Soon to be going under, Sears & Kmart....
A gay progressive shopping at Kmart.
Now THAT’S funny!!!
Sears helped put me through grad school 40 years ago. It is a shame that it will die before I do, but I will never again think of Sears or K-Mart as places to purchase anything.
Ehh. I don’t shop there and never will. I do still have my dad’s Craftsman tools when they were made in the USA
It wont be long before all Sears and Kmart stores close down. I suspect Sears will stay alive through their Catalog Sales for awhile.
Two has-been retailers driving away the remainder of their business. Really smart.
If Sears and K-Mart dump Trump-related merchandise and there are no customers there to see it, does it still help their bottom lines?
I’m honestly not sure how Sears and K-Mart are still in business as it is, there is one of both in my town and walking into them is like walking into a mausoleum, dead quiet, all you can hear is the echo of your footsteps, empty except for a couple bored looking employees. Not to mention the décor, bare grey walls and empty shelves make them look like Soviet era grocery stores.
I often buy car batteries from Sears - a balance between their reasonable prices and their convenient (for me) location. My new battery today is coming from someone else. I’m paying $5 less and driving an extra ten miles round trip to do it. Sears made a mistake by politicizing shopping; they are now dead to me.
They have forgotten one of the OLD rules of business. You are not in business for the Customer to love you or agree with you; you are there to serve the customer’s needs and spend their Dollars at your location. A stupid act or word can wipe out Millions of Dollars of advertising spent, getting the Customer to your door. An MBA does little if you have no Common Sense.
Sears, for the most part, and K-Mart, to a lessor extent seek to appeal to middle America, the majority of whom voted for Trump. Given the effect on JC Penney and Target, I simply do not understand how these weak sisters think this is a helpful strategy.
Personally, I used to own a lot of tools and goods from Sears. In the last few years I only went to Sears occasionally. Now, I have sound reason to actively avoid them. K-Mart is geared toward the EBT crowd.
If you own any stock in either, now is the time to unload it. Both merchandizers just wrote their own obituary which will hasten their demise. Hope it was worth it.
This is a great strategy—persuade your customers to go on-line to shop in other stores. :-(
These clowns are diving over a cliff—but feeling good about themselves while they do it!
That is easy for them to do since they’re going out of freaking business
Oh yeah! That’ll really help these two dying companies... See ya, chumps.
(I must say that really do like Craftsman tools, though. Hopefully Home Depot will pick them up.)
When all is said and done, I wonder whether Eddie Lampert will be happy with, or regret his Sears/K-Mart takeover. Sure, the price has dropped, but it was always more of a real estate play than a merchandising play. A lot of the real-estate has been stripped off now into a separate entity (Seritage, symbol SRG, if anyone cares).
This is a symptom of the problems at Sears/Kmart. When they were successful they stayed out of politics, now they must have liberals in charge.
Garbage stores anyway....they’re still in business?
Ivanka should just have her own web site and not depend on these limp wristed soon to be bankrupt retailers. For customers who want to try to look and feel of her merchandise, she can open a few retail outlets here and there, but that’s it.