I have to admit the only times I have gone to sears lately has been for price comparisons, where Sears didnt' come out well.

It’s been a big deal here as well, the disappearance of high street shops. We had the iconic national warehouse chain go under. And I know it’s been bad in England as well. All down to the rise of online shopping.

Sears is such an American icon it's sad to see it go.

Sears has been struggling for years. Quite a few years ago I went there for the last time. Standing in line, the cashier kept pushing some program that required name, phone number, address, email, etc., get some kind of rebate (and if I remember correctly, a gift certificate K-Mart...which made no sense, except for the fact that they had merged a few years before). Half the people were saying yes, then the transaction would take 10 minutes or more. It was bizarre. If there was a line of 10 customers, it took more than an hour to get checked out. Reading articles over the years seem to confirm that every program they designed to get customers back actually pushed customers away. It's too bad, really.