I know Oxmore in Louisville is closing. It didn’t even make the local news. People really don’t care about Sears anymore.
Michigan minimum wage increases to $9.25 1/1/2018
Should be interesting to see if this puts more pressure to close stores in michigan seeing that too many shoppers are using their “Points” to pay for their purchases.. when management starts telling you don’t Offer to check customers point balance... — read more
Another loan
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sears-is-again-borrowing-from-owner-and-ceo-eddie-lampert-2017-10-05
Sears Home Services
What is the deal? Are they selling this off or not? Does anyone even want to buy it?
Big announcement
The big announcement will tie in with this: Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-05/amazon-is-said-to-test-own-delivery-service-to-rival-fedex-ups That’s why one touch was... — read more
Sears Canada on the ropes
Court gave them 3 days to get a reorganization deal done or liquidate the whole business and pay the creditors. Sears USA employees- get on with finding a new career elsewhere. Eddie owns more than 50% of Sears Canada FWIW
Sears Backroom Associate
The Sears near me is desperate for employees. This will be a third job for me. I understand how the Kmart backroom process works fully. I left in 01/2014 since I was laid off. Is the Sears one similar? I understand there is no "Backroom Lead"... — read more
Hearing lots of rumors in our sears store
Has amyone else heard anything ? Could tomorrow be the day the final store closures for 2017
Closings
Sorry, that is kmart 4130, not sears.
More closings
Found out last night 4130 in omaha is closing. Anyone else?
Sears Retail Spinoff
Heard Sears Retail will be spunoff...........
Tool gift bar
No gift bar listed in msp what's up with that
The Future
Well, popcorn has announced the big meeting, so it must be official, two billionaires (Bezos and ??? Gates or Maybe???) are going to Pump SHLD full of cash. So much money they are going to remodel everything and get us back to the glory days. So what... — read more
Auto Center Headaches
So the problem with the auto centers is this, so many people come in to try to get a free or highly prorated battery out of us, and then you try to up sell them on high profit margin services like brake work or serpentine belt replacement but they... — read more
No seasonal hires nor extra hours???
I don't know if each DM is taking a different approach. I got word yesterday that apparently our store is not going to hire any seasonal workers. I still believe its a bunch of BS for them not to hire any seasonal workers at this point its crazy come... — read more
Sears canada
More store closures for sears Canada, another 10 department stores and 1 home store ,Sears Canada also looking to extend their bankrupsy protection to Nov./17 .Doesn't look good up here.
Big Meeting this week!!!!
Popcorn here and there is a big meeting this week. Eddie is coming to town for it to meet with some huge game changers. Can't say who these game changers are but they don't come much bigger than these two. Both are billionaires. The infusion of... — read more
Silence of the popcorns
Awful quiet... Eerily quiet. No asset sales, no layoffs, no financial engineering. Something big is about to happen. Quiet before the storm!
Just a heads up for anyone who gets the boot.
You will more then likely have to fight for 88sears to pay your vacation! They will put the hours on your check, but there won't be any money attached to it.....sneaky ba$tards!
Cutting even more hours to bring in new hires
I don't know if this is happening company wide, but I've heard that our DM is demanding that all part timers be cut to a ridiculously low number of hours in order to make room for the a supposed wave of new hires. I would assume that these new hires... — read more
WE ALL ARE MORONS
... for staying with this company for so long. But come tomorrow, my moron days are over. Since I can start a new job on Monday, I'm going to no call/no show and enjoy a long weekend. My managers deserve no notice or courtesy because of the way they... — read more
Sears/Kmart Pay vs other major retailers.
I just received an email from a district recruiter with Sears Full Line stores. Inviting me to a job fair at the Sears near me. I replied to her email about the pay rate and she said it is still $7.25hr but you can get paid $2.00 for every credit app... — read more
Sears auto centers closed.
There have been auto centers closed in the last week. Anybody know how many?
SHLD Associates = Humanity
The precarious situation at SHLD sometimes leads to heated discussions on this board. During some of these exchanges assumptions are made, accusations are trumpeted and associates at all levels are derided. While reading random articles on the... — read more
Don't ask the member to use their SYW points
WE were told again today to stop asking the members to use their points, only use the points if the member asks if they have any points. Not that this is shocking, but when we were told to write up the people that are asking every member to see how... — read more
Target To Raise Their Minimum Wage To $11and SHLD Will Do The Same
Only one half of the above statement is true. Guess which half is true and which half is false. https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-09-25/target-raises-minimum-wage-a-smart-move
How can we be successful with online orders when we don't even have BOXES?
The amount of orders coming in are starting to pick up. Besides mailer envelopes, which we use for shirts and other small items, our store is left with just two types of boxes (both are under 18 in. in any dimension, one of them is only 8 inches... — read more
Kmart is now calling its 'plus-size' section 'Fabulously Sized'
Kmart is now calling its 'plus-size' section 'Fabulously Sized' Lindsay Lowe TODAY Sep. 12, 2017 at 5:36 PM The "plus-size" section will soon disappear at Kmart, but the retailer is now offering a wider range of sizes than ever. Kmart has changed the... — read more
Why is everyone so jaded? SERIOUSLY????
Take a f**king look around!
NO WORD FROM POPCORN
POPCORN MUST have been let go ... it's Thursday, all the predictions were for today and nothing new has been talked about. maybe there done closing stores for this year.
When does Sears start hiring Holiday Associates?
None of the employees at the Woodfield store knew when or where to apply.
How Many KMarts are left?
I'm counting 550. Is this high?
Vendor portal
I am no longer an employee so I can't log in anymore, but any current employee can. Type your store # into the search area to keep track of your store... — read more
Kmart Pharmacy Closure
To the last poster, I've been told there is way more than 1 pharmacy closing. Anyone have an exact number? And which pharmacies??
Kmart pharmacy closure
The Kmart I currently work at has announced today that it's pharmacy will be closing within 30 days. Is this an indication of where the store is heading or a way for us to eliminate an area that was losing money?
END of the line this month should be the last announcement of store closings
Does anyone have any inside knowledge of the next potential closings, I saw on here few days ago of the " urgent conference calls " did anyone else have this call in their sears store ?????
Let the micro management continue
We now have to call the DM every time we have to say no to an on-line order .... this is getting out of hand if you ask me . AS the person always has to say, on this one I agree time to DRAIN THE SWAMP
Holiday Transformation Panel
10 — 11 a.m. CDT Tuesday, Sept. 26 Hoffman Estates General Session Room or Webcast Watch as they discuss what we’re doing differently this year in an effort to drive a more profitable outcome for Holiday 2017. This interactive session will give you... — read more
Sad look at a closing store
Picked over and battered, Sarasota Sears store closes I thought this title is an ideal allegory for the entire Sears. Just take out the Sarasota and store, and soon enough, this will be all that is left of the entire company... — read more