I was hoping it had another week or two, I wanted to see Stu having to run the store with the regulars gone.

The Sears min-store here closed a few years ago, I found the big store in Las Cruces had closed when we were in town last week. A couple of days later I found an email in my spam folder from some liquidator saying that they were handling the closing of their stores, Beelzebub, Inc., IIRC.

The closing of Sears was probably inevitable as they were too highly leveraged on mall property, but the way they let in a vulture capitalist as CEO just really takes the cake. He made a fortune selling Sears to himself and then gutting it.