So what happens if Sears goes under

[danemodsandy]

Won't Make Any Difference....

To me.

Because I fired Sears thirty-five years ago and have refused to have anything from them since.

They stopped the excellent service for catalog orders. Then they stopped the catalog. Then they started red-lining Atlanta, saying that they would install and service HERE but not THERE. Then they started taking days and weeks to come out for service. Then they started limiting parts availability to a short number of years.

I'm done. I now have only one Sears item in my entire house. Life is GOOD.

 

[gusherb]

I'm too young to remember the glory days of Sears or even the start of the end but in my lifetime they've fallen considerably.

The Sears hardware, and Sears Appliance down the road are always ghost towns and it's just pathetic. Everytime I go into either store the stock is reduced more and more, and the prices are always high. You never see anybody at either store either.
There's also a Sears department store in our local mall that has been there since 1974 when the mall opened and it has remained well kept all these years. The stock there hasn't dwindled as much as the standalone stores but I pretty much wrote that location off when the hardware department vanished.

As for Kmart, the location local to me actually IMPROVED dramatically after they and Sears merged, prior to that, the Big Kmart location was a dirty dirty mess with hardly any stock. Afterwards they revamped the store some, and actually bother to stock it. It's still old but it's well kept and the disgusting 1970s restrooms have been remodeled. I will actually shop there occasionally now.
Before that building became a Kmart in the early 90s it was a Venture that opened in the mid 70s, which my mother did her christmas shopping at every year.


Our family did alot of shopping at Montgomery Wards back in the day. We had quite a few appliances from them from the 80s and early 90s that lasted well into my lifetime. I wish they were still around.

 

[vicvac]

First of all, I still adore the Sear's shop vacs.
The biggest, strongest suckers available!
But they keep changing designs :-(
Some changes are better: hoses that don't slip off,
hoses that don't scrunch up, larger drain hole.
But some are not so good: more plastic, less metal.
They're now ORANGE :-(
RED! I <3 my RED Sear's vacs!

As to Sears after the K-mart takeover: CLUELESS!
1) discontinuing the catalogue was STUPID
considering how the Internet is just an electronic catalogue!
The Home Shopping Network, QVC, Amazon ... are ALL doing well.
Sear's was America's mail order catalog since what, the 1800s?

2) The "Sear's Essentials" store near me closed
because it had NO FOCUS! It was "neither fish nor fowl".
There are NO Sear's Outlets near me either :-(

3) As to snooty salespeople, I'm usually there to browse the
ever diminshing tool section, so I want to be left alone.
But I clearly remember talking with a woman ready and willing
to buy a high end refrigerator and NOBODY WOULD HELP HER!
She voted with her feet / her wallet and went elsewhere.
As I said, CLUELESS!

 

[cb123]

Newton's second law of thermodynamics firmly states that if Sears goes under that all space and time shall cease to exist. The END is near...prepare yourselves, the universe is going to die a heat death...there is no TOMORROW! Mail me all your MONEY, MONEY, MONEY before it's too LATE!

 

[super-sweeper]

Is it possible to use Montgomery Ward credit if Sears goes up for sale? I doubt it, they were ALWAYS rivals! 

 


The Sears Catalog, while lovely to some, people use the internet and TV now. The internet IS the catalog now, let's be thankful we have that. not many people now-a-days would take the time to look through a Sears catalog! They'd be too busy watching The Kardashians or going to Starbucks..while wearing a Fedora with a T-Shirt! It disgusts me when hipsters do that, if you're going to wear a Fedora, you better be in a suit! and take it off when you're inside, you should always have freshly-groomed hair underneath! some men don't even "Groom" their hair...but enough with rambling about modern people, This is about our beloved SEARS!


