I was born in 1960 so I grew up in the age of Sears, before there were malls and the Sears we went to when I was a kid was a two storie stand alone store. Sad to see an icon such as this going away.
So weird to see when a fully stocked non-closing Sears has almost no customers but a closing sears on its last day has more customers than it has merchandise left.
richaado sissyboy yeah, I never understood that. Many times, these places liquidate, meaning they’re somehow more expensive or equal to original price despite “marking them down.” Some times, the deals to be had mean they’re finally as cheap as they are online. There are ways to make money reselling online, but very few chances can be made at places like this. eBay takes 10%. So does PayPal. You also had to pay sales tax on that item. Very hard to make a profit, especially if you have to also pay for shipping. I remember about 15 years ago, not being able to afford much, being upset because there was someone local who would buy up everything that went 15% off. How?! How can you make money reselling something that didn’t sell, marking it up enough to cover all those seller fees?
Most of what was left was around 85% off, people thought they were getting a deal, but the things I bought still worked out to like 4, 5 bucks each, thrift shop prices.
I don't care what anyone else says. I've always really liked Sears, and I'm sad that they are disappearing. Yet another part of my childhood is going away. :(
RIP Sears 🙏🏻. My parents and grandparents always purchased their appliances, tools, tires, and batteries at Sears. I then did the same thing as an adult, until it started imploding. 😞
As a kid in the late 70s and in the 80s, shopping at Sears was a regular occurrence just about every Saturday. My father even owned Sears stock back in the day. So sad to see the demise of Sears. Thanks for the tour, Ace, even if it is a sad one for me. Really appreciate you documenting the rise and fall of retail America, even if it is sad.
@@noneed4me2n7 Working at Sears (or Kmart) has been a job from Hell for a while now. Tremendous pressure to sign people up for SYW rewards, Sears credit cards, and extended warranties along with decreasing hours worked every week takes its toll. Leaving Sears is a blessing.
@@judcrandall6762 Yes, even as a customer people feel an employee is not happy, even if he or she is doing the best he or she can. It is not a good feeling and creates a bad association with the brand Sears.
@@judcrandall6762 It never used to be that way. Sears was like working for the biggest and best years back. They took care of their employees and folks turned it into a career. My uncle's neighbor worked there for years and retired from there. As a result, we have a lot of Sears products in the house as that was the "go to" place for such things.
There’s something sad and lonely about empty buildings. I actually grew up with sears catalog shopping. It’s sad to see what’s happening to stores that were there as I grew up. Ames is gone, jamesway, etc
Things change. Before Sea4s, Ames, or Jamesway people bought from mom and pop stores. People then probably thought that buying from Sears, Ames, or Jamesway was inpersonable. Nothing last forever.
Jesus Zamora Greed,probably. The executives at the top got huge bonuses and way too much money in wages. That happens to a lot of companies. Greed eventually kills a company.
So sad. Growing up outside Chicago in the 50s, we bought everything at Sears, from our TV, to dad's tools, to my school clothes. Back then, before Visa and Mastercard, we would go to one of their credit window, where my folks would make regular payments.
Yet another piece of my childhood will soon be completely gone. It's not an exaggeration to say how much Sears was a mainstay for my young life growing up in the late 70's and 80's. I would say the bulk of most my Christmas' and Birthday's involved my parents shopping at Sears. Not to mention back to school shopping, kitchen appliances, electronics, etc. Very sad to see this once retail giant dying a slow and unrelenting death.
That's what happens when people only shop online! I'm not one of those people, I like to see what I'm buying , so I'm sol !i bought my appliances, garage door openers, clothes and lawn mowers from Sears!I've never knew a time when Sears wasn't there till now! Really sad and they won't be back!!!!!
Incredible and sad how the once mighty and untouchable Sears crumbled to dust! I remember asking my parents to go to Sears every weekend to check out tools and electronics seems like yesterday yet 1987 is 35 yrs ago!! RIP will live on in our memories proves to show even Amazon one day will cease to exist!
The music video makes the song even more appropriate. Video starts off showing a display of fractured memories of ones past, but in a sort of depressing way. Then you are in the present, looking back at the past, remembering how wonderful it was, how much potential it had, then brought back to the present, shown the reality that time has given you. You continue to look back at your past and wonder what happened, what went wrong, can it be retrieved, then the song ends with you accepting that what’s gone is gone.
Feel bad for the workers during a closing like this. When my sears closed, there were some workers there talking about the company doing a re-org and hiring some of them back in a year or so. Must have been some company scam to keep them working till the bitter end.
You can imagine this sort of thing will happen to online retailers eventually, as something new we haven't thought of yet replaces them. Only we won't be able to mourn them like this, because there won't be physical stores to visit to witness their demise. There'll just be the website, and we'll just keep clicking on refresh until the server is shut down.
J.M. Luna Well, in the 60s & 70s suburban shopping centres destroyed downtown shopping. By the 90s, in general, our favourite regional department store was dead.
