Anyone get any deals when your local sears closed?

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Vigo:
I don't know how they compare in sales, but Sears still has far superior brand value than Kmart. Kmarts are dying out along with their only customer demographic. Good luck getting people under 70 interested in shopping there if other options exist. Sears is still competitive with appliances, shops tools, grills, tvs, etc. And they actually have some of the best deals to be seen if look.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Vigo on November 14, 2017, 12:27:18 am ---I don't know how they compare in sales, but Sears still has far superior brand value than Kmart. Kmarts are dying out along with their only customer demographic. Good luck getting people under 70 interested in shopping there if other options exist. Sears is still competitive with appliances, shops tools, grills, tvs, etc. And they actually have some of the best deals to be seen if look.

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*sigh*

I guess that's how Kmart bought Sears then... with their inferior brand that made money hand over fist while Sears was on the verge of bankruptcy. You know what brick and mortar retail company aside from Walmart that has been the most successful over the past few years? The "dollar store" brand. (Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar). the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is slowly fading. Cheap stores are doing better than traditional stores because that is the only place most people can afford to shop. The fact that Sears is perceived as a more expensive brand is exactly why they aren't doing well. When Kmart bought the brand they essentially did it for the craftsman brand along with a few select clothes brands and the real-estate (because Sears stores are so old, most own the property they sit on.) Times are tough for brick and mortar, so Kmart is just selling off expendable assets. They won't survive, but neither will anything else. Pretty soon it's all Walmart and Amazon.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on November 14, 2017, 03:02:14 am ---I guess that's how Kmart bought Sears then... with their inferior brand that made money hand over fist while Sears was on the verge of bankruptcy.

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Except Kmart wasn't making money hand over fist. The Sears merger was in 2004. Kmart was in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 2002-2003 and had to close hundreds of stores and get a new invstor to infuse billions into the company to become solvent again.

I honestly think that sears demise is being dramatically accelerated by the kmart merger. Sears was steadily shrinking, but it wasn't until kmart that they picked up a lot of their bad habits. That whole "empty shelf" thing PBJ mentioned has been done by kmart since the late 90's to handle low sales locations. Losing Whirlpool over failure to pay for product also rings back to when Kmart helped pound a couple nails in the the Sega coffin after when they wouldn't pay up the millions for all the Dreamcasts they ordered. Now Sears had to sell away their craftsman brand, which has been on a major quality decline since the merger.

Then there is the stuff about the messed up way Sears is run these days... :dizzy:

Nephasth:
Howard, you will argue the dumbest ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---...

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: Vigo on November 14, 2017, 06:55:08 am ---Then there is the stuff about the messed up way Sears is run these days... :dizzy:

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Sounds like another case of people being incentivized to make numbers on a piece of paper change with no regard for the real problems or consequences underlying them.
I blame this type of behavior for a lot of our current problems in society.

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