SEARS CLOSES 147-EMPLOYEE ALBANY CREDIT OFFICE.(Business)

Byline: Elizabeth Lesly Business writer

Mounted high on a wall in the Sears Albany Credit Central office is a huge, hand-lettered Superbowl banner reading: "You Can't Touch Us!"

But the 147 employees of Sears' credit center operation in Colonie Center - who learned Wednesday that their office was being closed - found that pressures in the economy do touch them, and hard.

A representative from Sears' Chicago headquarters who flew into town the night before was there to greet the credit center's 147 employees Wednesday morning with grim news: As of April 5, the office will be closed and all credit operations will be moved to a Sears office in Boston. …