I really don’t understand why Sears stores are so empty nowadays. Sears has some great products and clothing! Heck I even bought a shirt there recently.
The Sears branch in Albany NY near where I live, closed in late Summer of 2017. I could tell the employees of the company that had worked there a long time were sad to see it close.
Used to go here religiously when I was a kid back in the early 2000s. Lived not even five minutes from it. From what I remember, I never got boujee vibes from it. Always seemed kind of in-the-middle. I left Miami six years ago and I have only been back once. From what I'm told, it has changed even more. Now, I think it would be an F. Even though I've never liked going to malls, it's actually kind of sad to see it go down like this.
We would stop here and at Corner when going south for vacations. While the household incomes are extremely high in this area, I am curious how all of these high end brands will survive in the next few years. I have always assumed many of these stores are actually losses for the brands financially, but they have to be in these high end malls as part of their overall presence in the luxury scene. Thanks for posting!
It has the height but not the width. Maybe there´s not much area around to make it bigger. Many more plants would improve it a lot. But nice mall overall, so it gets a B+
I think this mall has a good chance of surviving. The problem is the horrible economy. Everything is so much more expensive than it was 3 years ago. Mall rent is up too. The mall prices may not be workable in the long run. We'll see.
I was there recently in early August on a Saturday and it was fairly busy. I don't know how it does throughout the week though. I think malls are declining, in general, because of the horrible economy, people don't want to pay higher 'mall prices', and online shopping has had a very bad effect on malls.
He practically did that already and still is after buying Sears and Kmart becoming merged as one thanks to him 18 years ago. It's amazing that there's less than a handful of Sears and Kmart stores still open, including this one (which is about 30-40 minutes away from where I live). Pretty soon, they're all going to abruptly close in the near future. With the very little stock that's left, should they even bother liquidating anything? Eddie closed almost every store slowly but surely wave by wave every few months for nearly TWO DECADES. Eddie is such a greedy loser (go figure) as all he really cared about was the money that came out of the store closures.
@@wolfgang1097this is my local sears and its gotten even worse since this filming. Its gotten so bad that there is almost no point in having the second floor be open anymore. Its just costing them money to power it and man it with employees. The mens dept is 96% gone. More than half of the women’s dept is gone too.
@lilpellegrino6672 wow, that sucks. This Sears is about 30-40 minutes away from where I live and thinking about how bad the remaining stores are doing at this point, including this location, I think it's time to forcibly pull the plug on the entire company, whether a certain ignorant jerk of a CEO (Eddie Lampert, that is) likes it or not. As much as it would be a shame to see the remaining Sears and Kmart stores go out of business altogether, it's really time to let the company go because this can't keep going on. The whole company has been suffering for way too long.
Sadly, Westshore Plaza's days are numbered. When Dillards moved out, it was the kiss of death. There are now only two anchors,...I don't consider Dick Sporting Goods to be an anchor. Pennys and Macys are the two anchors and they're both on shaky ground. You know it's bad when they have some dirty barber shop taking up a couple of storefronts. In my opinion, International Plaza is just too close. It's cleaner, newer, snootier, and busier. Westshore can't compete in the long run. JMO
35-32 years ago that mall was sooo cool. Last time I went. My grandparents used to live walking distance. There was a Nintendo store and a Sharper Image. I was 12.. Ah and a Hickory Farms store... I still can taste the cheeses and charcuterie. Now, it's just a sad generic mall. In the other end, I remember there was a Sears.. I guess not anymore. Maybe there was also an arcade, but I'm not sure. I do remember a cafeteria at one of those short hallways that served food school-style, with the tray pushing. I thought that was the coolest thing (I didn't live in the US back then; just visiting). Ah the memories.
