Hey everyone, I just released a video on my second channel documenting the very last day Sears Canada was open. Go check it out! ruclips.net/video/c3ckY8ZIuvc/видео.html
Bright Sun Films I worked for sears in 2016. it was an OK job ,but the manager was lame. I still cant believe its closing. I went the other day, no one from when I was there worked there anymore and it was getting empty. sad.
Where I live in Massachusetts, our huge Sears store has closed at our local mall. And, our JC Penneys has closed too. Target is the last large department store left at our mall. Is it only a matter of time for Target too?
I went through 2 factory closings with Philip Morris and I know all too well what it is like to sit in one of those meetings when they are telling everybody they are closing shop and leaving town. Heartbreaking isn't the word when lives are destroyed.
@I WANT MY SLAW I guess you missed the part in the video where Sears layed off 50+ of their college educated corporate executives? So what does going to college have to do with losing your job because the business goes under, usually due to college educated greedy CEOs?
I WANT MY SLAW!! That does not automatically save you from company layoffs. I'm a software engineer and I have witnessed similar meetings where companies I've been employed at have laid off many employees that were all well-educated and had years of experience. Layoff meetings can happen anywhere when companies are not doing well. A college education does not automatically save you from being laid off.
That lay-off video was so heartbreaking...you could hear in her voice that she knew that she was announcing the end of many families’ sole source of income.
That was a corporate AXE specially selected because of her ability to shed "crocodile tears." Sears, like any other large company, pulled the rug out from underneath of their employees because to tell them in advance would have left the stores without any employees as they would all be FLEEING to other jobs. they did that to the steel plants here in Buffalo, Ny in the late 1970's. Told all the employees that the future is bright and even went as far as investing in new ( steel making ) furnace installation. All the employees went out with a renewed sense of security and bought new cars, travel trailers, invested in their houses in major ways....then the steel plant closed suddenly.
About 5 years ago, I lived very close to a massive Sears building. The logo on the front of the building was gigantic and would light up at night. However, at night the S wouldn't light up. It would say "EARS".
This series has definitely improved in both editing and voice acting. Now you can speak full sentences without getting off topic. I truly think your series is a great one and is worthy of the attention it is getting.
I realize this isn’t your gig but I’m surprised you didn’t bring up Sears treatment of their staff, especially retired staff. It was honestly one of the most heartbreaking elements of the shut down. I worked for Sears 2013 till early 2017 and most of my fellow employees were extremely loyal senior citizens. I knew women who worked there for more then twenty years, had barely retired and had there pension ripped away from them. To this day at my local mall a bunch of the elderly ladies meet in the food court every Friday morning to talk about their experience and where working for Sears has left them.
I had an Aunt that worked at Sears for 40+ years. She lost her pension too. However, the thought of a retail employee earning or being offered any sort of pension in modern times is quite laughable.
This is entirely true. The rank & file employees were shown the door without hardly a word of warning and no more than a last paycheque, and as is all-too-expected, the remaining C-levels and executives still received bonuses, pensions, and severance packages.
Can you do a video on the bridal store, Alfred Angelo? It was so shocking how they closed all their stores abruptly and with no warning to the customers and employees. Love your videos by the way! Amazing job!
Yeah, and there will be a lot more of those layoff meetings in the near future, as we the customers are buying our stuff online now, so it's our own fault all those people losing their jobs. It'll be millions in the US alone!
I predicted the fate of Sears Canada about half a year before they announced the first bankruptcy news... I was walking around in my local Sears (a HUGE one, 3 floors in Fairview Pointe-Claire Shopping Centre in the suburbs of Montréal) one Saturday afternoon and it was completely dead. The third floor was the worst of all though, the only people up there were about 2 employees. No music either. Just dead, eerie silence. I took some video footage of the condition of that store... shelves that were bordering on abandonment, their old Craftsman tool section turned into a makeshift thrift store with everything from old Christmas decorations to baby cribs in it. The shoe section was a joke, barely anything worthy of buying on the shelves and when I snuck into the rear storage room, I saw that there were rows upon rows of completely empty shelves, absolutely no inventory at all. It was a sad sight and made me laugh at how the management of Sears Canada were trying so hard to bullshit the public about their situation. Anyhow, you've made another great video, Jake! Ciao!
Rian McDonald and you know what's worse? Hudson bay is following the same route. Except the govt will probably intervene and pump money into it because of their history in fur trade. Losing the Eaton and now Sears probably gives them a good reason to do so as well. That being said the loss of Sears is pretty disheartening.
Seeing this is weird for 2 reasons: The first is that Sears is 150 years old company who is literally a house hold name, and it'd be crazy to think it'd go away. The second is that its crazy to see them completely going away in Canada, and is doing badly here in the US now too and I'm assuming that it will be DeJa Vu pretty soon, which will be sad.
Lavender, I remember one of those stock advisory guys on the I-net recommending to buy Sears Holding and how the CEO was such a smart guy. Good thing I did not take his advice.
I never thought that I'd see Eaton's or Woodwards go either-but all department stores seem to have a shelf life, and now with Amazon and other companies like it, unless you are a small "boutique" store, I suspect the days of any brick and mortar stores are numbered.
Been watching this series for over a year now. Made me change my outlook on retail for the rest of my life. Im so happy to see how professional this series has become in a years time.
Sears was one of my favourite stores. I purchased almost all the electronics at Sears because of their layaway options. I loved their shopping catalogs, my favourite one was 2000 millennium one. Nothing is same since they’re gone ☹️
It's sad that Kmart/Sears is going under. Hopefully someday, someone will make the National Retail Museum so they aren't forgotten to the sands of time.
Be sure to include all the mom & pop shops that Sears put out of business over the years. We get all teary eyed over businesses that don't deserve any sympathy. Our affections for Walmart will grow and our hearts will break when Walmart collapses under pressure from Amazon. Then Amazon will collapse under the yet-to-be-founded 3D Printing Acme Co. Who cares? The current retail innovator will succumb to the next retail innovator. Horse & buggy made way for the car. The car will in turn make way for Star Trek teleporters. And Star Trek teleporters will make way for conscious transference into telerobotics mediated by neural lace implants. Cheer for innovation or succumb to despair with news of the old collapsing.
