Where has my SEARS gone ?

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  1. jay runner

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    Sears has already agreed in October to sell the Craftsman name to Stanley Black & Decker. SB&D has entered into an agreement with Lowes, which will soon be selling those Craftsman tools. Sacrilege and sad, but true.

    I've got an old Craftsman garden tractor with the electric sleeve hitch, weights, and a single bottom plow. It mows pretty decent with the deck on, too. Hope it keeps lasting as I'll never be able to replace it with equal, and learning to plow a mule is a steep, difficult learning curve. I really don't want no mule.
     
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  2. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am familiar with Craftsman making some deal over
    their Craftsman tool line.I'm thinking Stanley,Or maybe another tool
    company.Because around a month or so ago I noticed a different tool
    company { Stanley ? } was being sold right on the counter near the
    cashier counter.I said ... Whoa Nellie Belle.What's this.
    I also noticed over the summer { I go to Sears every month to pay off
    my Sears MasterCard }.I noticed a big wooden box under the cashier counter
    with old tools in it.Tirns out it was the Box for Craftsman Tool returns.
    The Guaranteed for life tool.I then noticed a few times a customer
    returning their Craftsman tool for a " No Questions Asked " replacement.
    Don't forget that Sears used to sell Guitars and Amps.
    I bought one in the 60's. A 4 pickup Silvertone Guitar and nice tube amp.
    I don't think Sears at that time sold clothes.My Father and us kids loved
    Sears.We went there on the weekends at least once a Saturday every
    month.
     
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    I stop shopping in Sears years/decades before the internet became a factor when someone at Sears got the bright idea for stores layouts where the center was block off and to get from one area to another area you had to go a great circle route/tour around the stores.

    Very very annoying to me and I stop shopping with them as a result.
     
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    By the way is rubber maid sheds a sear brand or not?

    Love mine as I had it for years before taking it apart to move it to another home.

    After a hurricane ripped the shed apart, I did need to search over a few hundreds feet area to find where the parts ended up.

    Then after finding all the parts I just put it back together with no harm done.

    Other then not holding together under hurricane winds loads the damn thing is great.
     
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    Between L.L.Bean and Amazon.com pretty much everything I want is just a click away. About the only brick and mortar I use these days is Ace Hardware and the local dry cleaners.
     
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    However we have just learned this past week that
    Facebook was a psychological invention
    to help usher-in a society of mind-numbed robots.Beholdin'
    to Likes as if Peer Pressure in school wasn't gripping enough.
    That enough exposure to Facebook,especially the Youth will have
    a dynamic effect.Not for the Good.But more for uses of Groupthink
    and trends like the dismantling of Marriage as an Institution.
    This goes back to how The Frankfurt school in Germany after WWII
    and it's practitioners who decided to travel to California and experiment with
    a version of Propaganda.Because the Frankfurt school existed to
    help promote antipositivist sociology.Using as a basis such thinkers as
    Hegel,Kant,Marx and Freud.And by promoting existentialism and
    in combination with dialectics and contradiction.Thus helping to
    wield the train of thought.Which is Facebook does.uses of Facebook
    feel compelled to show off their own experiences due to the flooding
    of others showing off their latest journeys or accomplishments.
    Those Frankfurt Professors sat on the beaches of California and
    wondered why these Americans were so full of spirit,drive and
    happiness.Which is how places like Columbia U. are chock full
    of Frankfurt-style Professors.Obama spent 2 years at Columbia U.
    Learning Marxism and dialectics { Groupthink,Critical Race Theory }.
    Using those devices to great effect in order to cajole a populace into his
    way or the highway.
    So ... No ... Current progress cannot be measured with social devices
    like Facebook or Twitter.
    In fact,it's an effort towards Mind Control.
    Sears exists for a simple reason.It was The best Retail Store for
    Decades in this Land.It should not be relegated to some dustheap
    of history because of Amazon.Or Google.Or Facebook.
     
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    WOW...you certainly learn in an interesting way.
     
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    Rush Limbaugh dedicated almost an hour to this topic the
    other day.Tucker Carlson has also done shows about
    social media and it's causes and effects.
     
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    That explains a lot. As a general rule gaining your "Knowledge" from talking point personalities on a network exclusively dedicated to a singular viewpoint will limit or even warp your reality through a form of propaganda. This eventually becomes ingrained to such a point that many aspects of life become conspiracy seeds and reality no longer dictates existence.
    This also happens to a lesser extent in all media unless multiple sources are used, allowing for a level of reality checked self correction.
     
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    I utilize many news sources not just a few.That's what the MSM
    perpetrates.This myth that most those who listen to Rush or watch
    FOX,limit themselves to just that.That may be partly true in certain
    demographics.Like the Elderly { usually DO limit their news sources.}
    Or uneducated Southerners.
    But then the counterbalance to that is what Rush coined as
    " Low information " voters.The ones who got Obama Re-elected in
    2012.Remember the Obama Phone Lady.Alex Jones invited her
    to Austin and she opened-up,doing a few hours on the topic of
    her Obama Phone bidness.She was Promised that her Harvard Ave.
    Obama Campaign office would be refurbished if he won.
    She was Lied to.Plus they demoted her for her wild and crazy
    YouTube video that was mocked Big Time nationwide.
    She admitted to feeling used by Obama and his Campaign
    comrades who exploit Low Information,Inner city folks.Like the
    Black voter.Rush Limbaugh does not exploit.Nor does FOX.
    Both CNN and especially MSNBC Live to exploit.
    Via Fake news and constant Conservative bashing.
     
