With the closure of retailers in Whittier and Burbank, once-mighty retailer Sears is right down to its final retailer in California. Anybody nonetheless purchasing there must go to Harmony’s Sunvalley Purchasing Heart. SFGate’s Kasia Pawlowska writes that the 139-year-old chain could have solely have six shops remaining in the entire nation.
With 233 opinions consisting principally of one-star scores, the shop’s downfall is a typical theme. “I solely went right here to see the sorry and unhappy state of the as soon as mighty Sears Division Retailer. It was like being in Historic Rome in its last days,” Courtney M. wrote in September 2023, leaving a two-star score.
As soon as America’s largest retailer, famed for its big vary of client items and the thick mail-order catalog touting them, Sears peaked at “about” 3,500 shops and constructed the world’s tallest skyscraper in Chicago. However it tailored poorly to the challenges of the twenty first century, ignoring the web till it was too late, promoting out to non-public fairness funds mainly within the worth of its actual property and different sellable elements, and finally declaring chapter in 2018. Alongside the best way, it ended publication of its famed catalog in 1993, merged with Kmart in 2005 so they may decline collectively, and bought off well-known sub-brands corresponding to Craftsman and Kenmore. Although it emerged from chapter in 2019, by then solely 223 shops remained, nonetheless closing at tempo.
My native Sears is now a huge sportswear retailer; within the years main as much as its demise, it turned a barely spooky mixture of retailer and overstuffed warehouse. Presumably it was the most important location within the area, with a service middle and such, and was getting used to accommodate stock from these closing close by.
Beforehand:
• Sears anticipated to liquidate as last-minute buyout fails
• Sears Canada execs paid tons of of hundreds of thousands in dividends earlier than declaring chapter and leaving 16,000 employees’ pensions unfunded
• When you might purchase a monkey from the Sears mail-order catalog
• RIP Sears
• Sears reaches out to uncared for Zombie-American demographic