 


My local Sears is also not doing so well. My guess is it's been there since the mall opened in 1967, but the store has the newer 1990s logo. The store is pristine! the restrooms are kept clean, the salespeople are kind and friendly, it's a great store! however, there's a large section of floor unused. following that section (With only a few couches and bedsets on display in the expanse) takes you to the restrooms, and the ghost of what was the Sears tax department. There's a modern phone still hooked up in the desk, with the current date too! still, love the store! it's all the way on the other side of the mall, though, with almost ZERO stores (Spare a GNC and a Dillards) on the way to it! it's sad, another mall moved in a bit away and this mall suffered. it's a nice mall, though, Especially Belk! you have to walk through it to get to the other side of the mall. it's always brightly lite, with purfume in the air, despite the slow-flow of shoppers. The Dillards has it's second level closed off (Dillards moved to the new mall, the old Dillards became the Dillards clearance center). what was Wards has it's elevators condemed and upper-level sealed. it hasn't seen business since about 2012, when a consignment shop that occupied Wards moved. I brought a my first Typewriter there, a Smith-Corona Deville Cartridge I, for $20! so.....technically....my first typewriter came from Montgomery Ward! 

 


Oh, what I'd give to walk around that Wards, especially the sealed-off upper level! 

 


oh, and yay Sears!

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Doug! Thank you for the info about the paint!!!!!!!

I felt awful when I saw no more paint at Sears.
Now, I can still paint this old place with quality paint. I have used Cook and Dunn paint as well as Kyanize. But, Sears was easy, durable , and had nice colors.
i appreciate that info.
John.

 

[super-sweeper]

John, you got it easy! Imagine how hard it is for me to find a 5-gallon bucket of asbestos roof cement, as seen in my 1976 Montgomery Ward catalog! 

 

[cb123]

Alex, I'll bet your buttons on a cold Floridian night you like to curl up into your asbestosis's blanket.  I bet you also the poor sandman has to get hazard pay times two when he pays you a visit.

     

 

[marks_here]

LOL serves them right. Im trying to get my aunt kenmore progressive a new brushroll but they keep saying that part doesn't exist. What do you mean I'm holding it my hand reading you the model # . Geesh we never made one with a geared belt. WTF sorry about the outburst.

 

[super-sweeper]

Don't worry Calem, the hazmat suit is the all the way to the right of the closet, he usually slips into it before coming any closer! 

 

[alexb1186]

The reason you can't find help or the help you find is rude/uninformative is because the Blue Light has an unofficial policy of one person covering multiple departments and we are stressed to the max trying to get a lot done in 7-8 hours! At my store the electronics guy is covering sporting goods and furniture, pantry is covering health and beauty/seasonal/toys/auto/hardware, housewares is covering domestics, we have a lot on our plate trying to answer calls, help customers to the best of our ability, cover someone's break, refill one of our layouts, change endcaps, do pricing corrections, unload our freight during the day, put away stray, and do online orders for a 2 hour block. So don't be pissy if we can't get to you right away especially on the phone, the people who took their time and gas to shop in person ALWAYS get first service.

My store in Florissant is #2 in the district, one of the highest layaway volume stores, and is the oldest surviving Kmart in the St. Louis area. Wal Mart is currently building a super center across the street from us, and while I applaud Florissant for not handing out any TIF to them, it will be interesting to see how our sales and volume will be affected when the store is completed.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Kenkart, if you need a brush roll for a Powermate that uses a cogged CB-1 or 20-5285 belt go to SweetSweep.com, load the page for Kenmore parts and you will see they have the brush roll you need for about $33., less that Sears will charge. There are three different brush rolls shown. Find the correct one using your model number as a reference.

http://www.sweetsweep.com/kevarepa.html

Alternatively learn how to use Sears Parts Direct. With the model number of your Kenmore product you can search parts diagrams and find the pn of every part on your vacuum and floor brush, if the part is available and what the price is.

http://www.searspartsdirect.com/par...2/0640500/P9090189/00001?blt=06&prst=&shdMod=

If you give me the model number of your Powermate I can find the correct brush roll for you and save you the aggravation.