The tall, old-fashioned, display-friendly windows that once wooed passers-by to peek inside have been covered up, and the aisles at the store were a ghost town during a recent weekday. Its empty now, said Michael Morgan, a 65-year-old local historian who fondly recalls gathering there during Christmas in the 1950s, particularly the toy train that once ran along its roof. Sears has been on a long free fall, closing hundreds of stores, firing thousands of employees and losing billions of dollars over the past decade. Most analysts predict the companys demise and pin much of the blame on hed
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