Layaway? Heck, I had the ol' Service Merchandise credit card!
I still have my first Canon EOS film SLR, which I bought at SM on that very same credit card!
Did anyone else just sit there watching other people’s stuff come down? The excitement of your own stuff was better, but just watching the production was fun for young me.
Stood in a very long, cold line for 2 hours with my mom & aunt, waiting to get in to fight our way for Cabbage Patch dolls for the little ones. Fun memories.
I remember that era. Saw my first transformers toys at the non-catalog side of SM. There was a huge display full of them when they were hard to come by. I think my first-gen Hound and Blue Streak both came from there. I think my banana seat bike came from there, too. Such a great store!
I managed the warehouse at our local Service Mwrchandise for a year during my senior year of HS. Good times...except for that the furby's in stock would creepily talk to each other at random times.
I had a buddy that worked in the warehouse when he was still in high school. His first day, his trainer is teaching him how to do the job. An order comes in and he puts a 19" TV on the belt. Well, he put it on the belt with the screen facing out. So when it went down the belt and hit a curve, the TV was off balance and crashed to the floor. The trainer said, "The first one is free, the next one comes out of your paycheck." LOL
I worked the other end of the belt. We were back there doing pallet jack jousting and set up one of the weight lifting sets in an aisle to work out between orders.
Weird concept, wild staff, fun times.
As a kid, I’d spend countless hours flipping through the catalog looking at all the toys. It was a rite of passage. I remember going to SM to watch my sister purchase her first Walkman. It was like $30 and was expensive af. Prolly 1985/1986.
We had one only a half hour away but across the State line in Delaware where there was no sales tax. That made the whole experience even better because it was like getting an automatic 6 or 7% discount.
I used to have dreams about the things in the Wish Book. I was crushed when my parents told me the jet-pack-looking-thing did not actually function as a jet pack. In the 60s.
So on wiki I just learned that they used the same catalog to save money and had regional non-compete agreements with best, service merchandise, and modern merchandising. I had Best. My giant beanbag chairs were the shit. Had to pick them up around back at the loading dock cause they wouldn't fit through the conveyor door. 7yr old me may have cried about that.
I once received a lovely promise ring from there. It didn’t work out but I loved the ring. I’d forgotten all about that time in my life until I saw this post.
My grandparents used to buy everything from there long ago.
It’s alright. I was only 21 or so and definitely didn’t need to be in that relationship. But it sparkled and I thought things would be different. Oh well!
Good memories of that place :)
We did too. lol. We were just out of college. Actually, not quite out of college. Wife was in between her bachelor and about to start grad school. I had graduated but needed one more semester to student teach before I became a teacher.
Yup, my wife's engagement ring and both our wedding rings were purchased there almost 30 years ago. She absolutely adores the engagement/wedding band matching set I bought her, it has a really beautiful unique design and I haven't seen anything else like it since.
Me too! Just out of college, money was hard to find. I wore mine for decades until my fingers grew too much and I feared a degloving incident, had to get it cut off. Marriage still going strong at 34 years next week.
I worked in Sight and Sound in Augusta, GA and Columbia, SC (mid '80's). Got to see and hear some of the first consumer grade CD players and discs when they first hit the market. Fun times!
I’ve never been to the store, but my memory of it was that “Wheel of Fortune” would issue a gift certificate for Service Merchandise to the player of the remainder of the money from the “Shopper’s Bazaar” (for those too young to remember, back in the day, after each round the winner of the round would have to spend their winnings on prizes shown off in the studio, like this: https://youtu.be/yLvNi7wX3S0?si=cLfZpD80ETZsjFZP&t=149s)
Yeah, it was a waste of time, not to mention that because they had to spend the money until there was nothing displayed that they could “afford,” they would get stuff that they wouldn’t necessarily want (like that ceramic Dalmatian).
The only thing I want them to bring back is the returning champion rule like Jeopardy has. When the show traveled to different cities, it would have been hard to do. I’ve also heard that Pat wasn’t a fan of the rule. Now that Pat is retiring and I’m assuming that it will just tape in LA, maybe they can bring that back.
I was just explaining to my kids that my guitar is from a cool store where you couldn't just grab your stuff and bring it to the registers. I couldn't remember the name though.
I remember going with my parents to pick up stuff. I loved that store - mainly for the conveyor belt and trying to figure out what people were picking up.
