Smart sense is a kmart house brand of food and healthcare products for those who don't know. Today while walking through a Mall Sears department store, I saw a pallet of smart sense 35 pack bottled water on sale. It's probably one of the strangest cross merchandising I've seen in awhile! Is this a new trend? Honestly it looked really tacky in a "department store" and was extremely out of place.
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I shopped SCS store too, got thousands of dollars in stuff in January, what a great promotion. But almost all of the items were back in stock about a month after it ended. Coffee (K Cups) took awhile, but I've seen no reduction in the brand really, except a mouthwash (whitener) that they eliminated and like you say some vitamins, but hell no, all that other stuff is still there. Been 25% back in points all year with a few 100% deals (garbage bags, TP, paper towel etc.)
Many of the Smart Sense products I regularly bought (like multi-vitamins) quietly kept disappearing from my local Kmart this year. The Pharmacy closed late this Spring. The store is now in liquidation. This is the #1 Kmart in the country, in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. It is also a Seritage property. What's happening to this company disgusts me. It's being gutted from the inside out, all in the name of massive profits for those (or mainly the person) at the top. I knew the 100% back on Smart Sense products that began after last Christmas was happening for a reason....to liquidate them. As a soon to be former loyal shopper, it's difficult to watch this systematic shut down of an American icon.
@fca: "It's going to go bad before it is all sold and water takes a LONG time to go bad. I think its shelf life in bottled form is five years."
Sears probably won't last that long. :-\
Smart sense is very good in their quality at kmart. Even their their water is top notch. Eddie must have paid them sooner than later.
I must say tho, all the smart sense stuff is quite high quality, which is strange considering how most everything else is junk.
Menards sells all that too. Members only jackets (seriously) milk and snacks. Tons of it. Smart move.
@smz --Yes, I'm pretty sure what IL mall you're talking about as I work there at a competitor store. I thought it was strange when I first saw that, but it is convienient if I need to run and grab a box of Kleenex.
Sears in a major mall in IL has detergent, paper products, food storage bags, etc. Located in tools dept. Cannot see someone shopping at Sears for those items.
That's funny that you think Sears is a comparable store to any of those.
Home Depot, lowes, staples and Office Depot all sell water.
We sell a ton of that sh*t at our sears.
13.3 square foot of floor space that isn't empty.
We sold maybe four cases in the three months it has been sitting there. The top layer is still mostly untouched. Meanwhile, it is blocking a main aisle in our HI department. It's going to go bad before it is all sold and water takes a LONG time to go bad. I think its shelf life in bottled form is five years.
We should have just given it away to storm victims in Puerto Rico and the victims of the wildfires in California. From a financial aspect it would have been a tax writeoff. From a publicity standpoint, it would have been a positive gesture and something finally positive among all of the negative news surrounding Sears Holdings.
They've been mixing up all sorts of merchandise like that... some is even from other store brands, presumably mixed up by the manufacturers and not caught by the Sears/Kmart distribution centers.
Check out this thread: Sears Softlines brands at Kmart - https://www.thelayoff.com/t/OwvwZEf
Probably desperate to sell it. Most likely from a shut down Kmart.
warer is cheap and takes up empty space