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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Dec 27, 2025, 02:41 PM 13 hrs ago

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

There was a time when Sears was as big as it gets in the retail game in the United States, and having the store’s catalog in hand … well, 30 years ago that was about like hoping on Amazon or any of today’s modern online mega retailers.

But times have been changing fast for Sears.

Earlier this year, the one-time giant was down to just eight locations, and now eight is down to five, according to a new report from The Street.

To put that in perspective: Sears once had 3,500 stores, making it the largest retailer in the country.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iconic-retailer-verge-fading-away-101539914.html

That's what vulture capitalists do to companies.

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I find it incredibly sad. hlthe2b 13 hrs ago #1
I loved the sears catalog UpInArms 13 hrs ago #2
one bathrm in house, yikes! msongs 11 hrs ago #11
Trust me you can survive 😄 zeusdogmom 8 hrs ago #23
Sears was a victim of bad management Keepthesoulalive 13 hrs ago #3
I worked for Sears when I was moniss 12 hrs ago #4
When we were first married (dinosaurs still roamed the earth), Sears was where you went to get everything. Vinca 12 hrs ago #5
The acquisition by K Mart was not a very good idea MichMan 12 hrs ago #6
Was Kmart sandbagged with a goal in mind? bucolic_frolic 12 hrs ago #7
General Motors UpInArms 11 hrs ago #17
Some of us may remember using a outhouse with a Sears catalog Kaleva 12 hrs ago #8
Sear grew into a marketing suburban powerhouse after WWII bucolic_frolic 12 hrs ago #9
Sears should have been looking Greg_In_SF 11 hrs ago #10
Yep, they had everything in place to give them a leg up on it misanthrope 11 hrs ago #15
Wasn't it Sears that had the Ayn Rand-worshipping dickhead CEO Aristus 11 hrs ago #12
That's makes no business sense to me JI7 11 hrs ago #14
Or to anyone else with a functioning brain. Aristus 10 hrs ago #19
Didn't they go out of business a few years ago ? JI7 11 hrs ago #13
I sure thought so. News to me. B.See 11 hrs ago #16
Sears did themselves in. I recalled when I worked for JCPenney's, that Sears, the opposite anchor store in our local SWBTATTReg 10 hrs ago #18
The Sears Christmas Catelog was the boomers Google Norbert 10 hrs ago #20
Sears holiday portraits were a tradition Danmel 10 hrs ago #21
I thought they already went out of business. Jacson6 9 hrs ago #22
Sears went down not to one bad decision... Xolodno 5 hrs ago #24
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