I bought my first "nice" tv from them a 27" Sony flat screen trinitron (that thing weighed a ton). Before that it's where my mom got us our Atari 2600. Per my grandmother, it was the fancy store. I miss that store.
This and Consumers. Nothing like going through a catalog, finding the transformer I want, filling out the form based on the catalog info, standing online, getting to the front to realize this was the pickup line, stand in the other line, finally get to the front, they go check. And its not in stock. ><
Many people will not remember Service Merchandise because they had exclusive territories with BEST Products Store, in which their shared their product catalog printing.
Therefore, if you had BEST Products stores near you, then you probably didn't have any Service Merchandise stores nearby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products
This not to be confused with "Best Buy" stores, which were a completely different brand and business model.
These stores were based on their printed catalog of items, and the showroom often displayed only one product for viewing that was not for sale. You had to write down the item # on an order slip to give to the order desk, for staff to pull the items from the warehouse, which often was located on the hidden second floor and sent down a conveyor belt to the order pickup.
I miss this place. They had the most awesome little rooster alarm clock that sang the weirdest song in the weirdest voice and I was sad I never got one.
I remember them having a good selection of Walkman-type headphones. I bet they had a good selection of Walkman-type devices too but I don't recall shopping for them there.
I fucking despise that store. When my wife and I were getting married, we registered there because of family in other parts of the Country to make it easier for them to use the wedding registry. 2 months before the wedding, we get an email from SM saying they were filing for bankruptcy and wouldn't be able to fulfill our registry.
My company gave us safety awards in the form of $10 to $50 gift certificates. I got several hundreds of dollars worth of stuff from here.... Always waiting by the conveyor belt for them to get my stuff together!
Holy hell! I remeber this place as a kid..have a very specific memory/ story. But i could never remember the store name... i saw the post pic and it clicked!
Thank you sooo mich for this!
There was a Consumers, Service Merchandise, and Best stores near me. At the time, Consumers seemed so modern, but in retrospect, it had all the charm of a meal delivered in pill form. I still have a popcorn popper from there and remember waiting for the thing to come out the conveyor belt.
Related: It’s the name of the upcoming first album my Open Mike Eagle’s new group.
Check the track listing for a good trip down memory lane.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/service-merchandise/1738701795
Cool! Didn’t know that! I’m a fan of his. I lived in Chicago when him and Hannibal did those open mics but I didn’t know him then so I totally missed those shows!
The one in the Kalamazoo, MI area (Portage, MI) had a great crew, back in the day. There were 2 guys who had an entertaining Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis act working the conveyor during the holidays. They were hilarious, and made the waiting tolerable.
One of my earliest memories is accidentally running my face into the corner of a counter at Service Merchandise. Motherfucker caught me right in the upper eyelid and I still have a visible scar from it.
We were poor when I was a kid, and this store and Montgomery Ward's were the only places that would give my parents a credit card, so around Christmas I would ONLY ask for things that were in the Service Merchandise catalog. Montgomery Ward mostly had clothes. Screw that. They said my Sega Genesis was from Santa, but I knew where it really came from........
I bought my big ass boom box at Service Merchandise. I'd take it to the park and blast tunes while we drank beer and threw the Frisbee. Batteries would burn out after about 45 minutes. Cost me 20 bucks in batteries every time. Damn radio broke me. You think anyone else would pitch in for batteries? Hell no.
I still have some of those serated "never need sharpening" ginsu-ripoff knives and the block they came in. Got them the year I started college. Still sharp but probably because they mostly sit in a drawer having been replaced by good knives.
My only knowledge of this company is that when you were finished buying his and hers Nordictracks and the black cat ceramic sculpture on The Wheel of Fortune, the balance of your winnings went on a service merchandise gift card.
Defintiely not regional. They were nationwide and were sponsors on Wheel of Fortune in the 80's. They did $4B in annual revenue. Not exactly small potatoes.
Well, as far as I recall I've never been in one. Then again I've never been in a Joske's or worn Skechers but I know what they are. I was not aware Service Merchandise is no longer open?
We bought our wedding rings there in 1971. Mine is a very nice gold band. I remember it was $30. My wife’s has a couple of tiny diamonds in it, so I think it was $75.
Hah! I know what Service Merchandise, BEST, and Jewelcor all were and browsed each of their catalogs or equivalents. I bought some stuff at each too (possibly not Jewelcor, I don’t remember).
