Thread regarding Sears layoffs

@nrv so many truths said in your reply! Thank you

@cmo They follow the weekly ads until liquidation actually begins (1-2 weeks after the announcement). Then the liquidators reset prices to full MSRP and start slowly discounting down from there.

Are the stores that just went into liquidation following the weekly ads or are they doing their own liquidation price format and not honoring the ads?

Adsets have always been wasteful and inefficient. It's hardly a dent in the wastefulness and spendthrift tendencies of this company though. I remember how we'd fill an industrial-size trash pail with old signs in just two weeks. All that paper went straight into the trash compactor since we didn't have anybody to pick up our recycling, probably because corporate chose not to sign up for the pickup service because they would have to pay for it. I always joked that all the waste would probably turn an executive of a paper company into an apologetic tree hugger. Half a ream of paper would be wasted on various reports that would print automatically almost every single day. Half of the pages of those reports went straight into the garbage. We'd go through cases of paper every month. Speaking of paper waste, I remember a period of time when Fedex would deliver several cases of credit disclosure forms to our store every few weeks because the Legal department kept changing the wording in the terms and conditions, so we'd throw out the old ones, even the ones that had never been opened. What a waste of money and resources!

As for the adsets themselves, I remember coming in at 7AM on a Sunday all dreary-eyed, and having to put up with the flaky SNCs and the signwriter printer that was literally held together with duct tape and worked only half of the time. The system would spit out signs we didn't need and would withhold the ones we needed. Requesting signs was an exercise in futility because you'd put in all this effort to go around requesting all the signs that you needed only to find that once you got back to the signwriter PC, your stack in RES was only a fraction of the signs you actually requested with the SNC even though those signs were needed according to PLU. Being scheduled on a Sunday morning always set the tone for the rest of the day to be a bad one.

@ili the regular res signs do not point out all that about points!!

the specific signs advertising the the point promotions do not have bar codes that we scan up or down only exp dates

You are confusing the two

@rsx, well it says on the signs "max number points per member "and the dates so customers who max out the deal will know if it's a new date that it's a new deal they can use since they've already maxed out the last deal.

@ccayou really think the customer understands our ad set end dates?

I don’t think so

Well for one thing the point deals have a maximum number of times they can be done for each customer until they reset so even if they are the same exact deals the new dates will alert the customers that it's a new deal that can be done again.