If we lived in a world without Sears....

[pres2032]

How would we ever get our tools and other important products?

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. There are other places that sell tools

Maybe not Craftsman....but if Sears didn't exist, someone else would be selling them, don't you think?

[LeftyMom]

2. Wards?

I'm guessing that without competing with Sears they might still be around.

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. Oh man, they SUCKED

I worked there for a while, many years ago. Believe me, it wasn't the competition with Sears that ran them out. At least at the local stores, there was just no customer service.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

4. My mother worked there for years

Back in the 70's. They got rid of an excellent floor salesman because he was in his 50's. She says they didn't want to pay him a decent pension when he got to retirement age.

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. My department manager was an asshole, whose parents were

friends with the store manager. I had a baby to support, but he gave a high schooler the full time position. Said high schooler called in every time he was scheduled to work a Friday or Saturday night, or Saturday or sunday morning. Sometimes, he didn't call in, he would just not show. I walked out on them after being told that (in preparation for the day after Thanksgiving sale) every item in my department had to be marked with a sale tag before I could go home. The sale tags were not all there, and I refused to do it by myself, so I went home and never looked back.

[Daphne08]

6. Sears is the bane of the working man and the poor.

[msgadget]

7. Friendly, local hardware stores,

like we used to. A business that supported a family and the community. I miss not having to walk half a mile to find something or being able to just go up to a beat up counter and getting immediate, knowledgeable advice.

[katmondoo]

8. When I was single working divorced Mom in the 60's they

refused to give me a credit card even though I was making more money than most men at the time. Since then I refused to buy anything thing unless absolutely necessary in Sears. I can count on one hand what I have purchased there, over the last 40 years. The same goes for American Express, they took away a card I had before I was married when I divorced. My husband used my credit to get his name on my card then they took my card away from me. This is what women who support the Bush's will be seeing again, the handwriting is on the wall. I had to go to Mexico for a divorce and women where dying in back room abortions. Even the banks would not give a single woman a loan. Their excuse being what if you got pregnant, how could you repay the loan. Believe me, we are not far from seeing this again.