Sears.com hot deals and clearance thread

[EOC_Jason]

I hope the local store near me is doing well. Not because so I can order more free items, but I get to know the owner and people who works there. I don't want them to lose their jobs. There are 3 other local stores within 40 miles that are now closed.

I will admit that it is hard to understand how they can make good profit. Every time I am there, they never have a lot of customers. But maybe they do plenty of business when I am not there.

When you order an item off Sears.com for store-pickup at a HomeTown and even if it's a crazy discount + coupons + points, the store gets full-price credit / commission for the item(s). At least that is what my store owner told me.

 

[ARFLY]

That is what he told me also.

 

[Doohickey]

Sears will be having a "Spring Black Friday" sale starting Thursday.
$10 in points for all SYW members.

Every member will get $10 in points on Thursday?!?

Where are you seeing this info?

Or do you mean we buy something $10 or more, and get $10 in points back?

 

[Doohickey]

I’m seeing $30 AND $35 on the same page for same item! Shows $30 in the box by the price and $35 in the “Special Offers” crawl above the item description.

Sears gonna Sears.

SYW MAX is also being advertised with different values:

Sears site:
"Free 2-Day Shipping
on qualifying items sold by Sears or Kmart when your order is $25+"

SYW site:
"Free 2-day shipping on qualifying items sold by Sears and Kmart when your order is $35+"

Seems to activate on Sears.com for $35+ items now.

 

[danny_barkley]

I assume you are referring to the garden hoses?

The famous ones were USA made and hexagon shaped. But the newest ones are round and made in China. If you got the USA ones, you are lucky. If not, I would be interested to know how they hold up.

They had a **** load of the USA ones.

 

[7avalon7]

I assume you are referring to the garden hoses?

The famous ones were USA made and hexagon shaped. But the newest ones are round and made in China. If you got the USA ones, you are lucky. If not, I would be interested to know how they hold up.

I was at the local store, and they have a big pile of made in China hose. There might be US made hose somewhere within the pile, but I am not digging to find out

I am glad I have my current US made hose, and have bought another 50ft of US made hose a few months ago.

 

[emachado]

Any tip? Getting a riding mower... any secret discount around?


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[upgrading]

Every member will get $10 in points on Thursday?!?

Where are you seeing this info?

Or do you mean we buy something $10 or more, and get $10 in points back?

idk.
Just the front of an advert in the Boston Globe.
No time to read inside

 

[7avalon7]

idk.
Just the front of an advert in the Boston Globe.
No time to read inside

May/may not be related, but some people at Slickdeals said they get $10 SYW (in-store only) in their account. YMMV of course.

https://slickdeals.net/f/11495235-shop-your-way-members-10-to-use-on-sears-valid-in-store-only-ymmv

I do not have them. Even if I have them, there is no Sears close by.

EDIT: I just notice that free shipping is now $35+. That *****...

 

[EOC_Jason]

Any tip? Getting a riding mower... any secret discount around?

Depending on the brand you are getting, I know they will pricematch other stores. You can check the Coupons page on the sears site for any decent coupons too.

 

[emachado]

Depending on the brand you are getting, I know they will pricematch other stores. You can check the Coupons page on the sears site for any decent coupons too.

They only sale Craftsman and 2 models of Poulan
, I’m in Puerto Rico

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[Slinger646]

May/may not be related, but some people at Slickdeals said they get $10 SYW (in-store only) in their account. YMMV of course.

https://slickdeals.net/f/11495235-shop-your-way-members-10-to-use-on-sears-valid-in-store-only-ymmv

I do not have them. Even if I have them, there is no Sears close by.

EDIT: I just notice that free shipping is now $35+. That *****...

I got 10 in store yesterday for no reason

 

[jonshonda]

They had a **** load of the USA ones.

You lucky *******!

 

[ineedtools]

Or maybe not. As I say now and again, “Sears gonna Sears!”

