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In the past couple of months, Mrs. T-B. & I have remodeled our own house and the rental house.

The local Sears Hardware (the closest such store to us) had closed down earlier.

Had they remained open, they'd have benefited from thousands of dollars in our appliance/materials purchases.

Instead, Home Despot got most of that business, and Lowe's got the rest.

 

Sidebar:  After Sears Hardware closed, the Double Dave's franchisee in the same shopping center found that he wasn't doing the business that he'd been doing before, and he closed his pizza parlor.

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That was the application fee, not the bribe.  

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https://searsholdings.com/docs/053118-store-closing-list.pdf   There goes the last KMart within a 3-hour drive. Next-closest is 8 hours away. Death of a corporation by 1,000 cuts..

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14 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

I remember when Montgomery Ward liquidated in 2001.

They closed all their stores simultaneously.

This was painful, but it was one death blow versus 1,000 little stabs to the heart.

 

Side note #1:  Wards has an online presence still:  www.wards.com

 

Side note #2:  During the MW store liquidations, I got myself a Citizen watch at half (or more) off.  The stretch-band fit perfectly.  I've worn that watch every day since, and (amidst routine battery-replacements) it has performed perfectly.

Oh man... so many happy memories of Wards! I remember Best, Woolworths, and Hechts. Went to Toys R' Us before closed up a while back, was very sad.

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1 hour ago, spookyturtle said:

Trump probably kept it open because you live there. :lol:

Dude you are obsessed like nothing I have ever seen. You just cant participate in a thread without interjecting Trump  or Hillary. Here we had a nice civil thread going. Oh well at least it made it to page 2

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Dude you are obsessed like nothing I have ever seen. You just cant participate in a thread without interjecting Trump  or Hillary. Here we had a nice civil thread going. Oh well at least it made it to page 2

 

    Well there is that one guy who brings up Jimmy Carter all the time.

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9 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Oh man... so many happy memories of Wards!

I always liked the store, but they never seemed to have much that anyone actually wanted to buy.

9 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Woolworths

There was actually still a Woolworth in Matamoros, Mexico in the mid-2000s (meaning first decade thereof).  They had the candy counter and everything.  I saw it myself and was both amazed and thrilled.  When I went back in approx. 2009, the store was still there but was no longer identified as Woolworth.  I dimly remember searching and learning that the final bankruptcy or liquidation of the English remainder of the company had been completed about that time.

 

Aunt T-B., now no longer with us, was very well-read.  She got a quiet kick out of calling the store "Woolsworth," presumably as a takeoff on "Wordsworth."

 

S.S. Kresge & Co. evolved into KMart, didn't it?

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09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

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22 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

You all remember Shakeys? We had one here in TV il the last year or so 

 

Real popular in the Philippines 

The pizza place?

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On ‎6‎/‎2‎/‎2018 at 1:45 AM, TBoneTX said:

And they've actually been closing high-volume stores, for unclear reason.

Their goal of going online-only is not feasible: people need to look, feel, inspect merchandise in person.

I am actually beginning to move away from online shopping.  I have not been a big prolific online shopper, but I have used Amazon on occasion, but recently their quality has declined, I have received broken merchandise, or seen prices higher than what I see in stores, etc., so I tend to think twice before opening Amazon. 

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I always liked the store, but they never seemed to have much that anyone actually wanted to buy.

There was actually still a Woolworth in Matamoros, Mexico in the mid-2000s (meaning first decade thereof).  They had the candy counter and everything.  I saw it myself and was both amazed and thrilled.  When I went back in approx. 2009, the store was still there but was no longer identified as Woolworth.  I dimly remember searching and learning that the final bankruptcy or liquidation of the English remainder of the company had been completed about that time.

 

Aunt T-B., now no longer with us, was very well-read.  She got a quiet kick out of calling the store "Woolsworth," presumably as a takeoff on "Wordsworth."

 

S.S. Kresge & Co. evolved into KMart, didn't it?

Yes.

 

Kmart Corporation (simply known as Kmart and stylized as kmart) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States. The company was incorporated in 1916 as S. S. Kresge Corporation and renamed to Kmart Corporation in 1977.[

 

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3 hours ago, Neonred said:

The pizza place?

 

On ‎6‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 7:21 AM, Nature Boy Flair said:

You all remember Shakeys? We had one here in TV il the last year or so 

Real popular in the Philippines 

Yeah the pizza place and in the Philippines it is actually pretty decent sit down restaurant. Not just some pizza parlor but a decent sit down restaurant.

2 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Yes Shakeys thrives over there.  Add long with Kenny Roger's chicken

I took my wife to one over in Burbank and we were VERY DISAPPOINTED to say the least.

 

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