Growing up in a small midwestern town, Sears was the place to shop...the catalog specifically. Any clothes I didn't make were purchased from Sears. The order always took a while to arrive...a far cry from the two day delivery I have gotten used to. And any orders were delivered to another store in town that had an area set aside for pickup. The stuff didn't even come to your house.
I remember having quite a wardrobe of Hang Ten clothing. Later, Sears was the place to get things for my kids when they came along...everything from cribs and sheets to clothes and, of course, toys. I know I purchased bikes and trikes from Sears as well as games and smaller toys for my kids.
Pouring over the Sears holiday catalog was quite an event. My siblings and I would go page by page many times over to select just the right thing to find under the tree on Christmas morning. My first 'stereo' (read record player) was a plastic clamshell sort of thing in a sickly green that you could close and carry like a suitcase. Had that thing quite a while and got lots of use out it's tinny speakers.
How many homes had appliances purchased from Sears? Almost all of them.
They simply didn't keep up with their customer base. It wasn't even a brick and mortar thing...they just got to a certain point and stopped moving forward. They had a base but didn't work to attract the next generation or the one after that.
It's kind of sad really.
I remember having quite a wardrobe of Hang Ten clothing. Later, Sears was the place to get things for my kids when they came along...everything from cribs and sheets to clothes and, of course, toys. I know I purchased bikes and trikes from Sears as well as games and smaller toys for my kids.
Pouring over the Sears holiday catalog was quite an event. My siblings and I would go page by page many times over to select just the right thing to find under the tree on Christmas morning. My first 'stereo' (read record player) was a plastic clamshell sort of thing in a sickly green that you could close and carry like a suitcase. Had that thing quite a while and got lots of use out it's tinny speakers.
How many homes had appliances purchased from Sears? Almost all of them.
They simply didn't keep up with their customer base. It wasn't even a brick and mortar thing...they just got to a certain point and stopped moving forward. They had a base but didn't work to attract the next generation or the one after that.
It's kind of sad really.
I'm your huckleberry.
