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Originally Posted by flatbutt

Did you all know that Sears is down to 20 stores nationwide? Wow.

It's crazy. It seems like it was an American institution, but it's only been around 130 years which is not that long in the grand scheme of things. It's hard to imagine the world without Sears, but it's practically been like that for what, 10-20 years now?

It seems like it used to be easy to go buy major appliances. You could run down to the local mall and browse 2-4 stores (Sears, Mont. Wards, etc...) that had huge selection and lots of stuff in stock. I don't think you can do that any more. There's Best Buy, but I've never had good luck there, and they have a sheiße reputation. I think there are a few other places, Macy's, Costco, Sam's, Walmart, but those are all going to be spread out and, I think, have a much smaller selection or maybe I'm wrong.

The world is a vastly different place than it was 30, 40, 50 years ago.