Remember Sears...

[@steviehandsome4712]

There’s still a sears in the gardens mall in palm beach gardens Florida, which is somewhat ironic as it’s a very upscale mall. There’s only a handful left I believe.

[@noahfreilich501]

Was just there 3 months ago. Remember the only people down there were 4 teenagers eating food on one of the mattresses….

[@afterburner119]

I work around the beeline and bank at Velocity there. Very familiar with the Gardens Mall. Small world

[@michaele.francis]

I'm from Washington, DC, and I used to spend my summers in West Palm Beach the as a kid. My aunt and my mother used to go to that Sears in Palm Beach Gardens religiously.

[@Novusod]

I used to shop at Sears in the 80s and 90s. The quality of the merchandise was a lot better than stuff that could be found in a Wal-mart or a Target. They had unique brands like Bugle Boy, sold electronics and Mattresses. Sears owned Craftsman tools and had a deal with Whirlpool appliances. You wouldn't want to buy a Refrigerator at a Wal-Mart at least not back in those days. Sears would warranty the thing for 10 years at no additional cost. They employed their own repairmen that would fix any appliance even stuff that was 30 or 40 years old. It was amazing when you bought at Sears you knew you were getting the good stuff that would last forever. The downfall of sears was because they closed their mail order catalogue in the 90s which was the about the worst move they could have made. All they had to do was put the catalogue online. In 1990 Sears had this huge network of warehouses and distribution centers for their catalogue. Instead of putting that online they dismantled the whole thing. They could have been bigger than Amazon and did it in the 90s. But the executives were all dim witted fools. They were like we don't need this internet thing. Every town has Sears store, we don't need the catalogue anymore. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Then they ended up buying K-Mart which itself was dying. That buyout created a ton of debt and they ended up going bankrupt through colossal mismanagement. Getting rid of the Sears mail order catalogue has to be one of the biggest business screw ups in history. It is on the level Blockbuster turning down the offer to buy Netflix or Xerox inventing the computer mouse and giving it Steve Jobs for free.

[@tim9817]

My old man worked at sears automotive for nearly 40 years. I think like 1974-2011. He retired right in time, and was able to get his pension. I never knew it when I was a kid, but from what I understand, sears was one of the best places to work, and you were doing well if you had a job there. It was def true, bc my dad’s income in the 80s, adjusted for inflation was like 90K a year now. Unfortunately, after 1992, his pay completely stagnated. He was an extremely talented mechanic, and could have gone anywhere, but I guess he was scared to leave, and I get that. Sears has a special place in my heart, because it basically put a roof over my head, along with a good middle-class life. It’s sad to see such a company decline in that way; it’s like the equivalent of Amazon going bust in 100 years. Good vids DG; keep em comin!

[@SgtJoeSmith]

yep, sears paid employees too much and had too many and didnt save for a rainy day. this is why today even though a company had record profits last year it shouldnt pay higher wages this year. it should save and invest that money so you keep your job for next 20 years.

[@Shrimpo7]

@@SgtJoeSmith Hmm! Yeah… let’s blame the workers.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

@@Shrimpo7 well when they are all worthless....

[@Eli-ss9gj]

@@SgtJoeSmiththis is insane levels of bootlicking lmao

[@JamesDavis-dn3wo]

I remember Sears very much as a kid going through the toy department, LOL. I loved it when the Sears catalogue came in the mail for my mother. Me and my brothers didn't want to put it down. My cousin worked there during the Christmas season.

[@warmsignal]

My dad worked for Sears from mid 80s to mid 90s in the appliance repair division. Don't know if anyone remembers, but sears would always have this fleet of white vans. That was their own appliance repair team. It was a tough, but well paying job. He was on call pretty much 24/7. If someone's furnace went out in the middle of the night, he was required to go and fix it right on the spot. Sears is also the place that I got a lot of my video games from as a kid, with that nifty "employee discount" we had, which was still valid even after he left, due to an injury sustained from a crash in the Sears van.

[@JamesDavis-dn3wo]

There is a Sears near me that was the anchor within a mall. It was sold and bought by the local Kroger's supermarket who will condensed two of their stores into the old Sears building. It is sad to see the demise of Sears.

[@dustinzilbauer7582]

My mother bought a Sears set top color TV in 1983. That TV lasted a good 25+ years without a single repair. The last time I saw it in the basement some years back, it still worked.

