We’ve all heard the news. Sears is closing stores. These photos are from the Charleston Town Center store. Four more days and it will close forever.
Do you remember when Sears was the place to go for tools? For vacuum cleaners? For back-to-school clothes?
I can’t tell you how many things I’ve bought in this store. How many hours I’ve spent roaming the aisles. To see it so barren is haunting and sad.
Remember the Sears catalog? It was a precursor to internet sales. Thumb through the catalog, find what you want, fill out the order form and mail it in. I bought a guitar from Sears that way. I bought skis that way. Now I simply click.
Which is why Sears is closing stores. Retail isn’t changing, it has changed. There will be fewer actual stores in the future. But I don’t see them going away completely. Some of us still want to see how clothes fit before we buy them. We want to run the vacuum cleaner over carpet. And we want to see how the tool fits our hand.
One more photo. It’s a sign in what’s left of the clothing department. It may be the only sign left in the store.
Joseph E Bird 
March 23, 2017 at 7:22 pm
I remember going to the old Sears building with the family. My dad would buy a bag of warm cashews, doling them out to us kids every so often. I don’t remember actually buying anything there, although of course, we did. I mainly remember how we walked as a family, winding our way through the aisles. Pleasant memories.
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March 23, 2017 at 8:36 pm
I forgot about the cashews.
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