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The mall experience in America, especially here in Lafayette, Louisiana, just isn't what it used to be.

Dick's Sporting Goods is bringing one of its latest concepts to the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge.

Growing up in Louisiana you probably shopped at some or all of these retail giants. They're not with us anymore but we still have the memories of a much simpler time.

LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - It appears we will soon see the last of Sears in Louisiana as the company is set to shut down its Lafayette Home & Life store, one of only two like it in the country. It's been a relatively rapid exit for Sears, an iconic brand that has been closing down stores across Louisiana and the country over the last decade amid bankruptcy filings. In 2017...

The old Sears building at the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette has been sold to a developer and it will be renovated and turned into a climate-controlled self-storage facility.

Once the chain store that beat all chain stores and an icon in the shopping world, Sears is finding it impossible to keep up with modern times and has deteriorated becoming only a caricature of its once dominant self.

A part big part of your childhood years is coming back.

SEARS is closing and now the options are endless at one end of the Acadiana Mall. Of course, another major department store will likely scoop up the space and open up without missing a beat. But, let's throw reason out the window and talk about some things we know will not replace...

SEARS will shut its doors by the end of the summer.