@HN Yep almost allthe goods we buy are from china so most production is shut down for at least the next year. Amazon will be out of business in a couple of years
Lots of corruption, just like the Enron Scandal. I think it's just a matter of time until he's charged. I personally think he should definitely be criminally charged for what he did.
I still like malls. Sad to see these stores closing. Online shopping has taken over, which really ticks me off. If I could, I'd open a mall with smaller versions of stores from the past, and I'd be there everyday!
I was at a store closing sale for "Media Play" and the manager said "If we had traffic like this all the time, we wouldn't be closing." Stores are becoming a thing of the past. Amazon is buying empty malls and gutting them to use as warehouses/distribution centers. Kind of ironic. Kill the mall/buy the mall/use as warehouse. Shop at your local stores, or they will be gone.
Discount retailers and big-box stores are doing fine, it's mainly department stores that flourished decades ago that are totally f*cked. This is all due to a diminishing middle class and companies stuck in the past.
I still have tools that were bought in 1968 and we're used everyday till 2 years ago. Heavy equipment and truck mechanic. The other shop mechanics would borrow mine instead of using their Snapon tools. Quality was always there.
Me too. My tools were bought by me when Craftsman was sourced from US vendors like Danaher, S-K, Ideal/Western Forge and their other US vendors. I buy used on Ebay, Craigslist, or off garage sales. Sometimes I get lucky and find a toolbox at the curb of an old house where someone has passed and what do you know, old USA Craftsman tools inside. Fortunately, they were well made for years and years so you can still find them reasonably priced without much effort.
Some day into the future kids will stumble upon these store and mall videos and be so like "that is weird that people used to go to big buildings like that just to buy things". What were they called....stores? Strange.
The greatest generation is fading away! The kids do not care anymore! All they want is free stuff! No tough times! No going without and saving! No damn loyalty! Just want it all now! Screw em!! Waa. Waa. Waa.!!! Need my safe space!!
The one at Whitney Field (Leominster, MA) closed as well, same day. I actually got video of the Macy's closing process, then went across the parking lot to see Sears with 4 days remaining (actually 3). I did that as I usually have terrible luck getting the store closures on the last day, but not this time. I also added the last day run around as well, although not covered as much detail, being those were the same as previous, but looked at other places, and the last of the merchandise. 52 years, and then it's gone. If Sears played their cards right, they would have easily DESTROYED Amazon like an EF-5 tornado in a trailer park. They screwed up royally.
We lost both Sears stores here last year. One was a standalone opened in 1956! It had the classic scripty neon Sears signs until the late 90s. Auto center, key booth in the parking lot, the works. Very sad to see it go. When I was a kid there was even a Woolworth's and an old school A-Frame IHOP in that shopping center.
I find this very Sad our Sears in Canada has been Gone for a while. but i remember going clothing shopping with mom and Dad, or picking stuff up with my grandparents at sear.
@@Variety1985 I do like to shop in store instead but Kmart has free shipping over $35. I was actually just checking out Sears site and the have spend $100 get $100 in points, you wounder why they are going out of business with deals like this? I do miss those in store points from sears and that long receipt with all those coupons for point members :(
I worked at Sears about 9 years ago. It was the easiest job I ever had because hardly had any customers. It's sad because that job made the difference whether I had food to eat when I moved to a new city with zero dollars in my pocket. I feel sad for the employees who lost their jobs and the families that will go without until something else come along.
I still remember like it's yesterday drooling over all the Kenner Star Wars toys, Lego and Atari/Telegames games in the Sears catalog that would come out before Christmas every year in the late 70's and early 80's. I would spend hours with this catalog and devise plans on how I would aquire these toys and games. I did fairly well achieving those goals despite growing up in a modest upbringing. Thanks mom and dad.
I couldn't walk in our Sears or kmart when it announced closing. Hubby first job in high school plus we visited kmart weekly and hate walmart. Miss our store so much. Childhood memory gone now.
Retail will reinvent itself as a sale-person free, fully automated warehouse with TV-Screens up that show pictures of what you can buy where you are there, or to go pick up your things if you didn't want it shipped to you. By the way, I love the echo of the music in this video. Extremely effective, thanks!
What JCPenny (or just Penny's now) is doing is quite the opposite. In their new concept store here in DFW, they're pulling off of the racked merchandise and adding a lot more services that you need to bring yourself into the store to get done (no competition with online sales) like a spa, full-service barber shop, salon, pearl cup coffee stand, fitness center, yoga classes... Successful stores are going to be different, sure, but not simplistically "staff free." Oddly enough, that is a dated idea of what the problems are and the future actually holds.
Wonder if Eddie will ever face charges for what he has done? The way he's bankrupted both Kmart & Sears, yet took his "own money" & purchased properties that were closed, for his personal business ventures or whatever. Kinda seems like this is Enron Scandal all over again - not to the T, but definitely lots of corruption by Eddie and who knows who else.
@@animeshock2006 Same Damn Thing! Not only did Blaine Capital kill Toyrs R Us off, those idiots did the same thing with K*B Toys, straddling them tons of debt after they finally got out from under it!
