Monday, November 12, 2012
There will be no layaway fee at Sears and Kmart through November 17
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Sears and Kmart have announced they will waive layaway fees in stores and online through Nov. 17, according to an Associated Press report. Both stores usually charge $5 for an eight-week layaway and $10 for 12 weeks. Kmart's move came after Wal-Mart said it was lowering its holiday layaway program fee to $5 from $15. The Wal-Mart holiday layaway program started Sept. 16 and runs through Dec. 14 and will include more items than last year. Shoppers will get a service charge refund via Wal-Mart gift card when they pay off their layaway purchase. Walmart's Black Friday deals will start earlier than ever this year - 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Retailers are launching a layaway war to kick off the 2012 holiday shopping season.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Sears and Kmart have announced they will waive layaway fees in stores and online through Nov. 17, according to an Associated Press report. Both stores usually charge $5 for an eight-week layaway and $10 for 12 weeks. Kmart's move comes three days after Wal-Mart said it was lowering its holiday layaway program fee to $5 from $15. The Wal-Mart holiday layaway program starts Sept. 16 and runs through Dec. 14 and will include more items than last year. Shoppers will get a service charge refund via Wal-Mart gift card when they pay off their layaway purchase. Toys R Us Inc. is cutting an upfront service fee for layaway orders in store from Sept. 4 through Oct. 31. After Oct. 31, a $5 service fee will apply.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Sears Holdings Corp., the owner of Kmart, announced this week it will close 100 to 120 stores in 2012.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
In the wake of poor sales during the holiday season, Sears Holdings Corp. announced earlier this week that it will shut as many as 120 Kmart and Sears stores. The Lehigh Valley region has eight Kmart Stores, including one on Male Road in Wind Gap. There are Sears stores in the Northampton Crossings shopping center and Phillipsburg Mall. Sears and Kmart sales have fallen every year since the two chains merged in 2005 to form Sears Holdings, according to The Morning Call. This bad news comes on the heels of the heart-warming trend of anonymous benefactors stopping at local Kmarts and paying off the layaway balances for families with children. At the Easton Area Kmart, more than a dozen people went to the store to payoff strangers' layaway …
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