My Sears store is closing

[fan-of-fans]

I had just noticed in the latest closing list, my local Sears is closing in my town. I will miss looking at the vacuums there, since they are some of my favorites and have been since I was very young, since I grew up with Kenmore canisters. I plan to make a video of the vacuum department before the store closes.

I wish they'd get the Kenmores in stock in Lowes and Home Depot since they sell them online.

 

[madman]

Shame, but seriously you should've seen it coming, lol

I thought Lowes had Kenmores in stock already?

 

[human]

Dead Store Walking...

Sears is dead. It's only a matter of time before they're all gone. The one in my city is still hanging on by a thread but it's pretty much a shell these days. The mostly empty parking lot in the middle of an otherwise bustling shopping center pretty much tells the story. They remodeled about eight or nine years ago and leased out almost a third of the space, including the front of the building, to Whole Foods, which is kind of ironic, considering who now owns Whole Foods. The parking lot on that side of the building always stays full.

 

[vacuumlad1650]

Lost the two closest to me. There was one an hour away that closed, then reopened and, closed,reopened and so forth. I lost track of what their status is.
I've been to about 5 closing sales. Scored plenty of tools, a desk chair, filing cabinets, and a Hoover rug

 

[kirbysthebest]

Ours are all gone now, K-Marts too.

It's a shame, as they used to be the #1 and #2 national retailer. 


They suffered from a CEO that was more interested in real-estate than retailing, and in the end forgot the most important thing about doing business with the public.  The Public.  Both stores became very user-unfriendly, cost-ineffective, and RUDE.


 


Though they used to be great, nows all I have to say is So-long.

 

[suckolux]

Ours is alive but not well. I was there 50+ years ago to buy my first vac from this store, so it is old. I hope they can manage to restock it a bit

 

[unimatic1140]

The Sears at the Mall of America here closed this year. The thing is that mall is kind of a destination always packed with locals and visitors from all over the country and world. The place is always crowded. However when ever I went into Sears it was always nearly empty, so sad to see. I suspect within five years all Sears stores will be gone unfortunately.

 

[tolivac]

The Sears store in Greenville is still open they have a sign posted on the major road its on saying they are open.I visit the place-its like a ghost town!No one in the appliances-the TV's and electronic portion has been replaced by bedding.The Craftsman tools are very small selection.the neighboring Lowes has MORE Craftsman tools than the Sears does.Wonder how long the place will stay open.The neighboring Dicks Sporting goods place is becoming a ghost town,too.The open air mall these places are in is mostly empty.It replaced an enclosed mall that fell on hard times and was bulldozed to make way for the new place,Kohls(doing well) and Dicks.

 

[fan-of-fans]

"Shame, but seriously you should've seen it coming, lol

I thought Lowes had Kenmores in stock already"

Yeah, I mean, I knew they were pretty much done for but I was surprised they were still open this long. I had hoped for a while if it made it this long that the chain might be able to stay open, but I always knew in the back of my mind it wouldn't happen.

Lowes has them on their website. But I haven't seen any here, as far as I know Home Depot, Lowes and Walmart sell them online but I've never actually seen them in any of those stores.

 

[fan-of-fans]

"The Sears at the Mall of America here closed this year. The thing is that mall is kind of a destination always packed with locals and visitors from all over the country and world. The place is always crowded. However when ever I went into Sears it was always nearly empty, so sad to see. I suspect within five years all Sears stores will be gone unfortunately."

There's still one here in the Florida Mall in Orlando, but I imagine it's like you say, where that's the only place in the mall that isn't busy.

I doubt they'll be around 5 years from now either, honestly I didn't expect any of them to still be open by now. They're all irrelevant now unfortunately. Most people have forgotten about them by now, or thought they've already all closed down.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Our two closed last year.

THe closest one now is in Montgomeryville, near Philadelphia. So sad to see them all go. We still have a K mart nearby. It's probably on Hospice at the moment.

 

[human]

The thing that boggles my mind is why is Eddie Lampert being allowed to get away with gutting Sears' and Kmart's assets for his own gain?

 

[gottahaveahoove]

EXACTLY

!!!!!!!!!

 

[ridgidwd0670]

The ONLY Sears store I've found in NW OH is a Sears Hometown in Bowling Green (Woodland Mall) but I don't know for how much longer it'll still be there; as the Woodland Mall itself is also 'struggling' to stay around since Elder-Beerman closed last yr

https://www.sent-trib.com/news/wood...cle_fbbc6c52-c574-11e8-a849-8bd01038252b.html

There aren't anymore K-mart in NW OH; the Fostoria one closed earlier this yr

Its been nearly a decade when North Towne Square mall & Southwyck Mall closed; Woodville Mall closed during the 2012 Christmas shopping season

https://www.wtol.com/article/news/l...down/512-11569cce-ba11-41a4-b6d1-e78e3ec93ee6

https://www.wtol.com/article/news/c...erty/512-9cec24a0-137d-46d1-ba07-da4e567dede2

 

[kirbylux77]

Goodbye & Good Riddance to Sears!

Sears Canada ended operations & left Canada in mid-January, 2018. I don't miss them for one minute! My excuses not to shop there?

Rude, SNOOTY staff in some of the stores that acted like they should be treated like royalty. Overpriced clothes & linens, & their sales weren't impressive. Overpriced furniture & appliances that was no better than the same stuff sold in The Brick & Leon's. And on more than one occasion, had sales staff serve me that didn't know much about the products they were trying to sell.

And for anyone that says luxury department stores that sell everything under one roof can't survive & succeed anymore? Come up to Canada & look at the success Hudson's Bay department stores has enjoyed. Hudson's Bay has had successful operations & thriving well by diversifying. They are a HUGE Canadian success, one that has been around for centuries - since 1670.

Sears has dug their own grave with poor management over the decades in both Canada & America. Yes, they were a important & iconic part of retail, but one that's about to become history - for good reason. Perhaps they should have learned some lessons from their competitors & put them to use.

Rob

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's_Bay_Company

 

[man114]

I’m like 10 minutes from a Sears and never could I have predicted it would be amongst the last when I used to go to dozens of them on every vacation I took. We still have a Kmart too.

 

[fan-of-fans]

I stopped by Sears tonight. Not much in the way of deals, vacuums were 10% off only and still very heavily stocked, displays, etc. I may go back sooner to October and see if I can't snag a display at a big discount at the end. There was only one used vacuum, a purple Kenmore Crossover upright and they still wanted $194!

Tried to find 5055/C/Q and U/O bags for my canisters and Progressive upright but they were also not discounted much, and only in packs of two!

 

[human]

I just saw an online article from USA Today that Sears Holdings is closing another 40 or stores between October and December. Frankly, it's beyond me why they even try to keep hanging on. In the shopping public's mind, they're already dead. They just need to face reality, cut their losses, and cut out the lights.

 

[fan-of-fans]

Yes and was reading an article on Forbes today that majority of the Corporate Staff has been laid off recently. Also Sears is selling their Sears Outlet stores to Liberty Tax.

I think the whole reason behind the supposed restructuring was to make it look like they were trying to turn things around, when in reality they had no plans to change. They are hanging on as long as possible in order to make as much money as they can, is my guess.