I remember the June 22nd day clearly, it was painful to see and I lost co-workers that day. Working in head office I was locked out and was not on either list, I had actually sent in my resignation two weeks earlier and had that day pegged as my final day. Great timing. I did however manage to sneak into the Royal York Hotel meeting in Downtown Toronto, right down the street from the one that was happening in which you have video of, of the Metro Toronto Convention centre. We lost what seemed like almost 2/3rd of the corporate staff that day. Lots of tears were shed by all of us. It was nice to see all of that. I know the lady giving the news did not want to.
YO! hey JAKE i just wanted to say that your videos are very good and entertaining to us wich i think i speak for everyone who loves and really likes your videos. THANK YOU JAKE
Rip Sears Canada. It was at one of my local malls, and my family would always get the Christmas wish book. We'd also get our snowsuits there. I went there a few weeks ago and it had everything must go sign everywhere. It was a sad sight.
FlameGirl100 Times are a changin'. It's like a person that no one wants to see, anymore. Like an actor that no director want to cast in his movies, anymore, because that generation lost interest in what they like. We use and then we abandon. Just life things..
I love how this also shows the history of sears, im from canada and sears was literally my go to place when i was a kid, i actually loved this place. Kinda sad its gone, like a huge part of my childhood to januray 2018, RIP sears.
im honestly surprised it's not closing in america too. There's a store in the mall of america and i've been in there a few times and its pretty much empty whenever i go.
The quality of your video are getting better and better. It’s really exciting to see a channel grow and mature like this over time. It kind of reminds me of Philip DeFranco’s channel and how it matured in content and quality over the years.
I waited all day to watch this! Your thoroughness impresses me yet again. On a different note, The most bullshit thing about Sears dying is what the employees have to go through. They're getting next to nothing from the company in regards to layoffs and unemployment, and a fair chunk of the employees have been with Sears for upwards of 10-15 years. I feel so bad for them.
It's kind of sad. This company started with a guy who bought 5 watches and sold them to railroad switchmen. So much history in the Sears and Roebuck era. Sears was where you bought your first electric guitar in the 60's because you saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Or a combo organ when you saw The Doors. There weren't many music stores back then. Maybe they should've returned to their roots as a mail order company and merged with Amazon or something.
If they had the foresight but who could tell? Remember what happened to Blockbuster? Netflix wanted to sell the concept to Blockbuster. They laughed at them. When they finally got onboard with the online thing, it was too little too late. The internet back then, no one really knew what it was going to be. When I first went on the internet, I saw that you could chat and the rest was like one big ad. Videos back then took about an hour to load. In the really early days, even a picture didn't come up so fast. But yeah, I see what you mean. I could imagine Sears being the dominant force in mail order like in their early days. Well, all good things must end.
Some of the people at our Sears have been there 20-30 years. The one appliance guy has been there since the store opened in 1988. Is it just the position you work in or location? Those guys that have been there since my dad took me as a kid are still there they’re always friendly and seem happy. I talk to them whenever I’m there.
Jake, your videos are so well done it almost unbelievable. That interview with the Mall president was fantastic. Oh, and I always almost tear up at the end of these when you usage footage of the abandon stores/locations where a huge corporation used to be.
I'd spend all day perusing their Catalogues and anticipating my purchases. I'll miss Craftsman Tools and Kenmore. Bought a great Gas Mower from them and Craftsman Tools were the Creme De La Creme of Tools until Snap-On and Chinese Knockoffs became a thing. I think the employees were handled very poorly in the end and the management that was mostly responsible for its demise...got away with Golden Handshakes and Severance Packages. Sad...very Sad.
Remember when Atari 2600 was the coolest thing, then, in the next Christmas Catalog....Atari 5200.......Atari 7800! Nintendo! Sega Master System! etc! Daisy BB Guns, made, in America! Vibrator's, ass far as the Finger could see! Those, were the day's.
I just stumbled on these videos a few days ago. They are so fascinating. Sears is so interesting, I know they sold electronics, hardware, clothing, sporting goods and yet when I needed any of those things I never once thought about going to Sears. It's like they had no identity and tried to be everything to everyone.
Just discivered this series, and totally binged watched it. Amazing job! Its so sad to see these iconic stores disappear. I watched it happen when i worked for Radio Shack, and im watching it with Sears, as I have a friend who woks for them.
I guess in the beginning it didn't seem that important and they most likely didn't want to take away business from their stores. At the same time it's mindboggling, because with the catalogues they had, the infratructure must have been basically there already, just put the catalogue on the internet and you are pretty much set. But it's probably not as easy when you are an established company and are competing with a new company like Amazon which can move much quicker and doesn't have any liabilities pretty much.
My grandpa remembers when they used to get those giant Sears catalogs in the 1950s. He said that you could buy kits for full size houses, airplanes, Hot Rods, and so much more. The one near his house in Texas even sold M1 Garands for $20 a gun. I wish we could go back to that time.
A significant portion of the city that I live in is listed on the National Historic Registry and I know of a couple of houses in the area that were built between 1910 and 1920 that are 2-3 stories which were ordered from Sears.
The sears at the mall i go too all the time is finally closed. Its really sad. I remember also getting the Sears christmas catalogue and doing the circle thing. I still have my 2007 book actually haha. Also jake and BSF team, thank you for all your hard work! Its amazing❤
Highly doubtful. Toys R Us is still alive and well, especially near me in Portland Oregon. Plus, you can’t replace kids going to a huge toy store with their parents, to shitty lazy online shopping sites.
Learned more about the chain of stores, than I thought I was lol. I used to rent a little 2 bedroom, 2 story "cute" looking little house, and it was ordered right out of the 1942 sears catalog!! Was delivered on a flat bed, and came with instructions on how to construct. Really cool, they kept all the original paperwork, and it was really neat when I'd have company and they'd admire the house, I always loved telling them it was ordered right from sears. Lol! Been binging your videos all day at work! I've got nothing done today! Thanks! LOL
I went to a Sears nearby for my birthday, it was almost abandoned, and the music was almost quiet. But it's closing now. My first, and last time at a Sears.
