Layoffs are being announced for call centers that handle the warranties protection agreements. 10 employees laid off today.
ANEX
Effective this Thursday, 6/20, Sears and Kmart will no longer accept American Express credit cards or American Express gift cards as a form of payment in our stores or online.
Regarding Gone
My job got cut a long time back. Don't assume that I am here for revenge or trolling you people still there. One of my besties is still there hanging on by a thread. Get over yourself and your judgemental ways. Sheesh!
Gone
Gone are the days were this website was actually a good source of information. Now it’s all speculation and people making things up. Half of the topics discussed have nothing to do with layoffs.
Job Cuts
Looks like all this IBO talk was all b---s---. No positions were eliminated in the stores. We even filled positions in our store that were so called being eliminated. I still would be searching for better job since you know things can change at... — read more
Bankruptcy fees racked up so far- almost 119 million
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4269508-sears-filed-new-budget-investors-employees-disappointed "...WOW, just wow. the total for professionals fees paid so far is $118,677,875. This is to May 4. It does not included those billed but not actually... — read more
Warrens' letter might force action on unpaid severances
There is some clarity coming to the severance issue. Eddie can't lie about it anymore and sweep it under the rug. At least this has his attention enough so that he may expedite the payment of pre-bankruptcy cut-offs. (Not adjucated yet in his words)... — read more
Head of sears auto gone !
I was on pebble today and it said he is no longer an active user. I’m not shocked he is gone since he was here a year and that seems to be how long the president of auto last. I think it’s strange there was no announcement that the was leaving as... — read more
Eddie's Letter Response to Elizabeth Warren
Billionaire Eddie Lampert to Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Severance to workers has been paid. Singling out Sears is ‘unfair’ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/13/eddie-lampert-to-elizabeth-warren-and-aoc-sears-severance-is-paid.html
TheStreet.com Clueless CEO Confirmed: Sears Eddie Lampert
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4_x-6DAMH20
Boston Globe: Home Depot makes a wrong delivery and for weeks refuses to make things right
Doug MacDonald lives alone in a small Cape-style house in the Higgins Beach neighborhood of Scarborough, Maine. He found it last fall through a rental agency and had never met or talked with the property owner or his family. All he knew was that the... — read more
Transform Holdco & the New Sears - Dissatisfaction Guaranteed and You Won't Get Your Money Back
A broken refrigerator and the store that took too long to make things right By Sean P. Murphy, Boston Globe Three months ago, Fran Carleton’s refrigerator stopped cooling. She called Sears, which dispatched a technician who quickly concluded the... — read more
Abandon Ship! Abandon Ship!
It's over folks... — read more
Quotes from Turnaround and Transformation Leaders
John Legere, CEO T-Mobile Listen to Your Employees, listen to your customers, shut the f*** up, and do what they tell you! Cheryl Bachelder, CEO Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen The Popeyes turnaround has become a case study in what happens when leaders... — read more
What if Eddie Lampert owned a pro sports team?
It'd be full of undrafted players where he paid the minimum with no bench in a 60 year old stadium where the players would be forced to clean the stadium which used to be owned by the team but was sold to Eddie's real estate company for way under... — read more
Call Center workers / seats technicians
Are there any sears workers in their call centers or technicians on here that have had their pay taken away from sales that have been fraudently cancelled? A class action suit has begun I got a letter in the mail today saying that sears has taken... — read more
Sears is looking for a new Head of Technology!
Anyone want to board the ITitanic on its way down to the bottom of the ocean?
New stores will fail as long as Eddie doesn't staff for success
Customer Service is the name of the game. Members take precious days off to take delivery on appliances and repairs, and when these windows are missed, they get p-ss-d, and never come back. Make no mistake, they time and money, losing hundreds, if... — read more
Sears home warranty /protection agreement
Does anyone have information of when the call center selling protection agreements and home warranties will shut down?
Home and Life stores
Any idea how that concept is doing?
What is the store count?
