I would love to see advertising stating what an American staple Sears and Kmart have been in our lives.  I remember as a child going to Kmart and always getting that sub sandwich, which they don't have any longer, but it is a childhood memory.   Sears... we always bought our school clothes there and we would go back for every season.  I remember one time my Mother was defrosting the freezer and poked a hole in it trying to chip the ice out and she put a hole in it and it no longer worked.  She immediately called Sears, during a blizzard in South Dakota, and they put one on the truck for her and brought it out in the blizzard, and we lived in the next town.  Who does that? Sears !!   Wiith the economy these days we need to go back and remember the memories we've had with these two stores that have been there for us through the years and we all have memories of these stores.  To this day I go to Kmart and Sears because it does take me back to when I was child.   Kmart and Sears are American and they've always been there for us and we need to keep them in our memories.