What is with the hand soap all over Sears? It has it's own display in like 3 different departments in my store. Like next to apparel and tools. Bizarre.
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I love the Marilyn one too! I would buy it but my policy is to never buy anything again at Sears because no discount.
Based on the comments on this post. Vendors because of credit concerns are stopping their shipments to K-mart. K-mart is trying the "all is well" ploy by putting out whatever they have left in their store rooms. It's an act of desperation that indicates the end is very near. With so many other stores hiring. I urge all remaining employees to seek employment elsewhere. By staying, you are only going to go down with the ship.
We had tons of it until it started getting put out in all our bathrooms and break room. Even the customer rest rooms. They don't order soap so this is what happens. Love winking at Marilyn, she knows what's up with SHLD even if she's on a soap bottle. More informed than Eddie.
That's stupid! They are $1.00 at sears!
*handsoap
The same handsome is being sent into Kmart stores with a shelf price of $2.49.
It is not about profit or compulsive buying, it is about these are the only products they have. Vendors are not shipping anything else.
Because Sears has lost its mind...We have maybe 100 cases with 24 in each pack, sitting in our stockroom. Do the math. They ship 10-20 boxes to us at a time. The three displayers over in softlines are full and haven't needed to be replenished since Christmas (these displayers are about five feet tall, to give you an idea of how much soap we have), yet they keep sending more and more.
What I find interesting is the fact that merchandise that is in demand--ceetain apparel items, appliances, tools--are forever out of stock.
Sears got a bug in its head that caused it to think that it needs all of this soap. They have a hoarding and impulsive buying problem. They've got other problems too. If Sears was an individual, they would have been committed to the rubber room.
There's something to the taking whatever they can get for merchandise since my Sears has it in 5 locations/depts that I can think of.
The profit isn't that great even if they received it for free so it is a filler item. Maybe someone over ordered by a billion company wide. It doesn't sell too well in my store either.
I'd like to put some in the store bathrooms like Wegmans does but I don't want to get in trouble.
can't tell you how many people I've seen add the hand soap to their order.
Some of them actually smell really nice :-)
The people or the hand soap?????
Sears has no suppliers left who will send them merchandise. Any merchandise they do have is just merchandise that has been in the warehouse. The reason you see it in so many departments is that they are filling the empty shelves with anything they can so it doesn't look so empty.
We have papertowels in our garden shop and storage bins in at least three different aisles. We have towels in our electronics section (what little there is) and tents in the pantry section. The end is near
Again. People overreacting and reading into things.
Actually hand soap has been sold at Sears for awhile. It's called an impulse buy, like candy. I can't tell you how many people I've seen add the hand soap to their order. Some of them actually smell really nice :-)
But the Sears bathrooms have none...makes sense.
Exactly as the previous poster said.
OP, do you get it yet? Sears is 100% bankrupt. They'd sell nuclear weapons if they were allowed to, anything to stay afloat another day.
Sears is being cut off by its suppliers, so whoever is dumb enough to give them credit will have their product in the store.
Don't view Sears as a viable business anymore, view it as a bankrupt one, that will do anything to avoid looking like a bankrupt company,
Empty shelves is what you'd see if Sears had to be supplied by its usual suppliers, so they're taking products from whoever will give it to them.