At first, I thought the Wolverine shirts were from some decidedly non-Seattle sports team, but apparently they're from some shoe company that also puts their logo on shirts for some reason. I suppose that's still on brand for late-stage Sears, as is their location across from HVAC filters and... well, I'm not sure if those are hoses or electrical cords.
Wolverine boots were popular at one time around the 1990s or so, but I wonder if the brand fell on hard times if they ended up being a featured brand at Sears!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what kind of filters those are. The Craftsman ones on the far left are probably for lawn equipment. I'm not sure what's in the Filtrete boxes. Maybe HEPA filters for vacuum cleaners? The Kenmore cables are probably power cables for ranges or dryers.
I suppose it isn't entirely unrelated as it is about a retailer who maybe has seen better times, at least in Houston, news came out today that Kroger is closing two more Houston stores. One isn't a huge surprise, the W. 20th inner-city location, which is a very old location which started out as a Weingarten, then became a Safeway in the 1980s, then it was shortly an AppleTree, and then finally a Kroger starting around 1994. Just saying that it was a Weingarten is enough to show how old and small it is! The other location is a ~Y2K era Signature store in a newer suburban area. That is more of a surprise, but maybe it shouldn't be given that HEB and Walmart are very close to the store. Kroger just can't compete against those two these days I suppose: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/kroger-close-houston-area-april/285-7ea18f34-3b3f-4541-854b-e3017607bd00