7 retailers that are shrinking fast

Good riddance for Sears. They're a shell of their former self and much of their decline is self-inflicted as they've let their once customer service fall off a cliff. I was a 40+ year customer and they treated me so shabbily I refuse to set foot in another one of their stores again. They also neglected to give me a reason to buy from them which is a cardinal sin in retail. As expected, when I closed all my accounts, I never heard a peep from them as to "why" as if they never noticed - or cared - that I was gone.

The article states taxes is the problem why stores are closing. I bet the author was a conservative with a bias view.  As I browse through most comments, it is the problem of lies on poor management team with huge salary and economy.  There going to be problem whether raising or decreasing taxes.  Journalists brought stories with no citation, references, empirical data to support, much like republicans pull things from thin air.

I have avoided Sears, if possible, for almost 50 years.  When I was much younger, I wanted to buy a chess set Sears advertised in their Christmas catalog; they said it could be ordered for up to 8 months after the Christmas the catalog advertised for.  I worked hard, saved my money, and went to my local Sears and paid for the set, which would be shipped to me within 2 to 4 weeks, or so I was told.  After checking with the "customer service" desk every month for EIGHT FREAKING months, I was told that that particular chess set had been discontinued TWO years before.  They had held my money for most of a year before informing me that!!  I got my money back, but not with interest, and they lost a potential customer.  I have ever since advised people to NOT buy from Sears.  On the few occasions I have had to go there, I have not had a single good shopping experience; the best ones could only be described as average.

Walked outta Sears in 98 and never went back when an Hispanic manager fellow decided he didn't want to sell me something, but he did want to help a guy behind me who was Mexican.  Pretty sure I was the one with the Jag and the denero.  Sears' loss, not mine.  

Sears was doomed when that Bain-like company took over. They will all get rich and that company will be no more. It's just a question of time.

I worked for Sears Holdings Co. (Kmart) for the last 23 yrs and lost my job last April because these greedy bastards don't know how to run a Co. Also worked the last 6 yrs without a raise because the Co. was failing, but the BIG SHOTS still got their big bonuses. They can all go to HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

Has anyone else heard of the internet?  I hate to break it to you but it barely has anything to do with a CEO's salary that these places are in mass closing mode.  It doesn't have to do with poor management on the middle level, it doesn't have to do with poor wages for front line employees, not much anyway.  It has to do with the fact that you know what a wrench is, and you know exactly what one you want.  If you search for it on Google you'll find that there are 1000+ online retailers that will sell you one for half the cost of what Sears would, shipped, with no tax, to your doorstep.  Unless you're just browsing for random things with all your extra money, or you don't know exactly what you're looking for and need assistance finding it, there's really little reason to pay the extra cost of buying from a big box store.  Some people will always want to see and hold what they're buying before they buy it, and for those people money is often no object.  In a discerning economy such as ours though, these stores have their work cut out for them to provide the level of service needed to keep profits high enough to satisfy greedy investors.  Look for more and more of this in the future, and if you can't handle it you might as well fashion yourself a green mohawk and keep on listening to your Ramone's cassette tapes, you're stuck in the 80's.  

No surprises here. Anyone paying attention knows all of this. Why did you feel the need to waste time and space on this article?

Blockbuster cannot even afford new releases anymore!