Dr. Pepper posted:Sears just announced a fresh round of store closures.
The company told employees on Tuesday that it will close more than 30 Sears and Kmart stores in early 2017, half a dozen employees told Business Insider.
I guess this will make the unemployment numbers go down again. It seems every time people loose their job during the Obamanation administration the unemployment rate went down somehow. If it didn't Bush got the blame. Now we can blame Trump if blaming Bush don't fly.
I doubt even Trump could save Sears and K-Mart for their seeds of destruction have been sewn for a long time now. I knew Sear's was in serious trouble when the owner of K-Mart was the one who successfully purchased them. It was almost apparent that he would bleed Sears in order to try and save K-Mart when both were in serious trouble. Sear's, for their part, with respect to Craftsman tools which always had a lifetime guarantee (lifetime of Sears mind you, not the tool) Sear's used to replace any defective tool, without question or complaint but for a while now the employee in the Hardware/tool department would pull out a little box of parts and attempt to fix whatever was wrong with the tool rather than replace it.
Then when the Florence store started closing their doors at 6PM when the mall closed at 9PM you just knew the writing was on the wall that it wouldn't last much longer. Lastly, the last time I went into Sears to return a gift purchased for Christmas and a few days after Christmas, even though I had the purchase receipt clearly outlining what I paid, they tried their best to re-ring up a new receipt and say that I used 'points" against the purchase and they were not going to refund me the amount I paid but a lesser amount. After arguing that I didn't have points to apply and didn't apply any points to the "OnLine" order and with my receipt in hand showing exact purchase amount after insisting for the manager they made a call and refunded me the money I paid but not until a very long painful wait. There was no way I was going to buy Sears again given that kind of customer service or non-service so even anyone that didn't know anything else about it would see trouble coming.