@@animeshock2006 Completely wrong! Tors R Us were tossed a losing plan, with a ton of bad intentional debt from the wonderful Bain Capital Group, which collects insane profits while collapsing a business, They are also responsible for killing K*B Toys out of bankruptcy!
@@pretzelrides3748 "B[l]aine Capital kill Toyrs R Us off" Mitt Romney's "Bain Capital" killed Toys R Us!? lol Yea, I just checked; it's true, of course. He's such a b-st-rd. Honestly, decades of self-destructive trade policy did this to us. The _trade policy_ empowered all of these China-direct drop-shippers, Amazon included, to begin with. Then, we consumers took the cheap communist goods in exchange for the extinguished well-being of the industrial middle class; we literally sold our quality of life in exchange for cheap, plastic trinkets made by communist slavers. The investor class, such as Mitt Stinkin' Romney, were set better than ever, of course!
Sears is past it's prime, it's time for it to go as a retail store. Maybe as an online thing or as a smaller showroom type of place, but as a dept store it's over.
Every fall mom would take me to the Husky section at Sears there weren’t too many stylish clothes for a kid in the ( Husky section )I guess they were kind ..not say fat 😮
Even though I haven’t visited a Sears in many years I still kinda miss them. I guess it was just knowing that they were there and you could simply stop in and pick up some tools or an appliance if you needed it that day that was kind of comforting, like Radio Shack was for electronic stuff. Kinda sad, but I guess times have changed.
It's sad that these once vibrant stores our not gone, years of mismanagement, changing demographics, online shopping had put a end to stores malls ect.
How many generations of American households began their lives and credit histories at a Sears store? Amazon might be able to deliver the products but they will never be able to replace Sears in our hearts. I'm still using my Dads Craftsman tools and my son will be using them when I'm gone.
Eleven years ago I had a baby boy. I also needed new tires. I remember thinking about my options and the obvious best option was to take the car to Sears and walk around the mall while my tires were replaced. My baby was entertained I got exercise on a cold day. I did it cause that's what my parents would have done, now I have to sit at a stale dealership and surf the net, ugh.
The Northtown Sears in Spokane closed s couple of months ago. I had just found a 1992 catalog that I used 2 pick stuff out to shop for, for my new house. The house I now have was decked out in all Sears brand everything. House cupboards, appliances etc. Sears was always the go 2 store for appliances. No problems & they lasted. Well that was then. What they became was sad. I saw this all before with Wards. No surprise. I'll miss them, the way they were.
It's crazy to think that there are ppl who will be clocking in for the last time here, they cared enough to show up even though it didn't matter and the stress of having to find a new job if they haven't already found one. It surreal to think about and it must've been even more dreadful for the ppl working the Shore Mall who went through the same thing
Here now are all the non closing Sears locations: 1. Burbank, California. 2. Concord, California. 3. Stockton, California. 4. Whittier, California. 5. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 6. Miami, Florida. 7. Orlando, Florida. 8. Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. 9. Braintree, Massachusetts. 10. Frederick, Maryland. 11. Jersey City, New Jersey. 12. Newburgh, New York. 13. Greensboro, North Carolina. 14. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. 15. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 16. El Paso, Texas. 17. Tukwila, Washington. 18. Union Gap, Washington. A total of 18 non closing Sears stores. Separately, there is a booming separate company called Sears Mexico, owned by billionaire Carlos Slim that is doing quite well in Mexico
Wow...Come and SEE the DEADER side of SEARS!! As a new motto, it sux like an Electrolux, but it sure reflects the sad reality that is Sears in the 21st century. Riposa en pace, old friend...
All of these stores did 1 thing wrong which was to compete with walmart. Walmart is OK but no one would go there to buy something nice. I believe JCPenny never worried about it and they are still alive.
Shopping online ok for some things but getting out and going to these Stores i sadly miss the socializing with people i knew that i ran into....when you go to other cities it would be neat to go to the stores you dont have...but once all that is gone then what,,,
I am shocked at how fast Sears went downhill. At this time in 2017 they still had about 1500 locations or so now it's down to next to nothing. I knew they were in trouble but I didn't think their demise would come this soon. I do think they will make a comeback but like Toys R US in a smaller form.
Well sold off all their brands craftsmen to lowes diehard to advance auto parts and kenmore were being sold on Amazon... Just went through a bankruptcy ineblieve last year
This So very painful 😔😣😖😫😩🥺😢😭😱😱😱😱😱😱🤦🏻🤦🏻♂️🙎🏻♂️ may people lost her job start the holiday season been working there for 40 years or 50 it’s all gone who gone to help them when the need health care for the health and family and friends
I just lost my sears In riverside ca . It was there since 1965. It was a stand alone iconic store . Not in a mall . So sad . So many memories as a kid shopping and getting video games . I hope they survive at some level or other .
i can give 3 reasons why sears went under if you asked me. 1. bought out k mart sears corp should have waited till the firesale started to get the business at a better bottom dollar. 2. saleing the craftsman/kenmore name brands. for yrs you could get quality craftsman tools from sears same goes for kenmore in fact my mom has a quality brand name kenmore fridge and stove bought them both 10 to 15 yrs ago still running excellent. just wonder who she gonna call now since her warranties are no longer for repairs/service since sears in a way is on it's deathbed with only 185 stores remaining now. 3. failure to get with the times. sears/kmart never ever had an app like wal mart and tons of others for online shopping. and don't evem get me started in the stores interiors. geez you walked into sears it looked like you walked into a store from 70's/80's maybe early 90's.
