Not fast enough…
Maybe if they put guns and ammo back in their catalogs they’d improve sales.
Sears from from the era that men did the buying. Those days are dead.
Understand from another article that Craftsman tools are now being made in China.
This is what happens when the corporate drains it.
Sears had the Amazon of all time locked up. They did nothing with it.
Just like Motorola has been reduced to a phone.
I don’t like to see the old icons go away but I’m sure not going to lose any sleep.
Management killed these companies.
seams to be headed down the same path that Montgomery Ward & J.L. Hudson went down.
A catalogue store should have been a natural to transition to Internet sales. Their tools were pretty good, and their prices were reasonable. Their appliances were also reasonable, often the best prices around and a decent selection. There is no excuse beyond bad management for their failure.
I agree: bring guns back and identify the things they do better than other stores. Stick to their strengths, and give up on “the softer side of Sears” to the extent that they are competing for very low margin business.
Are Craftmans tools made in China now?
its too bad but....
the middle class, so called, has been hit VERY hard .. especially these last 7 or 8 years
very hard, indeed.
rich people want premium or prestige goods, they go elsewhere.
poor folks and those 100 million suffering unemployment don’t shop much at all, and when they do...they look for value (which is better at WalMart or Costco sometimes or the local dollar store for some stuff, not Sears ...prices at Sears are really rather HIGH~! I don’t shop there anymore)
Answer: Yes.
They’re still alive???
Someday our children and grand-children will be attending the deathwatch of the high-flying corporations today such as Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon. Hopefully in my lifetime, I get to attend the deathwatch of Facebook. I don't like the Facebook company very much.
For at least the last 20 years. Big companies die slow, but they’re dying alright.
Most Sears et al stores are in malls. I have the choice of going to the department store and choosing from a mundane selection of regular price items, or going a few feet down the hall to a store specializing in those items with a much more interesting/fashionable selection at competitive prices.
I don’t go into department stores (wal-mart excluded) any more.
NOT a choice of Millennials. Plus I pretty much have bought a lifetime of tools.
Yes, Sears is dying a slow death. . . just like Middle Class that supported it for 130 years.
They gave away their brands. Most Craftsman tools made in China. Kenmore appliances are made overseas. The Sears catalog was the 'original' internet shopping source - order products from your kitchen table. But they didn't move it to the information age.
No reason to go to Sears
Just bad business decisions. They should have jumped on the internet bandwagon long ago. Nokia Mobile Phones is a good example. They were stuck on their clunky brick phones, even laughed at the iPhone when it came out. Instead of developing their own version of the iPhone, they decided just to die.