Sears and Kmart continue their death spiral

one thing I noticed growing up and having these old ass companies is that they refuse to change and adapt to modern tech and culture.

They keep doing the same old things over and over again when everything around them is changing.

I'll let you all do the math,

It happened to Toys r us, playboy, and sort of to mc donalds

Have you been inside a Sears? It's like stepping back in time to the 1990s even today, all the tech is old as fuck, even their registers and shit it's all ancient tech.

they need icos obviously

walmart persisted because they figured out the site to store thing or whatever, sears and kmart are stuck in the 80's

Good riddance.
>parents buy a Kenmore vacuum and dustbuster from Sears in 1997
>dustbuster dies 6 months later
>vacuum catches on fire
>parents buy Kenmore dishwasher from Sears with warranty
>dishwasher burns out 3 months later
>Sears conjures up some bullshit as to why their warranty "didn't cover" that specific failure
I have been in Sears a number of two times since 2003. From there...
>don't get into online retail
>market to women with commercials filled with emasculated men/woman powr bullshit

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I loved Kmart for that. Not only the old computers, they still had an original Xbox poster up when they closed in 2014. It was like my own personal time machine.

There's also a pic floating around with a GBA still hooked up in the electronics section in 2015.

I saw fucking 3DO games at a Kmart in 2005.

kmart has taken over most targets in aus

Holy shit, too bad smartphones weren’t a thing yet or you could have gotten pics.

No way I saw PS1 stuff at a K-Mart in 2013

they should let fight clubs operate in their stores for shekels.

Leaf here, the malls here are virtually dead. Target left, sears died, toys r us evaporated, and now the only anchor stores left are walmarts. It is actually quite incredible to go through a mall now.

Feels good being a boomer that lived his teenage years in the early 00s socializing with people, now zoomers can't even leave their moms basements kek

Sears fucked up a lot of things but you have no idea what you’re talking about. Sears was way ahead of the online game with retail integration and in store pick up. Sears really does good things with their online business. they just fucked up so many other places they don’t see the benefits from it.

Strange to see these places that seemed permanent when you're young all shuttering, but I'm also surprised they were able to last until now. You could tell the air was coming out of the balloon as soon as online shopping took root.

Things eventually come to an end. Amazon will be in the same situation someday.

How can crypto millionaires use all that retail space to our advantage?

Over-bloated retail corporations who have more operational overhead than some 3rd world nations just because of how bureaucratic these companies always become. I say fuck em

Move to a third world shithole and start over.

Someone in another one of these threads said his old mall was being used by dealerships for storing cars, I can see a lot of them becoming ghetto warehouses. That's probably just a stopgap though, most of them will probably be demolished outside of a few novelty niches. I can see a mall setup paintball arena having some appeal, but probably not for long.

Sears can be saved by becoming a financial institution. Sears credit lines could become a stand-alone entity marketing itself as a defacto lender and creditor for online retail. K-Mart is done.

There were cameras on phones in 2005...

Malls and retail in 10 years will be back but in a virtual sense, think Vive/Rift being able to interact with objects in a 3d space is pretty cool from your fap chair.

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In my area they turned into Big Lots, some turned into Churches or 'beauty schools' or random specialist schools.

Sears originally was a catalog store-why they couldn’t switch to the internet is beyond me.

Sears wasn’t particularly a bad company, the pajeet that bought it is just liquidating everything, invested none of the proceeds into improving the stores, instead keeping all of it for himself

Poor, anemic management. The fate of any mega corporation. Amazon will be a dinosaur one day too.

Elaborate on your comment regarding Amazon please

twitter.com/Choplogik/status/1032739698274230272

Company Man video on the fall of KMart.
youtube.com/watch?v=1__Qg1toSSs

>How can they be saved Jow Forums?

Let them go under. Stop rewarding businesses for their inefficiency.