Current Events > Sears to file for bankruptcy

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/125-year-old-sears-file-bankruptcy-report-n918446
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Can't say I'm surprised. They've been saying it for 15 years. And now the day has come.
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I guess if you want something, you should call now.
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anyone else surprised that Best Buy is still in business?
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SauI_Goodman posted...

Can't say I'm surprised. They've been saying it for 15 years. And now the day has come.

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Nice
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_BlueMonk posted...

anyone else surprised that Best Buy is still in business?

Best buy is my go to place to pick up anything tech. I just price match with Amazon at the register.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

I guess if you want something, you should call now.

https://imgur.com/lZCX5ne
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You'll file today . . .
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The only time anyone even mentions SEARS anymore is referencing a commercial that's like 25 years old. Bankruptcy really should have happened a long time ago.

_BlueMonk posted...

anyone else surprised that Best Buy is still in business?

Best Buy is still a pretty good place to get basic electronics like TVs, audio equipment, and so on.

Yeah you can get them from Wal-Mart or Target as well, but Best Buy is generally more convenient if that's all you want. Every time I pass by Wal-Mart I think about picking something up and then realize that would invovlve having to deal with their 2 open of 70 total checkout lanes.
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Good.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

_BlueMonk posted...

anyone else surprised that Best Buy is still in business?

Best Buy is still a pretty good place to get basic electronics like TVs, audio equipment, and so on.

Yeah you can get them from Wal-Mart or Target as well, but Best Buy is generally more convenient if that's all you want. Every time I pass by Wal-Mart I think about picking something up and then realize that would invovlve having to deal with their 2 open of 70 total checkout lanes.

and the shoppers
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my mom is going to be upset. She loves Sears...especially their auto shop for whatever reason.
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Goddamn millennials
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Only problem with Best Buy is the prices. They sure love them 100+ dollar hdmi cables because they're super fancy.

I wouldn't be suprised if that's even why they're still around, all those installation and service fees like geeksquad.

They did ditch DVDs not too long ago, so at least they're shaving products off.

I'll somewhat miss SEARS, what with its odd disarrangement and not knowing what exactly it wants to be as a 1990's time capsule.

I dont understand why it was so hard for them to adapt to online sales. Most every other big name retailer managed to do it fine but Sears was just like nah just give it a few years. This fad will die out.
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Purple_Cheetah posted...

They did ditch DVDs not too long ago, so at least they're shaving products off.

They also ditched cds like 6 months ago I feel.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Every time I pass by Wal-Mart I think about picking something up and then realize that would invovlve having to deal with their 2 open of 70 total checkout lanes.

Oh my god your walmart does that as well? Why do they do that?
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Makeveli_lives posted...

Purple_Cheetah posted...

They did ditch DVDs not too long ago, so at least they're shaving products off.

They also ditched cds like 6 months ago I feel.

My local sears ditched electronics all together and started selling mattresses.
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saspa posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

Every time I pass by Wal-Mart I think about picking something up and then realize that would invovlve having to deal with their 2 open of 70 total checkout lanes.

Oh my god your walmart does that as well? Why do they do that?

Go there on Boxing Day. That's why.

saspa posted...

Oh my god your walmart does that as well? Why do they do that?

Because they're trying to have less people on hand so more people will use self check out machines instead.
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VipaGTS posted...

My local sears ditched electronics all together and started selling mattresses.

Sears has been dead to me since the late 80s or early 90s, when they got rid of videogames and computers.

They used to even have their own damn console at one point.
https://dfarq.homeip.net/sears-atari-2600-clone/

VipaGTS posted...

started selling mattresses.

Seems like a smart decision. Hopefully they haven't Googled Mattress Firm in the last few days.

Questionmarktarius posted...

saspa posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

Every time I pass by Wal-Mart I think about picking something up and then realize that would invovlve having to deal with their 2 open of 70 total checkout lanes.

Oh my god your walmart does that as well? Why do they do that?

Go there on Boxing Day. That's why.

I was gonna think the sport but based on context I'm assuming it's a day where they put all the items into boxes right?
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Good riddance. That's what they get for not keeping up with the digital age.
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saspa posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

saspa posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

Every time I pass by Wal-Mart I think about picking something up and then realize that would invovlve having to deal with their 2 open of 70 total checkout lanes.

Oh my god your walmart does that as well? Why do they do that?

Go there on Boxing Day. That's why.

I was gonna think the sport but based on context I'm assuming it's a day where they put all the items into boxes right?

I dunno, go ask Canada.
It's just a fancy name for "December 26".

*Shocked*

No one shops at sears. Where do you even find a sears?
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saspa posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

Every time I pass by Wal-Mart I think about picking something up and then realize that would invovlve having to deal with their 2 open of 70 total checkout lanes.

Oh my god your walmart does that as well? Why do they do that?

To drive customers into a pace.

I once went in, grabbed a dvd, was ready to go plop down my 5 dollars plus tax. Only had 1 register open in electronics and 1 person in line. Stand there and wait since it's no big deal, look around at their stuffs in the meantime. Eventually it occurs to me I'm behind one of those people. I hold out, but the customer in front is calling 1-2 people about a card not working or something. So I eventually slink to the front and there's only 4-5 open, all jam packed with 5+ per in the middle of the day. Go back to electronics to see it's still held up. Took about 22-24 minutes from pick up to receipt.

