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Article: Former Sears manager returns to Fold ; Biggest joy: Watching son learn the business
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- August 24, 2008
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It seems Jerry Case just couldn't stay away from Sears.
He spent 30 years with the company before retiring in 2002 as
manager of the Chapel Hills Sears. Last year, he -- along with son
Jordan and son-in-law Daniel Shepard -- opened a Sears dealer store
inside the Kmart at Powers and Palmer Park boulevards. They are
building a second Sears dealer store in Monument, with a mid-
October opening planned. Jordan Case, who manages the Powers store,
will manage the other store as well.
Dealer stores are smaller Sears stores that focus on big-ticket
items such as appliances. The Searswithin-a-Kmart concept is an
attempt to capitalize on the marriage between Kmart and Sears,
Roebuck and Co., which ...