You would think with as much press and PR as this location is getting that "leadership" would have bothered to clean up this sh@thole of a Sears store.
This journalist was NOT impressed. The Sears section looks like every other disgusting Sears store. #Sad
http://www.businessinsider.com/sears-opens-sears-kmart-combination-store-2018-6#because-it-was-all-branded-as-kmart-it-felt-like-i-was-in-a-different-store-entirely-not-just-in-a-remodeled-sears-16
@2clu Oh, heavens no, Eddie would never go to garage sales. He thinks much too highly of himself for that, and heck, someone might kidnap him while he's out among the riff-raff! No, he has a whole department of "buyers" for that. ;-)
Eddie Lampert is busy going to garage sales to get merchandise for his stores. He was shopping at a kmart and thought WOW, there are 3 customers here and 0 at sears, maybe I can get 1 customer at sears if I put some of Kmarts merchandise in there? What a bold and futuristic thought!
It would not be difficult to have registers that could ring up both Sears and Kmart transactions. Seriously, programming 101. But I guess that would cost money and make things convenient for customers.
That's it exactly...you are seeing a Kmart inside a Sears so they can attempt to justify pallets of paper plates and other merchandise that has no place in a Sears. This is about as pitiful as it gets, folks. We can't afford real Sears stuff, so let's fill 'er up with the cheapest crap we can...
@pwn- you are spot on. They buy large quantities of random, cheap crap to fill the voids. Remember the endless supply of hand soap, the bulk stacks of no-name microwaves or the bargain-bin pillows that were already flat before they were even slept on?
certainly have a lot of paper towels, don't they? Not enough inventory to cover the wood so they over-face big items. What a mess.
I think it would be way more impressive if they built a couple of brand-new, standalone stores. Sears or Kmart hasn't opened a full-size store since 2001. Of course this will never happen but I think the public perception may change for the better, even if it's a by a little, if brand-new, spiffy Sears and Kmart stores started popping up. People might think twice about Sears and Kmart closing up if new stores started opening around them. Like I said, this will never happen but it just goes to show that the lack of investment has caught up and the chickens are coming home to roost.
Opening a Kmart in an existing Sears store seems like a cheap and cheesy "quick fix". What's more appalling is that the same old, tired Sears hosting the Kmart store hasn't changed. This is what's supposed to be a "model store" but you can see abandoned resets, massive "holes" in aisles void of product and just a general all around mess.
Bet the Kmart will either a) look exactly the same in 6 weeks because no one shops there, or b) never be replenished if they do.
Also, I noticed the demolition equipment has started to arrive.
Can't really polish a turd can you? Doesn't matter what they do, nothing's going to fix either of them.