Sears is closed (13 photos)

After 43 years, the Station Mall Sears has closed.

At 5:25 p.m. on Sunday, store General Manager Jacques Dallaire and Senior Sales Manager Jason Harman locked the store's big mall entrance gate, ending the store's last official day of business.

Throughout the last few months the store gradually sold all its stock and store fixings with increasingly bigger sales.

During the last day most items were 80 to 90 per cent off already significantly lowered sticker prices.

The store sold everything including racks, shelves, ancient looking sewing machines and steam irons, bags filled with miscellaneous stationary that looked like they were filled by an arm dragging across desks, and the store’s collection of probably every seasonal Sears Catalogue and Wishbook from as far back as the location's opening in October 1973.

"Even the walls," said an announcement over the P.A. system.

By the end of store hours on Sunday, the store manager was announcing increasingly bigger last minute sales over the p.a. and the store was picked bare by sales shoppers who walked out with bags of random items that were left, some using Sears shopping baskets they got to keep.

In 2017, Sears Canada announced the closure of 60 locations and over 13,000 people are expected to lose their jobs in these closures.

On Sunday, SooToday asked last minute store shoppers what their thoughts were on the closing of the Sault location.

See the photo gallery above.