How does Sears make money?

pint unit instead. And you are wondering how they make money? Do the math........

All the easy jobs have been outsourced?

At least now you know for sure you need the 70 pt. low temp model. Stores often have unused display models much cheaper, I just got the 50 pt for 136.00

I ordered a special order printer table from a major stationer here in Canada. It arrived, direct shipped from the US. The front metal panel was crinkled under the paint. Quality Control (???) should have caught it at several stages, but they didn't. A call to a 1-800 number resulted in a promise to ship a replacement part as soon as possible. A day later another entire table arrived to replace the one with the bad part, and they didn't want the original one back.

"Take care of me on this one - I've got lots of work coming up"

Translation- Give me a ridculously cheap price & I'll hose you again & again.

This one doesn't. First Quarter Revenues: $7.8 billion First Quarter Losses: $859 million I think you see why.

My father owned a Sears catalog store for 17 years. It was making money hand over fist when they closed all the catalog stores down. Great business to own, you just had to deal wit the inept management in the region.

LS

And they are sending a replacement and paying for the return postage.

This was a few years ago but I was at Sears and bought a $300.00 electric chipper shredder. Had to drive around back for them to put in my truck. I didn`t even notice till I got home and opened the box. They had put in a $750.00 TroyBilt motorized one by mistake. Dan.

There a finance company more than a general merchandise retailer. They make a boatload of money on the interest rate they charge on their card.

They used to be a fine retailer, before they got into the credit business. I used to buy lots of rifles and pistols from them and they'd show up on the door step. No questions asked.

Those were the good ole days.

RB

sigismundo wrote:

I gave up shopping at Sears 20 years ago when a large-appliance salesperson said to me, "We don't have to do anything to get your business. We're Sears; you are automatically going to come to us."

With that attitude, I figured that if they didn't care about trying to get my business, they didn't deserve it. Haven't gone back since.

I haven't shopped at Sears for close to 30 years. But they used to be a good retailer in the 50s and 60s and before.

RB

Mel>

I will agree that they *used* to be really good. It's just a shame that they got too big for their own britches.

Melinda, who grew up in a teeny-tiny town with no Sears store but a Sears catalog outlet and a Montgomery Wards catalog outlet and a JCPenney store that only sold clothes and shoes had *no* catalog sales

Sound like the way Home Depot is headed.