Temperatures in the 100s coming should spur sales of ac units also stuff like bikinis and pool equipment and lawn darts.
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No, because no one shops at either store anymore! You can have a million A/C's, but when no one shops there to buy them, it's meaningless!
No gross margin in A/C units, actually lose money when you factor in the expense of having them available.
It's hard to sell ACs (or anything else, for that matter) when the store AC isn't even on when it should be.
The Kenmore brand is only available at Sears that will make them all flock over to buy them, profits should be way up this hot sizzling summer.
Sears' supply chain logistics was always slow and behind the competition.
The District managers would order "hot trucks" of A/C's to get stores back in stock during a heatwave, but by the time the trucks showed up, the heatwave would be over and the store would end up with a/c's taking up space in the stockrooms all Winter because anyone who needed an A/C when Sears sold out had gone to the competition and bought one for the season.
Same thing with snowblowers and generators.....the special truckloads would show up after the weather emergency had passed and the product just sat there taking up stockroom space.
It wasn't until recent years that stores were allowed to ship unsold overstock from these hot trucks back to the RRC's.
Customers will flock to Lowes and Home Depot after Sears runs out of stock of A/C's on the first day of the heatwave while its competitors get truckloads of A/C's in to sell.
The sarcasm was not noticed?
God can’t help Sears
Yeah Seasonal stuff too like Easter chocolates and Christmas lights!