Thread regarding Sears layoffs

Clean and bright is eddies ways for the stores to get rid of toxic waste before he closes them. Happened about a year before our kmart closed. We threw out old tvs from the 90s , a photo printer station from the early 2000s, printers and old computers from the 80s. We even tossed or green bar printer from the early 2010s. What a slick way. We even spray painted a few old shelves with tan paint.

@gum- Then get off the internet and get back to work. I don't care if you are at home (which I doubt) you are probably on Pebble spending all day talking about movies or gossip.

Practice what you preach, start cleaning something!

@@RiSMMBv-gum I think we are entitle to complain because the difference from 10 years vs now is how damn limited hours are cut and how many task your suppose to do with so little hours....

What a ridiculous waste! When my local Macy's closed last year, they sold anything people would buy... they didn't manage to sell it all, but probably 90% of it did sell, I was in there on the last day and the massive building was mostly empty - except for the area near an entrance that was full of the last round of big heavy fixtures marked as already sold, waiting for the buyers to come back that afternoon to pick them up.

We have done clean and bright for the last 10 years that I have been at my Kmart. Nothing new, just clean it up and quit b--ching already!

How many environmental laws are being broken with hazmat items being trashed?

We threw out perfectly good shelves, brand new, still in the box light bulbs, still new in the box cleaning chemicals, floor stripper, floor wax, paint, paint brushes, old batteries, printer ink cartiges (new in box) from some printer from the 80's and air filters for the AC unit

Regarding the liquidation comment, the store I worked in was liquidated. Corporate instructed the liquidator to throw the following into dumpsters: checkstands, customer service desk, layaway desk, jewelry cases, live plant racks, and the fitting rooms (modular units that came apart with a screw gun.) Registers, monitoes and printers were put on pallets to be recycled. The only fixtures we could sell were old clothing racks and some counters but not all. Racking in the backroom was disassembled and shipped out.

Now. From a money standpoint, it would have been cheaper to sell everything we were told to throw out, than to take it apart, drag it through the store and back rooms, and throw into the dumpster. We had a notebook people wrote their names and numbers in, with the fixtures they wanted to buy, and almost every person wanted to buy the stuff we had strict orders to toss.

@RiSMMBv-uew Lol love your last comment basically defines them haha.

@uew so true

Dumb number and dumbest!!

@gll - These purges are a total joke. At our store we would we would keep the box, case, instruction manual, and accessories for all of our displayed power tools. These items were kept on a high shelf back in the stockroom and were totally innocuous. However, the dimwitted DM would show up and have a complete hissy fit over the situation. Next, the SM and ASM would be telling us to throw everything out. Then, in 6 to 18 months, the SM and ASM were bemoaning the fact that the discontinued display items can't be sold because they lack all their accessories and mark-outs have to be taken. With the management team playing the roles of dumb, dumber, and dumbest, it is no wonder that SHLD is the train wreck that it is!

Our sears store threw out all kinds of tool batteries and chargers and long handled tree pruners that could easily been sold to the public atcgeap prices!! Right in the dumpster

Talk about a wasteful company

On the other hand, though, they're throwing away stuff that in some cases could've been sold during liquidation. People will buy all sorts of old store equipment, given the opportunity.

Funny story! We had a bunch of registers sent to my Kmart from a closing store to put in storage. We took a few of them to scrap out for parts in order to fix our registers. All 3 registers had $2-$10 underneath the drawer. We ended up donating it to whatever charity we were pushing at the time.

Maybe there is something in these rooms that eddie has been hiding to sell at a high price. Briefcases full of money etc. No more like cash registers from the 80s, computers too. Wait we used that computer from the 80s 2 years ago until it burned out. I actually had a dream the other day about shopping in a new kmart store that had just opened. It had nice new flooring etc and looked as clean as a target store. I thought to myself we have finally been transformed the parking lot was full and then i woke up and went to work at my kmart store. I must be working too much and It was a very delusional dream.

Since Sears has employees right now, it's best to use them to clear stuff out. Saves time later.