Sears weekly sales fall victim to the same 'gamification' scheme that a lot of retailers suffer from. Trying to promote all the sales they are having while also secretly excluding merchandise from sales and intentionally overpricing their merchandise.

Sears still has a lot of quality clothing and linens (I still shop there), but all the electronics, hardware, appliances, automotive, and other merchandise drags the store down. The executives should have decided long ago to focus on fewer markets.

I think the main reason why other retailers survived and Sears did not is because Sears tried to sell TOO MANY different kinds of things and didn't do any of them better than other retailers.