'It's like the death of a loved one': as stores close, retail workers lose out to big tech

It’s becoming a common story across America: the opening of an Amazon ‘fulfilment center’ hastens the end of local department stores, like this Sears in Sacramento

Photographs by Robert Gumpert

In the Sacramento area of northern California, an Amazon fulfilment centre came online last year, striking, it would seem, another blow to the local outlets of Sears, one of America’s signature brick and mortar department stories.

The Guardian spoke to Sears workers at the Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights who were told earlier this year the store would be closing down.

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