[@jonstefanik9400]

My grandmother did too. The thing would never shit the bed. What a purchase.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

when we moved out of state in 1998, we still had olive green kenmore washer, dryer, fridge, stove matching set from when house was built in 1975. I think dryer was fixed once. really hated to sell them/leave them. but moved to apartment that had that stuff already. gave up our old rca cabinet tv, electrolux vaccuum cleaner and more from 70s and 80s for overpriced junk that lasts 5 to 10 years so greedy union employees can get paid $60 an hour to tighten bolts.

[@greenman5255]

Sears, JC Penny's and Kmart were the Holy Trinity of the shopping world of my youth.

[@emilybyers629]

My very first job was at Sears. I worked there during high school and college. From 16 until 22 when I graduated from college. I loved working there. I

[@jonstefanik9400]

You always love and miss your first job

[@coreyrowe4119]

2:20 The Sears Tower nearly 50 years later remains the most iconic skyscraper in Chicago. I hate that it's not officially called the Sears Tower anymore, Willis Tower just doesn't have the same ring to it. I'll never call it the Willis Tower, for me it'll always be the Sears Tower.

[@georgesealy4706]

'Sears and Roebuck' was there before anybody. People ordered from a catalog and the items were delivered. (Which is what we have with Amazon today.) And when I was young, people went to Sears to buy washers, dryers, refrigerators, and TVs. Somehow, they frittered it all away. Now we have Lowe's and Home Depot instead of Sears hardware. Sears had it all, and now they have nothing. Crazy.

[@davinp]

They even sold houses of which some are still standing in Virginia. They sold Craftsman to Lowe's

[@georgesealy4706]

@@davinp It's crazy. Sears was way ahead of everybody and didn't know it. They would have been wise to split off various entities rather than trying to be everything to everybody under one roof.

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

The old sears logos are so much better than the last few versions. They just made the brand look a bit classier…

[@N0TxSURE]

Man I wish I had the foresight to buy up as much of the "Made in USA" versions of the craftsman tools before they gave into China

[@SgtJoeSmith]

lot of those made in usa craftsman hand tools like drill bits, wrenches, ratchets, sockets, etc were made by either Rogers tool works, Kennametal, or Dahnaher in Bentonville/Rogers/Springdale/Etc north west Arkansas metro where i live currently. I had a friend that made drill bits at RTW and dad had a friend that made ratchets at Dahnaher. Dads friend brought a ratchet by he made with the chrome/black oxide parts reversed 1 day years ago he made 1 day at work. It was funny to see. i forget if it had craftsman engraved/stamped on it or not but if it did and he still has it he could probably sell it for a fortune today as a unicorn 1 of a kind "error" though he did it on purpose screwing around. dam i wish i offered to buy it or asked him to make me 1 now. After Dahnaher lost craftsman contract they got the lowes/kobalt contract and made same tools for lowes for several years in early 2000s. so some early 2000s kobalt tools are same as pre 2000 craftsman tools made at same place in my city. i buy tools at actions and garage sales to find these old gem tools and get them cheap cause most people are like who cares about a 50 year old wrench when you can buy a brand new 1 at home cheapo or HF. Not knocking HF as i use a lot of their tools for occasional use purposes to save money and some stuff is better than snap on. but i love my old craftsman, kobalt and walmart popular mechanics wrenches and tools. My city btw is also where walmart started and home office is at.

[@kagome122885]

I have a socket wrench set that was made in the USA, along with screwdrivers and a set of wrenches

[@MrUnsolvedMystery]

My dad work there for 40 years and it was my first job too. Sad about it’s demise. Nothing better than getting the Sears toy catalog before Christmas as kids

[@TracksideViews]

One of the last Sears stores is around 15 miles away from me.

[@jonstefanik9400]

I've been to Sears very few times. It was a store to walk through to get to the mall. Sears and Caldor were walk throughs.

[@FurthermoreJack]

There's actually modern renovations happening with JCPenny and ! People are discovering brick and mortar stores have discount racks cheaper then online shopping

[@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536]

I remember Sears. I also remember Woolworth! I loved the food counters you could sit at.

[@tnbspotter5360]

Sears decline was before the internet. Department stores were on their way out in the 80's with the rise of the "big box" stores like Home Depot, Best Buy, Kohls, etc. Sears also lacked much of the every day items you find at Walmart, so there is nothing compelling someone to go to Sears every week.

