Posted on 02/11/2017 12:23:52 PM PST by usafa92
Major U.S. retailers Sears and Kmart this week removed 31 Trump Home items from their online product offerings to focus on more profitable items, a spokesman said on Saturday.
The decision follows retailer Nordstrom Inc's announcement this week it had decided to stop carrying Ivanka Trump's apparel because of declining sales, prompting President Donald Trump to take to Twitter to defend his daughter. White House spokesman Sean Spicer characterized the Nordstrom move as a "direct attack" on the president's policies.
Neither Sears nor Kmart carried the Trump Home products in their retail stores, a Sears Holdings Corp spokesman said. Kmart is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings.
"As part of the company’s initiative to optimize its online product assortment, we constantly refine that assortment to focus on our most profitable items," spokesman Brian Hanover said in a statement.
"Amid that streamlining effort, 31 Trump Home items were among the items removed online this week," he said, adding those items can be found through a third-party vendor, without providing additional information about the products.
The Trump Home collection includes lines of furniture, lighting, bedding, mirrors and chandeliers, some from makers who supply the items to Trump hotels, according to the collection's website.
Nordstrom's sales of Ivanka Trump's line of clothing and shoes fell by nearly one-third in the past fiscal year, with sharp drops in sales weeks before her father was elected president on Nov. 8, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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Yes, including KMart’s original location in Garden City, MI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDXb0pgR0wQ
LOL!!! Great post.
I am picturing two old dinosaurs struggling against the weight of their stupid decisions.
So, while already circling the drain, Sears/K-Mart decides to tick off millions of their paying customers.
Gee, that’s a plan for success.
Sears owns KMart so they are going down together.
When liberals or start to go into free fall in to the business graveyard, they continue to make dumb decisions.
Who needs these losers?
They are not even worth the electrons to add to my boycott list.
Sears had it all. The first store with everything.
Idiot management and marketing.
Kinda like Motorola. They got beat upside the head with their reluctance to get in front of the mobile industry.
K-Mart owns Sears.
Yes. And it all began with, "Oh, have a heart!"
we have no Kmarts around here now.
No more shopping at THESE places.
Craftsman / B & D has gone the way of harbor freight.
Formerly American tooling combined with shitty chinese steel and non-existing quality control.
Would make another fortune.
Hope they are thinking about it.
If your well connected they will just give you stuff.
Entering most Kmart stores feels you are stepping back in time.
Not an insult really but, kind of nostogic, feels like its 1979 whenever i go into one.
LOL!! Dumbasses struggling with bottom lines shouldn’t piss off customers. Hey Sears and Kmart—you sell underwear and screw drivers. That’s all you do. You’re not that important. Your “loving” SJW BS is helping close your doors. Eat it and eat it good.
This is what happens when idiots run the asylum.
The Marxist Left destroys everything it touches. Their activities in America are a cancer.
Ah, the wedding of KMart and Sears still producing even more stupidity.
Shame when most of us remember what Sears once was.
I never go to either of them much any more (maybe set foot in Sears but only because the local one has a car rental place from another agency). I DID see a KMart during Black Friday (went with someone) - it looked like a Dollar Store.
K-Mart and Sears are like the Shields and Yarnell of retailing.
Correct. Talk about bizarre.
Nobody shops there.
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