The checkout counter (the last one remaining on the main floor, remember) was a hive of activity, with two employees helping two separate customers. Hey, that's pretty good for Sears! I guess this was the place to go if you didn't want to wait in last-minute shopping lines.
The dress shirt and backwards hat look is certainly unusual! Maybe that is a Seattle area thing, lol.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that price scanner actually worked. They were certainly a bit iffy at my local Sears towards the end in 2020, but there was usually at least one which worked. Of course, sometimes you had to go across the store just to find that working one!
It was rather unfortunate when my local Sears started consolidating checkout counters towards the end. Even a Sears checkout with few people in line could still take forever because people would go there to deal with Sears Card/Discover Card issues or some kind of warranty exchange. I certainly spent a lot of time at Sears checkout counters over the years because of that.
In unrelated news, it seems a permit has been filed for Eataly opening a location in Houston. I wasn't expecting that, and I'm not sure how well they'll do here, but we'll see!
Ha! Presumably the dress shirt was a dress code thing, but I guess management didn't care about the hat. Anything with dress shirts is definitely not a Seattle thing! 🙂
DeleteI thought about mentioning the scanner in the post since it definitely doesn't look like it was working, but I wasn't sure!
I used to be really excited about Eataly, but I haven't been particularly thrilled in recent years. That said, I did get a full set of the original Eataly in Turin on this past trip, which hopefully will eventually show up here once I'm over the bad memories from the trip.