I feel bad for the employees but those corps have nothing to blame but themselves and their greed.Besides... I highly doubt that the majority of folks that shopped at Macy's ordered seconds and open box junk on Ebay.
Sears had a 69 cent 8 inch diagonal plier ( Dikes ) that would cut 1/6 iano wire, bought back in 1969they also exchanged a broken machine vise for FreeI was a $39.99 co2 airgun K-mart buyerAt the Emporium in downtown SF in the basement , I was able to buy irregular size Levi's for $1.99, what the heck , one leg was shorter than the other
probably , the people who worked there lived across the Golden Gate bridge in Marin County who commuted to work by the ferry in Larlspur, what the heck , the store did'nt open til 10 am anyway, and they had to work til 9pm every day of the work weekthen they enjoyed a slow boat ride back home sipping a martini every nite