At least Arachnophobia is a good movie.

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I'm surprised my local K-Mart is still in business. Even our Sears closed down a few years ago.
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looks like i'm rich now
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Sears has been dying a very slow death for many years now
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Makeveli_lives posted...

saspa posted...

Oh my god your walmart does that as well? Why do they do that?

Because they're trying to have less people on hand so more people will use self check out machines instead.

Not really. They open all or most of them on black Friday and the ass end of December around Christmas.

But they never have enough open for the rest of the year
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So . . . they going to have a killer sale?
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

So . . . they going to have a killer sale?

No.
They'll just "firesale" the prices down to what Walmart or Amazon's prices are all the time.
This assumes, of course, that Sears or Kmart even has anything you'd want to buy.

All the Sears stores closed here in Canada last year. I thought they already were bankrupt.
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Craftsman is the only brand from Sears that's worth a damn. So glad that they no longer hold the rights for sales.
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Time to invest
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HypnoCoosh posted...

*Shocked*

No one shops at sears. Where do you even find a sears?

Always attached to a mall. Which are also dying.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

You'll file today . . .

Saw it coming
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saspa posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

Every time I pass by Wal-Mart I think about picking something up and then realize that would invovlve having to deal with their 2 open of 70 total checkout lanes.

Oh my god your walmart does that as well? Why do they do that?

Walmart is notorious for being understaffed. Good luck if Walmart is the only store in town and you need paint mixed up, or an item that's locked, or a firearm purchase, or fabric cut or etc.

Blue_Inigo posted...

Goddamn millennials

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

So . . . they going to have a killer sale?

No.
They'll just "firesale" the prices down to what Walmart or Amazon's prices are all the time.
This assumes, of course, that Sears or Kmart even has anything you'd want to buy.

Sounds about right.
I was going to post how it's insane that none of these stores are price-matching a site that fucking delivers "for free" (with a prime account) but apparently some of them do, why the fuck they're not making that painfully obvious is beyond me.

It's no wonder they can't compete, the benefits of shopping in person just aren't there anymore, reviews are superior to hands-on and instead of an experienced sales associate that wants to help you and make sure you get what's right for you, they have assholes trying to upsell, push bs warranties, etc
They all have done it to themselves.
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I worked at Sears a couple years ago during the holiday season. It fucking sucked. I signed on as a "back-room associate" since I thought that meant I wouldn't have to deal with customers. Turns out that position does basically everything except the cash register. If someone ordered something online for in-store pickup, I got an alert and had to go on a scavenger hunt through the store to find the item. Sometimes it was stocked in the back, but usually I had to go to the department and spend like 10 minutes looking for something that sometimes wasn't even there because of how disorganize the system was. And of course customers would come up to me with questions that I didn't know the answer to since I wasn't trained for a lot of it. At best I could point them to the correct department for what they were looking for.

There WAS an electronics section, but it was comically out of date. There was an empty shelf for Xbox 360 games. The Xbone had already been out for a long time by that point.

Oh, and fun fact. When you order something for delivery, it doesn't come from a warehouse. It comes from the nearest store that happens to have it in stock. Then it falls on the employees to box it up and stick the label on it and everything. Always wash your clothes before wearing them for the first time.
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All the Sears near me already recently closed. Kind of depressing to me because it was my first job.

Not to say the place was worth a damn as an employer, but I did get a lot of tale when I worked there.
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pokedude900 posted...

I worked at Sears a couple years ago during the holiday season. It fucking sucked. I signed on as a "back-room associate" since I thought that meant I wouldn't have to deal with customers. Turns out that position does basically everything except the cash register. If someone ordered something online for in-store pickup, I got an alert and had to go on a scavenger hunt through the store to find the item. Sometimes it was stocked in the back, but usually I had to go to the department and spend like 10 minutes looking for something that sometimes wasn't even there because of how disorganize the system was. And of course customers would come up to me with questions that I didn't know the answer to since I wasn't trained for a lot of it. At best I could point them to the correct department for what they were looking for.

Sounds like they changed up the positions a little since I had worked there. The backroom associates only did online orders, unloaded trucks, and assisted with heavier equipment at the time. I was an MCA (Merchandise Customer Assistant). I didn't have to deal with online orders but I did carry around an Intermec that would show me if we have a particular item in stock. I was stocking shelves and cleaning up the sales floor/fitting rooms the majority of the time. Black Friday and the holidays were total fucking garbage though because we'd get so many people coming in saying that they saw an item online that supposedly we have in stock or they'd call and a cashier would tell them that we had it, yet we didn't actually have it available. So I'd be the first line of contact with the (understandably) psychotic customer that drove an hour away to pick up something that we didn't have.
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WaterLink posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

You'll file today . . .

Saw it coming

And you didn't riff off it. Rude.

"I'll file today"
You'll file now!

Since no one wants to. v.v
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The Sears in my local mall is somehow still there, even though it always appeared deserted whenever I looked in there.
Speaking of the mall, it actually seems to be doing alright, perhaps because it got a big movie theater and a half-dozen restaurants(not including the food court) to move in. The other old "anchor" stores(Macy's, Dick's Sporting Goods) probably aren't doing great, but people are always in Target(it's the pro place to buy theater snacks).

Fossil posted...

Craftsman is the only brand from Sears that's worth a damn. So glad that they no longer hold the rights for sales.

You're a funny guy.
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