serious cash flow problems everywhere
List of 68 remaining Sears stores (60 full-sized, 8 small-format)
Before Covid-19, there were 89 Sears stores open and not in liquidation. Since then, Sears has posting "store closing" job listings for 21 of them, bringing the total down to 68. Of these, 60 are full-sized, and 8 are various small formats (Home... — read more
Sears Hayward California closing
From Sears Holdings employment website.... https://jobs.sears.com/job/temp-backroom-up-to-40-hrs-wk-store-closing-hayward/J3R3JQ75DG2DM0H1FY1 https://jobs.sears.com/job/temp-cashier-up-to-40-hrs-wk-store-closing-hayward/J3Q4F06M511CVJBVD30 — read more
Stick a Fork in it people... Sears & Kmart are Done as Brands thanks to Leadership from TransformCo, Eddie Lampert, and Larry Costello
Kmart and Sears have closing stores for years and when Eddie Lampert became CEO of Sears in 2013, which was the beginning of the end for the company, and the worst was when he merged both brands in 2005 to form a struggling brand clearly as we can... — read more
Union Gap, WA Sears
Union gap, WA Sears (the last FLS to re-open post COVID closure) is finally re-opening, just got an email: To our members and customers: We hope you and your loved ones remain safe and healthy. Our top priority is the health and safety of our... — read more
American billionaires and the pandemic
Eddie Lampert: caused a famine by not paying vendors and wrote an article comparing COVID-19 to traffic Bill Gates, Building a team to combat COVID-19 while funding billions for vaccine research. Usually he donates to poor country diseases... — read more
TransformCo itself has announced ZERO liquidation sales
All the media receives is no comment from official media contacts. All employees know is from job postings to the jobs site, unofficially forwarded emails, or the what turns out to be accurate announcements here. There isn't even enough merchandise... — read more
A&E For Sale
Blue Light Special! A&E For Sale! Broken down vans. Broken down techs. Dysfunctional management. Broken down routing system. Broken down support staff. p-ss-d off 'members'. All of this is immediately available at a rock bottom Blue Light... — read more
Predicted closings for this month's Kmarts
After some research and cross referencing I'm predicting Miami Fl, Costa Mesa Ca and South Lake Tahoe Ca. For good measure Kingston PA and Kearny NJ. Let's see what happens. And may the odds be ever in your favor.
What's it like living in a town where Kmart is the only big box store in town?
I know of a few small towns that have only Kmart like Big Bear Lake CA, South Lake Tahoe, and the Florida Keys. Some of those towns already lost their store like Bishop, CA or will lose their store like Mckinleyville. There is also of course the Guam... — read more
Sears Continues On Its Slow And Steady March Into Oblivion (Forbes.com)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/07/02/sears-continues-on-its-slow-and-steady-march-into-oblivion/?fbclid=IwAR2bcAWSPHwwfjdJNG-x1IMhPp8BceuIs1qg-mhYid0HbRi32yWNR-mNUZY#23db95e2207f
How many HTS left after today?
Contracts were up for renewal for HTS today, how many are left? It’s by design to push the owners out. Eddie, are you proud of yourself?
Sears outlets renamed
I was doing some research for a customer since I work at a closing store and happen to look for the sears outlet website and discovered it was renamed as American freight so was it sold or is EL looking to bankrupt another company?
Home & Life Stores Open Saturday Only?
If you live near any of the 3 Home & Life Stores you should go on Saturday and see if they are actually open and if they are open get an explanation as to why it’s once a week.
How exactly do they decide which stores to close and when?
I ask because their doesn’t seem to be a pattern to these store closings. It seems as random as possible. I don’t know how some stores have managed to avoid the ax. You have single random stores in the middle of nowhere that are still alive. I... — read more
Sears exploring sale of home improvement business, sources say
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/sears-exploring-sale-of-home-improvement-business-sources-say.html Sears is exploring a sale of its home improvement business following interest from potential suitors such as private equity firms, people familiar... — read more
Covid-19 = Best Thing That Ever Happened for EL
Tell me that EL is not smiling from ear-to-ear thanks to Covid-19. It completely masks his real strategy to strip Transformco/ Sears of all its assets and prepare it for dissolution; leaving nothing for employees (most of which are furloughed) and... — read more
News on Sears and KMart closings
https://www.ibtimes.com/more-sears-kmart-store-closings-retail-industry-continues-feel-pain-coronavirus-3003984
Sears Alexandra, VA Confirmed
https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/search?keywords=Closing&location=&locationLimit=3&orderby=-date&facetcitystate=alexandria,va
At most 70 non-liquidating Sears stores remain. (List)
Before Covid-19, there were 89 Sears stores open and not in liquidation. Since then, Sears has posting "store closing" job listings for nineteen of them, bringing the total down to at most 70. This list shows what I believe to be the status of... — read more
Goodbye Sears Hello American Freight
It’s very clear with all the store closing to see what’s really going on!! There was no plan to keep any Sears as he is shuttering so many. American Freight is his sordid go forward “plan”. Anyone still working at a Sears store keep your eyes open... — read more
Small format stores closing?