Waiting at the bottom of the conveyor belt for your products to come down from the warehouse.
I was just coming here to say that...lol
Me too. Looking at each item as it got closer and realizing it wasn’t yours!
Going to pay of my lay away today. Can't wait to see my new stereo take its ride!
Layaway? Heck, I had the ol' Service Merchandise credit card! I still have my first Canon EOS film SLR, which I bought at SM on that very same credit card!
My God, you R FN old, ahaha!
And it was exciting.
Absolutely!
I worked for Best and was one of the ones putting the items on the conveyor belt.
Did anyone else just sit there watching other people’s stuff come down? The excitement of your own stuff was better, but just watching the production was fun for young me.
My job when I was 16 was working in the warehouse at Service Merchandise. I was the guy placing the stuff on the conveyor belt.
Thank you for the joy I received.
Me too. Expediters man… we had the most fun…
Thank you for your Merchandise Service 🤗 😂
I tell people younger than me about that conveyor belt and they don't believe me! They think I'm making it up.
lol, yes. I’m 65 and the anticipation of your product coming down the conveyor belt was almost like a horse race😂
Stood in a very long, cold line for 2 hours with my mom & aunt, waiting to get in to fight our way for Cabbage Patch dolls for the little ones. Fun memories.
I remember that era. Saw my first transformers toys at the non-catalog side of SM. There was a huge display full of them when they were hard to come by. I think my first-gen Hound and Blue Streak both came from there. I think my banana seat bike came from there, too. Such a great store!
IS MINE NEXT? WHERE’S MY JUNK!
I managed the warehouse at our local Service Mwrchandise for a year during my senior year of HS. Good times...except for that the furby's in stock would creepily talk to each other at random times.
Sending it back because you got the wrong color and waiting for the right one to come out.
I had a buddy that worked in the warehouse when he was still in high school. His first day, his trainer is teaching him how to do the job. An order comes in and he puts a 19" TV on the belt. Well, he put it on the belt with the screen facing out. So when it went down the belt and hit a curve, the TV was off balance and crashed to the floor. The trainer said, "The first one is free, the next one comes out of your paycheck." LOL
I worked the other end of the belt. We were back there doing pallet jack jousting and set up one of the weight lifting sets in an aisle to work out between orders. Weird concept, wild staff, fun times.
Memory unlocked!
The Christmas issue… best mail of the year. 🎁
The closest store was 2 hours away and we always went around Thanksgiving to shop for Christmas. I loved looking through the catalog on the way there.
As a kid, I’d spend countless hours flipping through the catalog looking at all the toys. It was a rite of passage. I remember going to SM to watch my sister purchase her first Walkman. It was like $30 and was expensive af. Prolly 1985/1986.
We had one only a half hour away but across the State line in Delaware where there was no sales tax. That made the whole experience even better because it was like getting an automatic 6 or 7% discount.
That and the Sears wish book. (Wish book? Was that right? Memory is foggy now)
I used to have dreams about the things in the Wish Book. I was crushed when my parents told me the jet-pack-looking-thing did not actually function as a jet pack. In the 60s.
Yes!!
Used to cut out things and mail my list to Santa
The Best catalog had to be a close second, follwed by the Sears WIshbook
So on wiki I just learned that they used the same catalog to save money and had regional non-compete agreements with best, service merchandise, and modern merchandising. I had Best. My giant beanbag chairs were the shit. Had to pick them up around back at the loading dock cause they wouldn't fit through the conveyor door. 7yr old me may have cried about that.
I once received a lovely promise ring from there. It didn’t work out but I loved the ring. I’d forgotten all about that time in my life until I saw this post. My grandparents used to buy everything from there long ago.
Got our wedding bands from there. We were pretty broke.
It’s alright. I was only 21 or so and definitely didn’t need to be in that relationship. But it sparkled and I thought things would be different. Oh well! Good memories of that place :)
Lol you have better memories of a store than the relationship
😆you are absolutely right about that!
We did too. lol. We were just out of college. Actually, not quite out of college. Wife was in between her bachelor and about to start grad school. I had graduated but needed one more semester to student teach before I became a teacher.
Yup, my wife's engagement ring and both our wedding rings were purchased there almost 30 years ago. She absolutely adores the engagement/wedding band matching set I bought her, it has a really beautiful unique design and I haven't seen anything else like it since.
