sears seattle closing

[thetool]

tools are 10 percent off and tool boxes are 20 percent off but they said that will increase the first of next month.

 

[Certified Drunk]

They have been in that store since 1925. :sadface

 

[ADSR]

They have been in that store since 1925. :sadface

You have to grow with the times, or die. They're in big trouble right now.

 

[byoungblood]

tools are 10 percent off and tool boxes are 20 percent off but they said that will increase the first of next month.

Pretty common for going out of business sales. The liquidation company will come in and raise prices and then offer progressively larger discounts to make people think they're getting a great deal. Until they're marking stuff down 60-70% or more from their original price are you usually doing better than what most items usually sell for when they're on sale.

Either Sears is getting ready to scale down what they carry in stores considerably, or they're about to go out of business in general. There are several items I've noticed that they just don't bother to restock anywhere.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Is that the first and lander street store?

 

[frugalscotty]

Is that the first and lander street store?

yup.

 

[pacecar]

Went to a sears closing sale in the woodlands near Houston

The only thing I bought was a heating blanket

They raise the price pretty much to full retail, higher than the normal on the shelf prices, but you never know what you might find

 

[elronin]

Yea a couple of years ago when sears essentials closed they had a few good ítems for sale. It wasn't till the last Day that everything was 90% off. Got drill bits and nails for pennies.

 

[RivennHewn]

I've been thru there a couple times when going to HD.

Never seen another customer.

Not a great location for them.

 

[fordcragar]

Just goes to show you what can happen when a business is mismanaged. The Seattle store was huge, at one time. The building/property that was where HD is now, used to be part of the Sears store.

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

While I might miss the store, the building is what is so very cool and classic. Starbucks moved in a long time ago and took over, with Sears only having a tiny token presence in the base. I'm afraid there won't be anyone missing Sears there. There's a Home Depot a few blocks away that has more to offer.

I do fear Sears will vanish entirely at some point, but it won't actually affect me as I haven't shopped there in a long time. Occasionally I might look for this or that tool as mentioned here on GJ, but beyond that, it's just not a place I want to go to anymore.

 

[firebox40dash5]

Pretty common for going out of business sales. The liquidation company will come in and raise prices and then offer progressively larger discounts to make people think they're getting a great deal. Until they're marking stuff down 60-70% or more from their original price are you usually doing better than what most items usually sell for when they're on sale.

Either Sears is getting ready to scale down what they carry in stores considerably, or they're about to go out of business in general. There are several items I've noticed that they just don't bother to restock anywhere.

Agreed. Considering Sears price skims (high "prices" nearly no one ever pays, with nearly constant sales on pretty much everything) ********, 10-20% off those normal prices is probably an absolutely terrible deal, even if they didn't do what they often do and raise the prices even more.

I pretty much gave up on "going out of business" sales long ago. Most of the ones I've seen, gullible sheeple have bought everything of interest out long before the good discounts kick in. By the time they're down to that 60-70% level that's actually approaching a deal, the **** that's left is stuff I probably wouldn't take if you gave it to me.

 

[alxdgr8]

By the time things are even deals I'm sure there will be nothing less. I've still been checking in on it, I usually stop by once a week on my way home from work. They used to do some good clearance prices on returned items, but haven't seen anything good for the past 6 months there.

 

[LEVE]

Forty years ago I walked into that store on first and Lander (before the Yuppies, California transplant and non-Seattle natives renamed the area SODO) and bought $300 worth of tools to build my first house.

Nine years later I was building my second house. The house was robbed of all my tools and construction materials.

I went back to the same Sears store and bought another $300 worth of tools. At the check out register I gave the clerk my check and then started to hand him my drivers license to validate the check.

The clerk refused to take my license saying:"Put it back in your wallet. Your checks are good here. I remember you from the last time you bought these tools about 10 years ago."

We talked a bit and I found he indeed did remember me and my purchase. I was astonished and would go out of my way to buy tools from him when ever possible.

I'll miss that store, but I'll miss that kind of service even more.

 

[Jcc76]

I used to love Sears back in the day. Does anyone remember when they used to sell Icees and hot pretzels and popcorn from kiosks in the middle of the store? I was just a little kid back then, and was interested solely in the size of the toy section, but I can only imagine what the tool department looked like.

