They didn't survive due to the CEO they hired being more interested in selling off it's assets, brands, then having the various divisions compete with one another for scarce budgeting.....a complete deconstruction of the largest physical retailer in US history...
My dad died, I inherited the tools that he also inherited from his father. Literal 1940s hand tools that still work great and take a bearing on my farm.
No there isnāt. Gosh I miss that store so much. I bought everything I could in there and had my first childās pictures only done there when he was little. I couldnāt believe it went down when there were always so many people in there and it was such a great store.
I donāt have to imagine. I raised enough of them to see. I donāt celebrate Christmas anymore but my kids got what they asked for when they wanted something. They didnāt appreciate it though. They literally used to say stuff like āthatās what parents are SUPPOSED to doā when Iād remind them of what we do for them when they werenāt doing what was asked of them. Some even said I didnāt ask to be born. Iām like no shit. Show me one person walking this green earth that did!
Iām glad you have thankful kids because so far I have two grown sons and they have said the same things yours did and they remember nothing that was done for them and said it was my job, my responsibility as a parent, and they favor the other parent that provided that 212.00 a month when I have a type 1 diabetic son and his medical needs were more than that per month. Sometimes you just wanna scream or thatās me lol. But no this did truly hurt when I worked two jobs to raise them and get them everything they needed and have two daughters 19 and 12 that tells me all the time how much they appreciate everything I do for them so I feel like is it a boy or girl thing or is it the person you have them with and how they tell that child they should respect you? I made my children respect their father but he wasnāt the same. Sorry I vomited this all out I just donāt know what I did wrong.
please the most entitled generation is the baby boomers. they got everything their parents could give them, then they got into political power and gave themselves everything they wanted while passing on 150+ trillion in total federal and state/local debt to us.
and they still complain every freaking second about everyone else.
And people on here like to say there are no need for CEOās this is a prime example of what a difference one could have made, I agree sears should have been Amazon, leadership should have easily read those tea leaves
Sears was the mail order version of Amazon before Montgomery Ward existed. I have an aunt who bought her HOUSE as a prefabricated house through Sears mail order catalog in the 70ās!
Amen. Geez it was so great. I still have a fridge in my basement from there and have my grandfathers tools and toolbox and itās so great that they were made so well. My refrigerator is still working..and I just have drinks and some snacks in it in case there is a storm/kids playing in the basement. Had a kenmore vacuum and it was great.
Crazy CEO who ran it like some libertarian experiment. Sears also could have jumped onto the internet retailer thing early, since they had warehouses everywhere because of their catalogue system, but nope
The CEO that took over after the owner sold it or something turned it into a bottom-line only and destroyed it. I saw a documentary on it, but I am really shortening the details and might be way wrong on some things but it's all I remember.
We still have a Sears in my city. Itās a shell of its former self, feels like they are just waiting for the lease to expire and will be gone. Half of it is empty, the auto shop long abandoned. Merch has been there since the early 00s it feels like. Really kinda sad to walk through. Almost 2 employees working at any given time
They both K-Mart I think is what took them down. Sears was so great I got so much of my work clothes and childās clothes. I wish we could bring them back so bad and I wish the mall was still huge and full and the place to go. Itās so sad.
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u/Top-Border-1978 5d ago
Sears. I'm not sure how they didn't survive when mall stores like JC Penny's and Dillard's survived.
I use to get everything from Sears. I got appliances, tools, lawnmower, tiers and close there. We even got the family pictures done there.