Anybody here who is on furlough had moved on, found or looked for another job, instead of waiting for TransformCo to call you back to work? And how many of you have they called back? For folks who worked at HE.
Sears White Marsh Mall is now home for Amazon Trucks?
https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2020/07/27/amazon-white-marsh-mall-sears-expansion-e-commerce.html
Empty shelves at US Virgin Islands Kmart stores
https://stjohnsource.com/2020/07/25/attention-kmart-shoppers-empty-shelves-dont-mean-stores-closing/ Attention Kmart Shoppers: Empty Shelves Don’t Mean Stores Are Closing By Diana Dias -July 25, 2020 As shoppers enter any of the four Kmart... — read more
Innovel
Why is Transformco still posting jobs for Innovel? I thought they sold this entire operation in March. https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/job/operations-manager/J3T35Y6VR5C9W7F09V6
What happened to soft lines?
Are there any employees in the sf office anymore? With 93 fls left and the number going down fast it is clear soft lines is going away
Sears has begun posting ads for Hometown stores
https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/job/sales-associate-sears-hometown-stores-sugar-land-texas-7178/J3M49Z6Z48HZ9RT88F7
Last store in Maine closing, only 61 Sears stores remaining
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/24/sears-is-closing-at-the-maine-mall/ The Sears store at The Maine Mall dates to the mall’s creation in 1971. Sears owns its property at the mall, along with a restaurant site in the parking lot that houses... — read more
BBY
Best Buy closes at an all time high! $96.n change. EL you ruined an Icon. 2008 BBY was a couple of buck$$. You sir will be in business 101 college texts for the next 20 years. You ruined so many lives. Nice job. We’re all really prod of your legacy... — read more
Lands' End - Another Eddie Failure
When Eddie took over, Lands' End was the biggest online apparel retailer in the world, Kmart and Sears were the second and third biggest retailers, and Amazon was a seller of books. This week? Lands' End filed with the SEC that there was... — read more
Hayward, CA Sears has started liquidation sales
Source is a local area Facebook group
What is the new store count?
Have not seen any closing posts recently Are we still holding at 95 fls left?
How do you lose $10 billion?!
How? Just how? I've seen this figure mentioned several times. Sears/Kmart had maybe a few hundred thousand employees at most? Has there been any city or country with around that many people that's lost that much money? Forget companies, isn't it... — read more
85% of stores have closed since Eddie Lampert announced that he was a total failure
When he took over, there were 3,000 stores. He lost $10 billion. At the time of bankruptcy, there were over 800 stores left. He lost another $2B that holiday season. Now there are less than 100 stores remaining. Even as a liquidator he's a... — read more
Sears and Kmart overstock
I work for a a reseller of overstock goods that has been purchasing Sears/Kmart overstock and non-payment orders for years. You can always find genuine Sears products like Craftsman, DieHard, fitness equipment, and Jeans they've ordered wholesale... — read more
Sears - A Case Study in Business Failure
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/ideas-work/sears-case-study-business-failure an interview with Mark Cohen, Columbia Business School retail studies director and former CEO of Sears Canda. *What will be the epitaph on Sears’... — read more
Union Gap Sears
Is hiring a softlines supervisor! https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/job/softlines-supervisor-sears-2029-union-gap-wa/J3S4X965K5FHX2X2XN8 FYI.
Is it possible that Eddie sold Innovel for a song because everyone who knows how to operate the green screen terminals was laid off?
I feel sorry for Costco customer service that has to get yelled at for completely incompetent scheduling now. At least with Shop Your Way shutting down no one has to be called a c*nt 30 times a day because of a $5 coupon anymore
Have you used service live to get work done
How were they ? Need to get rid of bedbugs.
The Seritage Chapter 11 train wreck
Seritage collected 65% of of its rent in April, well below other mall REITs and way below other REITs in general. While other REITs reported major recoveries in May rents, Seritage reported another 20% drop, and messaging from New York that "we will... — read more
Sears Hometown hiring Director of Finance
Someone needs to be accountable for knowing how many Sears Hometowns are left, since literally no one has any idea! Eddie must have been displeased no one knows lol.