My local Kmart is finally shutting down it somehow survived 2016 and 2017 but it won't survive into 2018 kind of sad seeing it go since it was one of the Big Kmart stores with the cafeteria in it
loganbaileysfunwithtrains I have a Sears near that’s finally shutting down and moving into the right-next-door Sears Auto Center next year (assuming they don’t file for bankruptcy and liquidate their assets after the holiday season). That space (which is apart of a mall) is going to be converting to a Stew Leonard’s and a movie theater.
It was a real shame. I actually lived near one of the revamped stores and had re-started shopping there before they closed. The revitalization plans were rock solid, but implemented too late to have a significant impact.
We had the same thing here in Denmark. We had a very well known big warehouse called "Daells Varehus" (Daells Warehouse) which were really big in mail order sales, and every second household subscribed to their mail order catalogue, but they forgot to renew themselves, and they closed down for good back in 1999, so way before online shopping became the next big thing in retail. The company was established in 1910, so almost nine decades old when they went out of business!
i lived near to a huge sears and i loved that store. i was so sad to see it close. the store was empty for a while since the building is so big. it was finally replaced with another clothing store. i went to visit with my family and it was truly sad. seeing all the areas where is used to shop when i was 7ish.
OH SHIT IT'S FINALLY HERE i live in Canada and I've been waiting for this for so long, last time I went to one was about a year ago at one of the ones in Scarborough Oh, I got a like, you gotta do a fan meetup in Toronto or something. That'll be great my man
Good video. Seeing all these dead stores and malls is a little depressing. I remember when malls really had it all banks, library, fountains, Safeway, Woolco, Eaton's, Bay, some had close to 200 stores. While weekdays were busy Saturdays were packed. Part of the problem is malls themselves. They are all cell phone stores and shoe shops nowadays and no real draw. Things are too spread out. Before you could go to Safeway, Record store, book store, bank, grand and toy all in the same place.
Dave M i don’t live in Canada but I live in Florida and i kind of live close to a sears. It’s sad seeing it go away. I haven’t got too much experience with Sears as a young child.
Every major company that has not adopted an aggressive and comprehensive web presence has died. The web is the modern mail order system and every business that fails to grasp that will either flounder or flat out fail. Regardless of size. I am actually surprised that Sears didn't die off 5 to 10 years ago.
The Canadian company named sears (Simpson sears) is totaly dead. The American sears (sears and roebuck) is gasping it's last breaths. Retail is an unforgiving sector, those who don't adapt, die.
I'm loving the Abandoned series, idk why but its a fascinating watch, the night I came across it I watched for three hours straight lol, keep up the good work 😂
It’ll probably turn into Walmart. In Coquitlam BC our mall had a target and a sears on the other side lol. So the target is now a Walmart and I have no clue what they’ll do with the empty sears.
Ours won't. The sears was actually a replacement for a walmart that was once in there. Our walmart moved a little ways down the street into its own building.
This took so long to edit, with long hours of pouring over what looks good, what sounds good, and what works. I want to be what you already are in making videos. I love your stuff. Tom
beefyisrare and I get that there are "theme park prices" but it shouldn't cost me 20 bucks to get lunch at pizza pizza. Especially since that shit tastes like cardboard
Sears management was 90% of the problem . They got very complacent . It when they laid off all commission salespeople well that was a huge mistake . When you went to Sears store you found what you wanted and if they didn't have it they would get it in your size . And you could try it on to see if it fit . That's a problem with Amazon and all the catalog stores . You wind up tying hundreds of dollars in credit up because things don't fit or not very good quality . You can tell from a picture which you can tell when you hold your hands . The target was a different situation there run by stupid people .... Sears will be a big loss everywhere if they cannot figure out how to fix it . There are people smart enough to do it ..I still love big department stores . Especially ones where people wait on you . You can't beat commission salesman . Good ones work .
I don’t want to be that guy but actually most of the reason for the shrinkage of the middle class is because people are becoming members of the upper class
Mike41 no I mean shrinkage, statistically most of the people exiting the middle class have gone to the upper class. Some have gone lower, but more have gone up. I have no statistics for Mobility within the middle class, but I assume it is probably similar.
I miss Sears. I loved going to the massive stores at Kingsway and West Edmonton Malls. Both are now massive, empty areas. I miss circling toys in the Christmas catalogues, and my favourite childhood presents are all from Sears.
Its weird watching this and then one of your first videos. You would leave you laughing at your own jokes in, and alot of "umms" and "uhs" Love the professionalism in these new videos
I know you are talking about Sears Canada but Sears in the USA is on borrowed time too. It shows that hedge fund managers shouldn't try to run retail. It looks to me he is milking the company and stripping the assets from it. Eddie Lambert should rot in hell.
I work with a guy that was at the big Sears warehouse here in Canada, He said they will be losing 20 percent of their pension because management signed their pension money over to the creditors, He can't even look to see how much money is left in his name.
honestly Target only failed in Canada because they opened up so much stores at once, if they opened up only a few stores first then slowly opened up more later on it would of worked tbh
suphomeskillet Target USA is booming. I don't think these corporations realize what the Canadian demographics want, which is why they failed. Our two markets are completely different.
When I saw the map off all the sears stores closing I couldt stop but shed a tear as right there in northern alberta was our beloved Sears, the same one that i had gone to all my life up to this point
Hey Jake, I absolutely love your videos and after coming across this one, it got me thinking of another long gone catalog company. I've grown up in Mississauga almost my whole life, and I remember going to Square One with my mum to pick up items from Consumers Distributing. I remember their catalogs being massive!
Hey everyone, I just released a video on my second channel documenting the very last day Sears Canada was open. Go check it out! ruclips.net/video/c3ckY8ZIuvc/видео.html
Bright Sun Films I worked for sears in 2016. it was an OK job ,but the manager was lame. I still cant believe its closing. I went the other day, no one from when I was there worked there anymore and it was getting empty. sad.
You should do Sears USA
Bright Sun Films I
Where I live in Massachusetts, our huge Sears store has closed at our local mall. And, our JC Penneys has closed too. Target is the last large department store left at our mall. Is it only a matter of time for Target too?
