Lets all buy from Sears

[ANovice]

Subject: Sears - Christmas shopping has already started

I know I needed this reminder since Sears isn't always my first choice. Amazing when you think of how long the war has lasted and they haven't withdrawn from their commitment. Could we each buy at least one thing at Sears this year?

How does Sears treat its employees who are called up for military duty? By law, they are required to hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people take a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being called up.

Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years.

I submit that Sears is an exemplary corporate citizen and should be recognized for its contribution. I suggest we all shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement it well deserves.

Pass it on.

Decided to check this before I sent it forward. So I sent the following e-mail to the Sears Customer Service Department:

I received this e-mail and I would like to know if it is true. If it is, the Internet may have just become one very good source of advertisement for your company. I know I would go out of my way to buy products from Sears instead of another store for a like item, even if it's cheaper at that store.

This is their answer to my e-mail:

Dear Customer:

Thank you for contacting Sears.The information is factual. We appreciate your positive feedback.

Sears regards service to our country as one of greatest sacrifices our young men and women can make. We are happy to do our part to lessen the burden they bear at this time.

Bill Thorn Sears Customer Care [e-mail]

1-800-349-4358

Please pass this on to all your friends. Sears needs to be recognized for this outstanding contribution and we need to show them as Americans, we do appreciate what they are doing for our military!!!

It's Verified ! By Snopes.com at:

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[Toller]

When they stop selling overpriced crap I will be there in a flash.

[Phisherman]

I am in the market to buy a spindle sander. After getting a price quote, Sears was the highest ($1120+tax). I got a low bid of $780. Lowest price delivered wins! It saves to check around.

[hallerb]

sears home service is a fools price rip off, charging 2 travel charges to have the exact same tech service a furnace with air on one trip.

sears appliances always cost more.

more to buy, more for service..

the satisfaction guaranteed or your money back guarantee left when k mart took over.

[bbmclane]

SCREW SEARS IN THE A??

[DerbyDad03]

re: Lowest price delivered wins!

On an apples to apples basis, true.

On a quality, features, service and warranty basis, not so much.

[pheeh.zero]

Sears owns K...

[Lou]

Sears lost my business 7 years ago when they sent gang members to my house to deliver appliances. I haven't been back since. Lou

[DerbyDad03]

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I've got kind of a funny story about Sears...at best they were an unknowing victim of their ad agency, at worst they were knowingly dishonest.

I have a friend who lives in one of the more upscale neighborhoods in our area. Real nice house, beautiful landscaping.

One Sunday morning she's enjoying a cup of coffee while flipping through the ad's in the paper. She comes across the Sears insert and right there on the front page is a picture of her house along with some text extolling the quality of Sears roofing and siding services. The thing is, Sears had nothing to do with siding or roofing their house. It was all done by the custom builder they used for the rest of the house. Now, the ad never said "Here's an example of our work", but it was obvious that whoever put the ad together wanted to make a real nice impression.

As it turns out, the husband is a lawyer, so he wrote a very nice letter asking Sears to stop using his house in their ads. Next week's flyer had a different house in the ad.

[Phisherman]

Our local KMart is usually empty. One time I went there and a security person kept watching every move I made. I left the store and ever since have been shopping at WalMart.

[aemeijers]

Well, not really. Just like SBC started calling themselves ATT when they bought ATT, when the holding company that owned Kmart bought Sears, they started calling themselves Sears, since it had a better public image after all the bloodletting during the Kmart downsizing. They also closed down the Troy MI Kmart HQ, and moved all the non-redundant people to the suburban Chicago Sears HQ (where they moved after having to sell the tower downtown that they really shouldn't have built.) A whole lotta people got screwed over bigtime on now-worthless stocks held by their retirement plans.

Other than Craftsman non-powered tools when they have a sale, there really isn't anything either store carries that interests me. Yes, with a couple of minor exceptions, the craftsman-branded tools are still guaranteed. The cheap line, known as 'companion', are not.

They missed a bet with the merger, IMHO- rather than close or sell off the stand-alone or stripmall Kmarts, they should have walked away from the expen$ive enclosed-mall rents where Sears is, and made the Kmarts into old-style Sears stores like in the 1960s and 70s. Sears is too nice to be Wally World, but not nice enough to be a high-line fashion store. They tried to go upscale 30 years ago, and it bit them in the butt, bigtime.

[Cshenk]

Another plug for them you may not know about. They do *excellent* work helping FPO AP customers in remote areas order products and they do not charge more than stateside mailing.

Since mailing to an FPO AP doesnt cost more (just taes longer) this is correct behavior. Most however, treat us as 'overseas' and charge quite a bit extra and bank the profit.

[G Wood]

Price, Quality, Service. Pick any two.

[HeyBub]

Sadly, the social liberals are responsible for the war lasing a long time.

Due to imposed "humanitarian" concerns imposed upon the rules of engagement, our forces are precluded from killing off the goblins faster than they can breed. Attrition is no longer a viable option.

[nick hull]

If you want the war to last forever, support Sears & Bush. If you want the war to end, boycott Sears. Let those dumb enough to fight wars for Halliburton pay the price.

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[Caesar Romano]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 06:56:14 -0600, "HeyBub" wrote Re Re: Lets all buy from Sears:

We have met the enemy and he is us.

[2324]

Yeah, me too. I find it much easier to shoplift at Walmart.

[IGot2P]

No, K-Mart acquired Sears in 2005.

[Mark Lloyd]

I was just in a K-mart today, and I still think the association with Sears sounds strange.

[yugami]

No, K bought Sears. K went bankrupt, K sold off lots of real estate, K had LOTS of money, K bought Sears.