Does anyone remember this? He said it was rolled out in 100 stores but the store level staff didn't buy into it so it was sc-apped? This article actually made me rethink Eddie a little bit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/business/sears-edward-lampert-bankruptcy.html?dlbk=&module=inline
Does any one remember the international fashion runway thing. It was putting foreign designer clothes on a wooden floor in the women's dept. TJ Maxx has something similar now but at higher prices. I liked it but just as said on here: ideas were financed for about a minute and then failed because there was now follow through. Financially. Staffing. Corporate Support. All given then yanked before you could reasonably have results. Again and again for each new program
Any program rolled out at Sears was usually forgotten about after two weeks and the fixturing for it buried in a back room for 20 years. I wish I had the money wasted on fixtures over the last 40 years in those stores, I could live next door to Eddie.
Oh yeah...I remember my local Kmart having those...they lasted about as long as every other half-assed concept SHLD has come up with. What happened to those mini self-serve snack areas at the front of the store with an icee machine and soda fountain? Those lasted about just as long.
It was a dumb idea anyway. No one is going to go to Sears or Kmart to use the Internet on machines that aren't even their own. Even at Starbucks people use their own laptops.
They once had an internet lounge at the (now closed) Kmart near me. It was installed during a remodel early in the Lampert years. Yes there was a brief shining moment the company spent a few dollars to remodel some stores. But then they didn't invest enough money on maintenance, upkeep, and the payroll necessary to keep the store (and the internet lounge) in decent shape. I recall trying to use the computers once, maybe a couple of years after the remodel, and they didn't even work. The store died a slow death for years, and then was finally closed 6 months after a Walmart popped up 2 blocks away.