For anyone not following along, allow me to recap. Sunday evening poster Ineedtools listed a Sears Outlet deal for this box and tool set:

https://www.searsoutlet.com/Craftsm...e=seeAll&itemSelectionType=all&invId=37977139

It was listed as Reconditioned, in Good condition, for $11.93. Quite a discount from the regular $179 price. The pickup location was my local full size Sears store, which is not a Sears Outlet. I ordered it online Sunday evening. My expectations were, of course, quite low.

Sunday evening Sears Outlet sent me an email message confirming my order but also stating the item was not in the store and “is still in the warehouse.” Late Monday morning Sears Outlet sent a second email stating the item was “ready for pickup at Sears Outlet” but listing the address of my local Sears store. This morning I went to the Sears store to pick it up.

After about an 8 to 10 minute wait a manager comes out together with an employee pushing a hand cart loaded with a much different toolbox. The manager asks if this was the box I ordered. I said “No, I don’t believe so.” He then asked if I had ordered the 5 drawer box from Sears Outlet. He then apologized; he didn’t have that box in the store and had been confused when the order came in. Would I accept this box on the hand cart instead?

The one on the hand cart was this box, with slight damage:
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-41-i...lerId=SEARS&prdNo=12&blockNo=12&blockType=G12

There’s a small dent on the back corner of the lid, with some paint chipped around it. Drawers all work. Lid works. Keys and owners manual inside. While I think he might have thought I was serious, I jokingly asked if it had the tool kit and then had it quickly loaded before he could change his mind!

So, thanks again to Ineedtools for your post. You never know where something at Sears is going to end up. The pic below is the box I ended up with for less than $12.

SAAAAHWEEEET!! What made it even better was the screw up!

So glad another GJ member was able to get it! I would chalk that up as a major SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!

 

[danny_barkley]

You lucky *******!

Yeah, I bought 4 of them.

 

[Digital4n6]

Any tip? Getting a riding mower... any secret discount around?

Spring Black Friday ad is posted as a preview now on their main page.

Here is a quick link to all of the current (and preview) deals on mowers.

http://www.sears.com/deals/center/h...t=Lawn & Garden&category=Lawn Mowers&sort=asc

 

[BMack37]

When you order an item off Sears.com for store-pickup at a HomeTown and even if it's a crazy discount + coupons + points, the store gets full-price credit / commission for the item(s). At least that is what my store owner told me.

That is awesome for the Home Town stores. I beg you guys to do this as much as possible, remember they are not owned by Sears, they are owned by a franchisie. I'm all for bleeding Sears dry but fully support local business as long as they're good people...When you can do both, it makes me very happy.

 

[7avalon7]

When you order an item off Sears.com for store-pickup at a HomeTown and even if it's a crazy discount + coupons + points, the store gets full-price credit / commission for the item(s). At least that is what my store owner told me.

That is great to hear. I have wonder if the local store got some sort of commission out of the sale.

Sometime I feel guilty when I pick-up my orders. I seldom buy anything at the store, but have bought a ton from online. These nice folks has to go to the back of the store, and find my orders. I am almost always the only customer in the entire store.

 

[timoboy]

That is awesome for the Home Town stores. I beg you guys to do this as much as possible, remember they are not owned by Sears, they are owned by a franchisie. I'm all for bleeding Sears dry but fully support local business as long as they're good people...When you can do both, it makes me very happy.

I am not so sure about this. When I went to a Sears Appliance and Hardware, which I believe still follows the same business model as Sears Hometown, the guy saw me order something in store on my phone for pickup and was not happy. He was a super nice guy, but went out of his way to say that he would price match any online price from Sears or the Appliance website right at the register and that if I ordered online Sears got the money and he didn't. I think it was something to do with him having to pay to replace the inventory verses getting it on consignment.

Who knows if this is accurate, but this guy really had to know something to keep his store as well stocked as he did in the face of Sears not shipping product. He had almost every SKU Sears has in tools all in his small format store. It's was incredible. I've been to maybe 25 Sears stores in the past year and I had never seen that many different items even if I combined them all. You could tell it was a point of pride to get all these different things ordered from Sears and keep them stocked. Maybe he choose to pay upfront for all the inventory and was only compensated at a reduced rate when it sells through the app. That would explain how he has a tool section with 3x the inventory of a normal Sears. So my guess is if he says he doesn't make any real money selling sub $50 tools through the Sears app, he may be on to something.