In your intro you start off sounding English then you morph into being American. Surely I'm not the only to notice or comment on this?
That layoff meeting clip is heartbreaking
I went through 2 factory closings with Philip Morris and I know all too well what it is like to sit in one of those meetings when they are telling everybody they are closing shop and leaving town. Heartbreaking isn't the word when lives are destroyed.
@I WANT MY SLAW
I guess you missed the part in the video where Sears layed off 50+ of their college educated corporate executives? So what does going to college have to do with losing your job because the business goes under, usually due to college educated greedy CEOs?
I WANT MY SLAW!!
That does not automatically save you from company layoffs. I'm a software engineer and I have witnessed similar meetings where companies I've been employed at have laid off many employees that were all well-educated and had years of experience. Layoff meetings can happen anywhere when companies are not doing well. A college education does not automatically save you from being laid off.
shamrice I agree, college degree or not.
It also doesn't guarantee someone a good job.
2014: Is Sears Canada going away?
Oh no were not going anywhere.
2018: Abandoned - Sears Canada
2017*
User 🤦🏼 oh no
User sounds like Target in Canada.
Sad, what is the update on its liquidation?
That lay-off video was so heartbreaking...you could hear in her voice that she knew that she was announcing the end of many families’ sole source of income.
That was a corporate AXE specially selected because of her ability to shed "crocodile tears." Sears, like any other large company, pulled the rug out from underneath of their employees because to tell them in advance would have left the stores without any employees as they would all be FLEEING to other jobs. they did that to the steel plants here in Buffalo, Ny in the late 1970's. Told all the employees that the future is bright and even went as far as investing in new ( steel making ) furnace installation. All the employees went out with a renewed sense of security and bought new cars, travel trailers, invested in their houses in major ways....then the steel plant closed suddenly.
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About 5 years ago, I lived very close to a massive Sears building. The logo on the front of the building was gigantic and would light up at night. However, at night the S wouldn't light up. It would say "EARS".
Was reading this comment as 2:19 in the video passed by XD
Lol
Ironic considering they weren't 'listening' to what the public wanted
Lol.
This made me laugh out loud 😂😂🤣
I wish more RUclipsrs took their subjects seriously enough to do interviews like that!
This was extremely impressive. Earned a like and a half.
As a Canadian I'm really going to miss comparing the Sears logo to the SEGA logo.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this
Same
I can't unsee that now
Seegaaa!! 😋
Sears is doodoo
This series has definitely improved in both editing and voice acting.
Now you can speak full sentences without getting off topic.
I truly think your series is a great one and is worthy of the attention it is getting.
The very rusty toaster. The style has definitely improved over time and is just getting better and better
But off topic is fun thi
That layoff meeting footage is so sad.
They must have seen it coming, but it still seems pretty heartless.
I would not have wanted to be that woman who has to tell everyone in that huge room that they are all out of work at the end of the day.
Do Toys R Us
Dylan De Jesus he has already
I can only hope that all those men and women found new, lasting jobs
the sears wishbook was a big part of my childhood in the 80's n 90's
The abandoned series is so professional it should become a TV series.
Kyle Gibson yea your right
the only problem would be the struggle to stretch the video to around 22 minutes
No Don’t let it become TV they will just control everything and won’t be as good as he does it just enjoy it on here.
"TV" (cable) is dead.
I realize this isn’t your gig but I’m surprised you didn’t bring up Sears treatment of their staff, especially retired staff. It was honestly one of the most heartbreaking elements of the shut down. I worked for Sears 2013 till early 2017 and most of my fellow employees were extremely loyal senior citizens. I knew women who worked there for more then twenty years, had barely retired and had there pension ripped away from them. To this day at my local mall a bunch of the elderly ladies meet in the food court every Friday morning to talk about their experience and where working for Sears has left them.
I had an Aunt that worked at Sears for 40+ years. She lost her pension too. However, the thought of a retail employee earning or being offered any sort of pension in modern times is quite laughable.
This is entirely true. The rank & file employees were shown the door without hardly a word of warning and no more than a last paycheque, and as is all-too-expected, the remaining C-levels and executives still received bonuses, pensions, and severance packages.
January 14, 2018. All remaining stores closed tonight... RIP Sears Canada ;( and thank you Jake for that video
wow, on my birthday?
@@rootpaste lol
@@rootpaste my birthday too!
It's always a good day when you upload a new episode of Abandoned.
And a bad day for some poor company
Especially when it's accompanied by The Proper People
Bad day for whatever is abandoned though
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*Bright Sun Uploads*
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its always heartbreaking when people lose their jobs. especially when it happens en masse
As someone who lost their job very publicly (Target Canada), thank you.
I miss toys r us
Well that company was ran by shitbags
@@zachsiner383 Eddie lambert
@@staringcorgi6475 yes. Eddie Lambert.
Sears US is next
And K-Mart. Radio Shack could go any time now.
That's about right
Radio Shack already closed...
He/she talking about the source
Radio Shack is still hanging on by a thread
Can you do a video on the bridal store, Alfred Angelo? It was so shocking how they closed all their stores abruptly and with no warning to the customers and employees. Love your videos by the way! Amazing job!
Sandy Candy Oh yeah that was crazy! I wonder what happened to all of the lawsuits that were filed.
Due to the bankruptcy, most of the lawsuits will never make it anywhere sadly.
Ouch that layoff meeting footage hurt my heart poor babies ❤️
Calista Daniels SAME I was almost crying
Yeah. It's pretty sad. 😞
That horror I cant imagine, Especially families with kids
We had family friends that worked in JCPenney for like 20-30 years, it was brutal when the store closed and they were laid off. ;n;
Yeah, and there will be a lot more of those layoff meetings in the near future, as we the customers are buying our stuff online now, so it's our own fault all those people losing their jobs. It'll be millions in the US alone!