[@dogcowrph]

At 62, I remember fondly going to Sears from back to school and when we needed cheap tool.

[@kerriethompson2073]

I used to work for a small hardware chain called Orchard Supply Hardware that was owned by Sears, and then was sold to Lowe’s. The Orchard went under. I miss that place!

[@russellseilhamer4552]

Something never mentioned in the decline of Sears is the rise of Lowes and Home Depot. The core strength of Sears in the 80s and 90s were craftsman tools and Kenmore appliances. In hindsight, they should have expanded the hardware side of the business, abandoned the software side. I highly doubt that Sears was the place women wanted to go for clothes. We could’ve had a thriving Sears operation today competing against Hone Depot and Lowes . I understand that that would’ve been a massive investment in the 1980s at a time when operations were still profitable. The legacy of Sears still lives on with corporate spinoffs Allstate, Caldwell Banker and the Discover card

[@bobbbobb4663]

Interesting comment. I've never considered a Sears version of Home Depot but it makes a lot of sense.

[@classrockin]

Our Sears store had been a mall anchor since the mid 60s. The mall still does a good amount of business, but Sears still tanked. It was shuttered in 2018, sat vacant for a few years, and is now a large furniture store. There's a former K Mart just a half mile away that also closed in 2018, and after sitting abandoned for a couple years, was renovated into an Amazon warehouse. It was completed over a year ago, but it's obvious, it's not operational yet

[@algomaone121]

I would go to Sears in Philly when it was at its peak in the 70’s. Every department had a dedicated employee that actively worked, sold merchandise and operated a register in that area. Amazing when compared to the retail wasteland it became, where I’d walk in and couldn’t find an open register or employee!

[@garlandstrife]

Sears is still well and alive in Mexico, alongside Woolworth. Crazy world we live in.

[@ZacharyWhite25]

I remember reading somewhere that Sears used to sell house kits where you could build your own house. You’d order it through the Sears catalog. Man, I grew up in the wrong era! Seems like Sears made everyone’s life easy and enjoyable back then.

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

Ours closed about five years ago. Was once one of the big anchor stores for our Mall. Sad to see them close. My parents shopped there a lot in the 60's and 70's. I grew up going there and to J C Penney and Montgomery Ward.

[@tbc9096]

The Sears right by where I work also had an attached auto center. The whole business closed in 2017 and they still haven’t filled the space.

[@LittleToyBonnie]

When it comes to near me, there is one in Whittier and another one that recently reopened in Burbank town center, but other than that, DTLA, Westminster Mall, and South Coast Plaza locations are abandoned, and Buena Park Downtown was temporarily turned into a Spirit store.

[@sandrawilliams743]

I miss it. I loved the wish book at Christmas 🎄

[@linkin20la]

Sears Mexico is still around but it's target customer is middle to higher middle class as opposed to the Sears US base of working class customer.

[@evancortez2]

My Aunt started working for Sears when she first came to America in the mid 60s - she worked for Sears for the rest of her life till she died in the early 2000s

[@jeffreyreyes6800]

Sears didn't keep up with the times very sad I remember going with my grandfather to get a tv set in Santa monica what great memories

[@i-Love-CarlyShay]

Should tell the story of the sears/willis tower in Chicago

[@awalento]

Worked for Sears from 2002-12. After seeing this video, I feel partially responsible for its decline :)

[@richardsantiago429]

blames eddie merger with kmart.

[@awalento]

@richardsantiago429 well, I did get paid $10 an hour to play Brickbreaker and dodgeball in the stockroom with my co-workers. Good times!

[@dcnascarboy0514]

My local Sears closed in 2017. I'd give anything to visit one again (open of course). Kmart too.

[@inmyhumbleopinion_]

The abandoned Sears near me just became a Target. Wonder if 50 years from now people will be doing 'Remember Target' videos. One in my area has already closed recently due to rampant shoplifting they claimed.

[@DebitAdams]

You could even buy homes at Sears. They would deliver every single part down to the nails.

[@ZacharyWhite25]

My Grandparents live in one of those Sears catalog homes. People had it made back then!

[@ian4040]

Sears was where we bought our sweet RCA TV back in '96. Ha.

