Can’t wait to see the Trump reaction.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sears-idUSKBN15Q0Q2
Major U.S. retailers Sears and Kmart this week removed 31 Trump Home items from their online product offerings to focus on more profitable items, a spokesman said on Saturday.
The decision follows retailer Nordstrom Inc’s announcement this week it had decided to stop carrying Ivanka Trump’s apparel because of declining sales, prompting President Donald Trump to take to Twitter to defend his daughter. White House spokesman Sean Spicer characterized the Nordstrom move as a “direct attack” on the president’s policies.
Neither Sears nor Kmart carried the Trump Home products in their retail stores, a Sears Holdings Corp spokesman said. Kmart is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings.
“As part of the company’s initiative to optimize its online product assortment, we constantly refine that assortment to focus on our most profitable items,” spokesman Brian Hanover said in a statement.
In Trump’s defense, Sears and Kmart are actually failing, though.
Yeah, they are failing, but they have attacked Trump depending on how one reads legalese. At this point, them removing Trump brand items could be seen in a number of ways, but they know the law enough to know how to publicly state why they’re doing it without incurring any lawsuits. This is the new way of doing business with the way the political landscape is reforming.
It all comes down to money no matter how anyone releases a statement.