Thread regarding Sears layoffs

@1fxe "I'll never forget the time I ordered a large pair of pruning shears from Sears and having it delivered in a box for a Craftsman push mower FULL of packing peanuts from a Sears store five states away."

You're lucky the store even had that many packing peanuts. Your shipment may have used up their whole month's supply, lol.

It isn’t just a shell. It’s an established retailer with top fast fashion brands like Covington, Roebuck & Co, and Jacklyn Smith. It has America’s favorite appliance brand, Kenmore. And when America goes to get stuff done, Craftsman and Die Hard are there.

Not fake “put a label on Stanley tools” Craftsman, but the real deal, which you can only get from Sears.

Haters like to deny this, but I doubt they know much about getting anything productive done. They probably think Harbor Freight is top quality!

show will not make up ground with closing stores. Home Depot Lowes Kmart and Best Bjy will. Shios store owners are losing money

I bought some cheap shirts online from Kmart. I live in Illinois and they came in 3 packages, South Dakota, New York and Key Largo or Key West. That one made me laugh cause I had no idea they had a store in the Keys. I've also gotten things from other far from me places that didn't seem worth the effort for them. No problems with delivery or defective items though. I took advantage of all the Free Cash and Shipping and Cash Back. I played by the rules and only bought stuff for my personal use. If your willing to sell it cheap, I don't feel bad about buying it. I became a Platinum SYWR member just before they filed for bankruptcy lol. S---s what ESL has done to the place.

@1gfi You're right. Some transformation this is! I don't think Sears Holdings has ever built/opened a single store since its inception in 2005.

At this point, I'm not sure why they are even putting effort into the stores. The store count has shrunk dramatically and the company is still in trouble.

As far as online is concerned, Sears and Kmart can't compete with the big boys and never will. I can attest to that personally, I tried shopping at both Sears and Kmart and gave up out of frustration. Almost everything I tried to order was unavailable or "pickup only" (at a Kmart store 300 miles away). Shopped Amazon, Walmart and a little bit of JCPenney and my experience of shopping all three was so much smoother. I've even had better experiences on eBay by buying items from "one-man show" sellers shipping stuff out of their home than from Sears or Kmart. I'll never forget the time I ordered a large pair of pruning shears from Sears and having it delivered in a box for a Craftsman push mower FULL of packing peanuts from a Sears store five states away.

You are right about the Pacific Northwest. SHC has largely abandoned the region with a few scattered Kmart and sears stores in random areas. With the closing of the Medford, Oregon sears there will be no sears FLS in the state of Oregon. In fact SHC will have one Kmart in Oregon and that’s it (the dalles). Just 6 months ago we had several of both formats within driving distance of my home. Now I have zero within 100 miles. Now that’s a transformation.

OK Skinny "what's a shell footprint"? Tell me. Seriously. I've got to get to the arcade soon. If you don't tell me I'll hold my breath until my face turns blue.

"stetson cologne on and hit the arcade" What reference is this while your at it?

I mean no offense to you Good Sir and welcome you to our planet, we call it Earth.

Goodnight Everybody!!!!

The last two or three comments are too ignorant to answer back. Go put your stetson cologne on and hit the arcade.

Ish...is stupidity hereditary.

"what's a shell footprint?"

Must be sumtin like lobster paws or crab feeties

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@WSwNH8M-exu Yeah and what's a shell footprint?

"The penning is goofy as the board, not me chopped my correspondence up." Come on, WTF? I am not petulant. I'm not I'm not I'm not youuuuu p--pyhead!!!!!!

" 400ish shell footprints. 2)but 600ish "

Whats an "ish" 😕😕

Someone else gets at least part of it, kudos OP

The hostility here is directed primarily at Sears corporate and Eddie....not the front line workers.

Making outlandish statements saying hostility is focused on Sears and K Mart workers in general is simply trying to stir the pot to try to deflect focus away from where the blame for this mess actually belongs...squarely with Eddie Lampert.

The title was breathe new life... Hence the correction *breathe not breath. Quite simple. The penning is goofy as the board, not me chopped my correspondence up. You don't have to be petulant about it.

Don’t bother using logic here OP! Most of the posters here just want to trash hard working Sears and Kmart people.

Skin. Is English your first language? Your writing is kind of hard to follow. What the hell is *Breathe?

SHOS is losing money (2.49) a share and raised "Going Concern" doubts a few weeks ago in an SEC filing. The loss of Sears would probably kill it.

They have secured SOME vendor contracts. But, the CEO has had plenty of time to get his ducks in a row and he has not procurred all vendors and some vendors have not been able to work with SHOS, for whatever reason. SHOS still relies on SHC for over 75% of product. SHOS is still attached at the hip with SHC, regardless of what anyone says.

*Breathe.

SHOS uses the purchasing power of holdings. And has it's own agreements with venders. Pays (I believe) for the use of innovels logistics. SHOS and holdings share the trucks at times. SHOS does deliveries for holdings. And that SHOS delivery team provides a more local small town panache as final to the customer.

I presume they've secured alternate suppliers by now by the fact that they aren't also in bankruptcy.

Sears supplies their stock.

There was more but it didn't post my whole penning.

SHOS is a different company full of franchisees and not bankrupt. They're certainly drawn into the sh--storm, but they aren't employees and they've got their own board.