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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Oct 16 20:28:00 2017, in response to Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by northshore on Mon Oct 16 20:21:43 2017. Kind of a sudden decision, with the Christmas season coming up and all that. Is on line shopping in Canada having that much of an effect to make such a radical move? I wonder how many stores are involved?? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 17 01:08:46 2017, in response to Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by northshore on Mon Oct 16 20:21:43 2017. Trudeau is so good for business. |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Tue Oct 17 10:57:05 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Oct 16 20:28:00 2017. Online shopping is the executives excuse for being a total failure. |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:01:51 2017, in response to Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by northshore on Mon Oct 16 20:21:43 2017. Sears is a zombie at this point. Going to their stores is highly depressing. |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:02:31 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 17 01:08:46 2017. I dont think Trudeau had ANYTHING to do with this decision. Sears has been on the deathbed for years and should've been long dead. |
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Posted by jimmymc25 on Tue Oct 17 11:17:41 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:02:31 2017. Yup, that's the way I see it. |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:27:23 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by jimmymc25 on Tue Oct 17 11:17:41 2017. Olog loves to stick politics in places where it didn't belong. To him the left is the reason for everything bad in the world. It's his worst and most predictable trait. Doesn't understand anything else. |
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Posted by jimmymc25 on Tue Oct 17 11:32:22 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:27:23 2017. Agreed. |
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Posted by ftgreeneg on Tue Oct 17 13:33:03 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:27:23 2017. +100 |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Oct 17 16:04:16 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by orange blossom special on Tue Oct 17 10:57:05 2017. Problem is all the retailers are taking hits a/c online inroads. Macys, Gander Mtn. J.C. Pennys etc. etc. closing stores left and right. If this was unique to Sears, you'd have a point. But its all over. Shopping malls with their big anchor stores are going the route of AM radio, dying a slow death if you'll allow a half assed analogy |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 16:38:37 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Oct 17 16:04:16 2017. Your examples are all stores that failed to adopt to the times. Sears and Kmart were notorious for starting late to the online game. Stores that adapted have done well like walmart, and best buy. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Tue Oct 17 18:53:39 2017, in response to Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by northshore on Mon Oct 16 20:21:43 2017. The dominoes are starting to fall.Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Oct 18 01:13:53 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Oct 16 20:28:00 2017. Is on line shopping in Canada having that much of an effect to make such a radical move?Canadian malls aren't as bad off when compared to their US equivalents given the higher prices of online competition, but Sears has generally been regarded as a dead chain up there for nearly the same time that it's been seen as a dead chain in the US. |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Oct 18 07:55:49 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:01:51 2017. My friends and I went to the one in Exton, Pa. in the Exton(dying) Mall, in Aug/2016. The store , as we walked through it, was almost void of shoppers. We bought a dishwasher for me and I am very happy with it. Sears is pushing their appliance home rapid "blue" team business to keep folks interested in Sears. When I drive by Exton Mall, I see maybe 20 cars in the parking lot of Sears. Their auto repair store closed up shop last year on the Exton Mall property.I guess it's a downward spiral. |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Wed Oct 18 08:01:45 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Oct 18 07:55:49 2017. Yeah and its their own doing, I remember in the 90s the sears catalogue was THE BOOK to get. They should've been leaders in the game when it comes to the transition to the internet but they sat back and when they made the jump it was too late. |
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Posted by Joe V on Wed Oct 18 20:17:40 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 17 01:08:46 2017. Going to blame Trump was Sears/Kmart closes down in the US in 2018 ? |
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Posted by Joe V on Wed Oct 18 20:18:27 2017, in response to Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by northshore on Mon Oct 16 20:21:43 2017. 11 of them were once Eaton's, once a great nationwide chain, much better than Sears was. |
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Posted by Joe V on Wed Oct 18 20:21:13 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:01:51 2017. They're mostly empty, and if anyone is around, they are part-timers.Sears Canada and Sears/Kmart in the US are actually unrelated now. Doesn't matter. Ours is expected by Wall Street to collapse in 2018. JCP will not be far behind. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Wed Oct 18 21:39:40 2017, in response to Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by northshore on Mon Oct 16 20:21:43 2017. Why is Sears still around? |
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Posted by 3-9 on Thu Oct 19 01:21:01 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by Joe V on Wed Oct 18 20:17:40 2017. No, because it was failing all through Obama's term. :-) |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 19 06:59:37 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by 3-9 on Thu Oct 19 01:21:01 2017. Sears has been slowly dying since the 1990's. Amazing it has lingered this long. Too bad the Canadian one took down Eaton's in the process. |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 19 07:00:46 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by SMAZ on Wed Oct 18 21:39:40 2017. They had a lot of assets and brands to burn off to make it a slow death. |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 19 08:07:26 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by Bill Newkirk on Tue Oct 17 18:53:39 2017. There are a hell of a lot of You Tube files on abandoned malls. All it takes is the anchor store or two to go, and the rest fall like dominoes. 20% are expected to be gone within 5 years, even those built in the 1980's and 90's.Wait until Amazon changes the costs structure and buying procedures of Whole Paycheck. That will mean a lot of supermarkets will close as well with competitive cost pressures in that industry. That means a lot of suburban sprawl strip malls will perish as well. |
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Posted by bingbong on Thu Oct 19 13:07:04 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 19 08:07:26 2017. I don't think that Whole Paycheck's reconfiguration under Amazon will amount to that greta a shakeup in grocery marketing. WF is not a mass market retailers, there are no mass market national chains, at best they're regional (there's no Krogers in Vermont that I know of, for example). As I am a coop member, I'm far more concerned for their survival than Price Chopper's as an outcome from this.A generation fom now, the landscape will likely be different. For the medium-long view, mass market supermarkets will survive. Also don't forget that retail food is a very different business than dry goods. |
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Posted by SUBWAYMAN on Sat Oct 21 06:15:36 2017, in response to Re: Sears Canada Closing All Stores Beginning October 19, posted by ClearAspect on Tue Oct 17 11:27:23 2017. EXCELLENT POST! |
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