If any of you guys are ever going between Dallas and Houston, definitely stop in the Hunstville store and ask for Jimmy. The stuff in that place...it's incredible.

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[Hexen]

I'm not sure what the situation is with the other variants of Sears franchise stores ("Sears Appliance & Hardware", are there still any calling themselves just "Sears Hardware"?, "Sears Appliance Showroom"... and of course "Sears Outlet" is special and I doubt they'd want any more of those). It seems like the only brand they're wanting to sign up new franchisees for now is "Sears Hometown", so the others are probably holdovers of earlier setups that may differ in some aspects from "Hometown" stores.



Another tidbit about the franchise stores that I hadn't known - there are also some locations that they call "transition stores", which is when a Hometown/other franchise owner wants to sell their store but can't find a buyer, Sears sometimes buys the store back from them (and tries, for a while, to re-sell it). There's currently one "transition store" for sale in Texas which made me look up the term for more information.

Here's an example: "The Casa Grande Sears [being closed in 2017], while once a franchised store, reverted to corporate holdings when a new owner could not be secured. Rasmussen said stores such as his are called transition stores and said companywide Sears has about 50 stores with that designation."

I'm not sure if Sears is still doing this for other franchise owners who might want out, since in the company's current financial situation it might have had to stop doing that and only still has ones it bought years ago.

 

[Hexen]

Sears put an in-store-only $10 freecash surprise points offer in many people's accounts early this morning, good today Apr 19 through Sun Apr 22. If you don't have it, try texting FREECASH to 73277 to hopefully receive the offer if you weren't already subscribed to Sears texts.

 

[Hexen]

I stopped by my nearest store today to find out follow-ups on some recent discussions...


The 3-pack of chisels that went on sale recently, but had seemed so widely available in my area that I suspected it was a fresh Chinese supply: there are now none on the shelf at this store, and it's now showing out of stock at several other stores in my radius that used to have it. So either it was a pretty shallow fresh stock, or it was the last of that item's Western Forge stock and I missed it. The ~$12 sale price will continue in-store from Apr 8 through Jun 2 according to the tag dates, if any of you can still find a WF USA version of it or want the Chinese version anyway.

There were a lot of other sets and singles of chisels/punches/alignment tools still in stock at my store, and while most of them were from China (handles say Z-AH or something like that), there were still a few random WF USAs mixed in. One type of set had all 4 in stock still WF USA, and a few random singles. The finish is definitely different on the Chinese ones, often having some small scratches down to the metal on the singles from jostling against each other.


I did not see the Chinese punch/chisel holder that recently replaced the WF version after months of unavailability, but there were so many punches/chisels to look through that I forgot to make a concerted effort to look for that too. I'll be back in there some time in the next few days to use my aforementioned offer, so will try to check it out then.

 

[Hexen]

And lastly, I decided to attempt the dreaded in-store after-purchase price-protection adjustment, since you can no longer get the online support people to price-adjust in-store purchases. The employees I usually deal with at this store weren't on duty at the time I was there on Wednesday, which was good so I wasn't annoying them with this time-wasting attempt (which I worried could make them less happy to help me in the future). So you all can learn from my experience without having to go through the hassle:

You can still do price-adjustments on in-store purchases if the price drops within 30 days after you bought it, even an online-only price.

You must bring your receipt back to a store to attempt this. The barcode on the receipt will almost always fail to scan, so you must read off several long numbers on the receipt for the employee to type in. They will also want to see some kind of proof of the price change (show them the Sears webpage on your smartphone or bring a printout, or show them the in-store price-tag or ad, depending on where it changed).

However, you generally cannot get an adjustment on a purchase that you used a Sears coupon on originally. They didn't care about the fact that I'd paid all the rest of the cost after the coupon with points/offers, but coupons that reduce the subtotal made it not work (the computer refused to let them do it, so it wasn't just the employee making something up).