Eddie couldn't afford to pay liquidators before the pandemic
Liquidators were a hair's breath from walking before the Innovel sale was forced so they could get paid after months of non-payment. It's known TransformCo isn't making payments to Seritage and vendors, and virtually all buyers and even Indian IT is... — read more
Guess Myrtle Beach, SC is staying open for now
https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/job/store-manager-sears-1795-myrtle-beach-sc/J3R7HD645XWL81RHHGN They're looking for a new store manager!
Odd Kmart Job
Kmart just posted a job opening for a store that isn’t on one of the lists that confirms it’s opened. Wonder why this is? https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/job/customer-service-part-time/J3T8HX6VK7H5CJ4X7ZJ
How are sales going?
Has availability gotten any better? Or are most of y’all in draw pay or minimum wage adjustment. Just curious as my store closed months ago.
No PPP loans for any of the companies of ESL
So they released the database of all the PPP loans that were given. Most car dealerships got 2-5 million or more. Basically free money. So I searched for sears, Kmart , transformco, ESL, lands end, nothing. A few sears hometowns took the... — read more
Are Sears Home Services and Warranties just simply scams?
It says right in the contract, a No Lemon Guarantee. But if you look the respective Twitter and Facebook accounts, there are literally thousands of customers who are complaining non-stop that they have been unable to get service, unable to contact a... — read more
Shop Your Way closing?
Does anyone know if they’re shutting down Shop Your Way? Are they bringing employees off furlough?
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Did Eddie ever meet Robert Kiyosaki at any point before 2004? Everything he's done since the merger of Sears and Kmart reeks of a 4 hour scam real estate seminar. Invest in real estate, make debt and taxes work for you, they don't really matter! ... — read more
Sears Hometowns
The sad fact is that no one actually knows how many are left. All paper work involving franchisees has been passed down multiple times like a game of telephone, no one knows which tracking files are current, staff has turned over like no one's... — read more
Sears closing in San Antiono, Texas and Kmart Closing in Columbia, Pennsylvania
These store closing jobs were just posted today on jobs.sears.com
What do people expect of Sears PR?
LC's job is to give a positive spin on Sears news. There's no Sears news to be had. One month Sears is selling its new DieHard partnership with Chinese suppliers and not half a year later DieHard is sold and the suppliers have cut Sears off... — read more
Total Sears And Kmart Store Count Going Down To Just 95
https://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenshoulberg/2020/07/12/total-sears-and-kmart-store-count-going-down-to-just-95/ With 20 Sears stores and seven Kmart locations announced as closing in July and August, the total number of stores in what was once... — read more
Which comes first.. Sears closing for good or Covid vaccine?
Good question isn't it. I say Sears closing
Kmart Pharmacy press release
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kmart-pharmacy-partners-with-scriptdrop-to-introduce-pr-scrip-ion-delivery-solution-301092602.html Just posted today.
New CEO for Home Services
Just announced hiring of a New CEO for the Home Services Division.
Seritage is paying $120M a year in interest, and lost $250M on its investments including $52M in operations
Land's End is in similarly abysmally situated. Sears and Kmart are doing so badly they can't even pay rent to cover their costs to line Eddie's pockets or vendors for goods bought. Eddie's been losing billions for years, and as owner, it was his... — read more
Jersey City?
Anyone find out whatever happened with Jersey City? I thought someone claimed they were closing? I haven't seen anything yet about that one?
Salinas, CA Closing (12th Seritage Property Closing)
Here is another Sears closing. This one in Salinas, CA. https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/job/temp-door-greeters-up-to-40hrs-wk-store-closing-salinas/J3S51N65ZGJVQ4D8W6X
Sears Rockaway Experience
So yesterday I went to Sears in Rockaway, and I noticed some problems first off the store was understaffed probably typically for one of these stores nowadays. Second, the Up Escalator was broken, which meant the only choice was to use the elevator... — read more
Sears Work Culture S**ks!
Eddie, let everyone go their merry way, stop inflicting pain upon everyone at Sears/Transformco, whatever you hide behind nowadays! You’re pathetic.