Does anyone know if any of the small format stores have closed? Sears.com lists Overland Park, Camp Hill, Fort Collins, & Pharr as having permanently closed. Anchorage and Lafayette are shown as open only on Saturdays. Honolulu is shown as open with... — read more
Hackensack, NJ and Sangus, MA confirmed
This proves 2/3 gone for New Jersey and Seritage Property 10/12 confirmed. https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/page/seasonal-jobs?experience=cb&CompanyDIDCSV=&JobTitle=&FacetCategory=&locationLimit=3&location=&featured=true&orderby=-date
You know things are bad
When @GreyhoundValue on Twitter has stopped pumping all things Eddie Inc.
jobs listing CEO of Sears Home Services
Mitch Bowling finally out? Or did he bail awhile ago it's hard to keep track with all the turnover and no face to face. Is the @SearsHomeExpert account is finally going dark? All the business has been eaten alive by Service.com and Angie's List... — read more
Sears still believes in Kenmore
https://jobs.sears.com/job/dir-operations-brands/J3T0FZ62RT1J281VC4Y So much so they are looking for a new director
Will today be the day for more closings?
Closings have consistantly happened on every Tuesday for the past three weeks. I imagine this will continue today.
Furloughed Payment Portal
Anyone else having trouble logging in to use Pay Now. It's saying the page doesn't exist. Don't tell me I have to drive this thing to the PO Box in Carol Stream. Of course, if they don't exist anymore I guess they won't cash my check.
Sears Rockaway Closure confirmed
Kiss this store good bye in September 2020 https://jobs.sears.com/en-US/search?keywords=Closing&location=&facetcitystate=rockaway,nj
Eddie and Leena are directly responsible for TransformCo's decision to not pay its vendors
The buck stops with them
per Sears' annual reports, the year before Eddie took over, Sears was the biggest online apparel vendor in the USA
A malapert display of ineptitude to be sure
HI Associates
How are sales going? You making any money beyond minimum wage? Or are you still on commission?
Wi-fi
In my store (before it was announced as closing) they took away the wi-fi. The excuse was they were going to upgrade to a super duper new system. Did this actually happen in the remaining stores? Was this just one of the hundreds of lies from this... — read more
Found Anonymous map guy
Found the source for the anonymous map guy. This is not to be confused with that Jack guy's map/list. This is the map that we didn't apparently Know the source of. It is the first pinned post on this page. Apparently, their Kmart list follows... — read more
Sears, A&E Techs and STAC
I was just wondering if there were any service technicians that could comment on the state of Home Services and if the STAC support team in Round Rock were let go.
Maine Mall (South Portland, ME) Sears closing
Sears is advertising temp cashier and backroom store closing jobs, a sure sign of the store's... — read more
Eddie Lampert is so broke TransformCo is getting sued over unpaid installment payments on settlements on goods that shipped over a year ago
https://www.retaildive.com/news/more-kmart-sears-stores-to-close/580531/ At least one supplier has sued Transformco over unpaid invoices. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, a Chinese supplier to Transformco's stores alleges the retailer was months late... — read more
Christmas PJ's at Hackensack Sears
One of my family members need PJ's for a relatives and ask one of the employees where the lounge wear was and the employee said upstair. The escalators were broken and the elevator Is restricted to only one person at a time and on the second floor it... — read more
Sears Stores Reopening June 26, 2020
from https://www.sears.com/en_us/dap/transformco-Coronavirus-2019-response.html Sears Stores Re-Opened June 26, 2020 Hayward, California Silver Spring, Maryland Brooklyn, New York This leaves only Union Gap, Washington, as a... — read more