Since HD offers customers rental trucks, why can't Sears offer similar cargo vehicles, ramps and dollies. Especially at strategically located, tax-free stores with auto centers for the maintenance?
HD rents trucks because they sell lots of merchandise that requires trucks, like landscaping materials, lumber, pipe, etc. in addition to appliances and tractors. Sears (except for Essentials and, maybe, the Appliance & Hardware stores) doesn't sell any of that. With appliance and tractor orders so easy to just deliver, it wouldn't make sense. Not to mention, I think it would be seen as abetting tax evasion by only offering it at the border stores like Pheasant Lane, and that's not a road any company is likely to want to go down. To avoid it, Sears would have to rent trucks at all locations, which then would make it rather difficult, as most stores are at malls, and Sears doesn't own the parking lots. I mean, it would be cool, and it would keep me from using the HD trucks on the extremely rare occasions that I need them, but I doubt there's adequate demand to justify investing in such a service.
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