Since more stores have closed, what is the total store count of full line Sears and Kmart stores at now? We were below 400 total stores Sears and Kmart over a month ago
Another closing
Sears at Cross County Shopping Center is another victim of the ongoing Sears saga. A Sears spokesperson confirmed today that the store, which is one of the mall’s anchors, will close late July... — read more
New Sears vs. Old Sears, Eddie Lampert's evil scam
All these lawsuits do is to perpetuate the fiction that Eddie doesn't control it all and as majority owner couldn't replace the Board of Directors at Old Sears in a heartbeat like he did at SHOS. He has to keep up appearances to convince the judges... — read more
Ridiculous
So sad that Eddie has so much money that he can keep buying properties & Sears hometown stores yet cannot give his associates a pay raise, or keep the stores in decent condition. I have not seen a pay raise in over 8 years even though my evaluations... — read more
independent dealers / franchisees...
What's the difference between these two operators.
Cross Country Shopping Center next on the list
https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/mountpleasant/business/sears-announces-this-westchester-store-will-be-latest-to-close/769353/
The Dirty Side of Sears
Did Eddie ever get around to paying Kimco or is Eddie still getting store managers and their staff to violate OSHA regulations, poorly clean toilets generally not maintain a habitable shopping experience?
delivery call center
Cant get a real person on the line to process an ROR. Ridiculous. What's going on?
Transform Holdco Stock
Are they trading Transform Holdco LLC yet - is it listed on any stock exchanges and if yes, what's the ticker. I would like to use that ticker chart as entertainment, you know what I mean, watching it crash and burn, etc.
The SS Eddie, a Retail Failure of Gargantuan Proportions
Was at Amazon for quite awhile, then at Sears for awhile, and wow does Sears not have its sh-- together. While Amazon is focused hyperfocused inventory turnover, sales revenue, sacrificing margins for market share, and being extremely responsive to... — read more
A&E Factory Service
Wow they are hurting bad for techs lol everyone is leaving... This is going on in upstate NY and Vermont area but I'm sure it is nationwide as well. Most of the techs are leaving for less pay at that.. should say something about how were treated by... — read more
What’s the likelihood Sears will obtain Outlet too?
Just as the title states, what’s the likelihood and how bad does Eddie want Outlet? Or is it more of a meh endeavor?
Margaret Bogenreif, Company Turnaround Expert in 2013: Eddie Lampert will be an Unmitigated Disaster as Sears CEO
Eddie Lampert Will Be An Unmitigated Disaster As Sears CEO "And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. Down the tubes. Slow but sure. You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies... — read more
Land's End, Another once great brand Eddie is destroying through sheer incompetence through losses and and yet more lawsuits
Lands' End sales take a $17.9M hit as it closes Sears shops Lands' End reported Tuesday that its first-quarter net revenue fell 12.5% year over year to $262.4 million even as its U.S. same-store sales rose 12% and e-commerce sales went up 5.1%. Much... — read more
Bad Faith banmruptcy!!!!! JUDGE get your court in order!
These laws allowing one person to sue his own company (himself) must stop! The old saying is no longer true. You cannot sue God, and you cannot sue yourself. Especially if it benefits you financially. What a flippin' freak show! His response will... — read more
Hatchet men got paid. It will happen again for sure
You victims have a voice. U. S. Senators are sending a message. THIS IS REDICULOUS. Maybe the Judge will wake up to this before it is too late. GOD help us please!... — read more
Transform to acquire Sears Hometown & Outlet
https://searsholdings.com/press-releases/pr/2137
Call Centers
I have seen posts that the call centers will close after the LLC is complete , Is this true ? Has anyone heard anything about STAC ?
Call center
My gf (works in sales call center) @told me that all workers who were making money are now getting screwed because management thought they were being paid too much. Apparently they are all gonna walk out of the job.
Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer Softlines vendor s--c-dal after Eddie Lampert ruined her life
Sears’ bankruptcy has burned thousands of vendors worldwide If you think shopping at Sears can be sad these days, it’s nothing compared to doing business with the struggling chain. Michelle Chan — whose Hong Kong-based company Mien Co. Ltd... — read more