Official Sears Clearance Thread II - post Sears finds/deals here
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YellowGameboyColor
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What is all this ipad talk?! I didn't actually see how the guy rang up my Kirby game but he told me it was $50. Maybe I'll try again next time and ask them to scan it on the register.
Instead of using the cash register like in other departments, they have some iPads with a scanner attached on the side and a credit card reader on another side and use that instead of the register to ring up the item. They don't use the cash register at all when using the iPad.
Regarding the iPad/iPhone stuff: I avoid it at all costs. Having it rung up through them complicates the transaction for absolutely no reason.
Not to mention price discrepancies. (There's a Band Hero kit at a Sears somewhat near me that rings up with about a $50 difference between the iPad and the actual register)
Whoever the moron was in corporate that decided to buy the iPads/iPhones to force them to use should be fired. (they are also opening new "appliance showrooms" while still in financial trouble :/ )
Not to mention price discrepancies. (There's a Band Hero kit at a Sears somewhat near me that rings up with about a $50 difference between the iPad and the actual register)
Whoever the moron was in corporate that decided to buy the iPads/iPhones to force them to use should be fired. (they are also opening new "appliance showrooms" while still in financial trouble :/ )
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I remember when i got the 3ds case that was $4.97. The even check using the scanner. When I was checking out, the employee try using the ipad and it came up $49.99. He said that they were trying stop using cash wraps and that all transactions are being done on the ipad. They will have one area to do returns and accept cash. That sounds like a p.i.t.a.
I am guessing consumer laws will apply here, they can't be running 2 systems like this legally. If an item is a price, then if it rings up a different price on a different system then that is just wrong in so many ways. So now being rung up on the iPad is costing me more money... to the tune of a lot more money in some cases!!! I actually feel like reporting this to my local news stations, since its obvious a lot of people are getting ripped off here. I only pay in cash so I guess my money will not be good enough for Sears soon. Electronic cards are insecure as we have seen so many times and they just come riddled with fees which cost me more money. The only way I would use electronic scanners in a store would be if someone handed me one when I walked in the door and I could go through the store and scan everything I was buying and put it into my cart, then be rung up quickly at the end.
Also iPad's do not last forever, the batteries will eventually become not usable. I have apple devices and my stuff loses battery life after just one year of use. So they will probably have to get new iPad's or new batteries every 2-3 years unless they plug them in somehow. A poor investment in every way.
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The Punisher
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What i dont like is when i found a a pny micro 8gb sd card with a tag of $6.97, but when using the scanner, it came up $3.97. I tried to show and explain to the employee that the scanner stated if a item is price incorrectly and lower then $5, then its free. Of course they did not honor it, but the manager did honor the scanner price. SaraAB! It's been awhile. Always enjoy reading your post and feedback!
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more like- "wait...there is a sign that says if it scans less than 5 bucks its free?
wut
your sig is obnoxious and unintelligible and should be removed.
on topic, I waited for 35 minutes while a guy used the ipad to scan 3 games. 3, as in the single digit number Three (3). And they all came up 49.99. So if you see an ipad come out, save time and money and tell them you would like it scanned from the register.
can't believe people are still finding stuff on clearance
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YellowGameboyColor
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iMJets
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I do to, but you i would prefer it, just encase I don't have space on my storage. To cheap to pass up.
You do have a point, I have $5 in surprise points too, I guess if I ever see a copy I'll grab it.
mask.air.raid
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If I get $5 for jewelry, does it still work for something else? I added the $10 in points for $50 to my account, so it would be awesome.
The Lone Wanderer
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It was funny because they tried to ring me up for for the 3DS case on the iPad. It wasn't really working lol, so they switched it to the actual machine, I wonder if it would had rung up at 49.99.
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Some of the big box 3ds systems were down to $99.97 but they are likely out of the system or sold out at most stores now. I had a red system on my UPC sheet since I was hoping it would eventually drop to under $50 but it has been scanning as out of the system for a few months (and its not in stock near me anymore)
They really do have this sign, they do not honor it though (NY state definitely wouldn't like that). Its also on the self scanners when you first walk up to them, read that screen, if you can find a scanner that is working there should be a few in each store.
I think the policy is if the item rings up in the register for more than what the tag says, you get $5 off the item. If the item is under $5 then it is free. Something like that, don't quote me on this, might not be the actual policy.
I reported the problem to The consumerist, I didn't know where else to report it. It also seem to only affect clearance items. Also if the item you are buying is tagged, then they have to honor the tag. It would be interesting if someone bought clothes or another item that was just a regular sale item and they were charged full price because they were rung up on the iPad.
If they move to all iPad's on this current system everyone who shops at Sears is going to be paying a lot more for everything.
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YellowGameboyColor
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So do I have to ask for them to ring up stuff on the register? I want Kirby Return to Dreamland dammit!!!!
gbrlhrnndz
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It might ring up on clearance couldn't hurt to try, I got two of them for $10 from sears.
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The self scanners are in the same system as the registers, so it would come up $49.99 there as well.
Stanley the Bugman
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How?
