Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 22:33:22 -0500
Reply-To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: No particular Vanagon content: RIP Local Sears
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Oops, sorry. I'm losing track of what day it is lately.
Yrs,
Your Dog
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:05 PM, BenT <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:
> My Mod, my Mod, why hast thou forsaken the off topic discussion on Friday
> only rule.
>
>
> BenT
> sent from my electronic leash
>
> > On Dec 6, 2016, at 6:07 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> >
> > And their online store is full of ripoff storefronts. It's a sin and a
> > shame. They used to be looked up to. Time was they sent kit houses out
> by
> > rail, good ones, and people built them. I've seen one not so many years
> > ago around Blairstown NJ. When I was a kid their catalog was three
> inches
> > thick, and everyone had one. Monkey Wards, same same.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 7:52 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Sears is just about gone. Certainly, it is on the ropes. For what
> little
> >> is left of the brand, I have no regrets, given that the past two
> decades it
> >> has proven to be a travesty of a retailer. It used to be THE source for
> >> lots of products, tools among them. Their appliances couldn't be
> beaten,
> >> you could check Consumer Reports and determine which model was simply a
> >> Kenmore branded one identical to a specific Whirlpool or Amanda. No
> more.
> >> Craftsman tools were high quality, and guaranteed forever. Now they are
> >> sold at Ace Hardware and are just run of the mill.
> >>
> >> Sorry for the rant.
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Parkway City had a Wards, I don't remember a Sears. The one that is
> >> closing
> >>> is at Madison Square. I asked the clerk what was going to happen to the
> >>> property and he said "they are going to make it into a lake." Just what
> >> we
> >>> need, a lake.
> >>>
> >>> Jim
> >>>
> >>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:58 PM joe kallo <quietglow@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Parkway mall Sears?! If so, that was my default tool store for years.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016, 5:51 PM Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I was headed on errands at lunch and saw a "STORE CLOSING" banner
> >> across
> >>>> the side of our local Sears. I had to go in. They were having a pretty
> >>> lame
> >>>> sale for folks who were about to have their building (part of a corpse
> >>> on a
> >>>> 1980s mall) torn down, but I found some things I could use anyway.
> Very
> >>> sad
> >>>> to see such a great tool retailer leave town after all these years.
> >> Good
> >>>> thing I already own all the tools I need to work on a Vanagon.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jim
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
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