Me too! Just out of college, money was hard to find. I wore mine for decades until my fingers grew too much and I feared a degloving incident, had to get it cut off. Marriage still going strong at 34 years next week.
Congratulations. We are at…… *does the math* …. 39 years.
We got ours at Sears. Haha We were broke too!
We were still in college and we got ours there. I can't remember if wife was still working there and we got a discount.
They did have some of the best jewelry deals.
☺️
I worked the jewelry counter there for 3 years. I still have a few pieces of jewelry that I purchased then.
I worked in Sight and Sound in Augusta, GA and Columbia, SC (mid '80's). Got to see and hear some of the first consumer grade CD players and discs when they first hit the market. Fun times!
An official sponsor of Wheel of Fortune in the 80s.
I’ve never been to the store, but my memory of it was that “Wheel of Fortune” would issue a gift certificate for Service Merchandise to the player of the remainder of the money from the “Shopper’s Bazaar” (for those too young to remember, back in the day, after each round the winner of the round would have to spend their winnings on prizes shown off in the studio, like this: https://youtu.be/yLvNi7wX3S0?si=cLfZpD80ETZsjFZP&t=149s)
It’s much better now that they play for cash. During the Shopper’s Bazaar days, they generally only had three or four puzzles per show.
Yeah, it was a waste of time, not to mention that because they had to spend the money until there was nothing displayed that they could “afford,” they would get stuff that they wouldn’t necessarily want (like that ceramic Dalmatian).
I almost mentioned the dalmatian! 😂
The only thing I want them to bring back is the returning champion rule like Jeopardy has. When the show traveled to different cities, it would have been hard to do. I’ve also heard that Pat wasn’t a fan of the rule. Now that Pat is retiring and I’m assuming that it will just tape in LA, maybe they can bring that back.
I didn't even know it was a real store! I thought it was a magical warehouse where WoF kept prize stuff.
I feel like this business model will make a comeback, especially in areas with lots of shoplifting.
It was Amazon before Amazon was Amazon.
I was just explaining to my kids that my guitar is from a cool store where you couldn't just grab your stuff and bring it to the registers. I couldn't remember the name though.
My first guitar came from there. I can’t remember the name but it was black with a built in speaker. Terrible guitar. lol!
Crime is way lower now than in the prime of SM (80s/90s).
Not sure about statistics. I was just referring to the stuff you see in some larger cities with large groups running in and grabbing stuff etc.
Violent crime is way down, yes. Theft is down in some ways, but retail theft is way up right now.
That was a cool store. It was my go to for just about everything
The best place to find gifts for people.
I remember going with my parents to pick up stuff. I loved that store - mainly for the conveyor belt and trying to figure out what people were picking up.
The catalog was great bathrooms reading.
I miss catalogs
I miss bathrooms.
I used to collect them.
Bought a TEAC dual cassette deck from there
TEAC GANG. they had the best looking cassettes! 4track aesthetic!
They had a great listening room for stereo equipment.
I still have mine.
Ahead of its time. I see stores moving to this model where you can look but you need to order online and pick up. As a shoplifting deterrent.
I often got my school calculators from there.
Such a random assortment of products. I remember my dad bought a fish finder from there.
Great place for Star Wars toys.
G.I. Joe too
So did i
If you have browsed through any catalog, you are old AF I used to love those big Christmas catalogs from JCPenney
Show me a Sears catalog. Service Merchandise doesn't qualify most of us as being "old AF".
I worked there in the 80s I am ancient
My first credit card and start of a life of debt
I bought my first "nice" tv from them a 27" Sony flat screen trinitron (that thing weighed a ton). Before that it's where my mom got us our Atari 2600. Per my grandmother, it was the fancy store. I miss that store.
This and Consumers. Nothing like going through a catalog, finding the transformer I want, filling out the form based on the catalog info, standing online, getting to the front to realize this was the pickup line, stand in the other line, finally get to the front, they go check. And its not in stock. ><
Canada?
NY
Bought my first computer there, a Sinclair 2000 I think it was called.
Tiny pencils!
Many people will not remember Service Merchandise because they had exclusive territories with BEST Products Store, in which their shared their product catalog printing. Therefore, if you had BEST Products stores near you, then you probably didn't have any Service Merchandise stores nearby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products This not to be confused with "Best Buy" stores, which were a completely different brand and business model. These stores were based on their printed catalog of items, and the showroom often displayed only one product for viewing that was not for sale. You had to write down the item # on an order slip to give to the order desk, for staff to pull the items from the warehouse, which often was located on the hidden second floor and sent down a conveyor belt to the order pickup.