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    Like said and you just exemplified.
     
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    Not a complete sentence.
     
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    It IS a complete sentence which you obviously do not understand...I will simplify it for you:

    Ya sea I sayed things afore dat wuz speekin ta da peeples hoo gits edumacathin frum not so smart places. Den ya called on dees folks ta show ya ainta cartin to 'em an I sayed dat was zactly what I meanted.
     
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    " Like said " is without a noun or subject.Just like a sentence
    reading " You just exemplified." Exemplified WHAT. I exemplified myself.!
    As to WHAT ?
     
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    I admittedly forgot an "I".
     
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    We still have a sears around 25 miles from where I live. But they're the most expensive store around. K-Mart has closed up shop around me, so too has Circuit City. We have Walmart, Sams, Best Buy, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, along with a dozen or so auto parts stores. About anything else requires a drive of 20 or more miles. I forgot, Marshall's and Old Navy just opened up a couple of stores around me. Most of those other stores I never heard of.

    What I miss is the old Five and Dime stores we had as a kid. Now we do have family dollar and dollar general along with dollar tree.
     
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    It saddened me to learn { but this was a long time ago }
    when My Favorite store as a kid { F.W.Woolworth }
    closed up.I loved my Woolworth's.They had a lunch counter
    and soda jerk.All kinds of toys and little odds and ends.Plus thick
    wooden floors.It was the epitome of a five & dime store.
     
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    What the heck is 'unAmerican' about apple pie coming out of a vending machine? Who gives a crap where is comes from? If it tastes as good, is more convenient and cheaper...then it IS better.

    Sears failed because they failed to adapt....that is what free enterprise is all about.

    What's next? Do you want to go back to propeller-driven airliners and steam locomotives as well...would they be 'more American' to you?
     
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    What a Fools Gold comment.Most people understand that a Twinkie
    tastes yummy.But is it Good Food.HELL NO.
    A steady diet and you'll end up in poor health in no time.
     
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    There was a Woolworth's in Atlanta, I can't ever remember going there. When it comes to soda fountains I remember them in drug stores. We had two of them in town, both with soda fountains which also sold candy, books and magazines. There was a Koonzes and an Allen's drug stores. That was before all these drug store chains sprouted up. Life was simple back then.
     
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    A really good reminder is the Twilight Zone classic episode
    starring *Gig Young.Titled :
    - Walking Distance - { 1959 }
    An Ad Agency exec becomes fed-up with the humdrum Big city
    pressures of his job.He decides to go back to his childhood
    home and revisit what he remembers most.The easy going
    and carefree days of yesteryear.Which included his favorite
    drugstore and the Soda Jerk counter and double scoops of
    ice cream in his Root Beer Float.

    * I really liked Gig Young in most of his roles.He kinda
    talked like he was Tipsy.He did win an Academy Award for
    Best Supporting actor in 1969.
    That movie featured Jane Fonda,Red Buttons and upcoming
    star Michael Sarrazin.Also Bruce Dern and a bit part by Al Lewis
    of - The Munsters - TV fame.
    He also did a TV movie that I'd like to get a copy of.
    - The Neon Ceiling - { 1971 } where he plays a Beer drunk
    who lives a sheltered life in an old converted Café he
    decorated with Neon Lights.
    Very sadfully The Real Gig Young led a strange and double life.
    Ended up commiting suicide after shooting his young blond
    newlywed wife in their New York city apartment.
    Don't forget that many a handsome and somewhat cheerful
    Hollywood actor led double lives.Rock Hudson,for instance.
    Errol Flynn,the most Notorious.
     
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    I have all the episodes of the twilight Zone on DVD. I still watch them from time to time. Good shows.
     
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    Im gonna miss waiting in the sears part line for and hour and a half only to be given an attitude when I tell them its not the right part when I shouldnt have needed it in the first place. Gonna miss those fake ads they used to post in flyers to get you into the store when they didnt even have any of the items that were on sale stocked. I hate this new amazon thing...picking up my phone....clicking a button while I watch TV in my living room and getting it later that afternoon delivered to my doorstep for free. Thats awful.
     
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    It is true that different Era's have different tastes.After WWII and throughout
    the 50's it was fashionable for a Nuclear Family to take sunday rides in the
    car. Or go to the Zoo or Circus. Play bingo on weeknights at Church.
    Play bridge and attend cocktail parties.
    But since the Nuclear Family is being attacked and Mother's and
    Fathers no longer Play Bridge or attend cocktail parties,something
    once considered a mark of civility and normalcy,it comes as little
    surprise that something as natural as shopping has now become jaded.
    Even the NFL is under attack and being forced to comply with
    some less than urbane political callings.
     

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