I predicted the fate of Sears Canada about half a year before they announced the first bankruptcy news... I was walking around in my local Sears (a HUGE one, 3 floors in Fairview Pointe-Claire Shopping Centre in the suburbs of Montréal) one Saturday afternoon and it was completely dead. The third floor was the worst of all though, the only people up there were about 2 employees. No music either. Just dead, eerie silence. I took some video footage of the condition of that store... shelves that were bordering on abandonment, their old Craftsman tool section turned into a makeshift thrift store with everything from old Christmas decorations to baby cribs in it. The shoe section was a joke, barely anything worthy of buying on the shelves and when I snuck into the rear storage room, I saw that there were rows upon rows of completely empty shelves, absolutely no inventory at all. It was a sad sight and made me laugh at how the management of Sears Canada were trying so hard to bullshit the public about their situation.
Anyhow, you've made another great video, Jake! Ciao!
Rian McDonald and you know what's worse? Hudson bay is following the same route. Except the govt will probably intervene and pump money into it because of their history in fur trade. Losing the Eaton and now Sears probably gives them a good reason to do so as well.
That being said the loss of Sears is pretty disheartening.
Toi target was a joke here, we got a bad knockoff of target and sears here Was designed to fail
Please post the video... And reply when you do!
Target was because it was handled poorly, it wasnt the same Target as in the US. Yes it had the look but not what made it popular in the US
That's insane!
Seeing this is weird for 2 reasons: The first is that Sears is 150 years old company who is literally a house hold name, and it'd be crazy to think it'd go away. The second is that its crazy to see them completely going away in Canada, and is doing badly here in the US now too and I'm assuming that it will be DeJa Vu pretty soon, which will be sad.
Lavender, I remember one of those stock advisory guys on the I-net recommending to buy Sears Holding and how the CEO was such a smart guy. Good thing I did not take his advice.
The Lavender Town Project Well, out with the old in with the new!
I never thought that I'd see Eaton's or Woodwards go either-but all department stores seem to have a shelf life, and now with Amazon and other companies like it, unless you are a small "boutique" store, I suspect the days of any brick and mortar stores are numbered.
"Hey Google, show me videos about CES"
"OK, showing videos about Sears on RUclips"
Huh, neat.
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@@bahadrozturk2086 stfu
What is CES?
well, they do sell electronics :D
CES? ChaosEmeraldStar?
Been watching this series for over a year now. Made me change my outlook on retail for the rest of my life. Im so happy to see how professional this series has become in a years time.
I love this series dude, thanks for another great video!
Thank you!
netflix or amazon should buy your Abandoned series...excellent work
Sears was one of my favourite stores. I purchased almost all the electronics at Sears because of their layaway options. I loved their shopping catalogs, my favourite one was 2000 millennium one. Nothing is same since they’re gone ☹️
It's sad that Kmart/Sears is going under. Hopefully someday, someone will make the National Retail Museum so they aren't forgotten to the sands of time.
Yap Pac now THAT would be cool.
Be sure to include all the mom & pop shops that Sears put out of business over the years. We get all teary eyed over businesses that don't deserve any sympathy. Our affections for Walmart will grow and our hearts will break when Walmart collapses under pressure from Amazon. Then Amazon will collapse under the yet-to-be-founded 3D Printing Acme Co. Who cares? The current retail innovator will succumb to the next retail innovator. Horse & buggy made way for the car. The car will in turn make way for Star Trek teleporters. And Star Trek teleporters will make way for conscious transference into telerobotics mediated by neural lace implants. Cheer for innovation or succumb to despair with news of the old collapsing.
Lenard Segnitz That's true. I don't have sympathy for Macy's because of Federal-May
I actually still like wandering through department stores
I like that you went the extra mile and got an interview. Good job!
Thank you!
No problem! I appreciate that you have a genuine interest in the topic, it really shows.
I remember the June 22nd day clearly, it was painful to see and I lost co-workers that day. Working in head office I was locked out and was not on either list, I had actually sent in my resignation two weeks earlier and had that day pegged as my final day. Great timing. I did however manage to sneak into the Royal York Hotel meeting in Downtown Toronto, right down the street from the one that was happening in which you have video of, of the Metro Toronto Convention centre. We lost what seemed like almost 2/3rd of the corporate staff that day. Lots of tears were shed by all of us. It was nice to see all of that. I know the lady giving the news did not want to.
YO! hey JAKE i just wanted to say that your videos are very good and entertaining to us wich i think i speak for everyone who loves and really likes your videos. THANK YOU JAKE
Thank you so much!
Your welcome keep it up!!
Please do an abandoned of Miracle Foodmart.
Along with Woolco, Woolworth.
Rip Sears Canada. It was at one of my local malls, and my family would always get the Christmas wish book. We'd also get our snowsuits there. I went there a few weeks ago and it had everything must go sign everywhere. It was a sad sight.
FlameGirl100 same, I will miss sears. I wound if that is where the third Walmart of the city is going to go.
FlameGirl100
Times are a changin'.
It's like a person that no one wants to see, anymore.
Like an actor that no director want to cast in his movies, anymore, because that generation lost interest in what they like.
We use and then we abandon.
Just life things..
I love how this also shows the history of sears, im from canada and sears was literally my go to place when i was a kid, i actually loved this place. Kinda sad its gone, like a huge part of my childhood to januray 2018, RIP sears.
Can you do Borders bookstores? That was traumatic to me as a kid, and I would like to relive those memories.
+Audrey Confer Border's isn't closed, there's one here. They have partnered with Starbucks.
Borders is closed. Look it up, they ceased operations in 2011.
In St. John’s Newfoundland has a coles also a indigo with a star bucks
Yunus Moatar Costco is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Same here. I miss Borders 😢
im honestly surprised it's not closing in america too. There's a store in the mall of america and i've been in there a few times and its pretty much empty whenever i go.
The company as a whole will be dead by 2020.
Same the one at MOA is always empty!
I think they are just tax write-offs at this point. There is NO WAY those stores are turning a profit.
It is
In Chicago Sears closed some stores in 2017.
I loved getting the Sears Wishbook in the mail, I would make a list of things from it and buy them at another cheaper store.
That's the general problem.
The quality of your video are getting better and better. It’s really exciting to see a channel grow and mature like this over time. It kind of reminds me of Philip DeFranco’s channel and how it matured in content and quality over the years.
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I waited all day to watch this! Your thoroughness impresses me yet again. On a different note, The most bullshit thing about Sears dying is what the employees have to go through. They're getting next to nothing from the company in regards to layoffs and unemployment, and a fair chunk of the employees have been with Sears for upwards of 10-15 years. I feel so bad for them.
