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    Wow - Sears closing at Walden Galleria, Boulevard Mall

    Two Sears department stores and their associated Auto Centers will soon close.


    The locations at Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga and Boulevard Mall in Amherst will remain open to customers until mid-April, with liquidation sales beginning Jan. 6. Boulevard Mall’s Auto Center is located north of the mall across Maple Road at 1435 Niagara Falls Blvd.


    Sears Holdings, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, said it was a "difficult, but necessary decision" to close.
    http://buffalonews.com/2016/12/28/se...sing-galleria/

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    Yet they keep the one open in the Summit Park ****hole. Go figure... must be cheap rent.
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    I actually like Sears. I don't exactly know why but do. When I was a kid I would read their large catalogs of products like I would an encyclopædia.

    http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/...20catalog1.pdf

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    Quote Originally Posted by NY The Vampire State View Post
    Yet they keep the one open in the Summit Park ****hole. Go figure... must be cheap rent.
    Rent and demographics. Sears stores carry nothing but crap these days.

    I think the Galleria is going to try and pivot to be the high end retail destination in the region. The Boulevard Mall has been on it's way out for years. Honestly, I think the land is more valuable than the mall these days. If the light rail is ever extended from UB South to UB North...I expect the mall to be demolished in short order...if not before.

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    The Eastern Hills store was half empty ( or half full ) last time I was there. Lots of open floor space where merchandise used to be, looked like it was closed already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Roman View Post
    The Eastern Hills store was half empty ( or half full ) last time I was there. Lots of open floor space where merchandise used to be, looked like it was closed already.
    Another mall where I think the dirt has more value than the building. Doubt Clarence would allow for density to be built there. Might mess up their demographics....

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    seeing that they had a catalog for all those years I'm surprised they didn't quickly move into an online presence like Amazon has. They were already used to taking orders by mail or phone and shipping stuff, shouldn't have been too hard to add on internet orders. Seems like they made a number of bad decisions over the years. The quality of craftsman tools dropping hurt them too
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    Quote Originally Posted by leftWNYbecauseofBS View Post
    I think the Galleria is going to try and pivot to be the high end retail destination in the region.
    Then they better find a way to control the punks that go there in groups and start fights
    http://wivb.com/2016/12/28/a-dozen-y...lden-galleria/
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharky View Post
    seeing that they had a catalog for all those years I'm surprised they didn't quickly move into an online presence like Amazon has. They were already used to taking orders by mail or phone and shipping stuff, shouldn't have been too hard to add on internet orders. Seems like they made a number of bad decisions over the years. The quality of craftsman tools dropping hurt them too
    Was going to mention this as well....

    I think, like Kodak, they were simply too entrenched in the 'old ways' of doing things to transition to new ones. After all, is the Sr. VP of the Old Way going to push to change the company so a young break from the mold guy can come in and take his corner office? Doubt it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NY The Vampire State View Post
    Yet they keep the one open in the Summit Park ****hole. Go figure... must be cheap rent.
    I read somewhere recently that SEARS actually owns the building in Summit Park Mall...perhaps the reason for holding on with such little traffic. I have gone past there and it seems like a ghost town..the sales people must be bored.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Roman View Post
    The Eastern Hills store was half empty ( or half full ) last time I was there. Lots of open floor space where merchandise used to be, looked like it was closed already.
    I remember when Eastern Hills was THE mall in Buffalo. Always packed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HipKat View Post
    I remember when Eastern Hills was THE mall in Buffalo. Always packed.

    It's a shame
    I don't like crowds. I shop at Eastern Hills. have not shopped at Walden Galleria the 16 years I've lived in Lancaster.

    Eastern Hills Mall by the numbers

    Eastern Hills Mall: 4545 Transit Road in Clarence
    Year built: 1971
    Expanded: Food court, 1989
    Major renovations: 1971, mid-1980s, 2003, 2009
    Size: 1.1 million square feet
    Occupancy rate: 100 percent
    Average annual tenant sales per square foot: $307
    Population: 585,975 in a 10-mile radius
    Average household income: $97,546
    Major anchors: JC Penney, Bon-Ton, Sears, Sports Performance Park, Rocky’s Big City Sports Bar & Grill
    Junior anchors: Orvis, BFLO Outfitters, Duff’s Famous Wings,
    Mac Solutions Plus, WBBZ television.
    Average daily vehicle traffic: 135,000

    Now, they're talking about changing Eastern Hills into a lifestyle center.

    https://buffalonews.com/2016/10/29/e...mising-future/

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    I actually like Sears. I don't exactly know why but do. When I was a kid I would read their large catalogs of products like I would an encyclopædia.

    http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/...20catalog1.pdf
    Back in the day, they used theSear Roebuck catalog pages for toilet tissue

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    Quote Originally Posted by gorja View Post
    I don't like crowds. I shop at Eastern Hills. have not shopped at Walden Galleria the 16 years I've lived in Lancaster.

    Eastern Hills Mall by the numbers

    Eastern Hills Mall: 4545 Transit Road in Clarence
    Year built: 1971
    Expanded: Food court, 1989
    Major renovations: 1971, mid-1980s, 2003, 2009
    Size: 1.1 million square feet
    Occupancy rate: 100 percent
    Average annual tenant sales per square foot: $307
    Population: 585,975 in a 10-mile radius
    Average household income: $97,546
    Major anchors: JC Penney, Bon-Ton, Sears, Sports Performance Park, Rocky’s Big City Sports Bar & Grill
    Junior anchors: Orvis, BFLO Outfitters, Duff’s Famous Wings,
    Mac Solutions Plus, WBBZ television.
    Average daily vehicle traffic: 135,000

    Now, they're talking about changing Eastern Hills into a lifestyle center.

    https://buffalonews.com/2016/10/29/e...mising-future/
    Is it even a mall at this point? It's more of an enclosed strip mall or shopping center with the stores they have. I was in there over the summer and it was a bunch of 'dollar store' type places.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leftWNYbecauseofBS View Post
    Is it even a mall at this point? It's more of an enclosed strip mall or shopping center with the stores they have. I was in there over the summer and it was a bunch of 'dollar store' type places.
    Most of my shopping is online but I do go to the mall anchor stores

    Georgia L Schlager

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