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Offline Applewood

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Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« on: August 23, 2018, 01:59:17 pm »

Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are



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The company said this week it is shuttering 46 more stores in November. The locations are spread across the U.S. (See a full list below.)

Liquidation sales at the 33 Sears stores and 13 Kmarts are expected to begin next week, according to Sears. The company also said that eligible workers will receive severance and be able to apply for openings at other nearby stores.

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More, including list of closing stores, at:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/23/sears-is-closing-46-more-stores-heres-where-they-are.html
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2018, 02:07:20 pm »
I'm really surprised ours isn't on the list yet. It is a ghost town, dirty, and everything looks very, very dated. I think the two things keeping it alive are automotive (the only halfway honest place open on Sunday) and senior citizens.
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2018, 02:11:05 pm »
Sears is still in business?  I'll be damned.  I remember my grand dad refused to shop at them anymore back in the 60's when they abandoned their mostly downtown locations for those new fangled Mall Location out in the boonies.  He said no one would go out there!   
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2018, 04:51:28 pm »
The nearest Kmart to me closed about a year ago now. The next-closest, I stopped in earlier this year to check it out.

It may have been because it was in the morning on a weekday (I was getting my snow tires swapped out at a place down the road), but... the place was barren. I don't know if it just seemed moreso because the last time I saw it was as a kid in the late 1990s, but everything looked so spaced out, the shelves lower, and everything in general looked like it was stuck the way it was back in the 1990s, right before they went bankrupt, but with less merchandise. Let's just say it was quiet enough that instead of going to a cash register, the only person on duty rang me out at the service desk.

Amazingly, that store has survived this round of cuts.
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2018, 11:39:33 pm »
Here are the 46 Sears and Kmart stores set to close in November:

Kmart 935 Sweetwater Road Spring Valley CA
Kmart 1075 Shaw Avenue Clovis CA
Kmart 3625 East 18th Street Antioch CA
Kmart 6310 W 3rd Street Los Angeles CA
Kmart 589 Bridgeport Avenue Milford CT
Kmart 301 College Square Newark DE
Kmart 3231 Chicago Road Steger IL
Kmart 11 South Kings HWY 61 Cape Girardeau MO
Kmart 2308 Highway 45 N Columbus MS
Kmart 605 Old Country Road Riverhead NY
Kmart 440 NW Burnside Road Gresham OR
Kmart 101 Great Teays Blvd Scott Depot WV
Kmart 2150 South Douglas HWY Gillette WY
Sears Flagstaff Mall, 4800 N US HWY 89 Flagstaff AZ
Sears Capitola Mall, 4015 Capitola Road Santa Cruz CA
Sears 2424 Highway 6 And 50 Grand Junction CO
Sears 2266 University Square Mall Tampa - University FL
Sears 1625 NW 107th Avenue Doral / Miami FL
Sears Coastland Ctr, 2000 9th Street N Naples FL
Sears Oglethorpe Mall, 7810 Abercorn St Savannah GA
Sears 2860 Cumberland Mall Atlanta GA
Sears 100 Mall Blvd Ste 300 Brunswick GA
Sears 1631 E Empire Street Bloomington IL
Sears 4201 Coldwater Road Fort Wayne IN
Sears 3000 Mall Road Florence KY
Sears 1914 Hammond Square Drive Hammond LA
Sears 50 Holyoke Street Holyoke MA
Sears^ Silver City Galleria Taunton MA
Sears† 1250 Jackson Xing I-94 Jackson MI
Sears* 4601 Glenwood Avenue Raleigh - Crabtree NC
Sears* 77 Rockingham Park Boulevard Salem NH
Sears* 1500 South Willow Street Manchester NH
Sears† 4409 Black Horse Pike Mays Landing NJ
Sears* 200 Eastview Mall Victor NY
Sears* 578 Aviation Road Queensbury / Glen Falls NY
Sears 1400 Union Turnpike New Hyde Park NY
Sears 2700 Miamisburg Centerville Road Dayton OH
Sears* 9505 Colerain Avenue Cincinnati - Northgate OH
Sears† 11800 SE 82nd Avenue Happy Valley / Portland OR
Sears† 400 Memorial City Way Houston - Memorial TX
Sears* Post Oak Mall College Station - Bryan TX
Sears 7453 S Plaza Center Drive West Jordan UT
Sears 12000 Fair Oaks Mall Fairfax VA
Sears† 8800 NE Vancouver Mall Drive Vancouver WA
Sears† 4720 Golf Road Eau Claire WI
Sears Valley View Mall, 4200 US HWY 16 La Crosse WI
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2018, 11:13:32 am »
Somehow I don't think it is Amazon's fault Sears is doing bad.
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2018, 11:19:41 am »
Sears should have gone exclusively into the appliance/hardware/auto repair business decades ago.
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2018, 11:44:40 am »
Quote from: DCPatriot on August 24, 2018, 11:19:41 am
Sears should have gone exclusively into the appliance/hardware/auto repair business decades ago.

Well, maybe.  But I think Sears'biggest problem has been a lack of customer service and shoddy merchandise.  Sticking with only certain products would not have helped. 
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2018, 12:16:46 pm »
Quote from: Applewood on August 24, 2018, 11:44:40 am
Well, maybe.  But I think Sears'biggest problem has been a lack of customer service and shoddy merchandise.  Sticking with only certain products would not have helped.

The clothing racks and displays on the sales floor look like a Salvation Army or Goodwill outlet.

Perhaps they should go back to offering home kits, where you could build your dream home on your own lot for just a few thousand dollars.

They're all 'Classics' now.
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2018, 12:33:40 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on August 24, 2018, 11:19:41 am
Sears should have gone exclusively into the appliance/hardware/auto repair business decades ago.

Agree.

Frankly, I'm surprised any Sears stores are still open.
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2018, 12:35:50 pm »
It's hard enough to find a Macy's anymore, let alone Sears or KMart. JCP is next, looks like.
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2018, 01:39:36 pm »
Quote from: Applewood on August 24, 2018, 11:44:40 am
Well, maybe.  But I think Sears'biggest problem has been a lack of customer service and shoddy merchandise.  Sticking with only certain products would not have helped.


I went to Sears a couple years ago. Crap display, clothes on the floor.. Crap Customer Service.
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Re: Sears is closing 46 more stores — here's where they are
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2018, 02:11:32 pm »
There are many reasons why Sears is a mere shell of its once vibrant retail self.  Not in any particular order but just a few off the top of my head. 

Poor management that failed to adapt to a changing market and embrace online market and create an online presence.  Think about it. Sears invented at home shopping more than a century ago. How could you not take the next step?
 
Instead sears strategy for growth was to buy/merge with another out dated horse and buggy  retailer....K-Mart to form Sears Holdings.

Installing Eddie Lampert a scum sucking hedge fund dumbass as CEO. 

They squander their most valuable resource, its brand name products.  You would be hard pressed to find someone who didn't own at least one of there signature product lines.  Kenmore. Craftsman. Die Hard Battery's. They sullied those products by installing cheap parts that broke constantly failed and the public abandon them faster than a 1970 GM econobox for a Toyota.

Speaking of appliances.  Even Whirlpool (Maytag, KitchenAid and Jenn-Air)  stopped selling to Sears because of slow pay and bad credit caused by lack of sales.

And as mentioned by several others.  Lack of customer service or no customer service at every level.  From the store floor to the phone  to the internet.  The Sears stores of old hired wonderful associates.  Professional people who were trained and had product knowledge.  Today, if you can find a sales person to help you, it will be like talking to a stoner who couldn't tell you where the bathroom was.

Put a fork in Sears.  They are done.
   
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