[@kagome122885]

It's sad what happened, as I really liked Sears. My first HDTV was bought at Sears in 2013.

[@ShaneMichealCupp]

I remember going to Sears as a kid. We never bought anything but loved it because of the escalators.

[@roccon4246]

I try to buy stuff from a store that’s either closing or could close in the near future. For example I got a blanket from a Sears in Gainesville, Ga. It’s sorta like a time capsule

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

I did the same, including some Sears shoes on deep discount. I do the same with defunct brands. I picked up some Aunt Jemima pancake boxes before they were discontinued as well as Uncle Ben's rice. Just the collector in me. Wasn't able to get any Sears signage, unfortunately.

[@northernsurferboy]

Sears was still going strong in Canada and then a couple years ago they just pulled the plug. The thing to made Sears stand out as they did have items that you couldn't get at Walmart or Amazon but shopping trends have changed. A lot of the Sears were in walls. People don't go to malls anymore up here, remember years ago Niagara falls, New York. There was a mole there. The mall was virtually empty except for a Sears automotive center

[@ronniesouthern7829]

Sears was in downtown Winston-Salem, NC from the late 1940s until 1973-74 when they moved to Hanes Mall. They were there until early 2019 when they closed for good.

[@noahmeme2]

I remember going to sears and mervins as a kid to get clothes. This was the early 2000's.

[@jadentetzlaff1108]

Sears is not much of a Canadian thing but I still miss it dearly

[@davidmckibbin4440]

the closed sears store in burbank ca. reopened last month, i remember shopping at this store when i lived in burbank also remember the old sears store. i dont think the store will be open for long.

[@mkoury83]

Mall of America .... Sears, Camp Snoopy & Tucci Benucch five cheese ravioli... my youth. You need to do a full length feature on the criminality of using fake plants as a form of decoration. Your consistency with calling out this offense is remarkable... you really hate those fake trees lol... I like it.

[@youdontknowme5969]

My last time in a Sears was in 2007. I relocated and needed a washer/dryer pair. I knew pretty much what I wanted, but the saleslady (who I could clearly tell she really had no clue what she was talking about) kept insisting to upsale me, but I kept my ground. Then, she would NOT complete my sale unless I 1) applied for their stupid Sears/Kmart points/loyalty program, 2) apply for an extended warranty, and 3) finance my purchase by applying for their store credit card. Not "any" or "or"... "ALL!" I was just flabbergasted just ended up walking out. Point is, even then, I could tell they were struggling, and then have endured those overly-pushy sales tactics and impose unrealistic metrics on their staff that they'd rather LOSE sales than to let customers decline on unnecessary add-ons was just mind-boggling. Which only conveyed to me how desperate they were (and definitely NOT how to stay in business)

[@youdontknowme5969]

Oh, and I'll add, my sister had a kleptomania phase back then, and was able to rip off things from that same Sears multiple times, because there were hardly any staff on the floor. One time a worker even helped her out ta door and carry-out a TV and DVD entertainment audio system to her van---he had no idea LOL

[@linksys7628]

the Sears lingerie catalog was a blessing to this 12 year old lad in 1997

[@Kidney7661]

Used to work at the sears in green acres. Same department as Jim Breuer and same store. Just a few years after him.

[@SurfCityBill]

While it wasn't a store, it was a company many consumers will recognize. How about a story on the demise of Westinghouse?

[@ronpeacock9939]

sadly… Sears had a merger with K-Mart.. Management focused on the K-Mart side and trying to save it (which died even faster) but as I hear it.. just assumed Sears was going to stand tall… when K-Mart really got desparate is when Sears was starting to feel it.. 2 things happened.. they didn’t pay attention and realized that one of their 2 staples suddenly had quite a bit of competition.. Kenmore appliances were the best of the ERA.. but suddenly while Management looked elsewhere others entered the mix and Kenmore suddenly became the overpriced out dated equipment.. on top of that, Craftsman tools was still a leader.. but it was not enough to keep them afloat and when they started down bankruptcy.. Craftsman tools refused to keep the excusivity agreement.. and the death of Sears then a formality..

[@briannaw716]

I loved sears, j cpenny, Kaufman's, the bon ton, lord and taylor

[@Fordguy02]

I think a big one you missed is Lowe’s and Home Depot, they took away a lot of tool and appliance business from Sears.