My purchase had used a $10 off coupon originally, and the price had dropped by $5. Maybe if the price had dropped by $15 I could've gotten $5 back? Unsure, but it might be worth trying on a larger purchase (with more room for a more substantial price drop) like some of you have, just in case it is only a matter of the amount of the coupon needing to be smaller than the amount of the price drop.

 

[Chief919]

Well, looks like my closest real Sears in Asheville is closing. That writing has been on the wall for a while now, but they announced liquidation will start next week.

That will leave my closest real Sears about a 3.5 hour round trip. Luckily we have a Hometwon store still.

That said it was in a horrible spot. The Mall in Asheville is a pain to get to with traffic patterns that have grown up in the area.

Seritage Properties, who owns most of the real estate Sears used to, it planning to do a "redevelopment project to add a multiplex movie theater, stores, restaurants and high-density residential housing options to the mall."

 

[EOC_Jason]

I am not so sure about this. When I went to a Sears Appliance and Hardware, which I believe still follows the same business model as Sears Hometown, the guy saw me order something in store on my phone for pickup and was not happy. He was a super nice guy, but went out of his way to say that he would price match any online price from Sears or the Appliance website right at the register and that if I ordered online Sears got the money and he didn't. I think it was something to do with him having to pay to replace the inventory verses getting it on consignment.

My HomeTown store owner told me he has zero control over his inventory and prices. He puts out what Sears sends him. That store might be doing something different, if he has that much inventory while most other stores are in kind of sorry shape, he must be fronting money to pre-purchase or something to have as much stock as it sounds.

I remember when I was in Houston, probably around 2014 I think our Sears Hardware switched to independently owned. I don't know the story on all the others though. Who knows with Sears...

 

[Doohickey]

Sears will be having a "Spring Black Friday" sale starting Thursday.
$10 in points for all SYW members.

idk.
Just the front of an advert in the Boston Globe.
No time to read inside

Guess that ad wasn't kidding, because today I got $10 in surprise points to use at Sears stores!

 

[Hexen]

The 50-sheet sandpaper 'portfolio' is back down to half-off. It's a nice deal for people who don't already have a lot of sandpaper and strong opinions about what kind they like.
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-9-x-11-in-sandpaper-50-pk/p-00922893000P
$19.99 regularly, $9.99 sale

 

[Hexen]

Craftsman Extreme Grip 3/8" Drive Ratchet
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-3-8-inch-drive-extreme-grip-ratchet/p-00911678000P
$29.99 regularly, $12.99 sale

 

[2manytools]

Craftsman Extreme Grip 3/8" Drive Ratchet
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-3-8-inch-drive-extreme-grip-ratchet/p-00911678000P
$29.99 regularly, $12.99 sale

hopefully I will get a easy going guy, and have them match the site so I can use the $10, otherwise I'll probably get the fold-able creeper finally. Just wish there was more than 1 review on it.

 

[Hexen]

hopefully I will get a easy going guy, and have them match the site so I can use the $10,

They've been fine with matching the online price in-store lately for me, it'll probably work. Occasionally they even have an equal or better price in-store already, despite the website claiming it's an online-only sale.

otherwise I'll probably get the fold-able creeper finally. Just wish there was more than 1 review on it.

Ah, that is pretty neat, hadn't seen it before.

Craftsman Foldable Mechanic Mesh Creeper 4 Rolling - Casters 250 Lbs Capacity
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-foldable-creeper/p-A010664370
$49.99 regularly, $39.99 sale
(the sears.com-provided link to it had the hilarious glitch where it includes a different product's name in the link, but I fixed it)

I think it's a rebrand of this "Gas Monkey" product... Just 3 more reviews here, and one of them is a one-star just because they thought it had a higher weight capacity, but the other two are happy with it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074WNM237/?tag=atomicindus08-20

The one review on the Sears site is from Dec 2017, and the 3 Amazon reviews for the other brand of it are from Dec 2017 and newer, so I think it's a mistake when the Sears description claims "Added on January 01, 2000". That must be the default minimum date when a real date isn't provided. Especially for a product available in stores, it would have a lot more reviews by now if that were really true.

