I was pretty impressed by the cool electronic price tags too -- they seemed way too modern for Sears! Oddly, Sears only ever seems to have used these in their appliance departments. I think I took a picture of this one in specific because I was shocked by the price ($4200 normally!), but five years later that seems significantly less absurd than it once did. I still wouldn't pay that much for a refrigerator, though!
Yep, Sears was a fairly early adopter of electronic price tags like that and, unlike Kohl's, their signs usually did work as well!
ReplyDeleteI bought a new Sears Kenmore (made by LG) refrigerator in 2016 for under a thousand dollars (I can't remember the exact price), but it most certainly wasn't some stainless steel monstrosity! It is just a good ole' white top freezer, bottom fridge model. It works very well for a modern appliance! The price of refrigerators seems to go out of hand very quickly once you start looking at non-upper freezer/bottom fridge models so I'm not sure why those other types are so popular. The other types seem less reliable and less efficient as well.
It's always surprising to see Sears listed as an early adopter of anything from the past 20 years! 😉
DeleteI don't understand those weird refrigerator configurations that keep popping up! I know my neighbors down the hall are planning to get rid of their fancy French door refrigerator because the doors just won't stay shut, and I remember (when I was very young) my parents being excited to get rid of their then-trendy side-by-side fridge in favor of a standard top-freezer one. The one in my condo now is a standard top-freezer design too, and it's kind of junk, but I've been holding off on replacing it since I've heard so many bad things about the ones you can buy these days!