Aha! This is what Eddie meant by transformation all along! A glorified Angie's List!
SYWR and Alfie patents
don't look now, but eddie and leena just got granted a bunch of patents for the alfie and sywr as well as tracking employee metrics! it's the next billion dollar business! just wait until he tries to enforce them and discovers that Amazon, Google... — read more
Abandoned Kmart with fixtures
An abandoned Kmart near me in Corvallis, Oregon still has a lot of fixtures and they even left the registers!! Has anyone else seen this?!? The Kmart closed 2 years before this video was taken! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVPNbFuRVPs
COBRA Payments For April
Has anyone received a notice of them paying our 4/01/21 COBRA payment? Im still showing a bill and certainly don't want to wait for them to refund it to me.
I wonder how this company still exists?
This company has become such a mess that I’m starting to think that even those at the top aren’t sure how this still works magically somehow. Everything is falling apart, from whichever aspect we look, there is nothing healthy anymore... — read more
Home Services Still Lives
Any home service people here? What’s up?
Sears Premier Customer here
I still own my Sears Premier card and I proudly show it to the cashier person every time I visit my local stores. They recognize me and treat me better than any other retailer too.
A Future Place to Be
What about Sears becoming a community place to be? with: A food court with carts and staff flown in from all over the world? A Sears Bank? A Sears Urgent Care Clinic? Pop up shops with the hottest street designers and artists? A crypto... — read more
Need to have my appliances serviced, when I called I was told next day when they thought it was collect work.
So, I have this dilemma. I've owned Kenmore appliances since the '80s and now recently I called for service but gave the wrong contact information so when I was given dates for when the tech would come in I was told the next day and the cost of... — read more
Kmart Check Cashing
Is Kmart running any sort of promo this year for cashing tax refund checks or stimulus checks? Would love to cash my check at Kmart, hopefully they are still doing free or $1 check cashing for SYW members!! Would be even better if they were giving... — read more
Random Locations
What’s with the random Sears store in Washington state and the really random Kmart in Montana. Really surprised these stores are hanging on!!
Sears sent me an open-box item as new
I bought a "Craftsman 3-Piece Flex Handle Breaker Bar Set" on Sears.com. They sent me a open-box missing one of the three bars. It was shipped from Farmingville, NY. Just curious, how many Sears online orders end up with return?
Winding Down Operations
So as we look to the future after phase I closures (announced on Thursday, January 28th, 2021) are completed on Sunday, April 18th, 2021, and phase II closures (announced on Friday, February 12th, 2021) finishing up on Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 we have... — read more
CALL CENTER MANAGERS DONT DO A THING
All I hear is that they are on pebble all day putting up jokes . Not bad for 4-5 k a month...anyone wonder why the company is going under?
And the dominos keep falling
San Antonio call center is the latest. The parent company of Sears has decided to close a Far West Side call center, laying off about 67 employees, it informed the Texas Workforce Commission in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or... — read more
Transformco's endgame is merger with Seritage and Oldshan
People often talk about preserving Sears Holdings' net operating losses for taxation purposes, but exactly how would those losses apply? It certainly wouldn't be anything in TransformCo's portfolio, it is nothing but a cash burner that generates... — read more
Who stays here just for severance pay?
I am baffled by the people who stay here just for severance pay. A colleague recently turned down a decent job at another company just because he was waiting for a package here. I mean, it’s somewhat understandable because I wouldn’t want to miss it... — read more
Liquidation Sales Underway at Kmart at Kearny Plaza S/C in Kearny, NJ Closing Sunday, May 2nd, 2021
Link to liquidation information: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www.storeclosingnow.com/Kmart/LP/images/K9_Kearny_NJ.png Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOSgQ_yOwbA
Sample/ corporate store
Just out of curiosity, Is there still a Kmart & Sears sample store at the Hoffman corporate offices? What about the corporate auto center? A few posts down we confirmed that a small corporate pharmacy exists in Hoffman, any other stores for corporate... — read more
Could Sears have been saved?
