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A&E Factory Service (Sears Home Services) is still a current division of Sears Holding.

A&E Factory Service (Sears Home Services) is still part of Sears Holding. I think someone is getting Sears Home Improvement Products (SHIP) confused with Sears Home Services (SHS). SHIP which was a division within SHS has been sold to Service.com (with full completion in Jan. 2019) but SHS has not been sold to Service.com or any other company at this time. If the article used to site the info is reviewed you'll find no mention of SHS being sold.

We need to remove this portion from the "Former" section and back to "current" and swap the names.-> This should be labeled as Sears Home Services (dba A&E Factory Service)

Thanks

As far as I know the service.com sales failed to materialize as they were never named a qualified bidder, when it came down to actual bids it was just Eddie/ESL vs. The liquidators. So far as I know SHIP was never actually sold and is still owned by Sears, Yrly (talk) 10:07, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sears West Jordan

Sears closed its store in West Jordan, UT in November 2018.

Additional 80 stores closing

Sears Holdings is closing an additional 80 stores, including 43 Sears stores. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.59.245.106 (talk) 18:57, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More Store Closing

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/sears-announces-store-closing-in-jacksonville-s-avenues-mall/984829749 FusionLord (talk) 10:28, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Links from the 'Sears' article to the 'Alvah Curtis Roebuck' article

The name 'Alvah Curtis Roebuck' appears 3 times in the 'Sears' article and in each case the name is a link to the 'Alvah Curtis Roebuck' article. However, the name 'Alvah C. Roebuck' appears once in the 'Sears' article and does not link to anything. Jsnyder527 (talk) 12:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sears founding date

Looking at several articles, there appears to be a bit of confusion regarding the actual founding date of Sears.

Sears archives lists 1893 as the official date - http://www.searsarchives.com/history/questions/index.htm
CNBC lists 1893 as the official date - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/timeline-the-rise-and-fall-of-sears.html
The Encyclopedia of Chicago History (TECH) lists 1893 as the official date - http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2840.html
Wikipedia lists 1892 as the official date - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears
Britannica lists 1886 as the official date - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sears-Roebuck-and-Company

Assuming Sears knows when it was born, and since third parties - CNBC, and TECH vouches for the birth year, it is propose that the date on Wikipedia be adjusted to 1893. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9001:5504:E490:3135:A2B7:5944:B8C6 (talk) 22:06, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Number of locations.

Somebody keeping’s adding that the number locations is 35, even though the number has decreased to 23 since May 2022. I’m asking that this be solved and whoever keeps adding this to stop adding outdated information. That number, 35, was from September 2021. More stores have closed since then. Quite a few sources mention this. 73.100.80.112 (talk) 01:41, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is not closed in jordan

not closed 2607:FEA8:A5E:9E00:5CA9:818A:86AF:3DBC (talk) 15:07, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

number of locations

The most recent source states that as of January 2024 are 13 locations (with 12 being in the US). Don't change this without a reliable source giving a new count.

And why were almost 100 stores in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean recently added to the article added? I have not checked all of them, but the 92 in Mexico are clearly not part of the company that this article is about. ^[1] Per Google translate: "... it was in 2016 that the Mexican magnate [Carlos Slim] bought the percentage of the shares that he did not own, separating his operation from the American holding company." I will remove these entries. Meters (talk) 00:25, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Echeverría, Mara (29 June 2023). "Sears, la tienda de la familia Slim que en México tomó un camino diferente al de su quiebra en EU". Expansión (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 January 2024.

Meters (talk) 00:25, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Would Brostocks' article documenting the Sears locations be counted as a reliable source? It was used before and it's been updated to remove PBG and Jersey City. Usually updated each time a closure is announced. 47.187.158.70 (talk) 04:57, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Softer Side of Sears

The slogan dates back to 1994? and relates to non-hardware stuff that Sears Roebuck and Co. was known for tools and appliances. including Kenmore (made by Whirlpool) and famously Craftsman? Was it to target men or women. in the past Sears was America's go to store before the Walmart-era. The 1980's was There's More of your Life era of Sears even with the 1984 logo. The 1990's had used some forgotten slogan "You Can Count on Me" from the early 1990's. predates the Kmart merger in 2004/2005. Winnebaggo (talk) 00:13, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Echeverría, Mara (29 June 2023). "Sears, la tienda de la familia Slim que en México tomó un camino diferente al de su quiebra en EU". Expansión (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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