It's kind of sad. This company started with a guy who bought 5 watches and sold them to railroad switchmen. So much history in the Sears and Roebuck era. Sears was where you bought your first electric guitar in the 60's because you saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Or a combo organ when you saw The Doors. There weren't many music stores back then. Maybe they should've returned to their roots as a mail order company and merged with Amazon or something.
Paul TheSkeptic 🌹
Sears could have BEEN Amazon, all by themselves. At the beginning of the Internet era, they had the money to pour into online sales.
If they had the foresight but who could tell? Remember what happened to Blockbuster? Netflix wanted to sell the concept to Blockbuster. They laughed at them. When they finally got onboard with the online thing, it was too little too late. The internet back then, no one really knew what it was going to be. When I first went on the internet, I saw that you could chat and the rest was like one big ad. Videos back then took about an hour to load. In the really early days, even a picture didn't come up so fast. But yeah, I see what you mean. I could imagine Sears being the dominant force in mail order like in their early days. Well, all good things must end.
When the Internet first went public, webpages took three minutes to load (and they were mostly text.)
Amazon really doesn't need to get any bigger. It's scary enough as it is.
"Is Sears Canada going away??" Can't believe that dumb commercial talking about their own demise. brilliant!
Some of the people at our Sears have been there 20-30 years. The one appliance guy has been there since the store opened in 1988. Is it just the position you work in or location? Those guys that have been there since my dad took me as a kid are still there they’re always friendly and seem happy. I talk to them whenever I’m there.
Don’t lie we all used sears as a shortcut to get into the mall
hell yeah lol
hell yeah
I did too, however, I did shop for clothes there regularly.
@@Mochrie99 lol me too i bought this sears canada black puffy jacket when i was eight
I feel called out but sometimes i got shoes from there (they got some nice lookin FILA's ngl)
Jake, your videos are so well done it almost unbelievable. That interview with the Mall president was fantastic.
Oh, and I always almost tear up at the end of these when you usage footage of the abandon stores/locations where a huge corporation used to be.
Sears catalogs used to be like porn when I was a child. kidding, not kidding.
I'd spend all day perusing their Catalogues and anticipating my purchases. I'll miss Craftsman Tools and Kenmore. Bought a great Gas Mower from them and Craftsman Tools were the Creme De La Creme of Tools until Snap-On and Chinese Knockoffs became a thing. I think the employees were handled very poorly in the end and the management that was mostly responsible for its demise...got away with Golden Handshakes and Severance Packages. Sad...very Sad.
paradoxdesigns Yup, same here.
Yes
Darrin G. Yo you remember those catas? I don’t read them anymore…
Remember when Atari 2600 was the coolest thing, then, in the next Christmas Catalog....Atari 5200.......Atari 7800! Nintendo! Sega Master System! etc! Daisy BB Guns, made, in America! Vibrator's, ass far as the Finger could see! Those, were the day's.
I love these videos, i binged watched all of your abandoned videos
I just stumbled on these videos a few days ago. They are so fascinating. Sears is so interesting, I know they sold electronics, hardware, clothing, sporting goods and yet when I needed any of those things I never once thought about going to Sears. It's like they had no identity and tried to be everything to everyone.
I love these films. One of the best series on RUclips.
Nothing makes my day better then seeing a new video from BSF !!!!!! Love it brother
Just discivered this series, and totally binged watched it. Amazing job! Its so sad to see these iconic stores disappear. I watched it happen when i worked for Radio Shack, and im watching it with Sears, as I have a friend who woks for them.
Sears was actually one of the first major Canadian retailers to adopt online orders. It's a shame they never really leveraged it.
I guess in the beginning it didn't seem that important and they most likely didn't want to take away business from their stores. At the same time it's mindboggling, because with the catalogues they had, the infratructure must have been basically there already, just put the catalogue on the internet and you are pretty much set.
But it's probably not as easy when you are an established company and are competing with a new company like Amazon which can move much quicker and doesn't have any liabilities pretty much.
My grandpa remembers when they used to get those giant Sears catalogs in the 1950s. He said that you could buy kits for full size houses, airplanes, Hot Rods, and so much more. The one near his house in Texas even sold M1 Garands for $20 a gun. I wish we could go back to that time.
A significant portion of the city that I live in is listed on the National Historic Registry and I know of a couple of houses in the area that were built between 1910 and 1920 that are 2-3 stories which were ordered from Sears.
"What the Sears" was a horrendous campaign and everyone involved should feel awful
The sears at the mall i go too all the time is finally closed. Its really sad. I remember also getting the Sears christmas catalogue and doing the circle thing. I still have my 2007 book actually haha. Also jake and BSF team, thank you for all your hard work! Its amazing❤
Abandoned Toys ‘R’ Us
That video is probably gonna come in 2020 once Toys ‘R’ Us ARE actually abandoned after their chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Andre Boccaccio They did file for chapter 11 but only because of a past financial agreement but not due to lack of sale
CoastalX23 01 right you are
Andre Boccaccio he is technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Highly doubtful. Toys R Us is still alive and well, especially near me in Portland Oregon. Plus, you can’t replace kids going to a huge toy store with their parents, to shitty lazy online shopping sites.
Anthony Lee I agree but didn't you hear that Toys 'R' Us is in chapter 11 bankruptcy? Soon there will not be any Toys 'R' Us stores left.
Learned more about the chain of stores, than I thought I was lol. I used to rent a little 2 bedroom, 2 story "cute" looking little house, and it was ordered right out of the 1942 sears catalog!! Was delivered on a flat bed, and came with instructions on how to construct. Really cool, they kept all the original paperwork, and it was really neat when I'd have company and they'd admire the house, I always loved telling them it was ordered right from sears. Lol! Been binging your videos all day at work! I've got nothing done today! Thanks! LOL
I went to a Sears nearby for my birthday, it was almost abandoned, and the music was almost quiet. But it's closing now. My first, and last time at a Sears.
YCSM YT why would you go to sears for your birthday?
