Thread regarding Sears layoffs

Hallelujah! No more staying open late waiting for the customers to magically appear...

We go back to normal operating hours next week except for the day after Christmas. Woo-hoo!

Every year, like clockwork, these extended hours bring us a lot of waiting around for customers to appear out of thin air. I venture to say that staying open later only works for a handful of Sears (and Kmarts) throughout the whole company. Those stores are usually located in bigger cities where staying open late works. For the rest of us--for those of us in the suburbs or in smaller communities, it's reliably dead every night every single year. Don't they get it?

It's especially irritating for those of us on commission.

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You all will be looking back at the hours you have now with fond memories with the cuts that are coming in the New Year. Cuts will be to the amount of employees, days worked and hours worked. Probably around 3-4 hours per week for most people. Positions eliminated, mostly full timers and commissions cut. Just a heads up

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Post ID: @1vrs+QPz6fQi

I am happy we are going to normal hours soon this long damn hours really kill you when your understaffed. The sad part about it is that hours are going to go very down soon enough.

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Post ID: @1edp+QPz6fQi

@QPz6fQi-bsr That is a sure sign nobody shops at Sears. Where I work (an office job), people have mentioned how the nearby mall parking lot is super full except for around the Sears store.

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Post ID: @vad+QPz6fQi

Heck, the second-closest store to me has been opening at EIGHT in the morning! I went there at mid-afternoon on Monday and there were less than a dozen total cars in the parking lot on two sides of the store combined, and at least two of them belonged to people who I saw heading out of Sears carrying bags from other stores (they parked down by Sears just because the rest of the mall parking lot was full).

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Post ID: @bsr+QPz6fQi

I’m surprised that sears isn’t following Kohls and staying open 24 hours the last few days before Christmas

Opening at 9 am is silly too! There are no flood of customers at 9am to justify an early open. Should just keep normal business hours

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Post ID: @zbx+QPz6fQi

Cut the budget but stay open late...

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Post ID: @ndt+QPz6fQi

They only "customers" that come in, aren't paying for anything. There are usually 2-3 people that straggle in after 10pm. As you said, it doesn't pay for us to really even stay open til 10pm and we are in a large city.

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Post ID: @eca+QPz6fQi

An obvious waste of money if there ever was one.

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Post ID: @hqg+QPz6fQi

It is very different from what it was 20 or 30 years ago......It used to stay relatively busy with customers on up to 11pm.....before the internet and when Sears carried anything and everything.....

Softlines would get so trashed by customers with apparel thrown everywhere that associates and managers would have to stay until 1am or later to recover and straighten the store.

And yet nowadays they insist on staying open until Midnight the last couple of nights before Christmas Eve.....The store will pay more for the extra lights, heat, and payroll than what they will earn in sales.

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