Master craftsman

master’s cats was due to frustration stemming from basic inequalities of necessities. Essentially, the workers notice that while the cats, along with the masters, lounge throughout the days, they are working exceedingly long hours with little to no respite. Moreover, the cats are passed morsels of food from the masters. Whereas, the workers live off of rotten scraps of food and struggle to eat enough nutrients to survive. Since the masters employ the journeymen and provide shelter some food, the workers cannot openly rebel against the bourgeois. Instead, they targeted the cats as a symbol of their mistreatment and seek put the cats on trial. Eighteenth century French society, along with ancient and twenty-first century societies, are accustomed to the symbolic nature of cats. Thus, the nature of…

physical locations, including both Sears stores and Kmart stores. Both divisions of Sears Holdings offer online shopping. Sears who began as a catalog business still offers a printed catalog. Sears Holdings markets a large variety of products at both Kmart and Sears. The expansive variety of products makes it difficult to determine the target market. In the early days of Sears, when it was a catalog business, their target market was adult, female, homemakers. Now, their target market is defined…

This memo is a communication strategy for Mr. Arthur Martinez, Chief Executive Office at Sears, Roebuck Company a plan of action dealing with the collection scandal. I Nekitta Cannon Vice President of Communication have been asked by the company to provide advice on the issue being addressed. Sears Roebuck Company known to many as Sears is an American department store chain founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in the late 1800s. Richard Sears published an 80-page mail-order…

A potential buyer for the Craftsman line would be Ace Hardware, due to their current strategic alliance. Black and Decker, another hardware company, has expressed interest in purchasing Craftsman. Selling these two assets would provide Sears with a much-needed source of income in the short term, enabling them to switch from a department store to an appliance store. Along with selling two of their best-known assets, Sears should also sell all of their automotive centers which would generate…

of the vision the founders had for Sears. The expansion from mail-order to retail stores, to the launch of Allstate Insurance and the development of the visionary ShopYourWay social shopping platform changed the industry. The name Sears has been known as forward-thinking and retail advancement for more than 100 years. Sears, Roebuck and Co. provides a diverse wealth of offerings and opportunities to customers, members and associates alike through: 1,300+ Sears-branded and affiliated stores in…

Sears Holding’s stock continued to decline from 2010 to 2015, during the time when the economy was rebounding from 2007/2008 market crash. Its share price declined from $68.21 on 9th Aug 2010 to $21.55 on 31th July 2015 while all of its industry peers have experienced significant growth. Following chart depicts the stock performance against its industry peers. Of the peers compared Macy’s gained almost 255% and Costco gained 145%. Wal-Mart also gained 38% growth. Sears on the other had is the…

major brands like Craftsman and Kenmore. Sears has made good investments and some investments that have not paid off so well. In 2004 Sears made one of the best deals that it could have made by purchasing Kmart after it went bankrupt. When the merger took place, Lambert rebranded Sears as Sears Holding. Sears Holding was valued at $11 billion and had 3,500 stores by February 2016 the company was valued at $1.6 billion a massive decline for such large corporation many experts agree that it is…

challenges Sears was facing. Sears was being operated in a way that all department managers were responsible for their own product line, they all were also responsible for the development and achievement of common purpose and goals and is headed by CEO. Lampert changed the structure into a Hybrid Structure (which is described as a structure made up of the characteristics of various structures in order to meet the organization strategy needs). He divided the organization into 30 units clustered…

the pieces aesthetically pleasing, functional, and to preserve intrinsic quality of the material. (Blakesley 2006). The design became whole and each piece and space was fabricated to be individualistic within an overall piece of art; the rugs, furniture, art glass, etc. The movement took off and became in demand, making it become a steady flow of income for architects and designers that were part of the movement (Todd 2004). As previously mentioned, materiality held a high Photo 1. Arts and…

The Time I Got Stitches The worst thing that’s happened to me in my life was the time I had to get stitches. It was the summer of 2012. The weather was warm, but the wind was blazing. My cousin and I, who happened to live next door to each other in our old apartments were playing volleyball in the middle of the street, while our family were in the house hanging out. The ball we used was not hard so it could move with the wind. There were another set of apartments which everyone called the…