My local Kmart is finally shutting down it somehow survived 2016 and 2017 but it won't survive into 2018 kind of sad seeing it go since it was one of the Big Kmart stores with the cafeteria in it
loganbaileysfunwithtrains I have a Sears near that’s finally shutting down and moving into the right-next-door Sears Auto Center next year (assuming they don’t file for bankruptcy and liquidate their assets after the holiday season). That space (which is apart of a mall) is going to be converting to a Stew Leonard’s and a movie theater.
There's one of those here in Los Angeles and I love it, hopefully it won't close while I still live here
loganbaileysfunwithtrains my local Kmart also closed! Sad, not sad
Yes, I freaking hate Kmart. Amazon and Walmart it's all we need. They need to shut down so these crap stores.
Omg mine closed 2015 or 16.. the cafe closed 2010
It was a real shame. I actually lived near one of the revamped stores and had re-started shopping there before they closed. The revitalization plans were rock solid, but implemented too late to have a significant impact.
These retail chains lack forward thinking. There's no reason why Sears couldn't have been Amazon.
Xanhorn They scoffed at the Internet. Today, you can’t do that and not expect consequences.
Sears was the Amazon of its day way back in 1886. However they lost their way and today it is run by people who know absolutely nothing about retail.
I totally agree. They had the catalog shopping thing down well decades before Amazon and the online thing. Poor management is all
We had the same thing here in Denmark. We had a very well known big warehouse called "Daells Varehus" (Daells Warehouse) which were really big in mail order sales, and every second household subscribed to their mail order catalogue, but they forgot to renew themselves, and they closed down for good back in 1999, so way before online shopping became the next big thing in retail. The company was established in 1910, so almost nine decades old when they went out of business!
I really miss Sears and the catalogue shopping. Where we live the shopping is terrible and don't like ordering on line.
What a good informative video. You always have good stuff.
i lived near to a huge sears and i loved that store. i was so sad to see it close. the store was empty for a while since the building is so big. it was finally replaced with another clothing store. i went to visit with my family and it was truly sad. seeing all the areas where is used to shop when i was 7ish.
What Canadian doesn’t have those memories of circling toys in the wish book every year as a kid? :)
Brennen Parker I am American and I did the same thing as a kid. It was actually really exciting when the catalog would show up in October/November
I remember ogling the toy section. One day, I switched to the lingerie section instead...
We didn't even celebrate Xmas and I still loved it when the wish book came in!! I couldn't wait to start circling! 😅
OH SHIT IT'S FINALLY HERE i live in Canada and I've been waiting for this for so long, last time I went to one was about a year ago at one of the ones in Scarborough
Oh, I got a like, you gotta do a fan meetup in Toronto or something. That'll be great my man
I’m Canadian also so the wish book was my childhood still is!
I picked out the Sears home in Woodbridge.
Shaen c
Hungryredpanda .-. Just out of curiosity did it also include the Consumers Distributing catalog to. Or am I just that old?
Alberta, Okotoks or Calgary too please
Good video. Seeing all these dead stores and malls is a little depressing. I remember when malls really had it all banks, library, fountains, Safeway, Woolco, Eaton's, Bay, some had close to 200 stores. While weekdays were busy Saturdays were packed. Part of the problem is malls themselves. They are all cell phone stores and shoe shops nowadays and no real draw. Things are too spread out. Before you could go to Safeway, Record store, book store, bank, grand and toy all in the same place.
R.I.P Sears Canada 😢 and awesome video btw :)
I love this series. Glad to see it continue. Also, is there going to be a Sports Authority Abandoned episode?
Very sad for Sears passing, a true iconic Canadian store.
At least Hudson's Bay isn't going anywhere, though I'm worried about Holt Renfrew now that Nordstrom is getting more and more prevalent in Canada.
But Sears is an american company
true xD
No it wasn't. So glad when it left.
Sears actually still exists in California :D
I love the "Abandoned" series. It is very informative
Please do North Wilksboro Speedway!!! It’s the track that made NASCAR then they just left it...
Darian Gilliam Go #48 and team hendrick!!
Darian Gilliam YES YES YES
Markkanen Was a Jr fan but he’s gone after this Sunday so Bubba Wallace next season!!!! #43
I don't blame NASCAR, the track was really outdated, I just wished they would've overhauled it instead of just leaving though.
Res🅱️ect
That wish book was always exciting to read through every single Christmas.
I still get warm feelings even though I never ordered anything from one personally.
as a Canadian, its sad to see Sears Canada go bankrupt :( remember shopping there when I was younger.
See you guys are the problem
Dave M ??
Dave M i don’t live in Canada but I live in Florida and i kind of live close to a sears. It’s sad seeing it go away. I haven’t got too much experience with Sears as a young child.
Me too!!
You should do Zeller's as well. I would also recommend Woolworths, but that has been gone a really long time.
Does Target Canada not cover Zeller's?
+RLJ.251 Also Woolco.
Nope. Zeller's shut down and Target took over some of their old locations. But not the same company.
That makes sense. Good to know.
WHY DO ALL YOUR VIDEOS MAKE ME NOSTALGIC?!!! *cries*
Ayy I knew this day would come. It's pretty much gone in the US as well.
Every major company that has not adopted an aggressive and comprehensive web presence has died. The web is the modern mail order system and every business that fails to grasp that will either flounder or flat out fail. Regardless of size.
I am actually surprised that Sears didn't die off 5 to 10 years ago.
Sears still isn't dead
The Canadian company named sears (Simpson sears) is totaly dead. The American sears (sears and roebuck) is gasping it's last breaths. Retail is an unforgiving sector, those who don't adapt, die.
I'm loving the Abandoned series, idk why but its a fascinating watch, the night I came across it I watched for three hours straight lol, keep up the good work 😂
The Sears closed in Timmins Ontario over the summer. It was kind of sad because it was the only anchor store our mall had left.
Which mall was it?
Well Timmins Ontario only has one mall. Its called the Timmins Square, (I know not very original).
Victoria Scott i live just south in north bay and now the only anchor store in our main mall is walmart. its pretty sad
It’ll probably turn into Walmart. In Coquitlam BC our mall had a target and a sears on the other side lol. So the target is now a Walmart and I have no clue what they’ll do with the empty sears.
