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Sears Canada
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Sears Canada is the largest full-line department store in the country. Sears Canada was pressed to continue delivering significant revenue and earnings growth. The company had a strong core application architecture, but had been saddled with legacy systems that were increasingly difficult to maintain, inflexible in supporting data reporting needs, and underdeveloped in the area of merchandising analytics. Accenture helped Sears Canada leverage technology to better align resource allocation with performance, resulting in increased sales. Accenture helped optimize retail floor space decisions at the department and line level. This included communication between the buying teams and the stores, and the development of tools for retail marketing managers to analyze space change decisions.
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TORONTO, Jan. 25 /CNW/ - Sears Canada is issuing a recall for the Kenmore(R) 6.5-quart slow cooker due to a safety hazard. It has been discovered that the heating element on the cooker may become dislodged, which may cause the base to overheat and melt. The affected product was sold at Sears Canada retail stores as well as through the Sears Canada catalogue between December 2003 and December 2006, with a selling price between $55.99-$79.99. The model is SLK-40 with date codes: 1103, 4083 and 4112. Model number and date code are located on the under-side of the cooker. The corresponding Sears item number is 80068 and may be found on your receipt of sale.
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With its Sun virtualization solution, Sears Canada has reduced batch processing time by up to 85 percent, eliminating lost revenues resulting from morning overruns. The solution ... slashed cartridge media consumption by 75 percent to save 200,000 USD annually. Dynamic allocation has eliminated the guesswork that led to over-allocation of disk capacity, enabling Sears to lower IT expenditures by deferring the purchase of additional capacity. In addition, the virtual volumes have freed up badly needed floor space. The data compression capabilities of the VSM and the V960 systems have reduced the number of tapes from thousands to hundreds and liberated 9,600 CPU minutes per year. In fact, the IT team was able to delay processor purchases and apply CPU minutes to high-value activities.
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In its first full year of operations in 1953, Sears Canada had sales of approximately $100 million. Today, Sears Canada Inc. is a $6 billion company with a national presence throughout Canada. There is a Sears location within a 10-minute drive of 93% of Canadians. Sears is dedicated to providing consumers with a diverse array of shopping options, quality merchandise and exceptional service coast to coast through its:
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Sears Canada's bilingual website, www.sears.ca, debuted online in 1996, making Sears one of the country's first retailers with an Internet presence. By late 1998, the site reached 500,000 visits. Today, sears.ca receives over 30 million visits annually. Sears.ca offers well over 100,000 items available for sale and ships orders free to over 2,200 merchandise pick-up locations across Canada.
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In 1995, Sears Canada opened Sears Whole Home furniture stores located in power centres, and renamed them Sears Furniture and Appliances stores in 1999, to reflect the addition of major appliances. In 2003, Sears Canada again renamed their Furniture and Appliances store to Sears Home stores. This change was intended to reflect their broader appeal for customers seeking a one stop experience for re-making their home decor. The stores' product line was expanded to include Home Installed Products and Services such as floor coverings, customer drapery, and other installed home related products in many locations.
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