Illuminati-R-Us

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!

And the skyscraper!

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.

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.

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.

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

What you talkin' about? WILLIS???

So, no more Sears guitars or amps?

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

And no, no more. SIlvertone went away a long time ago.

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.

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

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.

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.

Entire block of Sears kitset houses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etM2jk4Jb0c

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.

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...

Will there still be Craftsman tools?

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.