This just reminds me of my local Sears. After years of surviving bankruptcy from Sears Holdings Inc, a new store closing list for NJ has included my local Sears onto the list. Farewell Sears in the Woodbridge Mall...
Back in the 80's, I would buy cartridges there for my Atari 2600. Sears was a *fun* place to be back then.
My parents bought my children's clothes at Sears, JCPenney, and Dillard's. Memories! The mall is dying away!
I was born in 1960 so I grew up in the age of Sears, before there were malls and the Sears we went to when I was a kid was a two storie stand alone store. Sad to see an icon such as this going away.
Me too. Grew up in the 60s my relatives worked at seara
MY MOM WORKED AT SEARS FOR OVER 30 YRS.I USE TO LOVE HER DISCOUNT CARD.R.I.P MOM.R.I.P SEARS. 👍
So weird to see when a fully stocked non-closing Sears has almost no customers but a closing sears on its last day has more customers than it has merchandise left.
Mourners. They aren’t there looking for the deal. Same thing happened at Toys R Us.
richaado sissyboy yeah, I never understood that. Many times, these places liquidate, meaning they’re somehow more expensive or equal to original price despite “marking them down.” Some times, the deals to be had mean they’re finally as cheap as they are online.
There are ways to make money reselling online, but very few chances can be made at places like this. eBay takes 10%. So does PayPal. You also had to pay sales tax on that item. Very hard to make a profit, especially if you have to also pay for shipping. I remember about 15 years ago, not being able to afford much, being upset because there was someone local who would buy up everything that went 15% off. How?! How can you make money reselling something that didn’t sell, marking it up enough to cover all those seller fees?
Most of what was left was around 85% off, people thought they were getting a deal, but the things I bought still worked out to like 4, 5 bucks each, thrift shop prices.
I don't care what anyone else says. I've always really liked Sears, and I'm sad that they are disappearing. Yet another part of my childhood is going away. :(
The muzac and the music in the empty shell of a once great anchor store. It's like listening to the band play while the Titanic sank.
RIP Sears 🙏🏻. My parents and grandparents always purchased their appliances, tools, tires, and batteries at Sears. I then did the same thing as an adult, until it started imploding. 😞
Aww the moody blues playing was so haunting. Reminded me of my childhood
Mall music musak..mall music of 1974 starts at 2:22....love this soundtrack...was so pleased Ace used it in the video!!! Recognized it instantly!!!
dontwantto givemyname same here, those first cuts sound familiar. Found that album on here searching for older store background music to listen to.
dontwantto givemyname Yes, me too! There is a Spotify Playlist called More than Muzak, Retro Mall Music. It has like 95 Muzak songs.
@dontwantto add 97 + 2
As a kid in the late 70s and in the 80s, shopping at Sears was a regular occurrence just about every Saturday. My father even owned Sears stock back in the day. So sad to see the demise of Sears. Thanks for the tour, Ace, even if it is a sad one for me. Really appreciate you documenting the rise and fall of retail America, even if it is sad.
1 bad apple does spoil,the whole bunch for Kmart Two Bad THAT'S TWO BAD"!!!!
Sorry to see those folks loose their jobs
@@noneed4me2n7 Working at Sears (or Kmart) has been a job from Hell for a while now. Tremendous pressure to sign people up for SYW rewards, Sears credit cards, and extended warranties along with decreasing hours worked every week takes its toll. Leaving Sears is a blessing.
@@judcrandall6762 Yes, even as a customer people feel an employee is not happy, even if he or she is doing the best he or she can. It is not a good feeling and creates a bad association with the brand Sears.
@@judcrandall6762 It never used to be that way. Sears was like working for the biggest and best years back. They took care of their employees and folks turned it into a career. My uncle's neighbor worked there for years and retired from there. As a result, we have a lot of Sears products in the house as that was the "go to" place for such things.
There’s something sad and lonely about empty buildings. I actually grew up with sears catalog shopping. It’s sad to see what’s happening to stores that were there as I grew up. Ames is gone, jamesway, etc
Ames and Jamesway. You must have grown up in the Northeast like me. We had both stores on my hometown, until Walmart came in.
John Jones yep. Pennsylvania. I still have dreams of being in Jamesway. Lol
Things change. Before Sea4s, Ames, or Jamesway people bought from mom and pop stores. People then probably thought that buying from Sears, Ames, or Jamesway was inpersonable. Nothing last forever.
That's what gets me. Sears practically invented mail order with the catalog, how could they not make that work online?
Jesus Zamora Greed,probably. The executives at the top got huge bonuses and way too much money in wages. That happens to a lot of companies. Greed eventually kills a company.
