S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
 ·Comcast
| reply to supergirl
Re: Sears where America gets spyware
Remember....this is not your fathers Sears...this is KMART!
You can see it in the stores....you can see it in their service....the only thing thats missing is the blue light special. Is this the Blue Light trojan?
How SS Kressge made it to Sears is beyond me!
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oldduke
join:2001-06-15
Gulf Breeze, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
| S_engineer: You are so right! This isn't the Sears I grew up with. The last time I shopped Sears was in 1991 for major appliances and other stuff after moving to a new state. Everything -- EVERYTHING!! -- went back, but only after I put the refrigerator in the street with a SEARS CRAP sign on it (got their attention). A colleague got even worse treatment; not only was his merchandise crap, but they tore up his floors and walls moving it in, then out of his house. Can I believe they do slippery stuff -- you bet! High pressure; bait and switch; sell and forget; incompetent everybody. No way I would buy computer stuff there, or use Sears credit, or Sears sponsored credit card. I really don't know how Sears stays in business.
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
·Comcast
·SONIC.NET
| reply to S_engineer
I thought Sears had totally lost it corporately when they closed their mail order catalog. That was the stupidest thing any company ever did. They had a slam-dunk no-change no-implementation no-cost successful Internet business model ready to just put online with only 1 to 2 USA programmers (maybe $300K/yr) and NO investment, NO backend changes, NO anything to make it work, but instead, they just said "future, no, no way, not here at this corporation. We dona wana no Internet! Our future is Asians and Mexicans!" So, they went the way of the 2 cent store rather than keep their starting quality.
What I don't know is whether or not they had already gutted their mail order product irreperably, so that it was not able to be a successful product if they did put it online. Everything else was already in place to just put into the Internet, so even if it was irreperably damaged, they could have at least used it as a jump-start, which they didn't. |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to oldduke
The few times I've gone into Sears appliance shopping,
I've usually ended so disgusted with their hard-sell
tactics that I've walked out of the store within moments
of entering.
I encountered this last year around this time going range
shopping with my mother. We ended up getting the range we
wanted at Home Depot instead.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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