It is little wonder Sears is slowly going out of business.  They can’t figure out what you want if you sat up and begged them.  The snowblower story I posted yesterday turns out to be worse than I thought.  I went to the Sears Hometown Store in Indy today.  I got a new push mower for under 200 dollars.  There were two left, one of them selling as is.  There are still seven snowblowers left.  Sears shipped fifteen of them almost a decade ago and the store actually sold almost half 0f them. 

Everything not snowblower has sold rapidly.  Even the furnishings are gone, including the counter.  The owner says she has a week or two at most. There were two gas grills I thought about getting, but I will probably end up getting some drills instead.

I thought I could snag a lawnmower at the local Sears Hometown store’s going out of business sale. The sign said open at 8:30. I got there a little after that and the store was closed. I though I saw a couple of lawnmowers in the window, but I couldn’t tell because they were behind seven snowblowers. Snowblowers are not native to southeast Kansas. In 16 years I can count on one hand the number of times I could use a snowblower. This is a prime example of Sears’ inability to get the right product on the shelf at the right time. Good riddance Sears.