#Sears Tele-Games #Hockey #jokari (1977)
https://itcamefromtheestatesale.com/sears-tele-games-hockey-jokari-1977/

@RxBrad what are you triumph the insult comic dog now? #sears tower

Someone asked, 'What did the '80s smell like?' and the scent memories are a time warp

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/someone-asked-what-did-the-80s-smell-like-and-the-scent-memories-are-a-time-warp

#PriceCheck: The 1986 He-Man Eternia Playset. ⚔️🏰

1986: A massive $99.99 at Sears (the ultimate "rich kid" toy). 2026: A boxed set can now sell for over $3,000! 📈

Did you ever see one of these in person?

#MastersOfTheUniverse #VintageToys #Sears #Nostalgia

https://collectorarchive.com/motu328

Jan 11, 1990: Holiday decor is down & "White Sales" are in full swing at Sears & Kmart. 🛍️

Remember the smell of Sears popcorn or the Kmart cafeteria? It’s a sensory memory that's fading. We save the tapes to keep those sounds & sights alive. 📼

#Sears #Kmart #Nostalgia #1990s

Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/sears-seritage-edward-lampert.html

#HackerNews #Sears #Stores #U.S. #RetailHistory #BusinessNews #Decline

Almost everything you wanted, but didn’t get for Christmas, is on sale now at Sears. Oh wait a minute. #Sears www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Wa...

Good morning. ☕☕☕

23 December 2025

I remember decades ago, when I was just getting started — stationed overseas with the Army, no car, no easy way to get around. What we did have was the Sears catalog. I think they sent it out once a year, the way phone books used to arrive like clockwork. It was as thick as the phonebook of a major city, a brick of possibility. In a way, it was the 20th‑century version of Amazon. You could order almost anything by mail, though the process was much slower. Living overseas, it could take weeks for something to arrive.

We’d flip through the catalog and daydream about what we might buy. I remember lingering over the idea of a bicycle with a moped-style motor. I never went through with it — even that modest machine would have taken a big bite out of the little money I had. But at the time, the idea felt practical, even sensible. Looking back now, it feels more like a youthful fantasy of mobility and independence.

These days, electric bikes are everywhere. And I think: what a cool idea — an electric bicycle. In some cities you see them lined up along the street, ready for use. I’m not entirely sure how the system works; I assume you rent them. If I were younger, I might be tempted to buy one myself.

Sometimes I wonder whether we’ll eventually see electric bicycle races — big arena events, something like the Indy 500 or NASCAR, with riders in bright suits and helmets, ready for a high-speed electric sprint. Maybe such races already exist and just haven’t hit the mainstream yet. Who knows — the WPEB, the World Professional Electric Bicycling league, might one day be a real thing.

“Long before Amazon trucks rumbled down our hollers, Christmas arrived in a much quieter way — tucked in the mailbox… It was the Sears Christmas Wish Book. That catalog didn’t just show things. It showed possibility.” - Newsbreak

#photo #photography #photographer #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #Sears #TuftedTitmouse

J’ai demandé à Chat GPT de me faire une séance photos style comme dans les années 70’s chez Sears (les vrais de vrais qui ont vécu cette époque savent de quoi je parle) et voilà ce qui en est sorti comme résultats 🤣 Vous avez le droit de rire solidement 👌✨

#HolidaysGreetings #MerryChristmas #Sears #JoyeuxNoel #MerryXMas #ChatGPT #Fun #Humour

Or perhaps a #70s Oak Barrel #bar set? #1970s #vintage #Sears #wishbook

More 1984 gift ideas.

#Sears #Wishbook #1980s #tshirts #IndianaJones #BuckarooBanzai #TV #knightrider

1984 Christmas wishlist?

#1980s #Sears #wishbook #Atari #D&D

Sears SR-3000 Series stereo system (1987)

https://makertube.net/w/jAgrLM6xDq7GrZAUG8MrxB

Simpsons-Sears Digi-Matic M8-3 calculator (1975)

https://makertube.net/w/1md5UMvdGH1pMkW1F3fcvt

Vintage Sears Coldspot C106 dehumidifier

https://makertube.net/w/wMHyFShMViwvw77fxcJVNX

Sears.

I found this image of the Sears on Arsenal Street in Watertown, New York on Facebook. For some reason I was thinking about this particular store; it’s the first place I noticed electronic cash registers. I was very young when I made this discovery: Dad was buying Mom a sewing machine. The sewing machine was branded “Sears” on its teal removable cover. However, the cashier was ringing up the sale on a Singer(-Friden) cash register, which didn’t make sense to me, since I knew that Singer made sewing machines. The cashier didn’t put a slip in the cash register because Dad was paying with cash. I figured that’s because we weren’t rich. We still lived in the trailer when this all occurred, and I don’t think I had discovered Shazam and Isis yet, so it must of have been in the early 1970s. In fact, as I type this, I’m remembering we didn’t have the big wooden console TV in the living room when the sewing machine was brought home from this Sears. That particular TV was given to us by my Dad’s cousin when he and his wife divorced around 1975. We still had the little black and white set that didn’t have the channel indicator on the knob, but a little piece of film was missing (where the channel would be displayed from a light shining through pieces of plastic with all the numbers on the dial), so you had to confirm the channel by looking inside the knob at the number at the very bottom position.

What’s weird to me right now is that I have no one to discuss these memories with. My sister often says she doesn’t remember much from our childhood, Mom’s memories were hazy at best, and I definitely inherited my memory from my father, who’s been dead since 2011.

The memory still makes me smile. Thinking about that Sears in general makes me smile. I remember going there with Grandma Country as walking around the store. It was a slower time.

I’m grateful my memories are pleasant.

#retail #sears

Despite it being the second biggest day for discretionary spending in the year (after Christmas), Sears Canada never sold anything to do with Halloween - apparently a directive from the Board and/or some shareholders. All because of what they felt the day represented - the occult, witches, pagan beliefs, anti-Christianity, etc.
I’m not saying Sears failed because of refusing to acknowledge Halloween, but it that kind of nonsense that didn’t help the bottom line.
#sears #canada #halloween

How the Sears Catalog Outsmarted Jim Crow

youtube.com/watch?v=Fua36HgaZj… youtu.be/Fua36HgaZj8

#YouTube #racism #History #sears

How the #Sears #Catalog Outsmarted #JimCrow

This book sold the same stove, suit, or pair of boots to anyone at the same printed price. When #Rural Free Delivery brought it to the mailbox, the #SearsRoebuck catalog landed on #Black families’ porches it turned shopping from a ritual of humiliation into something closer to dignity.

Here’s how the Sears mail‑order catalog quietly beat Jim Crow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fua36HgaZj8