Goodbye, Sears – mourning the end of the Wish Book era
KAMLOOPS –– This thing with Sears marks the end of an era, and the ending of eras is almost always sad.
Fifty-nine stores closing, 2,900 jobs lost. It’s called “re-structuring.” Did you know that when the Kamloops store opened in 1954, it was the second one in Canada? It was Simpsons-Sears back then.
I’ve been with Simpsons-Sears and Sears for roughly 60 years.
If you lived in a small town, and there was no Sears or Eaton’s, you could go to the mail-order office on the main drag and pick up a two-inch thick catalogue. If a thing could be made, you could order it out of that catalogue.