On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:36:27 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

> On 2/4/2013 11:10 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 07:41:54 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Just got an e-mail from a former coworker that said all K Marts and Sears
> >> will be closing at some point during the next 3 years. They simply won't
> >> renew the lease.
> >
> > I'm not under the impression that *all* Sears stores are closing, but
> > some of them are. I suppose the less profitable locations go first.
> > http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/12/2...b/interactive/
> > K-Mart closed here a long time ago and I was glad to see it leave.
> > They didn't take care of that store. It was always unkempt looking
> > because they didn't employ enough workers to tidy it up and keep it
> > neat.
> >
> I haven't been to the one in Beaufort in a while but it was a very neat,
> tidy store. It was brightly lit. The employees were very helpful. I
> just don't have much reason to shop there. For the sake of the workers
> I hope it doesn't close. Still, I'm not going out of my way (literally)
> to shop at a store that doesn't sell much of anything I need or want.
>
I was so used to seeing cruddy KMarts that I was actually shocked to
see how neat & clean the one in Corvallis was when my mother moved up
there.

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