I worked at wards. What a horrible organization that was.

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

So basically Seacrest learned of Amazon.com in late 2006?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Go on...

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Well... my boss was a woman.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

The crazy chick from somewhere in the south?

Funny, my brother that works at Sears started as a salesman in "Electric Avenue" at Wards.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

That seemed to be the path for MANY of us.

You are such a knucklehead sometimes.

SHC could have had the chance to compete with Amazon had they recognized their potential in 2006.

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I say you fill it with the poor Mexicans who've been priced out of Pilsen and Logan Square. Then in 25 years the liberal bourgeois will be suddenly drawn in by the authenticity of dead shopping malls, where we may be able to successfully quarantine them.

Cemeteries.

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Filed for Chapter 11. They will try to make a go at it this holiday season, but they are just delaying the inevitable. They will never exit this bankruptcy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45859722

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I think they will keep retail in some more affluent areas and they should also keep their service arm Appliances/Auto going too.

If I could ever finish this memoir . . . it's about six months of working at the old Sears warehouse on 35th street....

They really were Amazon before Amazon. They sold literally everything...from bowling balls to tombstones to prefab houses. If they had stayed focused on modernizing their mail order business and not getting into brick and mortar, who knows how they would have fared.

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The sad truth about Sears is in the past many years I couldn't tell you where one is and I can't think of a reason I need to go to one. For as big a part they were in the US that is sad.

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Elections have consequences.

But Sears was never an "affluent" store. For example, they were at Golf Mill, not Old Orchard.

Sears is where my dad used to get "Johnny Carson" brand sport-coats in the 70s and 80s for work in the restaurant, since they'd get destroyed by constant cigarette smoking from customers. His nice suits for church and weddings used to come from Les Turner, the guy for which the ALS drive was named, and who had a Loop clothing store. And we were by no means "affluent."

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Sears lasted way longer than I would have predicted.

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I might be more surprised JCP is still there. But they didn't get in bed with Kmart.

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Elections have consequences.

Yeah...hard to believe a boat with a giant hole in the hull would sink after tying itself to another boat with a hole in the stern.

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Shocking it took this long to finally join the growing list of old school companies now getting it in the shorts. Xmas season will be interesting.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

They were trading water in 1990, and probably longer than that.

What I hate about America: All the damn change. (Of course, many have been positive. . . )

Sears owns a ton of real estate. They should ditch their retail business altogether.

Sears already unloaded much of the real estate their stores sit on. Remaining Sears and KMart stores now pay rent to another company.

You wrote a memoir about short-term employment at a Sears warehouse? Congratulations, you're the Marcel Proust of the South Side!

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Internment camps

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Shots fired!

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I can't tell if this is meant to be an insult, a good-natured joke, or a bit of silliness.

People blame Sears for their own downfall... And that's true but it's not like anyone has figured out to deal with Amazon


Walmart is the only one trying, and as good as their online experience finally is, it's just not even close to what Amazon is. Everytime I need to buy something online, I try to look at other websites and I still usually just get it from Amazon because I know it will be the least hassle. From the point of sale to the time it takes to get here to the potential return I might have to do.... Amazon is just the easiest.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/27/sears-m ... orrow.html

The predictable end of the bankruptcy may be upon us.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson