(Courtesy of CNBC.com)
I remember when I was little my mom let me pick an item under a certain price every month before Christmas. Kind of silly to be able to get what I wanted instead of wishing but I was young when I found out Santa was not real. Still I am doing my best to make my kids think he is real.
In any case often my mom would let me read through the Sears catalog and I remember spending hours flipping through it. As the years went by for some reason or another their toy section in the catalog shrink.
By the time I was in my teens Toys R Us was my go to for video games. Rarely did I buy a video game at sears. There care of customer service was lacking. The merchants were rarely there for customers as the games where behind glass cases. The ones that did help weee not very knowledgeable in the products they weee trying to sell, but even worse was the prices for electronics was way over what the technology was worth. Simply put the stores were out of touch with reality.
Yet every time when my family and I drop by Rockingham Mall in New Hampshire we would always park at Sears entrance. From there my mom would spend hours going through women's apperal while my siblings and I roam around the electronics section. We would walk around the mall but Sears was whee we spent most of our time shopping.
I think most of my woredrobe was from sears as back in the day I cared more about video games then my appearances. But then again I don't recall hating anything my I was wearing that I got from Sears. In fact I remember a few times I got complemented for what I was wearing. Think this was when sears was still selling name brand apparel.
Now that I have my own family how much has changed. Recently Toys R Us closed so my smallest child has not been into a toys only store. Then the sears at rockingham mall shrinks to the point that it will close in the coming months.
I don't know if this is good news or bad news. For one the Sears stores where horrible in what they did but at the same time my family is one of their very few loyal customers. Loyalty can only go so far. So now my kids will likely never know how Sears shaped my life. Maybe that's a good thing.
Post Date: 10/22/2018
