Lands End

goldensrbest · ‎03-10-2010

What is going to happen to this line ,now that sears is going under? They have some good sales going on.

When you lose some one you L~O~V~E, that Memory of them, becomes a TREASURE.

Krimpette · ‎03-09-2010

The Sears store in my area is still going strong. I'm sure the Land's End line is a good reason why.

CAMOGIRL · ‎09-14-2010

Probably nothing.

I shop Land’s End online, nothing to do with Sears.

i receive their catalogs and emails also. I don’t think they Sears to survive. The Sears stores that I ever did happen to go in and see what they had in this line had next to nothing compared to what was actually available thru catalog/phone orders or online orders anyhow.

At least I hope nothing happens. I buy several things from there.

-Texas Hill Country-

goldensrbest · ‎03-10-2010

Our lands end here ,is inside the sears store,it is closing.

When you lose some one you L~O~V~E, that Memory of them, becomes a TREASURE.

geezerette · ‎03-16-2010

Here is an article from Fortune dated January 9, 2018:

Add Lands’ End (LE, +2.00%)CEO Jerome Griffith to the list of people not banking on Sears’ future.

The clothing maker, best known for its kids’ uniforms and outdoor clothing, plans to open as many as 60 of its own stores in the next five years, up from a current count of about 14 globally, to reduce its reliance on Sears (SHLD, +0.00%), its one-time sister company whose sales are in free fall.

As of now, Lands’ End has shops at 180 Sears stores, down from 227 two years ago, and Griffith is not holding his breath for things to get better there,

“It’s our expectation that our Sears business at a point in time will go away and that we’ll be talking directly to the consumer through our own stores,” Griffith said on Monday at the ICR investor conference. Online sales and direct sales represent the lion’s share of Lands’ End total revenue but retail remains a key source of business.

Sears Holdings (SHLD, +0.00%), which bought Lands’ End in 2002 for about $2 billion and then spun it off in 2014 as part of the bid to raise much needed cash, last week announced the closing of 103Sears and Kmart stores, and last year admitted in its annual report that many had doubts about its future viability. Comparable sales declines have grown worse of late.

The trickle-down effect on Lands’ End has been brutal: revenues fell in each of its last five full fiscal years though Wall Street expects sales to tick up slightly to $1.36 billion in the fiscal year ending later this months. And Griffith laid out his plan for Lands’ End to get up to between $1.8 billion and $2 billion within five years.

Before becoming part of Sears, a deal that at the time promised to vastly expand Lands’ End distribution, the company was innovative. “That kind of went away during the ownership of Sears,” he said but noted Lands’ End can be a pioneer again. He touted its recent partnership with the Weather Channel, whose meteorologists are clad in Lands’ End gear, as well as a new contract with Delta (DAL, -0.02%) to which it is providing uniforms.

Griffith, who took the reins last year after his predecessor’s attempts to take Lands’ End more upscale bombed, makes it clear the company will takes it fate in its own hands.

“We will not be relying on Sears in the future for growth fur us,” he said. “We’ll be relying on ourselves.”

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

I'm hoping not all that much because no Sears I've ever shopped had what I felt was the best of Lands End - too much looked to me like other companies' made-for-the-outlet quality.

I gave up looking for clothing at Sears a few years ago, but I will miss their Kenmore line. So few other appliance lines include the smaller models we who live small need - designers seem to think we need huge or too small. neither of which work in the spaces I live in.

GSPgirl · ‎01-03-2012

I was told at my local mall, about 4 years ago, that we were getting a stand alone Lands End store. That never happened.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

My local Sears store sells Lands End, but they do not offer petite sizes there. I go into the store to order from the catalog so I will not be charged shipping fees and also to return something so I don't have to pay shipping fees again.

If Sears closes, I will still buy from Lands End as I do now, but I will probably have to start paying for shipping.