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Keepthesoulalive

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3. Sears was a victim of bad management

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2025, 02:49 PM

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Before the vultures started picking at its carcass.

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Sears on verge of fading away after closing more than 3,000 stores [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday OP

I find it incredibly sad. hlthe2b Saturday #1

I loved the sears catalog UpInArms Saturday #2

one bathrm in house, yikes! msongs Saturday #11

Trust me you can survive 😄 zeusdogmom Saturday #23

We had 5 in the house with 1 bathroom, dad would be in there dem4decades Sunday #33

Most houses had only one bathroom until maybe the '60s. Ocelot II Sunday #34

Sears was a victim of bad management Keepthesoulalive Saturday #3

You Ain't Kidding! ProfessorGAC Sunday #41

I worked for Sears when I was moniss Saturday #4

When we were first married (dinosaurs still roamed the earth), Sears was where you went to get everything. Vinca Saturday #5

Same here. We bought appliances, tools and housewares there until the mid-80s. Ocelot II Sunday #35

Funny, I was thinking about this again and it occurred to me that when I was a teenager, I'm pretty sure Vinca Sunday #37

We bought a lot of Craftsman tools, which was Sears' store brand. Ocelot II Sunday #39

The acquisition by K Mart was not a very good idea MichMan Saturday #6

Was Kmart sandbagged with a goal in mind? bucolic_frolic Saturday #7

Lampert Lost A Few Hundred Million.... ProfessorGAC Sunday #42

General Motors UpInArms Saturday #17

Some of us may remember using a outhouse with a Sears catalog Kaleva Saturday #8

Sear grew into a marketing suburban powerhouse after WWII bucolic_frolic Saturday #9

Sears should have been looking Greg_In_SF Saturday #10

Yep, they had everything in place to give them a leg up on it misanthrope Saturday #15

Yup. Sears should have been Amazon. Captain Stern Sunday #25

I just read yesterday that they co owned Prodigy back in the day along with IBM fujiyamasan Sunday #26

Wasn't it Sears that had the Ayn Rand-worshipping dickhead CEO Aristus Saturday #12

That's makes no business sense to me JI7 Saturday #14

Or to anyone else with a functioning brain. Aristus Saturday #19

Eddie Lampert fujiyamasan Sunday #27

Also asking how they can be a CEO anywhere after blowing it. The Madcap Sunday #31

Didn't they go out of business a few years ago ? JI7 Saturday #13

I sure thought so. News to me. B.See Saturday #16

Sears did themselves in. I recalled when I worked for JCPenney's, that Sears, the opposite anchor store in our local SWBTATTReg Saturday #18

The Sears Christmas Catelog was the boomers Google Norbert Saturday #20

Loved that. maveric Sunday #43

Sears holiday portraits were a tradition Danmel Saturday #21

I thought they already went out of business. Jacson6 Saturday #22

Sears went down not to one bad decision... Xolodno Saturday #24

A series of bad decisions made over the span of decades fujiyamasan Sunday #28

Sears catalogs were... BH liberal Sunday #29

I had no idea they still existed. GoCubsGo Sunday #30

Successful thriving public companies don't sell out to vulture capitalists MichMan Sunday #32

Don't forget the Trump connection.... LPBBEAR Sunday #36

Fascinating! Sears Roebuck & Co. Changed How America Shopped MineralMan Sunday #38

It's really sad and it didn't have to be this way. They were intentionally gutted and destroyed themaguffin Sunday #40