They are two completely separate brands. In 15 years of being merged, no real effort has been made to merge the best of both brands. Let them go their separate ways. Trying to turn around 2 failed retailers at once is an impossible task. Someone with deep pockets needs to buy the Kmart name and start again. It is a well known and respected brand. As much as they've gone downhill in the last 20 years, when most people hear Kmart they still think back fondly to the 70s, 80s, and 90s when Kmart was king of retail.
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I'm not sure what the Dashboard is, but if you have access to a list of 68 non-closing Sears stores, can you post it here?
Biggest mistake Lampert made was acquiring Kmart.. it’s been nothing but a drain on Sears bottom line
He or She is correct. 68 in lower 48 if you do the math like they say.
I am at work looking right at the dashboard.
The total # is taken off the Dashboard.
minus HI and PR.
68
4 in HI
6 in PR
So add them in our totals are the same.
I am saying 68 is what we have in the 48 States.
So did the Links or its not true man change his name to this is a sears only page? Nothing better to do man is more like it. Or maybe sad little man?
How are you coming up with 68 Sears stores in the continental US?
(My figure of 77 comes from the previous list of 83, subtracting the 6 Sears stores currently listed as closing on the Sears jobs page.)
Actual Mainlaind lower 48 States totals :
Sears 68
Kmart 31
There is no need for DMs , VPs or regional teams.
I mean the guy that invented retail can handle the little left ....
I forgot the 6 in Puerto Rico, so actually... at most 83 non-closing Sears and 42 non-closing Kmarts. Total 125 stores. Still way too late to save and rebuild either chain into a national power, separately or together.
At this point, does it matter? There are at most 77 non-closing Sears and 42 non-closing Kmarts left.
@cxd+15b6XgEU I will never thank that loser for anything.
You should thank Eddie there are any locations open. Any under normal circumstances Kmart would have liquidated years ago.
Separating the companies now would only k–l both quicker, more so with Kmart. You know....yeah, lets make this happen then! :D
Kmart is a dinosaur that is about to go extinct.
It is a product of a bygone era that is no longer relevant to today's shopper.
This is the wrong place to be make such a suggestion. This is a layoff board where the last thing on anybody's mind is to buy a moneypit of a company that cut their jobs.
Somebody needs to split the Cheerleader(the OP) away from their computer because it is quite apparent that they are unable to use the internet in a responsible manner.
As the years go by, there are fewer and fewer people who remember Kmart fondly. And they've long since lost their chance to become relevant to younger generations.
The K-Mart brand name, which was always associated with cheap, low-quality merchandise, has been sullied by several decades of mismanagement and decline. Walmart came along with superior logistics and management, and it was all over for K-Mart. With a little more than a couple dozen stores left out of 2,323 at it's peak, it's done. Finished. Over. What you are proposing, is for someone to start a new Walmart-like retail store essentially from scratch. In the last 20 years, the K-Mart name has become ingrained in the public mind with a lack of stock and poor customer service. If you're starting over (not a trivial endeavor), why not pick a name which doesn't have the negative baggage of K-Mart and it's forgotten ancestor Kresge?