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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Big deal I haven’t purchased from either of them in over 15 years.
You can negotiate with Sears.
They sell Kenmore which is involved with many brands.
Give it a go.
Here are all the stores that still carry Ivanka Trump’s brand
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/02/08/here-are-all-the-stores-still-carrying-ivanka-trumps-brand/21709891/
Anti-Trump Boycott Targets Retailers That Sell Trump-Branded Products
http://fortune.com/2016/11/14/boycott-targets-trump-retailers/
Will Macy’s become the next store to drop the Ivanka Trump brand?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2017/0207/Will-Macy-s-become-the-next-store-to-drop-the-Ivanka-Trump-brand
Tracking the Stores That Carry (or Don’t Carry) Ivanka Trump’s Products
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a42677/stores-that-sell-ivanka-trump-fashion-shoes/
K-Mart and Sears are going under.
They have NO business model and Sears sold their brand to Stanley / B&D. Those warranties are useless.
It is just upper management cleaning off the books.
I had a Sears 5 minutes away. Now gone! I restore old Pedal steel guitars, and could always find the right fasteners, etc., at Sears. Bummer!
In the same vein Kenmore will continue on.
You have a GREAT mind!!
The big Sears on the West Side of Cleveland had a big scratch and dent center in the basement. Bought washer, dryer, and fridge there 25/30 years ago. Saved a bunch of moola! All still going strong.
Might as well keep buying fasteners there.
While you can!
Macy’s current stock price is $31.99. Their all-time high was $78.19 in May 2006. They plunged all the way to $5.73 in November 2008 but rallied back to $72.31 by July 2015. From that point it plunged to its current price.
I don’t need to boycott these mutts,I lost interest in shopping there decades ago.They have nothing I need that I can’t buy somewhere else at a better price.
"Sheen-bro" [English translation: "Machine is broken"] is the standard Ebonic excuse for any difficult or mildly complicated task. Just try to order ice cream at any "diverse" McDonald's and you'll have 80% odds that the machine will be "broken" or otherwise out of order. On the other hand, go to any Chick-fil-A for the world's best milkshake -- and you'll get it. What's the difference? Selective hiring and a corporate culture that instills, reinforces and rewards a solid work ethic.
“Might as well keep buying fasteners there.”
I only do a couple guitars a year. Gotta ‘73 D-10 in pieces on my bench. Already got everything I need for that one. It’s a time-consuming hobby, sort of,,,,,
I’m going to have to buy something from Ivanka’s line to give to my wife.Valentine’s day is coming up soon.
LOL. I remember being a pre-teen and teen and being mortified if I had to walk into a Sears or worse, a Kmart, with my mother.
The Sears in our mall had more than half its floor space converted to a Whole Foods.
Try an Ace hardware or Rural King.Both have a huge selection of fasteners.
Sears Executive: “Okay, our sales are plummeting. We are closing stores by the hundreds. What can we do!”
KMart Executive: “PISS OFF HALF OUR BASE!”
Sears Executive: “BRILLIANT!!!”
Big deal, they are both on their last legs. Nobody probably bought the items as the class of folks that patronize their retail outlets probably can’t afford them anyway.
I don’t shop at either Sears or K-Mart.
Their stuff is nothing but over priced crap.
Sears also owns Land’s End, which I used to shop at but not any more.
Too bad cause Land’s End was terrific stuff before Sears bought it.
It’s LL Bean for me now.
No one who shops at Kmart is buying Ivanka Trump products.
Just say’n.
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