Attention K-Mart Shoppers…
When things feel like they are shifting, do you wait for announcements or do you look around and pay attention to circumstances?
Now more than ever people need to be paying attention to the world around them. As I am fond of saying, gold watch makers are going out of business because gold is at record prices AND nobody is going to be with a company 25 years to get the proverbial watch.
Today Sears, a pillar of the American business community if there ever was one, broke up the spreading of holiday cheer to announce 120 store closings. The 125 year old retailer (that spans 6 generations of Americans, if you are counting) said 79 stores will be closed very quickly and 40 to 80 employees will be laid off at each one.
Sears Holding Corp still operates 3,560 stores, but that’s not the point. Slowly but surely Target, Costco, Walmart and its kid brother Sam’s Club are kicking Sears and K-Mart’s tail ends in the war for middle and lower class consumers. It is plain to anyone who is paying attention.
Do you wait for the announcement “Attention K-Mart employees” or do you start to take action now and have career options? Go get a pad of paper and a folder and start making your plan now. If you were told today that you had 60 days to find a job, what would you do? Who would you call? Where would you look? Maybe start now.
Enough said.
