Comments on: Reinventing Sears

By: halloween jokes

halloween jokes — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:02:24 +0000

Actually most of us are already renting our lives. Leases have replaced ownership for many car owners. Home mortgages are never intended to be paid off.

TV, music, books, are distributed in a usage (not ownership) basis. It seems a small detail whether you rent your cell phone explicitly or have its cost bundled in with the two year contract. New contract, new phone.

Some PC makers now have explicit replacement policies for businesses.

I claim that the model is catching on, not only because firms like the predictable revenue stream, but because we no longer have the saved capital to buy things with.

Just read up on the mill workers at the beginning of last century. They lived in company housing, bought furniture on the never-never and had almost nothing else that they owned.

It’s all part of the hidden impoverishment of the working class (yes I know I sound like a socialist, but Greenspan explicitly favored this model during the housing boom).

By: Htmlcentre

Htmlcentre — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:19:37 +0000

Actually most of us are already renting our lives. Leases have replaced ownership for many car owners. Home mortgages are never intended to be paid off

By: SanalSahne

SanalSahne — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:19:34 +0000

Actually most of us are already renting our lives. Leases have replaced ownership for many car owners. Home mortgages are never intended to be paid off.

By: egitimbilgisi

egitimbilgisi — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:24:54 +0000

I claim that the model is catching on, not only because firms like the predictable revenue stream, but because we no longer have the saved capital to buy things with. Yes ,I think

By: dekan

dekan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:54:08 +0000

Actually most of us are already renting our lives. Leases have replaced ownership for many car owners. Home mortgages are never intended to be paid off. kat?l?yorum sana

By: CaptiousNut

CaptiousNut — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:10:37 +0000

Jarvis and Hennican pontificating on the business world?

Thanks for the chuckle.

By: Crawford

Crawford — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:56:39 +0000

Sadly, I think Sears has long passed into irrelevance.

Eddie needs to break it apart so he can extract value. Sell off Craftsman and Kenmore brands to Lowe’s or Costco, a big box retailer committed to quality products and service.

Let a once great brand live in memory with dignity and grace, not die an embarrassing death on the streets, clothed only in the tattered remnants of the underwire bra and garter set I spent so many sleepless hours dreaming on in the catalog as a boy.

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:38:33 +0000

It hasn't a damn thing to do with brand or ownership or any crap like that, Sears' problem is that their customer service sucks. Ask Connie duToit about here experience with Sears' customer support sometime. The company has bought into the myth that efficiency matters above all else, and courtesy doesn't matter one bit. As our host has been telling us for years; it's not the content, it's the community. For the prices Sears charges, they can afford a little respect for their customers.

By: PiriketSeverler

PiriketSeverler — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:46:08 +0000

Actually most of us are already renting our lives. Leases have replaced ownership for many car owners. Home mortgages are never intended to be paid off.

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By: Brands Create Customers » Blog Archive » How the Sears brand might save Sears

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:33:56 +0000

[...] Hat tip: Jeff Jarvis [...]

By: o-shift

o-shift — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:30:55 +0000

Robert, loved your observations; elegant, “hidden impoverishment” of the working class, which includes most scribes. What I need is leased health insurance. In exchange for giving the proceeds of my life insurance policy to some corporate entity at my demise, I get free medical care. A win-win. Of course, the rub is that the free medical care comes from the corporate entity that stands to profit from my ….

By: chico haas

chico haas — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:33:48 +0000

It’s an only half-crazy idea. The citing of TVs and lawnmowers is dead-on. Sears should get out of soft goods altogether and concentrate and expand on appliances, electronics, tools, automotive and housewares. That’s what people think of IF they think of Sears. Moreover, it should stop competing with convenience stores for employees. The service is wretched. Sears follows that advice, it won’t need to entice its demographic to pony up $$$ in advance – precisely the kind of discretionary income the average Sears’ customer doesn’t have.

By: robertdfeinman

robertdfeinman — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:35:49 +0000

Actually most of us are already renting our lives. Leases have replaced ownership for many car owners. Home mortgages are never intended to be paid off.

Some PC makers now have explicit replacement policies for businesses.

I claim that the model is catching on, not only because firms like the predictable revenue stream, but because we no longer have the saved capital to buy things with.

Just read up on the mill workers at the beginning of last century. They lived in company housing, bought furniture on the never-never and had almost nothing else that they owned.

It’s all part of the hidden impoverishment of the working class (yes I know I sound like a socialist, but Greenspan explicitly favored this model during the housing boom).