Sears Coupons and Promo Codes

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Third Party Store Ratings:
* 4.2/5.0 (Source: Google Seller Rating for Sears)

Third Party Services:
* Paypal: Accepted
* Shoprunner: Not accepted

Customer Service and Store Locations:
* Sears Store Locator
* Sears Customer Service
* Sears Shipping Information
* Sears Coupon Policy

Social Media:
* Sears Facebook page
* Sears Twitter profile

Sears Headquarters:
3333 Beverly Road.
Hoffman Estates, IL 60179

More about Sears

Sears, Roebuck & Company, more commonly known as Sears, is a leading retailer of general merchandise, tools, home appliances, clothing and automotive parts and services. Richard W. Sears founded R.W. Sears Watch Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1886. He was a railroad station agent who purchased an impressive shipment of watches which were unwanted by a local jeweler. He sold these watches at an impressive profit to other station agents, and then ordered more for resale.

From this he started his business selling watches through a mail order catalogue. He hired Alvah C. Roebuck to repair watches. In 1889 Sears sold his business, however a few years later, in 1893 Sears and Roebuck founded another mail-order operation, which came to be known as Sears, Roebuck and Company. In 1895, Julius Rosenwald, a wealthy clothing manufacturer, bought out Roebuck’s interest in the company and reorganized the mail-order business. At the same time Sears was creating the soon to be famous catalogues.

Sears and Roebuck and Company experienced extraordinary growth selling a range of products at low prices to farms and villages that did not have easy access to retail outlets. Thanks to the beginning of rural free delivery (1896) and of parcel post (1913) by the US Postal Service, this enabled Sears to ship merchandise to the most remote and isolated customers.

Rosenwald succeeded Sears as president of the company in 1909. Due to a slow growing population of rural areas and a far less spending power of this market base, Rosenwald made the decision to shift their focus to urban American and brought in Robert E. Wood to take charge.

A single retail store was opened as more of an experimental stage in Chicago in 1925. This experiment was an immediate success. He opened seven additional stores before the year was out. Sears expanded at a rapid rate. They grew to 192 stores in 1928, to 319 stores in 1929 and to 400 stores in 1933. Their merchandise also began to change due to their expansive growth and Sears buyers were able to develop exclusively different items to be sold under Sears brand names. This was the start for names we know today like Craftsman, Kenmore and DieHard.

In 1931 Sears retail store sales topped the mail-order sales for the first time. The stores accounted for 53.4% of the total sales with more than $180 million in sales. Despite the Great Depression, Sears continued to open stores during the 1930’s. Sears was not seriously challenged as America’s largest retailer until the 1980’s when K-Mart surpassed it in total sales and Wal-Mart eventually surpassed both of them.

Sears diversified in the 1980’s into businesses in real estate and financial services but by the early 1990’s they began selling these subsidiaries to concentrate on their retail operations. Today Sears has just under 700 retail stores across the US and their online store. They have all the merchandise of a department store along with appliances, tools, electronics, furniture, auto parts and tires, and the servicing of autos in their auto centers. They have very completive prices and great brand names. Sears has many sales and specials and for additional savings you can use Sears coupon codes on their website.