Thread: Sears ..sign of the times

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Yeah, Sears is another of the old line catalog based companies that did not seem to adjust to the times. Our local K-Mart parking lot is generally less than 10% full, and Sears is not much better. They tried to breathe some life into Sears by bringing in specialty lines like Lands End a few years back, but too little, too late seems to me - all it did was make Lands End on-line charge state taxes across the nation. Many of the Craftsman tools are sold in our ACE hardware stores, which is a good change. So far the list of closings seems to be more focused on the SSE portion of the country - here's a list that was released Friday, but it may not be 100% http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business...tore-closings/

and Illinois Gov just gave them multi million tax deal a few days before this annoucement----I wonder if Sears had alerted him or kept it quiet like the solelidare??? solar panel federal deal???

In my area we have a K-mart which seems to be doing fairly well, but Sears - sucks!! I made my yearly wander through one of their big stores and their pricing is beyond ridiculous for about everything. The Craftsman tools are more expensive now then the Lowe's Kobalt and Home Depot Husky brands. What's worse, I can buy most of those same tools at any swap meet for a lot less. My wife bought a couple of Land's End shirts on line to give as Xmas presents for about half of the store price, including the shipping. The local stores will be staying open according to this mornings paper

There's no doubt that they will close many stores but how
do they explain doing something like this at the same time?
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