Laziness, poor communication between team members (particularly the management team), not enough payroll hours, theft, product misplaced/mis-stocked, items buried in stock room that were never processed correctly/timely, carelessness... And those are just the possibilities that come immediately to mind.
I don't know how many returns/counts I'd done where I had to go back later in the week because inventory appeared out of "nowhere."
Stanley the Bugman
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My store (not a Sears, btw) "lost" 9 Playstation 1's @ $200 each for a while. I was running the night shift at the time when we (myself or one of my team members) discovered that 3 boxes of Matchbox Jurassic Park playsets had a warehouse label that identified them as Playstation systems (packaged 3 to a case). At the distribution center someone had either stocked them wrong or the picker made a mistake. Either way the warehouse didn't catch the mistake* and shipped the wrong item. Because our exceptions had to be entered via the register system and because our registers were off-line at night, I left a note for the day shift alerting them to the error.
Fast forward two months. I'm working the day shift when a customer asks to purchase a Playstation. Lo and behold, no Playstations in stock. An associate says we haven't had any for a few weeks. Check the exception reports and sure enough, the irregularity was never entered. The ordering system didn't auto fill an order for them because it thought that we had 9 in stock and that customers just didn't want any in our store. Once I corrected the entered the correction our stock was immediately filled. So those 3DS units might not be physically "missing."
*Warehouse pickers are typically given a shelf/bin location to pull from. They generally don't have time to match items and for the most part don't care what's in the boxes. All they care is that it's a box from the location that they were told to go to. There are more numerous ways that this mis-pick could have occurred than I care to type.
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I worked as a warehouse picker for a big-box retailer (not Sears, though), and the job is as you described. Emphasis is placed first on meeting a certain benchmark for orders filled per hour, and second on how accurate the pickers are. This is because to determine how accurate the pickers are, boxes must be taken from the line and audited... which costs time and money. Unforunately what that does is put the pressure on the stores to catch the mis-pick once they receive the order... and as described above, that doesn't always happen either.
I was a stickler for accuracy; during the few weeks or so (that's all!) that a more frequent auditing system was used, I and one other picker (out of about 30) were the only ones with a 100% accuracy rate. We both also made the cut of minimum picks per hour. Meanwhile, the picker I'll call "Speed Racer" (who prided himself on filling orders the fastest) had an accuracy rate of less than 80%. When you're picking 1000 or 2000 items per shift, that's 200 to 400 mis-picks. Maybe I should call him "Meth Racer."
Guess who got off easy and was strutting around like he owned the
ing place? What an asshole. 
Not surprised that Sears is such a mess with its neglected clearance pricing and inept stock auditing.
Cut costs too far and quality suffers, no matter *what* business you are in.
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The Lone Wanderer
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Feels like such a hassle lol.I worked as a warehouse picker for a big-box retailer (not Sears, though), and the job is as you described. Emphasis is placed first on meeting a certain benchmark for orders filled per hour, and second on how accurate the pickers are. This is because to determine how accurate the pickers are, boxes must be taken from the line and audited... which costs time and money. Unforunately what that does is put the pressure on the stores to catch the mis-pick once they receive the order... and as described above, that doesn't always happen either.
I was a stickler for accuracy; during the few weeks or so (that's all!) that a more frequent auditing system was used, I and one other picker (out of about 30) were the only ones with a 100% accuracy rate. We both also made the cut of minimum picks per hour. Meanwhile, the picker I'll call "Speed Racer" (who prided himself on filling orders the fastest) had an accuracy rate of less than 80%. When you're picking 1000 or 2000 items per shift, that's 200 to 400 mis-picks. Maybe I should call him "Meth Racer."
Guess who got off easy and was strutting around like he owned the
Not surprised that Sears is such a mess with its neglected clearance pricing and inept stock auditing.
Cut costs too far and quality suffers, no matter *what* business you are in.
YellowGameboyColor
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Found a 3ds case that is up for trade if anyone wants it, otherwise i'll just return it or put it up on the ebays
I don't think that is possible.
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The Sears on Thomas and 44th St. in Phoenix has started their store closing sale over the weekend. Games are 20% off the lowest ticketed price, consoles are 10%, though most all the consoles (except for one 3DS XL) are already gone. They still have tons of accessories left (which I didn't check the percentage off), would be worth if for the Vita memory cards and DS3 when the discount increases.
I know this is more of a local deal tip, but I don't think it is worth making it's own thread in the regional forums. It was the busiest I've seen that Sears in a long time.
I know this is more of a local deal tip, but I don't think it is worth making it's own thread in the regional forums. It was the busiest I've seen that Sears in a long time.
Stanley the Bugman
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If it makes you feel any better, your experience is not completely universal. The warehouses I've been in have stressed accuracy over speed, even when marginally so. (One of them was/is a big box store.) In fact the last warehouse I was in offered monthly prizes to the associates with the most items picked but were disqualified if they made more than 2 errors during that time.
As you can attest, pickers typically don't care what the product is and many cases aren't marked. To the picker, it's just another box. The equipment tells you to get a box from Location A, and if there's a box at Location A, that's the one you grab. Some systems involve placing a product sticker with bar code on the box to prevent the wrong item from being picked,so the error in this case may have occurred when the box was received at the facility instead.