So sad. Growing up outside Chicago in the 50s, we bought everything at Sears, from our TV, to dad's tools, to my school clothes. Back then, before Visa and Mastercard, we would go to one of their credit window, where my folks would make regular payments.
Tears for Sears 😢
Sounds like the name of certain 80s pop group :):):)
Shout. Shout. Let it all out.
These are the memories you can't do without.
Come on. I'm talking to you.
Come on.
@@sdrape4964 LOL!!!
@@7JANEWAY 😉
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everyone wants to rule the shopping world.
Yet another piece of my childhood will soon be completely gone. It's not an exaggeration to say how much Sears was a mainstay for my young life growing up in the late 70's and 80's. I would say the bulk of most my Christmas' and Birthday's involved my parents shopping at Sears. Not to mention back to school shopping, kitchen appliances, electronics, etc. Very sad to see this once retail giant dying a slow and unrelenting death.
That's what happens when people only shop online! I'm not one of those people, I like to see what I'm buying , so I'm sol !i bought my appliances, garage door openers, clothes and lawn mowers from Sears!I've never knew a time when Sears wasn't there till now! Really sad and they won't be back!!!!!
Incredible and sad how the once mighty and untouchable Sears crumbled to dust! I remember asking my parents to go to Sears every weekend to check out tools and electronics seems like yesterday yet 1987 is 35 yrs ago!! RIP will live on in our memories proves to show even Amazon one day will cease to exist!
A cruel irony to “In Your Wildest Dreams” playing in the background. In all our wildest dreams Sears would still be alive and kicking. That ending 😂😂
The music video makes the song even more appropriate. Video starts off showing a display of fractured memories of ones past, but in a sort of depressing way. Then you are in the present, looking back at the past, remembering how wonderful it was, how much potential it had, then brought back to the present, shown the reality that time has given you. You continue to look back at your past and wonder what happened, what went wrong, can it be retrieved, then the song ends with you accepting that what’s gone is gone.
I thought that too. Awesome song though.
Feel bad for the workers during a closing like this. When my sears closed, there were some workers there talking about the company doing a re-org and hiring some of them back in a year or so. Must have been some company scam to keep them working till the bitter end.
When Kmart in my home town closed, it was replaced by a Rural King. So imagine that some former employees found work there
It's not like the employees did not see this coming, been years of struggles with Kmart/Sears.
ooh that song by the moody blues-in your wildest dreams, my ultimate fave!!
RIP Sears, you were great once. Sad to see you go.
Ha! Cute ending. That was once all of us ♡
You can imagine this sort of thing will happen to online retailers eventually, as something new we haven't thought of yet replaces them. Only we won't be able to mourn them like this, because there won't be physical stores to visit to witness their demise. There'll just be the website, and we'll just keep clicking on refresh until the server is shut down.
J.M. Luna Well, in the 60s & 70s suburban shopping centres destroyed downtown shopping. By the 90s, in general, our favourite regional department store was dead.
@HN So we'll be having online shopping from now until the heat death of the universe.
@HN That's a bold statement to make. I don't think I've ever been that certain that things will never change from here on in.
@HN
Yep almost allthe goods we buy are from china so most production is shut down for at least the next year. Amazon will be out of business in a couple of years
So much for Sears and K Mart... fast Eddie should be in prison...
Lots of corruption, just like the Enron Scandal. I think it's just a matter of time until he's charged. I personally think he should definitely be criminally charged for what he did.
@@captainobvious4051 I agree..
Pamela's V Log Makes me wonder about Jeff Bezos & Whole Foods
Fast eddie is a financial vampire. Definitely deserves twenty years without parole for malfeasance and fraud
Amen to that, as well as Mr. Mnuchin who is now in the government doing the marvelous job he did at Sears Holdings.
Our Sears is closing here in Jacksonville NC. It's like all my childhood stories are closer it's so sad.😥
Mine in Sierra vista az closed in 2014
I still like malls. Sad to see these stores closing. Online shopping has taken over, which really ticks me off. If I could, I'd open a mall with smaller versions of stores from the past, and I'd be there everyday!
"Wildest Dreams" by the Moody Blues at 1:00 playing in the background. Very ironic.
So sad to see America's retail industry collapse to nothing.
Walmart, Jcpenny, target,....
Mismanagement.
I was at a store closing sale for "Media Play" and the manager said "If we had traffic like this all the time, we wouldn't be closing." Stores are becoming a thing of the past. Amazon is buying empty malls and gutting them to use as warehouses/distribution centers. Kind of ironic. Kill the mall/buy the mall/use as warehouse. Shop at your local stores, or they will be gone.
Discount retailers and big-box stores are doing fine, it's mainly department stores that flourished decades ago that are totally f*cked. This is all due to a diminishing middle class and companies stuck in the past.
@@thepurrfectionist365 the middle class never existed, there are those who are consumers and those with the means for production
The ending "Mom...hey Mom ...dammit Mom, I told you I don't fit in small anymore" - that was perfect!
