Carol Spieckerman

BrainTrust Query: We Have Met Retail's Future, and it is Sears

May 20, 2010

FROM RETAILWIRE:
Sears is quietly incubating and activating the business models and platforms that will transform retail's future, even as it appears to lose at the ones everyone watches now. What's going right at Sears?      [more...]

Don, to answer your question regarding where Sears' brands are being sold outside of Sears (this information was included in my original blog posting but not in the edited version on Retail Wire), as of this writing, Sears has inked a deal with Schumacher Electric to sell DieHard power accessories in the U.S. and parts of Latin America and Ace Hardware will launch Craftsman products in 100 of its stores beginning this month. That program is expected to roll out as a cornerstone of Ace's new push to be the hub for small home projects.