Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 21:07:16 -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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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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