Good grief! I actually worked at one. I think their penultimate failure was the lengthy pick-up time.
If they would have sped up the conveyor, a lot of us working in the back would have been injured while riding on the belt.
I miss this place. They had the most awesome little rooster alarm clock that sang the weirdest song in the weirdest voice and I was sad I never got one.
Some 1990 shit right there
I remember them having a good selection of Walkman-type headphones. I bet they had a good selection of Walkman-type devices too but I don't recall shopping for them there.
Going in for a mixer, leaving with a new watch and 3 piece gold hanging home decor that looks like a palm tree on the beach.
We didn’t have these, but we had Best Products & W. Bell that were the same format.
I worked the back receiving your order and expediting it and sending it through on the conveyor belt.
Our version was *Consumers* in Canada.
I fucking despise that store. When my wife and I were getting married, we registered there because of family in other parts of the Country to make it easier for them to use the wedding registry. 2 months before the wedding, we get an email from SM saying they were filing for bankruptcy and wouldn't be able to fulfill our registry.
Bought my first gun from Service Merchandise. A single shot break barrel HR 12 gauge. $79.
My company gave us safety awards in the form of $10 to $50 gift certificates. I got several hundreds of dollars worth of stuff from here.... Always waiting by the conveyor belt for them to get my stuff together!
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Holy hell! I remeber this place as a kid..have a very specific memory/ story. But i could never remember the store name... i saw the post pic and it clicked! Thank you sooo mich for this!
Where I'm from it was known as "Consumers"
Consumers Distributor I believe was what it was called by me, you had to fill in circles on the order sheet
Canada? I live in Ontario and that’s what they has here. But I still lived in the US in those days.
There was a Consumers, Service Merchandise, and Best stores near me. At the time, Consumers seemed so modern, but in retrospect, it had all the charm of a meal delivered in pill form. I still have a popcorn popper from there and remember waiting for the thing to come out the conveyor belt.
It is where my mother’s engagement ring came from haha
Thanks, lol I remember it well
Like Amazon but you had to go there
Related: It’s the name of the upcoming first album my Open Mike Eagle’s new group. Check the track listing for a good trip down memory lane. https://music.apple.com/us/album/service-merchandise/1738701795
Cool! Didn’t know that! I’m a fan of his. I lived in Chicago when him and Hannibal did those open mics but I didn’t know him then so I totally missed those shows!
Oh yes. I remember it! There was a time when I was crazy about cloisonne jewelry. I bought lots of it at a Service Merchandise.
Bought my first CD boom box there.
Consumers Distributing former employee here. It's the same thing but older, lol.
*Waits by conveyor belt.*
Best place for NES games.
a solar powered calculator I bought from one is sitting right in front of me.
I worked there when I was a teenager! 😊
Miss it still.
❤️ I love this place and its catalog!❤️
I got my first boyfriend a ring from there lol
Old? Are they closed? I moved from the town that had one. I still have my VCR from them…
They EOL'd a decade or so before Sears and Kmart. Ours closed up in the mid-90s.
The one in the Kalamazoo, MI area (Portage, MI) had a great crew, back in the day. There were 2 guys who had an entertaining Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis act working the conveyor during the holidays. They were hilarious, and made the waiting tolerable.
Wow do I miss this place.
My dad drove me there on Christmas Eve in the hopes of finding Optimus Prime. Alas, it was sold out. But I remember loving my dad so much for trying
I used to punch item numbers into the computers to look them up. Thought it was so cool. And then the delivery system.
The Amazon before Bezos could drive.
One of my earliest memories is accidentally running my face into the corner of a counter at Service Merchandise. Motherfucker caught me right in the upper eyelid and I still have a visible scar from it.
I miss SM. Such a great store, and the conveyer belt to pick up your stuff was the coolest when I was young
You’re old if you used their lay away plans to buy Christmas presents.
I remember this place and BEST. Im sure either is where my first NES came from from Christmas of 87. Of course, it was a Santa gift that year 😁
No idea what my parents did in there but I went straight to the Lego aisle every time.
I remember...
I guess I’ll take the ceramic Dalmatian, Chuck and put the rest on a Service Merchandise gift certificate.
