The owners of the Kmart by the mall will turn the store into myGofer next year.
What’s a myGofer?
It’s a pilot concept hatched by Sears Holding Corp., owner of Kmart and Sears stores. The Joliet myGofer will be one of only two in the country, Sears Holding Corp. executives said Monday. They explained more to the Joliet City Council, which approved the concept for the Kmart near Westfield Louis Joliet mall.
It’s “a marriage between online shopping and brick and mortar,” the company’s creative director said.
It reverses the 80/20 percentage split between store floor and storage space, a top architect with the company said, giving most of the space to storage.
The Kmart store on Plainfield Road now open for Christmas shopping won’t be a Kmart anymore by next summer.
Concept of convenience
“We have embarked on a new concept,” said Steve Sunderland, vice president of concept renewal. Sunderland said Sears is on a mission to “redefine the retail landscape.”
Goodbye Kmart & hello myGofer - suburbanchicagonews.com
I was looking for the “Martha Stewart Mission Bungalow Buffet Table” on the Kmart web site. It was there three weeks ago and now there is no mention of it. I’m having a difficult time finding this item. Any information would be very helpful. Except for “Your out of luck”. Thank you for your time and effort in this matter.
Kmart Mygofer whatever they call that building the fact remains I refuse to step foot inside it. I haven’t stepped foot inside a Kmart building, no matter what the name is on the outside, since Memorial Day weekend of 1996. Let’s just hope they’ve learned since that day how to SAFELY layout a store and how to teach their employees that calling 911 isn’t something you scoff and refuse to do when someone falls due to badly placed garden center products resulting in both, yes both, feet being broken requiring emergency surgery. They made my mother wait for my father to come and take her to a hospital in a town we didn’t even live in making him inconvenience a friend whose son was getting married the very next day. I’m sorry but like Kmart Mygofer will not see a dollar of my money for as long as it exists.
umm, call 911 yourself if your love done is hurt?
dont you care about them?
Right on!
I work fo rkmart…..one day, a man fell….his wife asked us to cal 911
we did
he died, from the fall, due to his medical condition…
she sued the store for having hard floors!
she lost, of course
people do right, and they get yelled at
they do wrong, they get yelled at.
You need to spend your money at kmart and mygofer……
thank God he was there for other people to help him……what if he were home alone, then what?
I think you owe kmart man apology
YES!
it is about time swe fight back…people refusing to shop at a store…
what?
she is outraged?
ha ha
where is her out rage for domestic violence?
where is here outrage for child abuse?
where is here outrage for homeless people?
yet, she is outraged at a kmart?>
what about walmart..where it was proven they pay women less for the same job as a man..proven in a court of law
or
walmart.locking employees in stores overnite, not paying them their due wage..again, proven in a court of law
but I bet she shops at walmart
and last christmas, whe a man was killed at a walmart by a stampede….again, fault of walmart…..where is here outrage?
or is she in the store shopping?
I have mixed feelings about our local Kmart. It’s been newly, and nicely, redone AND it has brand new clean shopping carts, which I sincerely appreciate. But I can rarely find what I’m looking for, even if it’s a featured sale item, and even more rarely a salesclerk to help. And the shrill-voiced clerk on the loudspeaker gives me a headache; in between the repetitive calls about “go backs” and the shilling of pizza, the little pieces of music start to look like my mind coming apart, and I just bail out. Not your happy shopper experience.
I just tried mygofer, and that was its own sort of tribulation — but I’m not very tech savvy and get quickly frustrated. Eventually I was able to purchase what I couldn’t get at the store earlier today, and pay for it, so that with any luck I’ll be able to slide in to the customer service desk and just pick it up. Now that the acct is set up, it should go more smoothly in the future. Or, one can always hope so, anyway.
I think that the quality of the merchandise is reliably good enough at a price I am (mostly) willing to pay, which keeps me shopping there at least when I have a particular need, or there is a sale, despite the headaches etc. I may try the mygofer route, and see if that saves me some shopper wear-n-tear. But I really hope that my local Kmart does NOT go away.
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