Sears market size or market share has been declining over the years from 2010 to 2017 where the current stock price is at 10.22 by April 2017. This is according to SHLD stock prices in the stock market that shows Sears Company has reduced its market share compared to its competitors such as the Wal-Mart. Sear’s stock prices has decreased from 59.815 in January 2010 to 10.22 in April 2017 showing 83% decline in Sears US market share. This decline in market share is as a result of increased inflation, currency fluctuations, and consumer preferences. Sears retail market share has decreased to less than 1% by 2017 compared to 1.2% in 2012 and 1 % in 2013. The total revenue generated by Sears Company unforeseeable in the fourth quarter in the year …show more content…
Kmart Holdings was running 1,416 Kmart stores in 2006 in 49 states. This total number of stores comprises of 1,361 discount stores located at 92,000 square feet and 55 super centers located at 165,000 square feet. Many of the Kmart stores are located on ground floors with assorted products and well-known labels on each product. Sears Domestic: This comprises of 866 stores positioned in 50 states with mall positioned at 132,000 square feet. These stores provide a variety of products such home appliances, tools, and home appliances. In the same year 2006, Sears Domestic Company operated 58 Sears Essential and Sears Grand stores in 22 States with a geographical location of 122,000 square feet. The company had special stores amounting to 1,128, which were mainly located in urban areas, dealer stores amounting to 809 located mainly in farm areas due to the supply of equipment. Other stores included the Sears’s hardware, great indoor, commercial sales, and outlet stores. There are also the Home Services providing repairs services directly to the customer as well as Lands Ends which was recently acquired and provides fashion clothing and home
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With consistent growth to accommodate more variety, more merchandise, and the convenience of one-stop shopping, Mr. Kroger may not recognize the Kroger Company today. Under two dozen banners such as City Market, Dillon’s, King Soopers, Kroger, Fry’s and Ralphs the Kroger Company operates 2,439 supermarkets in 31 states, 788 convenience stores under six banners in 18 states, a...
Sears Holding Corporation is the fourth largest retailer in the United States and Canada. Their supplements include Sears, Roebuck and Co. as well as K-Mart. “The closing of the merger between Sears and K-Mart took place on March 24, 2005. Sears has more than 4,000 retail stores across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Sears offers products and services through over 2,700 branded and affiliated stores. Sears operates 894 broad-line stores and 1,354 specialty stores. Sears’ broad-line stores are mall-based locations. The specialty stores include Sears Hometown Stores that are mostly independently owned, Sears Home Appliance Showrooms, Sears Hardware Stores, Sears Auto Centers, and The Great Indoor Stores (Sears Holdings, 2011).”
As revealed by the SWOT analysis earlier Kmart has potential to pull itself out of its current position of facing closure. In order to exploit opportunities and counter threats Kmart needs to build on these competencies to strengthen its position and counter internal weaknesses against the single largest industry threat - increased competition in a mature market.
Another reason why thrifty and busy consumers love Walmart, is because they offer more than 5,000 locations all
The first Kmart store was opened in Garden City, Michigan., in 1962 (the same year that Wal-Mart and Target began operations) by the S.S. Kresge Co., a five-and-dime chain that was founded at the turn of the 20th century in Detroit by Sebastian Spering Kresge. By the end of 1963 Kmart had 63 stores converted from Kresge's. By 1977, Kmart generated nearly all of Kresge's sales, and the company changed its name to Kmart Corp. Kmart sold the remaining Kresge stores in 1987.
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In today’s market Sears competitors are not only in its more valuable retail space of mall-in locations; but outside of the mall market competing with a number of integrated retail stores both brick and mortar and online. The majority of Sears competitive market is with the following retail stores Walmart, Target, Kohl's, J.C. Penney, Macy's, The Home Depot, Lowe's, Best Buy and Amazon (Thomson Reuters, 2016). In which Kohl’s, J.C. Penney, and Macy’s have a high concentration of mall-in locations. Sears current business model is competing in a multi-competitive market by offering a wide variety of retail services that are competing for the same customers as the retailers listed in the diagram above. Sear’s integrated business model has made it increasingly difficult to find a competitive advantage where Sear’s is the top leader.
In 1897 Sebastian Spering Kresge opened five-dime stores in Memphis and Detroit with John McCrorey as his partner. Two years later the partnership broke up and each person kept one city. Mr. Kresge kept the Detroit store and began expanding from there onward. In 1912 the company became incorporated as S.S. Kresge and was the 2nd largest dime store chain with 85 stores and annual sales of more than $10 million. In 1918 S.S Kresge was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Throughout the decades, Kresge rapidly expanded eventually opening the first Kmart store in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan. By 1966 there were more 160 Kmart stores in the US and Canada. In 1968 Kmart began airing TV commercials. In the 1970s, Kmart continued to expand opening 270 stores in 1976 alone. In 1977, S.S. Kresge changed its name to Kmart because 95% of its sales were coming from that branch. In the 1980s and early 90s, Kmart diversified by adding other retailers such as Walden Book Company which was the number one bookstore chain in the US. The Sports Authority in 1990, 90% stake in OfficeMax and the Borders bookstore in 1992. Also in 1990 Kmart opened its first Kmart Super Center in Medina, Ohio. Whatever was left of the Kresge locations in the US was sold to S.S. Kresge's former partner's store chain McCrory's. Between 1994 and 1995 earnings began to fall for Kmart causing them to sell off their other operations, OfficeMax, The Sports Authority, PACE, Borders and its US automotive service Centers. Also in that time period, more than 200 US stores were closed. Fast forwarding to the future, Kmart launched www.bluelight.com which is now known as www.kmart.com in 1999. In 2002 Kmart filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy which was the biggest retail bankruptcy i...
Over the last several years, Sears has continued to watch its stores decline towards the brink of death. Since 2012, Sears has lost more than $9
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Should Kmart and Sears keep their own identities and have unique competitive strategies, or should they be combined in some way with a new overall corporate competitive strategy? Please defend your answer.
Sears began as a small retailer but as the years have gone by, they have become
The SWOT analysis is a useful tool for identifying our personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to our plans and goals. According to a “Fuel My Motivation” article (2010), this analysis considers internal influences that can positively or negatively affect our ability to achieve our goals. The internal factors are our strengths and weaknesses. Also considered are opportunities and threats, which are external influences that can have a positive or negative impact on the ability to achieve our goals. I will share how the self-assessment instruments and self-exercises in this course have contributed to assessing and understanding my strengths and weaknesses. I will also discuss techniques I will use to leverage my strengths and understand my weaknesses. In addition, I will consider opportunities that I can take advantage of and the threats that can possibly impede my progress.
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