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RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby MM_Dandy » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:41 pm

Sears, Roebuck and Company was once the greatest retail chain in the United States. As of this morning, it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

I guess it's not dead-dead, yet, though. Lampert has stepped aside as CEO, but swears that the company will continue operations during re-organization. Unfortunately, Lampert has been wrong about everything concerning Sears Holdings so far.

Here's to Sears - so long and thanks for all the stuff!
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Arneb » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:31 pm

And the skyscraper!
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Enzo » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:41 pm

Ah, the Sears Tower lost its name almost a decade ago. Everyone still calls it the Sears Tower, but officially it is the Willis Tower.


Over my life I have bought so many tires from Sears, and countless tools.

And the catalog, we used to love the big catalog, a huge book they mailed out.
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby MM_Dandy » Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:01 pm

Over the years, you could have ordered a car, or even a kit to convert your Model T into a truck or tractor. Until the 1940s, you could order a house-building kit. From livestock and poultry to guns and portable VCRs; cure-alls to undergarments; violins to washing machines, they had it all.
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Enzo » Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:20 pm

For sure. We had a small story about a Sears house here in town not long ago.


Montgomery Ward was a catalog competitor, but they folded years ago. JC Penney also had a large catalog operation, but nowhere near as extensive.
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Lance » Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:23 am

Enzo wrote:Everyone still calls it the Sears Tower, but officially it is the Willis Tower.

What you talkin' about? WILLIS???
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby tubeswell » Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:21 am

So, no more Sears guitars or amps?
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Enzo » Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:30 pm

Please...SIlvertone. They never said Sears on them.

And no, no more. SIlvertone went away a long time ago.
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby g-one » Fri Oct 19, 2018 4:10 pm

Whenever I'm searching online for appliance parts etc., Sears always seems to come up. And they seem to be pimping other 3rd party sellers (like walmart does online) as well.
Keeping my fingers crossed that this will go away, but that is probably the 'continued operations' the CEO referred to. :(
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Lianachan » Fri Oct 19, 2018 7:38 pm

Sad news, although I must admit my first thought at seeing the name Sears was this song lyric:

You came twice last year like a Sears catalog
Cause your last boyfriend makes love like Boss Hogg
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby MM_Dandy » Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:36 pm

Ugh, Zombie Sears (Zears) is still dying.

Losing $12 billion in eight years is Trumpian bad. At this rate, Lampert will be elected president in 2032.
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Blue Monster 65 » Fri Sep 06, 2019 1:17 am

Our first home was a Sears Roebuck Kit Home. We actually found the plans for it in the attic of the place; a few months later, Popular Science had a small feature on the homes, too. I loved that little place.
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby tubeswell » Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:50 pm

Entire block of Sears kitset houses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etM2jk4Jb0c
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby MM_Dandy » Wed Jun 23, 2021 3:17 pm

The last commercial vestige of the great Sears, Roebuck, & Company is finally disappearing from South Dakota on July 3rd, when the Sears Hometown store in Spearfish will close its doors for the last time.

In the meantime, Eddie Lampert continues to torture both Zombie Sears and Dead Sears. Transformco (Zombie Sears) will be down to fewer than 50 total K-Mart and full-line Sears stores by this September. Sears Holdings (Dead Sears) remains trapped in perpetual Chapter 11 bankruptcy purgatory; tied up in litigation and owing millions to creditors (including Lampert) without any way to pay off any of its debt. From what I've been able to gather, there's no reason to believe that they'll be put out of their misery anytime soon.
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Enzo » Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:26 pm

Our local Sears store closed some while back, so the large empty store sits there. Lately we have turned it into a vax clinic. They had turned the auto repair department into a drive-through COVID test. And more recently set up a huge vax center inside the store. No word on whether there will be a big BAck To School vax sale...
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Мастер » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:12 pm

Will there still be Craftsman tools?
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Re: RIP: Sears Holdings

Postby Enzo » Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:08 am

Sears sold off the Craftsman brand some time ago. For a while they could be had at KMart as well as Sears. I know Lowes sells Craftsman.

The brand is now part of Stanley/Black&Decker

I don't know the status of the lifetime warranty.
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