Yet another once profitable and historical Sears location is closing. The store was informed yesterday. This slow drip of closings since the last round was announced a few months ago is getting more and more suspicious. Everyone, get out while you can, especially in states with a large number of closures like CA. The retail job market is going to be very stiff in LA County come February.
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As a former employee of this location, it is really a sad day for Sears if this store is closing. They had a 100 year lease on the location back in 1938 or so. This location with it's parking lot takes up about 75% of a square city block. I could see the landowner offering a buy-out of their lease and making an offer that they could not refuse.
The building inside was incredible. Four complete floors the size of the building and another two or three floors going up into the tower. Just very sad to see this Sears go.
I wish they would have ripped off all that funky stucco facade, that building was really cool before that was added.
I remember it back in the day, hopping action, large appliance sales etc, now it's a ghost of itself.
Sad to see it go.
It has a cool commemorative plaque erected by store employees several decades ago hanging on the steps to the parking lot. I hope someone rescues that.
@1qb I hope not. At least as far as the Kmart end, they have roughly 60 left. If they only do 1 per Month, that would take about 60 Months (Or 5 Years). They need to pick up the pace, a bit, instead of pulling teeth, like this, to get some closings. I was hoping we could bounce them all in 2020..........
I will miss this Sears. It was one of my favorites. Such a classic building and very nice staff.
This was at one time, a shopping destination
I wonder if from now on, it will just be a slow drip till the end now that there are no longer shareholders to satisfy or a responsibility to announce closing lists or decisions in public. Since it's a private company Eddie can pretty much do whatever he wants including something like making no announcement at all one day and everyone just showing up for work and the doors are chained one day.
I wonder if from now on, it will just be a slow drip till the end now that there are no longer shareholders to satisfy or a responsibility to announce closing lists or decisions in public. Since it's a private company Eddie can pretty much do whatever he wants including something like making no announcement at all one day and everyone just showing up for work and the doors are chained one day.