Sears is what you get when you get a company run by the shareholders.

Jim

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:22 PM David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> And their online store is full of ripoff storefronts.  It's a sin and a
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> shame.  They used to be looked up to.  Time was they sent kit houses out by
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> rail, good ones, and people built them.  I've seen one not so many years
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> ago around Blairstown NJ.  When I was a kid their catalog was three inches
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> thick, and everyone had one.  Monkey Wards, same same.
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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 7:52 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
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> wrote:
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> > Sears is just about gone.  Certainly, it is on the ropes.  For what
> little
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> > is left of the brand, I have no regrets, given that the past two decades
> it
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> > has proven to be a travesty of a retailer.  It used to be THE source for
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> > lots of products, tools among them.  Their appliances couldn't be beaten,
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> > you could check Consumer Reports and determine which model was simply a
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> > Kenmore branded one identical to a specific Whirlpool or Amanda. No more.
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> > Craftsman tools were high quality, and guaranteed forever.  Now they are
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> > sold at Ace Hardware and are just run of the mill.
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> >
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> > Sorry for the rant.
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> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Parkway City had a Wards, I don't remember a Sears. The one that is
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> > closing
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> > > is at Madison Square. I asked the clerk what was going to happen to the
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> > > property and he said "they are going to make it into a lake." Just what
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> > we
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> > > need, a lake.
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> > >
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> > > Jim
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> > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:58 PM joe kallo <quietglow@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Parkway mall Sears?! If so, that was my default tool store for years.
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> > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016, 5:51 PM Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > > > I was headed on errands at lunch and saw a "STORE CLOSING" banner
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> > across
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> > > > the side of our local Sears. I had to go in. They were having a
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> > > lame
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> > > > sale for folks who were about to have their building (part of a
> corpse
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> > > on a
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> > > > 1980s mall) torn down, but I found some things I could use anyway.
> Very
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> > > sad
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> > > > to see such a great tool retailer leave town after all these years.
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> > Good
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> > > > thing I already own all the tools I need to work on a Vanagon.
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> > > >
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> > > > Jim
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