Current Events > Are you saddened that sears is closing down?

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IIrc they're closing their remaining stores but will stay open for the holiday season
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I truly hope stores don't close. I don't know how people online order clothes. It must be such a hassle if the clothes don't fit properly.
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They should've called now.
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Sears had an automotive scandal back in the 80s/90s. They've been on a slow creep towards death since and has started to really deteriorate since. It's their own fault and honestly, no one is going to miss them.
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Sayoria posted...

Sears had an automotive scandal back in the 80s/90s. They've been on a slow creep towards death since and has started to really deteriorate since. It's their own fault and honestly, no one is going to miss them.

what? automotive scandal?
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sears is a good store
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I haven't been in a Sears since the 90's.
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Smallville posted...

Sayoria posted...

Sears had an automotive scandal back in the 80s/90s. They've been on a slow creep towards death since and has started to really deteriorate since. It's their own fault and honestly, no one is going to miss them.

what? automotive scandal?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-harden/learn-from-sears-dont-mak_b_5511481.html

In 1991, Sears, Roebuck & Company faced with severe financial pressure decided to revamp its compensation plan for mechanics in its Sears Auto Centers. Previously, mechanics were simply paid an hourly wage. Sears management wanted to increase productivity and profits, so it devised an incentive system that would supposedly pay mechanics a smaller hourly wage, but provide them with a performance bonus using quotas and commissions. Also, so much pressure was applied to the workforce, that many were directly or indirectly told they would lose their jobs if they did not achieve their repair sales quotas. Soon, mechanics found out that the only way to achieve their goals and make money was to concentrate on selling more work rather than servicing the customer. The new program resulted in mechanics and service managers over-billing customers, charging for work that wasnt performed and charging for work that wasnt needed.

The California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) conducted an undercover operation during 1991 and found 34 of 38 instances where Sears employees had recommended repairs or services that were unnecessary or where they had charged for services that were not performed. When word of the results came out, New Jersey, Florida, New York, Illinois and several other states decided to investigate Sears Automotive Centers for consumer fraud. The scandal rocked Sears. Its reputation was severely tarnished, and it ended up costing Sears $60 million in legal fees, restitution and lost sales. Many consumers stayed away from Sears Auto Centers for years.

The phenomenon that took place at Sears Auto Centers is an excellent example of goal displacement. In goal displacement, the means are confused with the ends. It is commonly characterized when the activities that are intended to help achieve corporate objectives actually have the opposite effect. What happened at Sears is a form of goal displacement known as behavior substitution. Behavior substitution is a phenomenon where employees substitute activities that do not lead to accomplishing their assigned goals for activities that do lead to accomplishing those goals. They do this because management is rewarding the wrong activities. Employees will work for the rewards, not for the real objectives, which in Sears case, was to properly service their customers. What management was measuring and rewarding had little to do with servicing the customer efficiently. Sears management set up a program that they thought would increase productivity, but by establishing the wrong incentives, they inadvertently rewarded unethical behavior. As one of the deputy attorney generals for California stated, There was a deliberate decision by Sears management to set up a structure that made it totally inevitable that the consumer would be oversold.

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Theyve stopped selling video game stuff for years so....
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I could not physically care less
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I bought my new roof from them 7 years ago. 30 year warrantee covered by another insurance because in 2011 we already knew this was coming. The Sears guy said flat out it was only a matter of time.

If this was 15 years ago or the Sears from my childhood in the 80s and 90s. Where I use to stand in line waiting to play the Super Mario World demo and the SNES kiosk while my grandmother shopped. That Sears I would be sad it's going.
The Sears of the last decade? Not really. All mine are real dumps. Nothing is clean, dead lights, thrown around merchandise. Nothing is stacked right, walls are empty. It's a real shame they simply stopped caring about the way their stores looked. But this has been a long time coming now.
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Only reason I ever went there was to take advantage of video game clearance through the '00s. Last time I went was to get Pokemon Black though, before Black 2 was out.

Yes, saddens me for the malls that will now only have 1 department store left or none. Sears has done nothing since the 90s to improve themselves or change how their stores looked.

Kmart is even more crazy that they lasted this long.
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A bit. Their tire shop was pretty good here.
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I spent around $600 there last year.
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Not personally, as I haven't shopped there in years, but the suburb of Hoffman Estates is probably going to get fucked by that.
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Lol I applied to Sears a couple of months ago and then decided not to go to the interview because I thought they could go out of business any day. Its weird that I was right
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LordMarshal posted...

Theyve stopped selling video game stuff for years so....

This isn't true, but they scaled it back heavily. I doubt there are any Sears left with demos.
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