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Just a little survey to see how the new credit card sign up is going? Why do they think that this is the thing that will save the company? We have to give an update every hour to our DM on how many people we have signed up and we have to get at least five per day. That is unrealistic and crazy.

First, if we get five people to sign up per day withing a few years we would have every man, woman and child in our area signed up for a credit card. Second, most people who we have asked are concerned that Sears/Kmart will be out of business soon so they don't want to deal with it. Three, many people are p*ssed that the offer for rewards is in SYW points and it only last for a year. Four, less than 1% of the people who are signing up are being approved from what I can tell from the e-mails and text.

Five, our registers are so slow it cannot process the application fast so people just say Forget it.

So someone give me an update and if you can explain to me how this is suppose to save the company from its financial disaster

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A fee is coming and the whole earning points ends after 12 months. I also think I read that you must use the points with in 18 months of card sign up, but I could be wrong.

I wonder if you have to keep track of when you earned your points and when they expire?

Lets say I earn 100 points on day 1 and 200 points on day 300 out of 365 days (12 months) does this mean I have one year to use the 100 points but only 65 days to use the other 200. Or if I must use the points within 18 months does this means I have the extra six months plus the 65 days left from the original 12 months to use the 200 points? Or do all points expire after 12 months?

If so then some of the points actually expire in a shorter period than 12 months. Someone actually asked me this so I thought I would throw it out to find and answer because asking on Pebble is useless

The corporate line is that accumulating the points will drive traffic into the store. If you read carefully, the promo materials say the card is free for one year from date of opening. So an annual fee too?

I saw the credit application report for the first day they were pushing us on this (had to send emails every few hours). Literally every applicant that day was an employee. It seems clownish that they really expect anyone to want to sign up for a credit card with a dying company at this point.

Just another piece of spaghetti thrown at the wall trying to see what sticks to make some money. Note to corporate-- It isn't sticking well so far.

Have you seen the example on the poster in the breakroom of what spending $10,000 gets you? Just a measly $300 in points. Points at a retailer that may not be around long enough to redeem them.

This is yet another "hot" program instituted by this company that is destined to fail.

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