Kmart to Put Sears Name on 400 Stores After Merger

AP ^ | 3-9-2005 | Sarah Karush

[since1868]

let me know if you write a book about Sears

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Sears hand tools are pretty good. However I can't recommend Craftsman sheets, towels, and suits.

[PAR35]

You should think of the current K-mart as a real estate liquidation company, not a retailer. They were running low on good locations to sell, so they went after Sears. They'll slap the Sears name on a bunch of locations they haven't been able to sell, and probably close about that many Sears stores to liqudate the real estate.

[donozark]

I take it you have never followed the "flashing blue light?" Where else but K-Mart can one see a wedding gown draped over a case of Pennzoil?

[Cagey]

Where else but K-Mart can one see a wedding gown draped over a case of Pennzoil?

ROFLMAO!!! One of the funniest lines I've read on this forum yet.

[newgeezer]

on the back of the receipt it will say 90 days

Hah. "Receipt"? That guarantee above the door says nothing about a receipt. We don't need no stinkin' receipt!

Years ago, I worked in the plumbing & hardware dept. at Sears for a while. A certain element would occasionally march in and demand refunds for Craftsman power tools that they had obviously just bought at garage sales. The persistent ones got their refunds. That was what really opened my eyes to the greatness of that motto above the doors. Since then, all of my major appliance purchases have been from Sears.

If they don't add something like "certain restrictions apply" to that guarantee emblazoned above the doors, the persistent ones will continue to get their refunds.