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Happy New Year!

They did a great job. Have Fun!

Honestly, I think everyone needs to experience working retail. I definitely learned patience and treating people with respect from that experience.

Appreciate it. Thanks for watching!

This was definitely one of our favorite additions!

I actually stumbled upon this one still being open a little after 2020. I thought about recording it then. It was a shell of its former self a couple years ago even.

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The one we used to go to (Redmond/Overlake) closed 6 years ago. Amazed this one lasted this long.

Yup sad to see but the reality of not progressing with change.

Right?! 😂😂😂

Didn’t even know they have them there. Just looked it up and I guess they are independent from the states.

Centralized? Like less registers and less employees in departments. I definitely noticed there were less employees in the last 10 years

@@pnwpaths2925 This was in Canada, Winnipeg. We had I believe 4 or 5 Sears in town. My little story: I started there as a temp at age 17 in the warehouse counting end-of-season seed packets while going to school - really boring but whatever. But then they offered me perm in the warehouse as a stock boy, prob because they saw I could count. I LOVED it. No lic req'd for forklifts back then, and the crew was so much fun. After about 3 years moved up to sales floor in china dept. It was fun too. Got mom some nice trinkets. Had a nice in-house restaurant back then so we got together during breaks. Met my <3 there too. Then they started doing away with catalog/returns counter, next moved all the dept cash registers to "area" registers, with only a handful of emps assigned to multiple depts to assist customers with any questions. If they sold then they would come up and ring them through, while someone else would fall back and cover depts. So it kind of revolved that way. With shifting to different "register areas" throughout the store as assigned, I found I knew pretty much nothing about what I was selling or ringing through anymore, I used to take pride in that. I even got Emp of the Week a few times. Same deal overall with the other emps. Customers were left dry a lot. Breaks with friends and potential babes was a lot harder to co-ord, so it was just no fun anymore. I might see them in the next urinal maybe. Besides, who do you even do dept Christmas parties with now?? I was even assigned to another store farther away when they were just starting up. But I loved it the first few years. Loved going in. Emp discounts. It was all great. It still broke my heart when I saw the chain falling down but I felt a lot of it was their fault, abandoning customer service etc, even though online and smaller malls were starting to take over. I don't know if it happened the same way in US.

Same for me as well! The first place I got to try out the PS1! Although Toys R Us was a harder one to lose I think.

Yeah this one lasted longer than I thought it would in Washington. I had gone in it a couple times recently and it was pretty dead for awhile now.

Sears Canada was dead when they closed entirely in January 2018

By 2022-23 all Sears Hometown locations was closing

And now due to the bankruptcy of Franchise Group which acquired Sears Outlet in 2019, American Freight is going out of business entirely. All locations, including Tacoma are closing. Formerly Sears Outlet until the conversion in 2020

@@youtubeuser7082 Sounds about right. I walk past the former Metrotown location all the time. It was kind of shit in it's last years. Bad sales, bad selection, stores in rough shape. All thanks to that leveraged buyout. If they had the money to reinvest in their stores they'd probably still be around now.

I’m over in the Seattle area. Traffic over on that side of the Mountains always seems non existent in comparison though 😂🤦‍♂️

Yup I can smell it just by you saying “department store aroma” 😂

Close. Down to the last 8 or 9 stores nationwide

From my understanding all of the remaining stores are closing. End of a once dominant company.

@@pnwpaths2925 So in this case there will be 8 left, which will also close as well, dropping to zero with also online shopping shutting down as well because of Amazon

That / this is because even in this hour, there is still no buyer of the website, brand name, intellectual property or even assets of Sears that has been found. Only buyer was Eddie Lampert, who merged Sears with Kmart. And nobody else. So its over. Sears is basically done at this point

Its Just a matter of time / when before the further closing of so many stores culminates with the retailer taking the next step to shut down entirely / go out of business completely

I remember Frederick and Nelson as well! Always sad to see things disappear. The next ones to go will probably be Macy’s and JC Penny

@@pnwpaths2925 Macy's is struggling and closing stores for 2 years, including 50 this year alone

Hopefully next year will have something cool to add!

Selling off craftsman tools and seeing them show up at Lowe’s, I knew it wasn’t a good sign. There store just never kept up with the times. A lot of memories though!

My wife loves Seafood city. I should do more videos down there 😂

@pnwpaths2925 I went to Jollibee for fried chicken 🍗 🐔 😋

Definitely end of an era

The prices seemed pretty high for only having 7 days left! Mostly everything was gone though.

I can remember the sears and toys r us Christmas catalog. Getting so excited for Christmas Day. Growing up Sears was a big part of our families life. I got my first suit there. Drivers Education was there. The tools were the best! Kenmoore was the best! They just needed to adapt to online and find a way to stay relevant. I think they just stuck to old ways of doing things and weren’t very innovative.

For me it was Macys. Made some good friends that we are still close to today. Merry Xmas to you guys as well!

Thanks! These Elves are getting hard to keep up with 😂

@pnwpaths2925 I bet

We visited him also! That will be a different video though 😂

@@pnwpaths2925oh ok I didn’t know because this is the first video that I saw from your channel

We do as well!

Have you seen the electric vehicle group that does Saturday meetups in Seattle? Looks like a lot of fun!

@pnwpaths2925 my scooter very slow, can't keep up with those fast rides!

Thanks! They make everything a little more fun. Trying to enjoy this still liking to do stuff with us 😆

@ we just dropped off ours at the airport to go back to college. Enjoy them!!!😭😭😭

Redmond isn’t so Woodsy anymore. It’s our favorite city but it’s change a lot in the last 10 years!

Thanks for watching!

Damn that is cery creative good job u get new sub

@ thanks for checking it out!

It’s November 😂. It’s kinda growing on me though

Thanks for watching! Whats Halloween like in Australia?

This one does a great job! It’s our favorite house to trick or treat at 😂

@ oh lol 😂 the one I saw was so worst it chased us instead

@ that’s the best!

@@pnwpaths2925 yea

Yup that’s how the internet works these days. It was probably less than an hour I bet.

We bought a pack. Haven’t gotten to try them yet 😂. They taste different than the old ones?

@@pnwpaths2925 Yes, a whole different recipe. The texture and taste to me is just off putting.

I completely agree! The Costco muffin, was as much a staple as the hotdog, and I am disappointed in Costco for doing this

Hopefully not over the muffins?!

Weird how we get so attached to them! They used to have this awesome variety pack of pudding and then it just disappeared. Food Court used to be coke but is now the inferior Pepsi and with paper straws 😒

Yeah… We are hoping to buy some property soon for our camper. I think it might have a storage shed built on it just for storing Halloween and Christmas stuff 😜. I think we are done with Home Depot Trips🤔🥴

We are also!

This was one of my wife’s favorites this year. Home Depot already marked down their animatronics

​@@pnwpaths2925don't say that!!! 😭 I can see why it's her favorite no doubt 😁💯

I went back and they gave me the discounted price. They have a 90 day price match. Just gotta stay on top of it!

@@pnwpaths2925 by the way I love everything inside and outside is fantastic decorations our yard are full already.❤️😊

Costco bakery bread?! Crazy!

That would be awesome! Don’t be giving me ideas 😂🤪