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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I will take Rich pleasure not shopping there and encouraging everyone I know to follow my example.
they were already on the financial ropes and in one year it’s goodbye forever to them.
they have sealed their Fates.
Seems that both are in trouble just another of their mistakes they are making.
Sears may be gone soon anyway.
Didn’t SEARS just sell their Craftsman line to Black and Decker?
They have nothing left and Black and Decker isn’t known for anything but crap.
Oh well.
Before: Uncool.
Now: Extra Uncool with turbo-boost.
Losing is a habit with them.
Sound business move considering how financially rock solid stable both Kmart and Sears are.
Why, look at how they are expanding!
(Do I really need a sarc tag?)
Sears Holdings is on life support as it is.
Given that libs won’t shop with the masses at Sears or K-Mart, this move should pretty much do them in.
The closest KMart to me always smells like a sewer..they have closed so many Kmarts and Sears they really think this will help them LOL
The Kmart in my town is closing.
It’s a shame. I have my original 22 Marlin that my Mom bought me from K-Mart. I even have the box it was packaged in.
It was a better time before the liberals got power.
At this point I almost wish I actually shopped at Sears and K-Mart just so I could stop shopping there!
Sears had a golden opportunity laid before it when Amazon recently angered conservatives. I guess they’d rather stay on course for the tar pits.
Stupid move. Do they not realize who shops there?
About the only good Craftsman item there is: prybars. I would consider using a Craftsman socket set to drive out old bearings using a table vise, c clamp, or ball peen. For everything, I endorse Gearwrench.
Are they still in business?
Haven’t been in either one of those stores in decades.
The fate of Sears was sealed way before this.
Yep!! Taking their last jabs before they go bankrupt in a few months!! Go to any sears and you’ll see lots of empty shelves! Sheesh!!
Sears is headed for bankruptcy. This should speed them along the path.
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