Allstate and my clan of the Dittmer Sinclair's go back a long way. Sears used to be the big boy on the stock market and business in America's world at least as far as I can remember back in the '50s and '60s. Two of my uncles, Uncle CB and Uncle Sam not that Uncle Sam, were managers of Sears stores. Sears had a nice retirement plan and that left my uncle's with a hefty retirement package so that when they retired they both bought trailer parks in Florida and move down there.
All state was part of that whole package you can go into a Sears store and update your Allstate insurance plan at the same time. All in one shopping. Sears was normally the anchor of all of those malls that spread across United States and the major cities.
With the decline of the box stores and the gradual shift away from catalog stores and online shopping Sears decided to divest Allstate because it was very valuable and that slowed their decline along with the value of all of their real estate, especially the huge mighty Sears Tower.
I wandered away from Allstate and usually stuck with whoever supplied the church insurance because everybody got you a good deal when you combined everything and I like saving money.
Somewhere in there, my auto insurance went way up with my local insurance company, so I decided to check into my old friend Allstate. Shockingly, the difference in price was amazing and Allstate really was inexpensive. I remember precisely the formula that they use to get more business they drew a line on US-6 and those that were north of US 6 were folded into South bend with a much higher accident rate and the more modest country areas below US 6. A revelation!
The next time the question of Allstate came up was when Mary and I moved to Plymouth, and even with the fuse competition of online insurance like Geico and others I decided to try the local office of Allstate, and they had a job dropping low price because we had very low mileage and they had a little Gizmo you could attach to your car and when you got up to $75 worth of insurance and mileage they'd send you a bill actually they build it online and sometimes we got that bill every other month and sometimes every third month because we didn't drive much.
Now to the current moment. I'm sure you're aware of the California fires and the insurance tragedy of State farm who got out of the neighborhood cuz they can see the disaster coming and I am 99.9% sure that all states saw it coming too. But I suspect they took a much longer view and figured they'd make a lot of happy people if they stood by these Ford burnt out homes in Southern California. I didn't hear anything on the news that Allstate has stayed. I just just put two and two together and came up with four and looked it up online and sure enough Allstate is staying. There's going to be a lot of happy people in California. Good job, Allstate.
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