 

[upgrading]

Guess that ad wasn't kidding, because today I got $10 in surprise points to use at Sears stores!

Got mine too and spent it already.
Crappy coupons were all I got with my receipt though.

 

[Doohickey]

hopefully I will get a easy going guy, and have them match the site so I can use the $10, otherwise I'll probably get the fold-able creeper finally. Just wish there was more than 1 review on it.

The long-time employees won't price match online-only prices for me, but I've found that young employees aren't so strict with policy.

One new kid openly admitted that the store really can't afford to turn away customers.
(Plus he seemed really bored with the lack of customer traffic.)

 

[Hexen]

...
One new kid openly admitted that the store really can't afford to turn away customers.
(Plus he seemed really bored with the lack of customer traffic.)

Sears By The Numbers as of May 9, 2017 - "As a percentage of overall revenue, ecommerce made up 9.3% of sales, up from 8.3% a year earlier. Store Productivity: Average sales per store in 2016 was $11.67 million, down 5.4% from 2015."

$11.67 million per store per year is about $32k per store per day, or $224k per week. We're all a drop in the bucket for those kind of numbers, whether or not we pay a couple bucks less on our once-every-week-or-two purchases due to online price-match. I assume that, like the numbers I found the other day for the franchise stores, the majority of the corporate Sears revenue comes from appliances (even with the additional departments they have that franchise stores don't, the numbers on e.g. a typical clothing purchase just don't add up fast enough). So I'm thinking the main goal at this point, for employees who aren't just resentful of someone getting a deal, is to keep any remaining customers as happy as possible until they're ready to buy an appliance (or mattress or lawnmower).

 

[Gogo300]

If they won’t price match the online price, buy a gift card for the total amount of the online purchase. Then purchase the item online with store pickup and wait for them to text you it’s ready. An employee told me about that trick after the manager denied price match.

 

[Hexen]

If they won’t price match the online price, buy a gift card for the total amount of the online purchase. Then purchase the item online with store pickup and wait for them to text you it’s ready. An employee told me about that trick after the manager denied price match.

Can you use points/offers on gift cards?

 

[Hexen]

Got mine too and spent it already.
Crappy coupons were all I got with my receipt though.

Looks like there is some chance of getting a decent bounceback coupon/offer (sorry you didn't get lucky)... new report on SD this evening: "Went to store to use the $10. During check out, it printed a $5 off 5 valid from tomorrow."

Update: And another report, "After using the $10 off promotion, the cashier handed me back another coupon, $15 off $15."

 

[Chief919]

http://www.sears.com/gearwrench-10i...sellerId=SEARS&prdNo=2&blockNo=2&blockType=G2

GearWrench 10" Adjustable Cushion Grip Wrench hot buy at $6.49 down from $39.99

 

[XJPat]

http://www.sears.com/gearwrench-10i...sellerId=SEARS&prdNo=2&blockNo=2&blockType=G2

GearWrench 10" Adjustable Cushion Grip Wrench hot buy at $6.49 down from $39.99

Just a heads up, a lot of the reviews mention the grip handle coming off.

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[7avalon7]

Might be a good deal? I am not sure of the quality, I do not own this.

Vise Grip 8 In. ProPliers End Cutting Pliers $3.99 down from $31.99.

http://www.sears.com/vise-grip-8-in...=13166739&utm_medium=1122587_4485850_13166739

 

[Hexen]

Might be a good deal? I am not sure of the quality, I do not own this.

Vise Grip 8 In. ProPliers End Cutting Pliers $3.99 down from $31.99.

http://www.sears.com/vise-grip-8-in...=13166739&utm_medium=1122587_4485850_13166739

That is an excellent deal even though they're not perfect, if you're looking to make a $35+ purchase. Not eligible for ship to store, or I would've jumped on ordering it. Sounds like not good for cutting, but great for pulling. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BDDG7A/?tag=atomicindus08-20