In case anyone cares/is interested in how it works behind the scenes: I've worked in two facilities supplying the same industry. In the first (Warehouse A) the pallets were brought in and were scanned into the computer system. Then they were placed in specific locations (shelf spaces for those following along). So let's say that a case of Thingamajigs comes in. The stocking crewmember enters the information into a handheld unit and the unit tells him/her that there's an empty space for this product in Aisle 4, Shelf B, Slot 2 (4B2). The stocker places the case in 4B2. Perhaps the stocker places it in the wrong place by mistake. When a pickercrewmember gets in, they receive a stack of labels. Each label has a bar code and a location. The stocker takes the label that says 4B2, goes to that location and places it on the box on 4B2 then scans the label which tells the computer that the product has been taken out of the warehouse inventory. He/she then takes the box and brings it (and others) to a staging area to be loaded onto a truck. In this scenerio, if either the stocker or the picker went to the wrong location, the wrong item has been shipped.
In Warehouse B, the products are labeled when the arrived. This requires the stocker to place the label on the product when it's placed on the shelf and the picker is instead told by a handheld unit which location to pull from. Now when the picker goes to 4B2, he scans the bar code on the sticker which already on the box. If the picker has gone to the wrong place, he/she is alerted by the system that he/she is about to grab the wrong item. Once the correct label is scanned, the picker adds it to his/her cart and continues on. In this scenerio, the wrong item is pulled only if the stocker has attached the wrong label to the box. Guess which warehouse had the lower error rate.
Hey guys, I'm new and I need some advice. I went yesterday to a Sears pretty far away that had almost no games. But they did have something good. A big box 3DS and a Super Mario 3D Land. Both rang out of the system. The manager wouldn't let me haveit for a clearance price. He said the 3DS was $75 and the Mario was $15. I want it for cheaper than that, but I bought it since I thought someone might get it if I didn't and I didn't want to spend the gas to go back some other day. How should I return and rebuy the items to get them for a good clearance price? Thanks for your help.
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why would you wanna get a lower prices when that is cheaper combine then they were selling the big box for? man i bet your the kinda guy who watches porn in reverse to watch the hooker give back the money.
be happy with what you got man
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Here's a future heads up to those people that have Sears which still sell video game consoles. At my local Sears, I saw three video game consoles (an original black WIi U, a 500 GB Assassin's Creed PS3, and a Xbox 360 w/KInect) on the clearance shelf. Since clearance tags were almost list price, I asked the salesperson what the deal was. He indicated that the consoles were marked down a penny. Not sure when the next price drop is, but I'm hoping the prices will drop fast.
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I saw the 360s and an original black Wii U, but didn't ask about the price. They seemed out of place so I should have had them scanned. I did pick up 3
Uncharted Golden Abyss for $4.93 each. They rang up $9.97 and needed an override.Well, this is certainly the most inane, ridiculous, and unreasonable post I've ever seen. Last I checked, *looks at the top of screen* the site is called Cheap Ass Gamer. If I can get the item for $40 or $50, why should I pay $76? Am I wrong?why would you wanna get a lower prices when that is cheaper combine then they were selling the big box for? man i bet your the kinda guy who watches porn in reverse to watch the hooker give back the money.
be happy with what you got man
I think what he was saying is that price is pretty darn good to begin with and the odds of you successfully getting it lower are probably not good. It's out of the system so it's going to be at the manager's discretion to give it to you lower. You also already bought it proving that you're willing to pay that price so why should they go lower and hurt their numbers? You can always ask but don't expect it.
cowthe2000
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The only thing I found wasn't that good:
Nintendo Land $59.99 $39.99
Nintendo Land 
crazedracerguy
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Yes, by all means waste $20 of gas to go back and try to get another $10 off of a 3DS that you got for FAR lower than MSRP already. Come on. Think about it. Does that make ANY sense at all? You can bet it's not going to sit on the shelf for $75. The next person that comes in and asks about it is gonna buy it if you return it (and you just wasted the gas for 2 trips for nothing)...
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I think what you are trying to ask is for advice on how to return and rebuy at another Sears that has a better clearance price in their system? Two things I would say about that:
1) I don't think I saw any Sears around me have a better clearance price than $75 for the big box 3DS, and I'd imagine this is true nationwide. $75 is a pretty good price, I'd say that is still very CAG worthy regardless.
2) If for some luck you find a local Sears that still has that UPC in their system at a better price, I do not think you would have much success either way doing the return and rebuy, and wouldn't be worth the risk in suspicion raised. I've heard the old "I want to use a different payment method" excuse may work, but that would be at both the discretion of the employee doing the return / rebuy, and the store manager if they will allow it.
Not saying it won't work, but I'd save the gas and the time and just be happy with the prices you've paid.
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It hit or miss a lot sears don't even have a video game section no more they gutted most of them back in 2012 and each store does there own pricing one store could be $20 then 5 miles then the road $3 then 2 miles down the road $50 for same title
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