Richard Shinnick

Sears Holding's Lampert Continues Great Brand Lineup

I recently checked out a couple of Sears specifically to see how things wer going, went to one tonight with my daughter (3 year old). The "urban" Sears had Kmart like Women's clothes, a spectacular appliance and tool section (expected that) and some ok kids clothes. The suburban Sears had great kids clothes, the women's clothes were not so low end and had a pretty good men's section. In fact, in both stores, employees were very helpful and very plentiful, the store looked clean which surprised me. I even saw a cardboard box that said "please reuse to save expenses" and a message came on telling all employees to tidy up and clean restrooms.

I was really impressed with the merchandise and the store overall and the thing that made the whole experience the most pleasant in both cases:

Besides the dozens of helpful employees in every corner, I WAS THE ONLY ONE THERE. To be fair, they tell me that weekends are busier.

Great merchandise + no customers = inventory issues + no profit