid, Eatons was the retailing behemoth.
"Sears" was known as "Simpson's-Sears" and when the Simpsons company went bust, Sears became pretty widespread. But the Canadian arm went bust a couple of years ago. Even before that, it was a grim shopping experience
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:57 pm
by duff
Meis department stores which turned into Elder-Beerman which then became Carson's and now sits empty anchoring a few malls.
Spiece Sporting Goods
Hook's Drug Store
Marsh Supermarket
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 3:24 pm
by DSafetyGuy
Rink's
Cook's (replaced Rink's)
Hill's
All department stores like a Kmart. Cook's holds a special place in my heart for the 1984 Fleer rack packs for $1.
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 3:55 pm
by Rex
Kresge's
Fortunoff
Woolworth's
Also, Caldor made me laugh a lot, that was a staple
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:03 pm
by mister d
Pretty sure Caldor Poughkeepsie is where I bought my first ever cassette (Born in the USA).
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:07 pm
by Ryan
And mine was Sears. (Raising Hell)
((And my first CD was from Coconuts)) (((Get a Grip)))
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:09 pm
by sancarlos
In my hometown, we had a Kmart, Sears, Montgomery Ward, JC Penney, Woolworth and then, Woolco, for nationals. But we also had Hesteds, Tempo, and Gibson's. All gone.
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:28 pm
by L-Jam3
Two Guys
Clover
Silo (bought my first tv there, a 9" B&W, for $44, circa '87)
h/t to Caldor and Bradlee's
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:33 pm
by mister d
I didn't know Steven Tyler was jewish.
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:39 pm
by wlu_lax6
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:22 am
Not a department store, but another local retailer that ran things for awhile was Britches.
I still have at least 1 polo shirt with a warthog
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/ ... 97a3f0f45f
Also I always thought the Warthog soccer team had relationship to the store but apparently it was just Abe Pollin as the owner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Warthogs
Re: Sears
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:32 pm
by EnochRoot
My mom used to shop at Bradlees, Caldors and Zayre (in depreciating order). My brother and I used to stay for a week to ten days with my grandparents in the Catskills area (New Baltimore, NY)...and we'd start the stay off with that first morning spent at the local Jamesway to buy us toys.
That was fun. We'd visit the Baseball HOF, Fort Ticonderoga, Carson City, Catskill Game Farm, Frontier Town...I'm sure there were other amusement / theme parks I'm forgetting about.