BadlyDrawn
BadlyDrawn
Oct 2018
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I'll Miss Sears

I went shopping at the Sears in North Hollywood last week and I'm not sure why. I hadn't shopped at a Sears in years (yes, I know that rhymes) but something drew me in. Maybe it was nostalgia or maybe it was an act of defiance in this age of 'techonomics'. A flip-off to Jeff Bezos from a soon-to-be fossil...for whatever that's worth. Then again, maybe it's because the clothing shelves and racks were teeming with stuff I needed and in sizes that fit...go figure. Or maybe I was trying to ease the old girl's pain amid the inevitable death throes? Anyway, I spent about $160 which, and as it pertains to resuscitating the floundering behemoth, felt a bit like spitting on a beached whale.

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epirb
epirb●Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay New Zealand
Oct 23, 2018●37 Blogs●1,341 Comments
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Amazon has broken the mold , whats bad is Amazon is paying its workers badly with social support needed to help them . Doing this while not paying tax . So basically breaking businesses like Sears while getting tax payer support to pay wages and top up the US postal service , Sanders had ago at Amazon , if he had not got up Trump's nose together they could have nailed Amazon to the ground . Sooner or later Amazon's model of business will have to be addressed . Small towns here have been gutted by online shopping , its cheaper to rent a High Street business premises in my little town than a house .
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Elegsabiff
Elegsabiff●Motril-ish, Andalusia Spain
Oct 23, 2018●358 Blogs●9,358 Comments
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I'm not American, but is Sears also Sears Roebuck catalog? Because I'd heard that called the forerunner of online shopping confused

The giant department stores are going fast and like you I do like sometimes seeing what's actually on the shelves. I guess we didn't all do it often enough lately to save them.

Hope you're pleased with the stuff you got anyway laugh
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M4_Mischief
M4_Mischief●Belleville, Ontario Canada
Oct 23, 2018●6 Blogs●604 Comments
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when they closed them here I didn't think the u.s ones would be far behind.......I used to love the sears wishbook...we used to do our santa lists up from it.....wine
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chatilliononline today!
chatillion●Boca Raton, Florida USA
Oct 23, 2018●1,879 Blogs●5,023 Comments
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Biff, yes... Sears, Roebuck and Company founded in 1892 as a mail order company and started opening retail outlets in 1925. At one time, they were the largest retailer in the US only to be surpassed by Walmart in 1989.
(source: Wikipedia)

If I recall, they had different catalogs. The city version with fashionable clothing and the rural version with farm equipment.
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Grouchyoldfart
Grouchyoldfart●San Juan, Puerto Rico
Oct 24, 2018●253 Comments
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Sears has been shooting itself in the toe for over twenty years. It's retail practices as well as it's higher prices for what everyone else carries didn't help. When it began it's selling of Chinese junk then setting ridiculously high prices on parts to fix them ( assuming you could get the needed parts ) only to break again in a very short time, it soured most buyers into choosing their brands.

I know people who have had things like craftsman lawn mowers in the past that lasted fifteen or twenty years only to buy a new one that only lasts two to three years. The cost of buying parts to fix it is as much as a new one. I'm actually surprised they lasted as long as they did. I just refused to buy there junk.
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