Sears has NOTHING!

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......Or, whatever's left after bankruptcy...
Once mighty retaili monolith Sears Roebuck has filed for Chapter 11 banmruptcy. This had been expected for a long time. A company can emerge from Chapter 11 reorganized, but it would appear that between Sears' creditors and the apparent total Wall Street weasel who has owned Sears (and K-Mart) in recent years, Eddie Lampert, that the big Roe-Buck is outta here like Roseanne's career!
No one had posted about this. This is good for my ego , but perhaps underlines how " Who cares? " or even " WHO? " a subject this may be to even just Americans here- !
Okay, haah , this ended up being a more " funny " lost than I went in intending it to be! . I can't link, try the New York Times or CNN for the dry details. My header came from. the old Sears jingle













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I think you meant Roebuck?

Amazon has changed commerce in the world dramatically. Someone told me that GE is suffering financially and some people are wondering if GE will tank at some point.

I have to believe that the pervasive problem in the U.S. for companies to hire and retain quality hard working employees is taking a deleterious toll on customer service related businesses in the U.S. I think that's a big part of it as well.

It's sad, Sears, JC Penny, Montgomery Ward, Labelle's catalogs (many of which "back in the day" were 1 to 4 inches thick) that used to be mailed to every household were a special interest of mine as a child. I looked at all of those catalogs not just a few times, but over and over, page by page. Even the curtains and home furnishings section and, the female underwear and clothing sections.

...I got " Roebuck " incorrect in the poll and couldn't correct it.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

We used to shop there all the time, until about my early to mid 20s (I turn 39 in December).

We're a JC Penney family now, but they're not doing too well either.

welcome to the present

I think I walked through the Sears at the local mall not too long ago. The Macys there already closed a while ago. There is an Old Navy there too. I think that's a store that sells reasonably good quality clothing at a low prices. Sears has appliances and tools also. But so does Home Depot and Lowes. There's an old "brick n mortar" hardware and lumber store in the north part of town. I hope it is doing alright because it's like part of the town's history.

we had another thread about this.

Someone on that thread said "Sears used to be as a big part of American life as Amazon is now!".

I have NEVER bought ANY thing on Amazon in my life. Never. Stumble upon Amazon on the Web all of the friggin time, but have never been moved to buy anything on it yet. Not opposed to it, just have never used amazon. So Amazon has yet to become a "part of my life". So I guess that I must REALLY be out of it if Amazon is as a big a part of everyone else's lives as Sears once was in my life.

Without Sears we would have had nothing to gripe about. Back in the Eighties mom exclaimed that she was fed up with Sear products. I replied "So... you're tired of being a 'Sears sucker'? Ar-ar-ar-ar-". She wasn't amused.