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Berlin Expat

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23. As I recall, it was sometime

Reply to inwiththenew (Reply #20)

Mon Oct 15, 2018, 09:44 AM

Oct 2018

around 1991 or 1992 that Wal-Mart overtook Sears. I was working for Sears at the time, and when that happened, we started paying closer attention to matters, at least at my store level. It took another year or so for corporate to do something about that; they did an extensive remodel of the store in 1993.

Ironically, the Sears store I used to work for is slated to close by the end of November of this year. What the mall will do with a now-empty two storey former anchor store is anyone's guess.

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