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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on June 25, 2021, 12:13:13 PM
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Star Member GReedDiamond (4,776 posts)
I had to go shopping for a new refrigerator... [View all]
All of our food has melted, due to the fact that our current fridge won't get cold enough to do what it's supposed to do. It's still running, it just doesn't get cold.
So last Monday, we went to a few stores, like Best Buy, Lowes and Home Depot, but they had nothing in stock at our budget of $500-600, which is basically rock bottom for a decent sized unit.
So we went to the Sears store in Pasadena, parked behind the store where the Sears auto service bays are, and went to the back entrance - which was locked and gated.
One of the auto service guys showed us how to get in the store from inside the service bay, and when we entered the store, it was like...a Ghost Store. I saw one other customer, and very few employees/floorwalkers* anywhere.
We went to the appliance section, found a fridge that we were interested in, just as a floorwalker approached. We showed him the fridge, he said that he didn't know if they had it in stock, and that he couldn't check, because their nationwide computer system had been down for a week. So they couldn't check inventory, and they could not even take credit or debit card payments, it was cash only.
The floorwalker said that the rumor was that Corporate HQ was trying to create conditions so bad that they would be "forced" to close more stores and let many people go.
We still don't have a refrigerator, and all of our food is now bad or almost there.
*I come from a family in Chicago that, that, back in the late 50s to late 70s, included relatives who worked for Sears, including an aunt who was the personal secretary to the VP of Sears Roebuck, and a couple of my uncles were floorwalkers - that was their job title.
No Word on the Subsequent Trip to Montgomery Ward, Or What They Ate For Lunch at Steak and Ale (https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15559824)
I'm surprised the liberal didn't call some union monkey to come scrape the barnacles off the coils of their existing Norge so it starts working again. That said, let me understand: with the infinity of places in the LA area where someone can find a fridge, including CRAIGSLIST (where you can probably trade the contents of your bong for a Kenmore), they go to the one place completely unlikely to have anything at all.
Jeez, I know when I go shopping for a major appliance, I prefer to have an auto mechanic guide me through a service entrance to the showroom. Nothing says "Hi, we are are here to serve you with a wide selection" more than needing to be shown in through a side door.
Dumb is as dumb does, I guess. Then it turns into a lament that the world didn't stop turning in the glorious world of 1970's Chicago, where the avocado or piss-colored fridges were sold by apes in polyester shirts who stank of Pall Malls and looked like Elliott Gould. Oy.
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Link?
Fer sure fer sure!
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So we went to the Sears store in Pasadena ...
There are Sears stores open? Or is this an anachronistic :bouncy: ?
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GReedDiamond
I had to go shopping for a new refrigerator... All of our food has melted
I can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone say the food in their refrigerator “melted”. “Ruined”, yes. “Spoiled”, yes. “Melted”, no.
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I can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone say the food in their refrigerator “melted”. “Ruined”, yes. “Spoiled”, yes. “Melted”, no.
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Using WIC cards paid for by you and me to stock up on Freeze pops and $125/gal ice cream I would bet. :banghead:
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There are Sears stores open? Or is this an anachronistic :bouncy: ?
A retroactive bouncy perhaps? This one time....in band camp...
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Hey, BFDU! Long time no see.
KC
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Hey, BFDU! Long time no see.
KC
It has been quite a trip for me but I am still kicking. ^5
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There are Sears stores open? Or is this an anachronistic :bouncy: ?
Yep, and stocked with kenmore rebranded LG appliances
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Now they will pass the hat to buy new food, and possibly to kick in a few $ for a better fridge.
gofund me here I come!! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :loser:
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Yep, and stocked with kenmore rebranded LG appliances
Looks like the only one within 50 miles of my home is in Concord, an hour or more drive away. There used to be at least 3 just in San Jose.
Sears was rebadging before going bankrupt.
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Looks like the only one within 50 miles of my home is in Concord, an hour or more drive away. There used to be at least 3 just in San Jose.
Sears was rebadging before going bankrupt.
The ex and I bought the appliances for our newly purchased home from Sears and another relic, Montgomery Ward.
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I grew up in Pasadena, less than 2 miles from the Sears the DUMMY refers to. I bought a few Die Hard batteries from the auto service bays he refers to and my mom used to buy me Toughskins jeans from the boys department for school. The once large Sears department store is now a shell of it's former self
They split the store up and a Home Goods now occupies more square footage of the original store foot print than Sears now does.
Surprisingly the auto service center is still there (or at least was last time I was in Pasadena to visit my mom about 2 months ago). I wonder who thinks if Sears when they think if car care.