Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 19:05:58 -0800
Reply-To: BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From: BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: No particular Vanagon content: RIP Local Sears
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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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