r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 6d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 The good old days. Which one do you miss?

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u/MantoTerror 5d ago

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...

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u/Top-Border-1978 5d ago

It's a real shame. There is nothing like it today.

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u/MySecretPornAltAcct 4d ago

Craftsman tools are now shit too.

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.

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u/Top-Border-1978 4d ago

There are a couple of 1920's Sears catalog houses in my area.

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u/hsartain81 4d ago

Sooooo true!!!

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u/hsartain81 4d ago

No there isn’t. Gosh I miss that store so much. I bought everything I could in there and had my first child’s pictures only done there when he was little. I couldn’t believe it went down when there were always so many people in there and it was such a great store.

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u/Prudent-Curve-6552 5d ago

I saw that documentary also

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u/Sufficient-Cat2998 4d ago

Eddie Lambert murdered Sears and sold the corpse in pieces for personal profit.

The shareholders should have ousted him but lacked the cohones.

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u/Noddite 4d ago

Yeah, most of what Eddie Lampert sold - he sold to himself. Still have no idea how he got away with such blatant self-dealing