Sears approached my company looking to buy like 100 million in batteries. Our finance dept gave them the middle finger, and we already were doing business with them at the time. Pretty sure that led to the demise of the DieHard Platinum line.
The order of which you speak is simply
impossible; even under mid or long-term contract.
That means you work for Enersys. I'm surprised the Platinums lasted as long as they did, because that's a lot of money on a shelf for the average Sears service customer.
Typically, they buy from Sears because they were around when Diehard meant something. The crop of people walking through those doors over the past decade or so, though... Hell, it's pretty much the "People of Walmart" crowd.
It made me wonder just who the hell was buying those batteries. I'll be rounding things off, here:
If we figure on 100 million in $300 batteries, that's 333,000 batteries. Given Sears had 3,500 stores at their maximum, that's 95 batteries for each store.
If we assume the batteries were cheaper (of course they were for the purchase, but that's not relevant) you're looking at close to 200 batteries per store, at the peak of Sears retail power, and not every store would be getting them.
If the time period is current, that's over 1,600 batteries per store even at $150 per unit, and damned near a thousand still if they are all $300 Diehard Platinums; and dollars to donuts, no Sears store has ever sold a thousand Odyssey batteries.
