We should support Sears, and here's why

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This was sent to me from a ex-grand jury member (we were dismissed at the end of our term on June 24). I think it's worth sharing.
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Let's all shop at Sears!!!!!!

I assume you have all seen the reports about how Sears is treating its reservist employees who are called up? By law, they are required to hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people take a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being called up...Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years. I submit that Sears is an exemplary corporate citizen and should be recognized for its contribution.

Suggest we all shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement it well deserves.

Pass it on.
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So I decided to check it out before I sent it forward. I sent the following email to the Sears Customer Service Department:

I received this email and I would like to know if it is true. If it is, the Internet may have just become one very good source of advertisement for your store. I know I would go out of my way to buy products from Sears instead of another store for a like item even if it was cheaper at the other store.

Here is their answer to my email......................

Dear Customer:

Thank you for contacting Sears.

The information is factual. We appreciate your positive feedback. Sears regards service to our country as one of greatest sacrifices our young men and women can make. We are happy to do our part to lessen the burden they bear at this time.

Bill Thorn Sears Customer Care [email protected]
1-800-349-4358

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Please pass this on to all your friends, Sears needs to be recognized for this outstanding contribution and we need to show them as Americans, we do appreciate what they are doing for our military

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It is refreshing to hear that some companies care for their employees - even beyond the almighty buck!

Well, I for one am now planning my kids pictures at Sears!

Thanks for the info

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Hey, this is far out, and the advertising works for me. Keeping my fingers crossed, and hoping no one debunks it with Snopes, or something.

Wonder what Wally World does in a similar situation.

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http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.asp

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Claim: Sears pays the difference in salaries and maintains benefits for their called-up reservist employees.

Status: True.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]

You might want to check out the page, as there are links to :

Additional information:
Employers Make Extra Efforts in Support of Guard, Reserve Employees

List of companies who go beyond their legal responsibilities in supporting employees deployed as reservists

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roger - Walmart is one of the companies on the list of companies "going beyond their legal responsibilities in supporting employees deployed as reservists".

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Interesting... There is a current dispute in some of the towns here over this. Several towns dropped insurance for people (mostly police and fire fighters that were reservists) that were deployed because they found out the policies had a "war clause" so the people weren't actually covered by the policies and because they had insurance through the towns their military insurance was screwed up (by law any policy the military gives you is automatically a "secondary insurance" if you have any other policy in effect.).

I wonder if Sears or any of these other companies have run into this at all....

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Well, thanks, Beth. I do like something to feel good about, once in a while.

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That's odd, fishin. Usually the war exclusion is only applied when the war comes to you, not when you go to war. Must be some scary, cheap policies that were purchased to have the war exclusion apply when people are in active duty.

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ehBeth wrote:

That's odd, fishin. Usually the war exclusion is only applied when the war comes to you, not when you go to war. Must be some scary, cheap policies that were purchased to have the war exclusion apply when people are in active duty.

That has certainly not been my experience, ehBeth, and I've seen dozens of health policies in my career. War exclusions apply to any war, foreign or domestic. Active service personnel are not covered if they are injured or killed in combat, in part because those cases are already covered under government-issued health and death benefits.

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I've been working for, and around, insurance for 20+ years. We have always been taught that the war exclusion is to applied only if the war comes to where the policy-holder/claimant is.

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That's very nice to know.

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