Sears

WoW! Cool. Did you know that even The Brady Bunch went to Sears?

 

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Yep, Sears Silvertone guitar, everyone had one! Cheap guitars that everyone seemed to own, oh and Craftsman tools, another top seller!

 

I learned it from the seller at the closing.

 

When I was a kid growing up in the Chicago suburbs we had two choices for shopping for clothes; Sears and Monkey Wards.

 

We lost our Sears several years ago. When they closed they discounted their gardening equipment drastically. Bought $500 worth for $100. Since tore down that section of the mall and rebuilt. Bought lots of BB bats for autographs in the 80's and 90s. Saw an active Sears appliance store in Southern Kentucky a couple of years ago.

 

Everyone went to Sears, it was the Amazon of its day, and it reigned for a hundred years.

 

And yet when everyone was moving to the online version of Sears, they were busy "diversifying" into financial services, real estate and credit cards, and forgot what their business was. Dumbest decline of a company I think I've ever witnessed.