[herr_oberst]

I'm not going to miss Sears at all. The only thing I ever bought there was hand tools; they used to be high quality and they had some interesting innovations from time to time, but one day I was working on my car and I realized that the quality of the 3/8 ratchet I'd recently put a repair kit into was less than the harbor freight tool that I bought to put in my road trip tool roll. That was years and years ago. Since then, the few times I went back, I knew that it was going to be a crapshoot to try and get a few screwdrivers replaced on the lifetime guarantee, or if a socket or something that I needed for a project would be in stock.

Sears had a few good brands, they could have capitalized on them and tried harder to set up an online presence, but they failed and others have filled the vacuum.

I feel really bad for the people who will lose their jobs. I'm not nostalgic at all for the loss of the institution.