When they stopped making Craftsmen tools in the US I stopped going to Sears.
What do you use now? My bro swears by Milwaukee.
I still have tools that were bought in 1968 and we're used everyday till 2 years ago. Heavy equipment and truck mechanic. The other shop mechanics would borrow mine instead of using their Snapon tools. Quality was always there.
Kenmore appliances were once among the best on the market. How did it come to this?
Me too. My tools were bought by me when Craftsman was sourced from US vendors like Danaher, S-K, Ideal/Western Forge and their other US vendors. I buy used on Ebay, Craigslist, or off garage sales. Sometimes I get lucky and find a toolbox at the curb of an old house where someone has passed and what do you know, old USA Craftsman tools inside. Fortunately, they were well made for years and years so you can still find them reasonably priced without much effort.
Some day into the future kids will stumble upon these store and mall videos and be so like "that is weird that people used to go to big buildings like that just to buy things". What were they called....stores? Strange.
What for? Lol that’s why i do this
The greatest generation is fading away! The kids do not care anymore! All they want is free stuff! No tough times! No going without and saving! No damn loyalty! Just want it all now! Screw em!! Waa. Waa. Waa.!!! Need my safe space!!
The one at Whitney Field (Leominster, MA) closed as well, same day. I actually got video of the Macy's closing process, then went across the parking lot to see Sears with 4 days remaining (actually 3). I did that as I usually have terrible luck getting the store closures on the last day, but not this time. I also added the last day run around as well, although not covered as much detail, being those were the same as previous, but looked at other places, and the last of the merchandise. 52 years, and then it's gone.
If Sears played their cards right, they would have easily DESTROYED Amazon like an EF-5 tornado in a trailer park. They screwed up royally.
The Sears execs drained pensions, everything
Eddie Lampert says you're not supposed to know that's happened.
And made one wrong decision after another...
And then there are the folks who worked there and lost their jobs...
And none of them will suffer the consequences or even go to Jail.
Another one bites the dust! The end of SEARS !! It’s like people say Out with the old! In with the new.
We lost both Sears stores here last year. One was a standalone opened in 1956! It had the classic scripty neon Sears signs until the late 90s. Auto center, key booth in the parking lot, the works. Very sad to see it go. When I was a kid there was even a Woolworth's and an old school A-Frame IHOP in that shopping center.
I find this very Sad our Sears in Canada has been Gone for a while. but i remember going clothing shopping with mom and Dad, or picking stuff up with my grandparents at sear.
I hate Sears for the Toughskins jeans and the double seat white briefs that my mom would buy me while at Sears. It scarred me for life.
I remember ordering items through the sears catalog when I was younger, about 20 -30 years ago. They should have kept up that end of the business .
Valerieann Rumpf They did, here in Canada, until a few years before they cleared out of here. It was relatively popular
If they had, they would have been in a much better position to transition to online retail.
4:35 I wonder how many Shop Your Way members wound up losing their points since there aren't any more Kmarts or Sears in their area...
YES! I was HARMED ... there are NO Sears stores left in my state!!!
Got an email a few days ago from TransformCo about my Shop Your Way rewards. Gmail marked it as spam
I think you can still use them at Kmart.com or Sears.com. I just cashed out my last points at my local closing Big Kmart.
@@Shwalker07
TRUE ... but I like to shop in-store and AVOID the SHIPPING FEES!!
@@Variety1985 I do like to shop in store instead but Kmart has free shipping over $35. I was actually just checking out Sears site and the have spend $100 get $100 in points, you wounder why they are going out of business with deals like this?
I do miss those in store points from sears and that long receipt with all those coupons for point members :(
I worked at Sears about 9 years ago. It was the easiest job I ever had because hardly had any customers. It's sad because that job made the difference whether I had food to eat when I moved to a new city with zero dollars in my pocket. I feel sad for the employees who lost their jobs and the families that will go without until something else come along.
Just about as exciting as when they had a full store. No wonder they are a dying breed.
So sad. Thank-you Sears for all.
I went to the last day of the sears in Tigard or. And bought a shirt in memory of all the years my mom took me there for back to school shopping.
My dad would always buy Die-Hard battery's for his truck and Die-Hard work boots. when they were made in the USA.
I still remember like it's yesterday drooling over all the Kenner Star Wars toys, Lego and Atari/Telegames games in the Sears catalog that would come out before Christmas every year in the late 70's and early 80's. I would spend hours with this catalog and devise plans on how I would aquire these toys and games. I did fairly well achieving those goals despite growing up in a modest upbringing. Thanks mom and dad.
1982 wish list Christmas catalog!
I love the iconic store closing signs.
It is so weird seeing all of the Sears store close. I remember shopping there alot with my dad.
I couldn't walk in our Sears or kmart when it announced closing. Hubby first job in high school plus we visited kmart weekly and hate walmart. Miss our store so much. Childhood memory gone now.
