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Remember Service Merchandise stores?

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trmiv

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Anyone remember Service Merchandise stores? Big catalog store, you looked around and filled out this like little mini-golf looking score pad with a little pencil, handed it to someone, they keyed it in, then you waited for your stuff to come down a conveyer. I remember thinking that sounded so old and archaic back when my parents used to take me there in the 80's. Then it sounded even more old and archaic when I used to go in the 90's. I haven't seen a store in a long time, I think they went bankrupt a few years back?
 
Originally posted by: MDE
They closed up a few years back. My Grandma used to go there for gifts and other stuff.
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LOL, I bet like 90% of their business was the 70 and over club.
 
You means like Consumers?? I used to get all my He-Man and Centurions action figures from there.. they were pretty cheap when compared to places like K-Mart or Towers..
 
Originally posted by: trmiv
Originally posted by: MDE
They closed up a few years back. My Grandma used to go there for gifts and other stuff.
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LOL, I bet like 90% of their business was the 70 and over club.
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Oh teh noess! You've brought back memories of my grandmother dragging me in there as a kid.

😕🙁
 
Used to be a couple in Pittsburgh. Their prices weren't bad. I agree with daveshel, the catalog showroom store concept is dead. I don't think you can compare them to CC, BB or CUSA because Service Merchandise carried a much wider range of stuff.
 
Originally posted by: Nikamichi
Originally posted by: trmiv
Originally posted by: MDE
They closed up a few years back. My Grandma used to go there for gifts and other stuff.
Click to expand...

LOL, I bet like 90% of their business was the 70 and over club.
Click to expand...

Oh teh noess! You've brought back memories of my grandmother dragging me in there as a kid.

😕🙁
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god same here!!

im going to go crawl up in a little ball in the corner of the room now.
 
I met my wife at a Service Merchandise here in Houston. She was a department Manager and I was working part-time since I had a lot of free time on my hands. Worked there about 4 months, hated it. My wife worked there about a year, until I made her quit. Worse company she's ever worked for.
 
Originally posted by: trmiv
Anyone remember Service Merchandise stores? Big catalog store, you looked around and filled out this like little mini-golf looking score pad with a little pencil, handed it to someone, they keyed it in, then you waited for your stuff to come down a conveyer. I remember thinking that sounded so old and archaic back when my parents used to take me there in the 80's. Then it sounded even more old and archaic when I used to go in the 90's. I haven't seen a store in a long time, I think they went bankrupt a few years back?
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That's Ikea man, just no conveyer.
 
I used to love going the that store when I was a kid. One of the few places you could get games for the Odyssey game system.
 
I kind of liked that store- lots of unusual items (My favorite was the fish aquarium grandfather clock). Went there when I needed a gift since they had stuff nobody else carried.
 
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