An eight years old boy was set on fire in the parking lot of a Jacksonville, Florida, Kmart. He ran into the Kmart for help. Police say the stupid victim, and two other stupid children, were playing with a cigarette lighter when it burst into flames. Police say a stupid woman “in charge” of the children left them in the vehicle with a cigarette lighter while she went shopping in the Kmart.
Sears Holdings has hired on former Amazon administrators for a new Seattle, Washington, engineering project. Sears Holdings is spending money it doesn’t have on renting out expensive commercial space in the Columbia Center. They claim they are going to re-vamp their appliance repair ops known as Sears Home Services. However, an investigation by GeekWire makes it sound like what’s really going on is the creation of a giant customer data collation operation under the guise of servicing home appliances, one job description reads “...real-time, data-driven, distributed systems that make a positive impact on millions of Sears customers by applying machine learning technologies to enrich each customer experience.” One of the former Amazon execs is Parag Garg, who will be in charge of the Assurelink platform which allows access to your home appliances through smartphones (stop being lazy and stop buying internet connected computer controlled appliances).
In New Jersey, a Sears employee has been charged with re-routing Sears’ store shipments to his own house! Sears Asset Protection discovered it when shipment records showed a lot of merchandise that was shipped due to orders, but there was no record of delivery or payment. The employee allegedly re-routed hundreds of dollars worth of store merchandise between December 2014 and February 2015.
Sears Canada is closing their contractor operated Sears store in Amherst, Nova Scotia. The store has been operating without a contractor since June 2013. Many contracted operators have quit blaming Sears Canada for everything from breaking their own contracts to an outright conspiracy to intentionally shutdown Sears! The Amherst Centre Mall store will shutdown in March.
update, 04 February 2015: Public officials shop with your tax dollars