This is what happens when stores forget the customers
Angel Phillips pretty sure it was because of internet shopping
rest in peace another one bit the old Dust so sad :(
Retail will reinvent itself as a sale-person free, fully automated warehouse with TV-Screens up that show pictures of what you can buy where you are there, or to go pick up your things if you didn't want it shipped to you. By the way, I love the echo of the music in this video. Extremely effective, thanks!
What JCPenny (or just Penny's now) is doing is quite the opposite. In their new concept store here in DFW, they're pulling off of the racked merchandise and adding a lot more services that you need to bring yourself into the store to get done (no competition with online sales) like a spa, full-service barber shop, salon, pearl cup coffee stand, fitness center, yoga classes... Successful stores are going to be different, sure, but not simplistically "staff free." Oddly enough, that is a dated idea of what the problems are and the future actually holds.
This is sad. Some childhood memories definitely leaving for good
I missed sears store while they closing i like that store so much how sad 😢😢😢
Nothing has freaking changed. Fast Eddie is still closing stores and he is still screwing over his creditors, employees, and vendors
Wonder if Eddie will ever face charges for what he has done? The way he's bankrupted both Kmart & Sears, yet took his "own money" & purchased properties that were closed, for his personal business ventures or whatever. Kinda seems like this is Enron Scandal all over again - not to the T, but definitely lots of corruption by Eddie and who knows who else.
@@captainobvious4051 highly doubt it thats how venture "vulture" capitalism works. That's what happened to toys rus and hostess
@@animeshock2006 Same Damn Thing! Not only did Blaine Capital kill Toyrs R Us off, those idiots did the same thing with K*B Toys, straddling them tons of debt after they finally got out from under it!
@@animeshock2006 Completely wrong! Tors R Us were tossed a losing plan,
with a ton of bad intentional debt from the wonderful Bain Capital Group, which collects insane profits while collapsing a business, They are also responsible for killing K*B Toys out of bankruptcy!
@@pretzelrides3748 "B[l]aine Capital kill Toyrs R Us off" Mitt Romney's "Bain Capital" killed Toys R Us!? lol Yea, I just checked; it's true, of course. He's such a b-st-rd. Honestly, decades of self-destructive trade policy did this to us. The _trade policy_ empowered all of these China-direct drop-shippers, Amazon included, to begin with. Then, we consumers took the cheap communist goods in exchange for the extinguished well-being of the industrial middle class; we literally sold our quality of life in exchange for cheap, plastic trinkets made by communist slavers. The investor class, such as Mitt Stinkin' Romney, were set better than ever, of course!
Truly marks the end of an era 😢
Totally depressing! Oh how I miss Sears
And to think that Sears stores are thriving in Mexico, and are actually luxurious.
Bought lots of tools from Sears. It was the best place for tools.
Wait.....is this McKinley Mall in Hamburg?
This video is probably what Purgatory is like.
Ah! The Brighter Side of SEARS!
Sad to see Sears go, use to buy my appliances from them.
Last one I bought was a basic washing machine from them (simple controls, no electronics) it lasted about 25 years. Kenmore was actually pretty good.
@@dr666demento And you can still get those appliances...at Best Buy. For now.
Richard M Yes, “for now” is the key phrase
@@richardm3023 To be fair, between moving into appliances and price-matching Amazon, BB is playing it real smart.
My grandparents always bought my school clothes at sears or Montgomery wards. Sad to see these places go.
Those were the days my friend we thought they would never end....so sad..end of an era.
Truly amazing these once great stores closing. Mall after mall looking like a ghost town. I hate Amazon but now it's the only place to buy anything.
Sears is past it's prime, it's time for it to go as a retail store. Maybe as an online thing or as a smaller showroom type of place, but as a dept store it's over.
WHY? I shopped there and liked it ... now I find LESS CHOICES when it comes to buying.
But Sears especially Eddie L made really bad business decisions and put the company into the ground
Every fall mom would take me to the Husky section at Sears there weren’t too many stylish clothes for a kid in the ( Husky section )I guess they were kind ..not say fat 😮
Very sad to see this. Big part of my life growing up.
One day these exploration videos will most certainly blow up, due to the excellent production quality. Trends do change. (:
Even though I haven’t visited a Sears in many years I still kinda miss them. I guess it was just knowing that they were there and you could simply stop in and pick up some tools or an appliance if you needed it that day that was kind of comforting, like Radio Shack was for electronic stuff. Kinda sad, but I guess times have changed.
It's sad that these once vibrant stores our not gone, years of mismanagement, changing demographics, online shopping had put a end to stores malls ect.
This is McKinley Mall in Hamburg N.Y.,it's sad the whole mall is fading away,was there when it opened in 85
How many generations of American households began their lives and credit histories at a Sears store? Amazon might be able to deliver the products but they will never be able to replace Sears in our hearts. I'm still using my Dads Craftsman tools and my son will be using them when I'm gone.
Greece ridge mall by the old sears look like a horror spot now
My Sears at Tacoma Mall, well, THEY TORE IT DOWN.
Eleven years ago I had a baby boy. I also needed new tires. I remember thinking about my options and the obvious best option was to take the car to Sears and walk around the mall while my tires were replaced. My baby was entertained I got exercise on a cold day. I did it cause that's what my parents would have done, now I have to sit at a stale dealership and surf the net, ugh.
