#4327277 - 01/09/17 06:17 PM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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Sears hasn't even been an official "retail" business for several years now. Technically it is a real estate holding company that just happens to have a retail division.
Sears, Kmart and Radio Shack. All of these should have gone through liquidation years ago. JC Penney was quickly going down the same path but they made some big changes and are holding on for now.
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#4327279 - 01/09/17 06:25 PM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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is Macy's still in business ?
....quick search .... looks like it they're closing 68 stores
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#4327280 - 01/09/17 06:27 PM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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is Macy's still in business ? Yes but they are also on a downward spiral. They need to make the same big tough changes that JC Penney did.
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#4327302 - 01/09/17 07:05 PM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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Last time I was in Sears was to get my car battery replaced. That was about 11 years ago. I haven't been to KMart since about 2000.
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#4327350 - 01/09/17 08:55 PM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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No, Kmart was between Walmart and Target. I remember getting some stuff there as a kid, but they closed all the ones near where I lived when I was a teen. When I moved to this area 15 years ago, there was one located about 20 miles away that I never bothered to visit (because there were closer Targets and Walmarts). It closed about 2 years ago I think.
There is a Sears around here, I think I bought some appliances and stuff there pre-2005, but nothing since.
I think their poor financial status is hurting them and pushing them into a spiral. They do badly, they close stores, the remaining stores don't warrant driving farther to use them, so you stop going altogether.
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#4327356 - 01/09/17 09:04 PM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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I used to get really good kids' clothes at Sears. For real. Last two years? Pointless. Now I spend 80 bucks on a sweater for a 7 years old? Oh, my head.
When I worked for Sears in '88 I couldn't see how they could stay in business. I'm shocked it has taken this long. You'd think that their catalog sales would have been a nice segue into online sales, but somehow that didn't work.
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#4327382 - 01/09/17 10:12 PM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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Amazon, the great killer of brick and morter stores.
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#4327388 - 01/09/17 10:27 PM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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I used to get really good kids' clothes at Sears. For real. Last two years? Pointless. Now I spend 80 bucks on a sweater for a 7 years old? Oh, my head.
When I worked for Sears in '88 I couldn't see how they could stay in business. I'm shocked it has taken this long. You'd think that their catalog sales would have been a nice segue into online sales, but somehow that didn't work. Good points and a very serious management failure.....which I am sure management ridiculously overpaid themselves for. Why are officers of failed public companies still allowed to bonus themselves into the Kardasian's hood?
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#4327475 - 01/10/17 02:44 AM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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Sears, JC Pennys, Woolworths, Montgomery Wards, Carson's, Marshall Fields. the list goes on. To me its less about competition and management, I know rationally speaking it is about those things, but to me its about the end of the broad American middle class. When I was growing up, every one of those stores were packed.
Nowadays unless you are rather well off, shopping in a proper department store with knowledgeable staff and customer amenities is pretty much out of the question. There just is not the market to keep proper retail around for the working family.
Heck I'm so old I remember "sales ladies" and shoe sales men.
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#4327479 - 01/10/17 03:07 AM
Re: The death of Sears & Kmart
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Our local Kmart closed about 4-5 years ago. Walmart is about half a mile away and is still doing very well since they took everyone away from Kmart...lol.
Our local small Sears store is in the process of going out of business. I need to get in there to see if they have any deals yet. In the past 6 years I bought two big riding lawn tractors, a garage door opener, some tools, and a few months ago I bought a big air compressor from them. I always liked Sears. Who's going to sell the Craftsman trade marked things now (Kmart sold Craftsman stuff for a few years too)?
What I can't understand is Bob Evans restaurants are also closing every where. Ours was always pretty busy but it shut down a couple years ago too.
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