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slickeast wrote:http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/12/27/20111227Sears-StoreClosings1227.html

"Middle-income shoppers, the company's core customers, have seen their wages fail to keep up with higher costs for household basics like food."

Funny how most sources realize there is significant inflation but the gov't says there's not.

Sears had always been a place I shopped sporadically.

When I moved out into my first appartment I bought an answering machine and microwave there.
A few years back bought a shovel
Last year bought a fridge
This year bought a dishwasher and a screwdriver.

I always figured that over a large number of people this would smooth out, though on
an individual level my shopping there depends to a large degree on when things wear
out sometimes with quite a few years in between.

I've found K-mart a good place to buy clothes when I get to North Dakota. (They closed
their Canadian operation years ago, though it had nothing in common with the U.S. stores
other than the name anyways so really it was a completely different chain.) I remember
once getting a good deal on some camcorder batteries at one of the U.S. stores.