Ours won't. The sears was actually a replacement for a walmart that was once in there. Our walmart moved a little ways down the street into its own building.
Jake Williams > Jake Paul
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Literally anyone else > Jake Paul
This took so long to edit, with long hours of pouring over what looks good, what sounds good, and what works. I want to be what you already are in making videos. I love your stuff. Tom
It's so cool that you live in canada because I do as well and I know most of these places
beefyisrare I lost it when he took a shot at wonderland in one of his videos, that place was cool when I was about 8 but ten years later I hate it
Alex moriarty it's way to busy these days
beefyisrare and I get that there are "theme park prices" but it shouldn't cost me 20 bucks to get lunch at pizza pizza. Especially since that shit tastes like cardboard
Canada eh?
beefyisrare You do realize that 30 million people live in Canada, right...?
Please make an abandoned about the Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas which is a huge abandoned half finished building on the Las Vegas strip
Forrest Hassell Always thought it was a work in progress.
The place is just unfinished
14:14 my hometown Sears, living in Southern Ontario this video takes me back, my mom used to order everything from the catalogue and pick it up there
Can you please do borders books
Don’t y’all love how Jake and Brennen filmed that interview in the other abandoned anchor of that mall?
3rd time we've done a video inside that god damn Target
LOL shh its a sears as long as you believe its a sears
+Uncharted Travel Except that the red walls gave it away.
Uncharted Travel crafty little devil 😜
6:07 "Suspect's Wicked Farts Halt Police Interrogation" .....wait what?
I saw that too. 😂
LMAO Jake should do a video about that
LMFAO
Sears management was 90% of the problem . They got very complacent . It when they laid off all commission salespeople well that was a huge mistake . When you went to Sears store you found what you wanted and if they didn't have it they would get it in your size . And you could try it on to see if it fit . That's a problem with Amazon and all the catalog stores . You wind up tying hundreds of dollars in credit up because things don't fit or not very good quality . You can tell from a picture which you can tell when you hold your hands . The target was a different situation there run by stupid people .... Sears will be a big loss everywhere if they cannot figure out how to fix it . There are people smart enough to do it ..I still love big department stores . Especially ones where people wait on you . You can't beat commission salesman . Good ones work .
About a week ago, I saw a Sears ad that said “Store closing sale!”
You should make an abandoned of the Costa Concordia cruise ship
They cut it up into scrap metal.
But it did sit on the shores for like a year, and would be fun to hear how they raised it up and carried it away
Wow, it's not everyday I see pics of the old Sears in Garden City and Polo Park but I'll take nostalgia wherever I can get it lol
Can you do Sports Authority ?
Car Master I always loved Sports Authority
And Dick's Sporting Goods. Banning of guns will bring the company down.
They went bankrupt? THATS why the one by my house disappeared....
Death of the middle class meant the death of all the big box stores when people no longer had money to spend in them.
In America at least
I don’t want to be that guy but actually most of the reason for the shrinkage of the middle class is because people are becoming members of the upper class
@@aidenhall8593 that's nonsense. The people you see at Walmart are former Sears customers.
zeusvalentine the people you see at Walmart are the people who don’t have time to wait for an item to get to them from amazon.
Mike41 no I mean shrinkage, statistically most of the people exiting the middle class have gone to the upper class. Some have gone lower, but more have gone up. I have no statistics for Mobility within the middle class, but I assume it is probably similar.
I miss Sears. I loved going to the massive stores at Kingsway and West Edmonton Malls. Both are now massive, empty areas. I miss circling toys in the Christmas catalogues, and my favourite childhood presents are all from Sears.
I love the interview, very heartwarming and honest.
Your interviews are great. Please keep it coming.
Its weird watching this and then one of your first videos. You would leave you laughing at your own jokes in, and alot of "umms" and "uhs" Love the professionalism in these new videos
I know you are talking about Sears Canada but Sears in the USA is on borrowed time too. It shows that hedge fund managers shouldn't try to run retail. It looks to me he is milking the company and stripping the assets from it. Eddie Lambert should rot in hell.
He should be called Mitt Romney JR
Exactly. These people only know how to siphon off wealth from a company, slowly killing it over time.
I work with a guy that was at the big Sears warehouse here in Canada, He said they will be losing 20 percent of their pension because management signed their pension money over to the creditors, He can't even look to see how much money is left in his name.
Apparently Canada is where chain stores go to die.... RIP Sears and Target
honestly Target only failed in Canada because they opened up so much stores at once, if they opened up only a few stores first then slowly opened up more later on it would of worked tbh
Amazing Mugiwara Target also failed because the products US Target had were not here in Canada, a lot of the stuff was similar to Walmart.
suphomeskillet Target USA is booming. I don't think these corporations realize what the Canadian demographics want, which is why they failed. Our two markets are completely different.
Savannah Spanish true. Canadians want a large selection, but with cheap American pricing. Target Canada did neither and they took a bath for it.
Oops I meant RIP Canadian Sears and Target. I live in the USA
When I saw the map off all the sears stores closing I couldt stop but shed a tear as right there in northern alberta was our beloved Sears, the same one that i had gone to all my life up to this point
PLS DO ABANDONED NEW YORK CITY HALL STATION
They should've sold me at Sears, I woulda saved them from going under
You're even more obscure to me than Sears
Sorry but I only like tapatio hot sauce
@@laughingcentralyt3216 fuck yeah🙌🙌. Tapatio is the shit & will forever be the shit including Louisiana hot sauce🤤😋❤️
Dude, I only buy *Franks Red Hot* ; )
You wouldn’t be able to afford the operation costs of the company for 5 mins even if you got it for free.
Hey Jake, I absolutely love your videos and after coming across this one, it got me thinking of another long gone catalog company. I've grown up in Mississauga almost my whole life, and I remember going to Square One with my mum to pick up items from Consumers Distributing. I remember their catalogs being massive!
The mall manager sounds a lot like Bojack Horseman lmaooooo
the questions were terrible like a middle school student...
Sears Canada had a Ronald and a McDonald, how could it have possibly failed?
Angel AR I LEGIT THOUGHT ABOUT THAT
Wal-Mart! XD