I'm concerned more about myself and looking for a new job than about the future of this company, but still I wonder if Sears could have been saved? I’m a regular cashier here and I don’t understand much of the business processes, but I’m very sorry... — read more
Who cares?
I've been reading this forum every week because honestly it's fun to watch everyone argue but seriously who the f*ck cares about when or what store will close. All we ever do is guess and complain about when the next round is or when the company with... — read more
A case study company?
Unfortunately, chances are that Sears will eventually turn into a case study for business schools as an example of how not to run a company and especially how not to run in times of crisis. Anyone agree that there is no better example for a case... — read more
There are better alternatives
I see that some people here panic because of the cuts, which I can understand only to some extent because I guess no one wants to stay forever in this place stocking shelves for a minimum wage. For me, this was my temporary job and I definitely... — read more
Commission with nothing to sell
At this point isn’t it just basically a minimum wage job.....you can’t sell what’s not there.
Belleville video
Somebody put up the Kearny video, but here's the Belleville one. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TltVnWxPKQ
When this is all over will any stateside full line stores survive?
Other than Guam and USVI Kmarts. Will any stateside full line sears or kmarts survive all these closings? Or will any sears auto centers live on? Or will the remnants of the company just be the 5 island Kmarts, sears.com, and a few sears hometown... — read more
I never thought I’d say this
I was determined to wait it out at Sears. For the past couple of years I kept thinking the end is right around the corner and it’s only a matter of months if not weeks before the whole thing is done. And yet here I am, still gainfully employed, still... — read more
How much has the layoff complicated your life?
At one point, I thought that I would not be able to pay the bills and that I would experience a total debacle. Our children were also upset as we began to consider moving as well. Due to the large number of rejections, I thought I would never get a... — read more
A Kmart Pharmacy in Hoffman Estates?
I saw an interesting job post. There's a Kmart Pharmacy in Hoffman Estates? Is this at corporate? https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/job/casual-on-call-pharmacist-kmart-4685-hoffman-estates-il/J3V7MM5W864Z8XFFSPQ
A new round of store closure released
Apparently another small round of store closure list was released which locations are they?
Look at the pattern for the next closing round.
For those that want to know when the next closing round might be, just look at the pattern. First off, it's been made clear that the liquidators can handle multiple stores at once, so we don't have to wait till a round of closings is done before... — read more
Transformco has a refreshed jobs page
https://jobs.sears.com/ I'm not convinced Eddie has thrown in the towel just yet.
Who thought this could ever happen to Sears?
The ship is sinking very fast. I have to be honest, for now it’s not bad milking the unemployment. It was much worse to try to work in horrible conditions and to think that they could tell you at any moment that the store was closing and that there... — read more
Next Round of Store Closures Coming out Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
Anyone want to make predictions of which stores will be on a new closing list after the first list announced on Friday, January 29th, 2021 closes Sunday, April 18th, 2021?
How hard are you trying to find a new job?
I’m tired of all this. I love my colleagues but I have a feeling that everyone can’t wait for our store, one of the few remaining ones, to close and go on unemployment. That’s why I hear daily speculation as to which store will be closed next. I, on... — read more
Westfarmers purchasing Kmart U.S. in Guam. Pure fiction?
What’s with all the ongoing jibber jabber about Westfarmers (Kmart Australia) purchasing Kmart U.S. in Guam from Transformco? This has been speculated on here for several years. I’ve never seen anything from an executive within Westfarmers and / or... — read more
Kearny video
Kmart Kearny closing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWsHZM_3rKE&feature=emb_logo Narrator sounds a bit like Iron Mike Tyson!
Anyone care to weigh in on this job post?
https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/job/sr-director-real-estate/J3R5DG72CSSN7HLXMZ3 Sr Director, Real Estate Transformco Hoffman Estates, IL 3333 Beverly Road 3/1/2021
The Following Stores Set to Close Permanently Today
Employees at these following stores today will be losing there job by 6PM EST/PST Kmart Big Bear Lake, CA Bayamon, PR Mayaguez, PR Sears Carolina, PR Caugez, PR