The Northtown Sears in Spokane closed s couple of months ago. I had just found a 1992 catalog that I used 2 pick stuff out to shop for, for my new house. The house I now have was decked out in all Sears brand everything. House cupboards, appliances etc. Sears was always the go 2 store for appliances. No problems & they lasted. Well that was then. What they became was sad. I saw this all before with Wards. No surprise. I'll miss them, the way they were.
I want to thank you for sharing this video I did not know that some Sears are closing
It's crazy to think that there are ppl who will be clocking in for the last time here, they cared enough to show up even though it didn't matter and the stress of having to find a new job if they haven't already found one. It surreal to think about and it must've been even more dreadful for the ppl working the Shore Mall who went through the same thing
I painted my exterior trim on my brick house in 1993 with Sears Weatherbeater paint. It still looks good.
Wow thank you for making this video!
About damn time.
End of an era
Here now are all the non closing Sears locations: 1. Burbank, California. 2. Concord, California. 3. Stockton, California. 4. Whittier, California. 5. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 6. Miami, Florida. 7. Orlando, Florida. 8. Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. 9. Braintree, Massachusetts. 10. Frederick, Maryland. 11. Jersey City, New Jersey. 12. Newburgh, New York. 13. Greensboro, North Carolina. 14. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. 15. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 16. El Paso, Texas. 17. Tukwila, Washington. 18. Union Gap, Washington. A total of 18 non closing Sears stores. Separately, there is a booming separate company called Sears Mexico, owned by billionaire Carlos Slim that is doing quite well in Mexico
The Fort Lauderdale sears is now closed
Wow...Come and SEE the DEADER side of SEARS!! As a new motto, it sux like an Electrolux, but it sure reflects the sad reality that is Sears in the 21st century. Riposa en pace, old friend...
All of these stores did 1 thing wrong which was to compete with walmart. Walmart is OK but no one would go there to buy something nice. I believe JCPenny never worried about it and they are still alive.
Shopping online ok for some things but getting out and going to these Stores i sadly miss the socializing with people i knew that i ran into....when you go to other cities it would be neat to go to the stores you dont have...but once all that is gone then what,,,
Pretty much what ours in Erie looked like on the last day - it's a Boscov's now
I'm surprised Boscovs is still going.
I grew up in Erie. Remember the Sears grand opening. Sad it is gone.
Sears just didn't catch up with the times
It's like their stuck in the late 80s/90s.
I am shocked at how fast Sears went downhill. At this time in 2017 they still had about 1500 locations or so now it's down to next to nothing. I knew they were in trouble but I didn't think their demise would come this soon. I do think they will make a comeback but like Toys R US in a smaller form.
Not as long as Eddie is running things
Well sold off all their brands craftsmen to lowes diehard to advance auto parts and kenmore were being sold on Amazon... Just went through a bankruptcy ineblieve last year
i miss sears
This So very painful 😔😣😖😫😩🥺😢😭😱😱😱😱😱😱🤦🏻🤦🏻♂️🙎🏻♂️ may people lost her job start the holiday season been working there for 40 years or 50 it’s all gone who gone to help them when the need health care for the health and family and friends
Soon You'll see "Amazon Mega Retail Centers", when alot of these stores close. He's going to take on Walmart, IKEA and Costco.
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@@joshblack4291 I could really go for a starbucks.
You're right. And that is a big problem.
aww i know what you look like!! teehee!!! my end quote: "the mall, it was fun while it lasted"
Looks clean and bright now.
I just lost my sears In riverside ca . It was there since 1965. It was a stand alone iconic store . Not in a mall . So sad . So many memories as a kid shopping and getting video games . I hope they survive at some level or other .
My friend Lives by that one mines at the inland center mall is closed sad but some new Yorkers own the building i wonder what they are gonna do
Still wonder if Sears would have been any better off. if they let Kmart die instead of buying it
Sad. Just sad to see this.
i can give 3 reasons why sears went under if you asked me.
1. bought out k mart sears corp should have waited till the firesale started to get the business at a better bottom dollar.
2. saleing the craftsman/kenmore name brands. for yrs you could get quality craftsman tools from sears same goes for kenmore in fact my mom has a quality brand name kenmore fridge and stove bought them both 10 to 15 yrs ago still running excellent. just wonder who she gonna call now since her warranties are no longer for repairs/service since sears in a way is on it's deathbed with only 185 stores remaining now.
3. failure to get with the times.
sears/kmart never ever had an app like wal mart and tons of others for online shopping. and don't evem get me started in the stores interiors. geez you walked into sears it looked like you walked into a store from 70's/80's maybe early 90's.
This just reminds me of my local Sears. After years of surviving bankruptcy from Sears Holdings Inc, a new store closing list for NJ has included my local Sears onto the list. Farewell Sears in the Woodbridge Mall...
Woodbridge sears closing also?????...damn
I miss having a Sears. I bought a lot of nice tools 🛠 there.