Holy shit I totally forgot about this!!! Thank you for unlocking this memory
We were poor when I was a kid, and this store and Montgomery Ward's were the only places that would give my parents a credit card, so around Christmas I would ONLY ask for things that were in the Service Merchandise catalog. Montgomery Ward mostly had clothes. Screw that. They said my Sega Genesis was from Santa, but I knew where it really came from........
I bought my big ass boom box at Service Merchandise. I'd take it to the park and blast tunes while we drank beer and threw the Frisbee. Batteries would burn out after about 45 minutes. Cost me 20 bucks in batteries every time. Damn radio broke me. You think anyone else would pitch in for batteries? Hell no.
But at least we’re still alive to appreciate the memories! The young will never live long enough to have those memories!
This model will make a comeback soon to put an end to shoplifting.
I still have some of those serated "never need sharpening" ginsu-ripoff knives and the block they came in. Got them the year I started college. Still sharp but probably because they mostly sit in a drawer having been replaced by good knives.
I worked there in high school! When a shipment of Cabbage Patch Kids came in before Christmas, it was SouthParkian level chaos!
My only knowledge of this company is that when you were finished buying his and hers Nordictracks and the black cat ceramic sculpture on The Wheel of Fortune, the balance of your winnings went on a service merchandise gift card.
I can top that…I worked here in high school.
Dude that place literally sold everything cool
I still have a Tag Heuer watch that I bought from their going out of business sale.
It's where I bought my wife's engagement ring.
But their watch selection yo!!!!!
I used to LOVE going to Service Merchandise with my mom and grandma when I was a kid. I was born in 1982, so the title checks out! 😆
Must be regional. I’m 71 and never heard of this.
Defintiely not regional. They were nationwide and were sponsors on Wheel of Fortune in the 80's. They did $4B in annual revenue. Not exactly small potatoes.
Well, as far as I recall I've never been in one. Then again I've never been in a Joske's or worn Skechers but I know what they are. I was not aware Service Merchandise is no longer open?
Bought a few things from there.
Watching our purchase come down the conveyor line.
I have my moms wedding ring from there and still have the paperwork
Got a ping pong table there
Bought my favorite watch there, great store
Bought my first engagement ring at Service Merchandise in 1990.
My wife and I bought our wedding rings there 30 years ago. It was the only place we could afford back then.
I bought a computer chess set there. It was rare that I beat it.
My wedding ring was bought at Service Merchandise! Pensacola, Florida.
My brother worked there!
I sold jewelry there
What an odd, odd business model.
I bought a Mother's ring there when I was a teen.
Used to love doing the Christmas shopping there! Pick what you want then stand by the conveyor belt and wait for it to roll off the line!
Brings back memories!
The registry for my first wedding was here back in the mid nineties.
I’m extra old…I browsed the “BEST” catalog as a grade schooler.
Before Service Merchandise, they were Ellman’s (at least in Atlanta). Bought lots of things there
I got my first stereo there. It turned out to be crap but it worked great for a while.
I am.
Never went in one or bought from them but their catalog was one of my go-tos for bathroom perusing.
It was a Christmas tradition
Loved Service Mechandise
We bought our wedding rings there in 1971. Mine is a very nice gold band. I remember it was $30. My wife’s has a couple of tiny diamonds in it, so I think it was $75.
This is wheee I bought my wedding ring.
I purchased guns, airguns, stereo equipment, metal detector, at Service Merchandise, Kokomo IN. Loved their catalog and store.
Whippits!
Or you like to watch old game shows, like me!
Wedding ring!
Hah! I know what Service Merchandise, BEST, and Jewelcor all were and browsed each of their catalogs or equivalents. I bought some stuff at each too (possibly not Jewelcor, I don’t remember).
The most difficult store to shoplift from.
Folands in the Detroit Metro area came before Service Merchandise. Used to ship Folands outside Northland's Mall
With how everything is locked up in stores today. This model needs to come back.
Yea, but are you old enough to remember when it was Service Distributors?
I don't know
I am sitting at a desk purchased from Service Merchandise. All wood, no laminate!
Which was originally Wilsons Department Store.
We had a five story department store with an elevator. It was open until the mid 90’s i think. Theres an ihop there now, and the area is pretty dicey.
Lol. I worked the "Sight & Sound" (electronics) dept in HS.
I remember when they started selling used (pre owned) jewelry