The schedule is ridiculous. 6, 7, 8 days on one off work 2 off 1. Covering multiple depts, unreasonable irps, on and on. Not k–ling myself for lowes. I've gotten to the point of just pushing a ladder so customers can crawl to get there own stuff out of topstock, hang random c-ap on hooks to save irps. They could care less about customers. All you hear is let's go somewhere else. I dont blame them. And they are concerned about ltr. Haha. When they won't hire you have to take shortcuts when your defending 3 to 4 departments. I see why sears collapsed now.
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Sadly Sears faced the retail equivalent of a perfect storm. Many would argue that a retail model for an all around brick and mortar retailer has come and gone in this country. Remember it wasn't that long ago where you could walk into a Sears and shop for clothing, jewelry, mattresses, furniture, home decor, tools, garden equipment, athletic equipment, toys, appliances, etc and also have your vision or hearing tested and your watch or car repaired all at one location. That being said, I don't think you will find anyone knowledgeable about the demise of Sears that didn't credit E.Lampert with playing a major role. I for one will miss them and what they once provided to this country.
I think what really hurt sears is when kmart bought them, kmart seemingly picked the wrong time to make that purchase because it wasn't real long before they started having financial problems.
Sears is dead because they stopped innovating and failed to adapt to a changing marketplace.
The poster "Crybaby" is obviously a corporate shill who would do ANYTHING for one of those "Good 'Ol Boy" bonuses. PATHETIC chickensh*t.
Clearly you didn't do any research before posting, Sears stock reached 193.00 on April 17, 2007. Sears also bought back about 21.7 million shares of its stock in 2007 and reportedly paid $2.9 billion for those shares. Sears years of profitability soon came to a close and their stock price plummeted. Many have argued that had Sears only put more of their profits back into the business instead of buying back so much stock that they may have had a very different outcome. While I understand the motivations for doing stock buybacks I think it is very foolhardy to be cutting payroll at the stores to the point that gross sales (and customer service) are clearly suffering only so you can fluff your financials and promote short-term stock bumps.
u guys r b–ching so much, do u realize what the stock price is at? sears never was even close to this! u all sound like a bunch of crying little babys who need someone else to blame. Grow up, if u don’t like it, LEAVE and go somewhere else lol, no one gives a sh– about ur crying
Does anybody remember the movie Wallstreet? Lowes is the real life Teldar Paper and Gordan Gekko is just waiting to slice the company up. After taking the millions he's made from the stock profits you all gave him.
You are experiencing the slow destruction of a company Sears 2.0 is in full mode. Ask yourself where did all of the former Sears Wiz kids move on too?
Worked at Sears in appliances, I now work at Lowes :( Trust me ... Lowes is way worst, but it does feel like Lowes has decided to go down the same path with stock buybacks and no real investment in the stores or people. Lowes is beating their people up.