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Up until about WWII, people even used to buy houses from Sears. Lots of people used to buy furniture from them. A lot of department stores started selling mostly just clothes sometime in the 1990s. Sears has had troubles since about that time.
Macy's still sells furniture and home goods. Not appliances though like Sears.
Up until about WWII, people even used to buy houses from Sears. Lots of people used to buy furniture from them. A lot of department stores started selling mostly just clothes sometime in the 1990s. Sears has had troubles since about that time.
Yep, Sears was the world's largest retailer during their glory days, and for over 50 years sold most of their items through their massive mail order catalogs until the rise of the shopping malls in roughly the 1960s, where they then became one of the anchor stores in the malls. My parents bought their living room furniture at Sears in the early 1970s, and most anyone middle class used to buy clothes, appliances, tools, all kinds of stuff there during this time. You could even get your car worked in their auto center while you shopped for other stuff in their store. I started drifting away on clothes anyway as I became an adult in the late 1970s but my Dad still gets a lot of clothes there and gets his glasses there - he is 92, and I think he still trusts Sears and views them as a no-hassle shopping option that won't empty his wallet to use.
Macy's still sells furniture and home goods. Not appliances though like Sears.
Most Macy's stores do not carry furniture, but they have a separate store called "Macy's Furniture." In Natick, you can't get furniture at the Macy's store in the mall but you can go over to Shopper's World and get furniture at the Macy's Furniture store there.
They do still carry kitchenware and small kitchen appliances, as well as china/crystal. I wonder how much longer the china/crystal department will remain, though. It doesn't seem that younger people buy much of that sort of thing.
Oh great an arcade for the former "Natick Collection."
When they added on the wing with Nordstrom's, Needless Markup, Coach, etc., etc., etc. and tried to change the name of the mall it was so ridiculous. It never stuck.
This is actually not the first arcade for this mall. When it first opened there was an arcade in the corner of the food court. I think there's a market research firm in that space now. I don't believe the original Natick Mall ever had an arcade but I don't recall. The only part of that building still standing is the Macy's section.
A tinge of sadness.
My father used to take my brother and me to the tool section of the Natick Sears in the early 60s so all three of us could drool over tools.
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