Easterling was at the Sears in her hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey, one of only 15 full-line Sears stores still open.
The two started a catalog business selling watches and jewelry in 1888, incorporating under the Sears Roebuck name in 1893.
The Sears catalog was the way many Americans first started to buy mass-produced goods.
File photo/AP People shop inside a Sears store in Morton Grove, Illinois, in 1961.
AP Soldiers guard a Sears store in Baltimore after riots broke out following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.