[@thecoolrich]

Make a video about K mart too, it was big

[@mjg263]

I always went to Sears for tools and power equipment, but when Home Depot and Lowe’s came along I bought all that kind of stuff there instead because of better selection and prices. Sears should have started selling online and reduced the size and number of their brick and mortar stores when online sales really took off. When they paired up with K-Mart it was like watching a slow motion fall off a cliff, much like what happened to Radio Shack with the cell phones and crap you could get anywhere else. Demand shifted and they just couldn’t (or didn’t want to) change.

[@Miqbtn]

Sears still would've been thriving fine in the age of the Internet like Amazon (After all they were a catalog at first) and big giants like Walmart and Target if they haven't hired Eddie Lampert as CEO. Since he's been in charge he has done nothing but destroyed the whole legacy of the company. Making the worst decision as possible and walking away with millions in his pocket. I mean this is the guy who thought it was a great idea to merge Kmart with Sears which is one of the worst mergers all time.

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

Both companies were just fine as was before the merger

[@Rainman...]

I grew up in the '90s and very similar really the only reason you went to Sears was for Craftsman tools and the auto center which was overpriced! So Walmart and home Depot killed Sears in Amazon put the final nail in the coffee

[@Minelaughter]

In 2010, I stole a Navy Blue Train Toy from Sears in Chicago. Now I feel bad for causing their bankruptcy 😔

[@GrubWarp]

Sears Christmas was the best :)

[@tricountyretail992]

Two stores just reopened in California and Washington

[@Chrisoula17]

The Sears store is still empty in South Coast Plaza.

[@jessica07712]

8:54 what a sad and creepy photo.

[@wyldebill4178]

I miss the Craftsman’s tools (in my best geezer voice impression)

[@davinp]

Eddie Lambert who bought Sears was only interested in the real estate, not the retail side. He ran the company to the ground. He never bothered to update the stores and online shopping

[@retroguy1976]

there's a abandoned sears near my house it took over A&S (Abraham and Straus) in 1995 after they were absorbed into macy's it closed during the pandemic in 2020 another 10 mins from me got demolished

[@maureencora1]

1892 -1992 When Sears was Sears.

[@electro_sykes]

Whilst they don't have many stores left, they are expanding online and want all of their stores to be online by 2025!

[@ChannelWright]

Sears was the Walmart of it’s day.

[@TracksideViews]

Bro you are cranking out videos 27/4. Are you AI or an actual robot? Either way it’s certainly commendable.

[@eiguajardo]

Theres many in my town (in Mexico) working and thriving, even the auto center, and I find that very strange, I think is bc of the credit system, people are getting into big debt, I heard someone had a 60k debt in sears, and this is low income people but this stores are somehow aspirational for them, so buy now cry later I guess.

[@dvferyance]

And I remember Cricut City you should do a video on that one sometime.

[@michaelsalazar6078]

I used to work for Sears

[@markstrouse3101]

Are you going to do a video on Remember Kmart. I sure hope so.

[@everythingmymixyt01ex]

Is it in uk

[@billwinters8685]

I bought my washer and dryer at the sears death sale

[@derrick1916-i7d]

Great vid

[@Ibhenriksen]

Had only Sears kept the auto centers and focused on car sales, they likely would have survived.

[@georgesealy4706]

Right, and develop their hardware and appliance stores to beat out Lowe's and Home Depot.

[@electrovampyre1572]

Ohh I Member Sears !

[@GrantFitzgerald-ro3mz]

I have been to Sears a few times but what type of store is Sears?

[@hoshimaruhajime7933]

Can you do Kmart next

[@JJWestmoreland84]

Grew up in the 2000's? You a BABY 😂😂😂

[@jpmnky]

We all were once......

[@davinp]

It's sad to see the downfall on an icon retailer Sears and Kmart. Sears was the Amazon it's day in the early 1900s

[@Vincent-qq2st]

anyone here do their driving school through sears?

[@FurthermoreJack]

Who doesn't miss buying a new log splitter and underwear

[@ConfidentBald-sx9nx]

Stop it!

[@bearbear8191]

I love your content man, i really like how you just don't give an f about what kind of videos you make, it seems like you just like making content on whatever you're interested in.

[@Sm-kz3yj]

Why I am the 911 viewer sus

[@Razorbacksby90]

Stop copying other people content