Sears Concord lost its longest serving associate 🥺😭

[u/jikesar968]

Unfortunately Debbie passed away unexpectedly in her sleep. :( She's been working here for 36 years. I've been told everyone was crying when they found out about it. 😔

Also, the general manager Marie won't be returning until December due to something with her ankle.

Yes, the bottom floor entrance has been reopened again. Apparently the new security guy they've hired told them to. There've got lots of new clothes. Even the backrooms are starting to reach capacity.

[u/ericdigeratu]

May she RIP😢💐🙏🏼🕊️

[u/ExtremeCow3259]

Sorry to hear. May she rest in peace😥😔🙏

God rest her soul😢💐🙏🏼🕊️

[u/Responsible-Quit-116]

RIP Debbie :( - praying for her family. Hope the GM comes back healed.

[u/Appropriate-Law5963]

Condolences to the family

[u/Dreemsi]

From a corporate standpoint, what's the point of a mostly empty store?

[u/FlyingCookie13 → u/Dreemsi]

To sell the remaining amount of inventory left for Sears/Kmart or running them for real estate reasons until someone buys the space

[u/funid83 → u/FlyingCookie13]

Is that all it is, to fulfill lease obligations? I've wondered how there can be 5 remaining stores.

What sort of merchandise is there? Is it all name brand stuff? Any of the old Sears house brands still being manufactured?

[u/ExtremeCow3259 → u/funid83]

They still even have [3 operating distribution centers] (https://transformwo.com/) that serve the Sears.com online storefront, which will inevitably close down with the remaining stores eventually. And they probably do have some name brand stuff. As for the old sears house brands - AFAIK / as far as I know the brand name Kenmore is just licensed out to manufacturers by TransformCo, just as the 3 house brands were before the merger

[u/funid83 → u/ExtremeCow3259]

I think they'd sold off Kenmore, along with the other brands like DieHard, Allstate, Craftsman, etc.

Pity that somehow, someway they couldn't make a go of it with some new stores. I think it was two years ago a couple of stores reopened near Christmas, but I think those two were just to fulfull lease obligations.

[u/ExtremeCow3259 → u/funid83]

Kenmore is still owned by TransformCo. Craftsman was sold off in 2017, DieHard in 2019 after the bankruptcy, and Allstate was spun off in 1995

[u/stalkthewizard]

All that beige. Remember that? RIP Debbie.

[u/SirloinsXD]

Is there merchandise on the bottom floor?

[u/Ok_Refrigerator3549]

I am really sorry for your loss 🙏

[u/MannerAlternative987]

RIP Debbie

[u/kandehwilliams91]

RIP 🙏🏽

[u/PercentageMaximum828]

a functioning Sears? Not a franchised one but a real Sears?

[u/ExtremeCow3259 → u/PercentageMaximum828]

This is a functioning Sears. One of 5 left, which are all corporate owned

[u/funid83]

Those photos don't show the most modern store, but it shows an active Sears store that looks much the same as it did years ago. Does it still have appliance, hardware, and electronics sections?

There hasn't been a Sears for me to shop in for quite a long time now. Just wondering, how does it survive with only five active locations? There can't be any buying power for a chain that small.

I'd love to see a significant comeback, but in this retail climate it does not seem possible.

[u/jikesar968 → u/funid83]

Appliances and hardware, yes. Electronics, no.

[u/Particular-Bag3601 → u/funid83]

Sears never really modernized anything. I still remember them using the credit card imprinters from the ‘60s in the ‘90s. They never stuck with the times.

[u/RumpRoasst]

Rip Debbie 🙏

[u/A4t1musD4ag0n]

All is not lost. I believe that if capitalism can be reigned in, corporate media compelled to be truthful, and the people's money returned to where it was meant to go, we'll start seeing life in local communities re-emerging once again.