When I bought my first set of tools about 15 years ago, I remember going to Sears because I knew all the tools were U.S. made, and that if they ever broke, I could exchange them for a brand new one free of charge. Even as a college kid in the '90's, that sounded like a square deal to me! I still remember seeing the tool department full of "Craftsman Professional" products and wondering what that was. Now I can't get enough Craftsman Pro and I hunt for new old stock on ebay.

There are days when a time machine, even just to go back 10 years, would be a lot of fun!

 

[JBradley500]

Our local sears closed this year. The tool prices were higher than i'd ever seen during their "closing sale." Between all of the Sears closings and the push for Chinese tools i've pretty much given up on buying Craftsman.

 

[Hootbro]

Forty years ago I walked into that store on first and Lander (before the Yuppies, California transplant and non-Seattle natives renamed the area SODO) and bought $300 worth of tools to build my first house.

Nine years later I was building my second house. The house was robbed of all my tools and construction materials.

I went back to the same Sears store and bought another $300 worth of tools. At the check out register I gave the clerk my check and then started to hand him my drivers license to validate the check.

The clerk refused to take my license saying:"Put it back in your wallet. Your checks are good here. I remember you from the last time you bought these tools about 10 years ago."

We talked a bit and I found he indeed did remember me and my purchase. I was astonished and would go out of my way to buy tools from him when ever possible.

I'll miss that store, but I'll miss that kind of service even more.

That was back in the day when working retail at Sears or any other Department Store could be a career with decent living wages.

I remember growing up and my weekly trip to Sears with my Grandfather and seeing the same 5-6 guys working the Tools and sporting goods department (back when they actually sold firearms and fishing gear) for close to 20 plus years. Those guys were basically forced out when Eddie Lampert took over and brought in the K-Mart way of doing things.

 

[fordcragar]

Sears used to have a huge catalog department at the Seattle store. Back in the late 1960's and 1970's you could buy all the pieces to rebuild an engine and most other parts through the Sears catalog.

I stopped buying tools from Sears in the 1970's, because if I broke something at work and then went to the store to replace it, it seemed like they didn't stock it or were out of stock. After a couple of trips there to replace a tool and then came up empty, it was a lot easier to buy stuff off of a tool truck.

 

[Automag88]

The Sears that was local to me closed for good in the beginning of January. The irony is that while taking a lunch break from demoing the building the other day I was tracking my order from Sears online on my phone

 

[firebox40dash5]

I was about to, against my instinct, give Sears some money today. I need a larger set of the switchable snap ring pliers and seem to have lost my middle set, so I was going to buy the Pro 3pc. set since they cost about as much as just the big'uns elsewhere.

Put them in the cart and went to search for something else to get up to $75 for a coupon. Found somethingorothern put it in the cart, and... "Sears - null. Please return to our homepage and thanks fr shopping here." Tried logging out and in... same thing. Thought they weren't playig nice with Chrome and tried IE... nope. Downloaded Firefox... nope. Nada. Alrighty then, guess you don't want my money?

Maybe shoulda spent that money you spent tryig to be a halfassed Amazon on making your website not **** instead? OK, today's "WTH Sears?" rant off.

 

[volunteers]

I went to seattle sears for the first time this morning and found it is closing. Things are about 25% off. I bought a craftsman garage clock for $3, and some gladiator stuffs.


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[NineFingerFury]

I'll have to check this out. Thanks!

 

[alxdgr8]

I went about 1.5 weeks ago and most of the stuff was gone and still overpriced.

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[PeterT]

Its the throw away world of today. Quality has taken a back seat to cheap as possible both from a consumer and retailer. The containers that get shipped in from overseas, loaded onto the rail cars, put on the back of a truck and straight to walmart. Hard to compete with that.

 

[RivennHewn]

I went about 1.5 weeks ago and most of the stuff was gone and still overpriced.

That's what I found. Maybe 20% off full retail.

I asked the clerk when the real sale starts, and got a ****** look back.

Good riddance

 

[PrisonMike]

Only a few sockets, wrenches and wrench sets are left. Its 20% off retail price for tools. Not worth it because most of the tools go on sale for 30 - 50% off.

 

[quattroJoe]

That's what I found. Maybe 20% off full retail.

I asked the clerk when the real sale starts, and got a ****** look back.

Good riddance

For a guy/gal that's about to be out of a job as soon as the bones of their store are picked clean, I could forgive the ****** look.