The biggest thing I noticed at my store is they have too many departments crammed into the store, and therefore not a great selection of merchandise. We barely carry any men's clothing and if we do, it's not stylish. First, I would ditch the K-Mart name all together - I don't know of anyone that goes to either of the K-Mart stores in our area to begin with.
It's just got a bad reputation, and prices are that great from what I've seen. A great combination of say Lowes and Best Buys. Take the mall anchor stores and make them more upscale softline stores with home decor, furniture jewelry and clothing. Obviously this is very general idea, but some sort of concept along this line is what I'd say they need to do if they want to stay relevant and competitive.
I think the whole Sears Essentials was a bomb. Sears needs to go one way and Kmart has to go in another direction.
Kmart has become a dying store especially in Pennsylvania. Stores are empty no employees around to ask questions. Certain Kmart's have yet to be transferred over to carry some Sears products. Honestly get rid of the Sears products in Kmart. Second get rid of the brown and orange paint yuck. Kmart needs to become aggressive once again and go against Walmart and Target. There electronics department is horrible. Managers wonder why they don't sell TV's how bout turning them on that might help.
Lower prices as well. What amazes me is how district managers have to go to there local stores and around here in Pennsylvania right across from a Kmart is a Walmart packed all the time. Kmart parking lot pick your spot and whatever cars are there usually its the employees who work there. Kmart smells. I mean literally.
You walk into the store and can smell the grease wafting over from the Big K Cafe. Then you get to see all the fat, loud trailer park people with the missing teeth tripping all over themselves to get the last jar of Armour Lard. I personally think that they should take a gamble and convert this Austin store only into a test Super Kmart Center and bring the magic of Kmart back into Texas. Pushing into other Texas markets Houston, Dallas might be a bit of a hard sell, though, although Trader Joe's decided to jump into the extremely fragmented Houston grocery market, so there is hope.
Simple, bring products to a place where people want to shop at great prices. You will beat Walmart, Costco, who's shopping environment is less than desirable and maybe even compete with Target who does it right. You don't have to herd people into a warehouse to turn a profit.
How do you do this Start there and the rest seems to fall into place. My Dad was a Sears store operations and store manager for 28 years. He was the guy they brought in when stores were faltering and worked hard for many years turning stores to make profits and working to keep stores professional clean, and nicely branded. When they removed the real managers from the individual stores and tried to manage solely from HQ it was their downfall.
Save a buck on people and wonder why modern day stores go down hill so fast. Investment in people in all positions is what makes those store appearance, product buying, operations, etc turn a profit. Only Target knows seems to know what it takes to make people come in. Beautiful well kept branded stores, reasonable prices, unique products.
What Sears used to be. Sears Grande, live right next to the first one in West Jordan , was oozing with potential, too bad. Just went to the Sears grand in Las Vegas Nevada. The store was full of people.
I love Sears grand but wish they didn't take out the grocery section, I had to stop at target nearby for milk and some other stuff. Overall I can tell you that Sears grand in Las Vegas will not close anytime soon. I go there for my oil changes, tools, etc and everytime I go it's packed. There is one left in my state, and it is good, but I prefer kmart and normal sears. I think all Sears and Kmarts should of been turned into Sears Grand.
They could of been big like walmart. We had a Sears essentials and it was better than Kmart. Your time has passed. So much so that even Stevie Wonder can see the writing on the wall. You sell merchandise that only seniors with no disposal income want. I was in a Sears store in early and you still carried blank VHS tapes. Livemalls September 21, at PM. Snorlaxer October 14, at AM.
Ken October 18, at AM. I remember those well as I shopped at those stores quite a bit in Houston when they were open. Kmart's oddball green and gray stores have those weird sayings too, but I think that is just a coincidence as I think those stores were remodeled before the merger with Sears.
I've never been to a Sears Grand store or a Sears Essentials store for that matter as we never had one in Houston, but there is one that is still open in Austin that has been photographed. Maybe I'll be able to visit that store one day. It's odd that Sears was using Christmas bags in the summer, but it's hardly unprecedented. I've received Christmas bags at Sears several months past the Christmas season.
I don't know if those are excess stock bags or if they still printed up bags with that logo after they changed their logo to the current one. The ones with the pre logo must have been printed more recently, but they still have the old logo on them for whatever reason. Anyway, I'm glad to see a new post on this blog.
I'm happy that this site has not gone to the retail blog graveyard like many other good sites. Finally, I enjoy coverage of Sears stores. Hopefully more Kbloggers will also cover Sears stores as well. Thanks for the comment and the links! We do MOST of our posting on the facebook page, but we try and save special stuff for the blog. We have very little west coast contributors, so posts in Cali wont be often! I live in Las Vegas Nevada. Our Sears Grand store is always packed with people.
I shop there for my oil changes, tires, batteries. The one thing they did take out was the pantry side. I recently bought 6 Samsung 50" TV's from them and got a better price then Sams club and Costco were selling them. Anyway I can tell you that the Sears Grand store in Las Vegas will never be on the closing list, due to it being so popular. Its technically not a "Grand" store anymore, it's a regular Sears but I am sure the store won't ever update the signage.
I went to the Sears Grand store in Salt Lake when they first opened. It was interesting to see the different concept. Ours was a prototype store. Its look and some of the features and fixtures were unique. The store was sort of a testing ground. The Sears part of the Sears Grand logo was what our store used.
Our store became the top store in the Phoenix area. Going there now, my old mattress department has been greatly expanded at the expense of Home Fasjions, which has been greatly scaled back. The first store I worked at at Superstition Springs Mall also has the greatly expanded mattress department, which surprises me. It's so sad that Sears got mismanaged so poorly. Outside of them never updating signage in the photographed store, no Sears I've been to in the last decade has any updates at all.
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