Shop Your Way will survive, it's growing and profitable!
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@2nym - Sears is treating the SYW financial information the same way they treated the catalog division financial information back in the day. The financial status of the catalog division was never revealed. Depending on the source, you would hear catalog was either profitable or not profitable. Finally, when Sears did reveal the financial status of the catalog division, it showed that catalog had been losing money for many years and was far from profitable.
The Alfie was suppose to rival Alexa but the concept, like everything else with the company, was a bust. You were suppose to ask Alfie to buy something and then Alfie would find it for you at the best price.
The problem was your voice command would go to a real live person who would just Google it and get back to you in a half hour or more.
As for SYW, it may be profitable but I would think not. If it was so profitable wouldn't SHC put it in the financials and shout from the rooftops how much money it was making. As for the people who use the partners, like gasbuddy, yes you will make money but I doubt SHC makes very much on the partnership.
SYW is profitable. The op is correct about that. It’s certainly worth more than the kenmore name but less than the craftsman name was.
If you’re too dumb to understand why, no I will not explain it to you, go back to yahoo finance.
Used gasbuddy last night, smiling all the way to the bank.
Hope that helps.
sears gives no financial information about SYW so there is no basis on fact to claim it is profitable. .they have laid off employees. Not a good sign of profitability
I remember the Alfie and the managers being gung-ho about selling two per shift. They pushed it just as hard as they did with PA's and credit. At the start of our shifts, they gave each of us two Alfies and if we turned in both Alfies at the end of our shift, we had to write an explanation why we were not able to sell the Alfies to the customer, just like we had to if we didn't get PA's, credit, shop your way, and so on, and we were shamed for not selling Alfie.
@2muo I'm surprised that you are able to use Alfie. i thought they pulled the plug on that because it didn't seem to take off all that well. I had a feeling from the beginning that it would be a flop. Sears was too late to the game because Amazon had already beaten them there with Echo. I remember when they were pulled off the shelves in less than a year of being released.
I do have a couple of those stashed away, new in the box. 50 years from now somebody out there will want to buy one as a memoir, long after the majority of those will be thrown away and long forgotten. Strange things you'd never think would have any significant value does go for surprisingly high prices as the years go by.
On that note, I wonder how Alfie would do as a hockey puck.
I use Alfie for all my shopping.
SYW is not profitable. Profitable is nice but that's not what it is for, right now that is.
Keeping massive retail online site running like SYW is not cheap. Those IT people are not paid cheap. Massive amount of infrastructure to keep it running is not cheap. Giving away free points to trade in for item that has real money value is not cheap. It is all money losing.
SYW real effort is to show the street that sears is growing its online present using number of customers and sale revenue metrics. This is only way to bring company valuation up for those who have SHLD stocks.
No it won't.
No it's not.
Get back on your meds.
Not the OP, just a worker drone. Serious question - I thought with all the sign ups we do and third parties paying us and the partnerships that this did some good. Guess I’m clueless. Is it really shrinking even it’s all the 3rd party stuff?
The OP is either a hired cheerleader for Sears or just a person that loves to see how many responses he/she can get from asinine comments.
Guess it worked....even I responded.
SYW? Steal Your Way? Profitable for who?
dreams are nice things , I hope that when they don't come true you are not too disappointed OP
Does that include the relay app and personal shopper app and clientele app, max and vip and the broken SYW app and the failed partnerships including fubo, gas buddy, and the failed truxx partnership and more and more. I looked at the numbers for them this week and growth is one thing that is certainly not happening
STFU
Cash is King. Sears is broke d--k. SYW will die.