Sears and K-Mart are going to be merging. The only reasonable thing to call the combined entity? Has to be "S-Mart."
Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart.
I wonder if Bruce Campbell has gotten the call to be the new spokesman.
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Posted by Peter David at November 17, 2004 01:12 PM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingYup, that's a good one.
I can't help wondering where K-Mart, that filed for bankruptcy about three years ago, came up with $11 billion to buy Sears, though...
Paul
I wonder if Assaulted by the Evil Dead will be incoperated into the Medical Package?
That means the Evil Dead Trilogy took place in the future. That explains everything. My life is complete now.
Evan
back after too long an absence
Evan wrote...
That means the Evil Dead Trilogy took place in the future.
Including Army of Darkness?
Including Army of Darkness?
Well I guess that took place in the past, but the past of the future would be the present right? Oh great, now I've confused myself.
S-Mart - first thing I thought of also.
Anyone want to place odds on The Daily Show (or some other late night talk show) showing this?
Evan wrote...
Well I guess that took place in the past, but the past of the future would be the present right?
Let's not forget the ending of the Director's Cut, which takes place in the future's future!
Not sure exactly how much cash is going to be exchaged. A K-mart Really Important Person is also a chief shareholder of Sears...it sounds more like a buddy buddy merger than anything.
Sure, but will the sporting goods department have a 12-gauge, double-barreled shotgun, made in Grand Rapids, Michigan that retails for about 199.95 and has a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger?
Ya got that?
Oddly enough, there is already a chain of stores called S-Mart.
What's really scary about this is that this is precisely what I thought when I read about the merger this morning.
Which either means I'm thinking like Peter, I've seen too many Evil Dead movies, or - and this is the real scary part - Peter thinks like me.
(If it's the latter, then Peter and I will be expecting big sales in the shotgun and chainsaw departments.)
RLR
Does this mean Bruce Campbell will be the new spokesperson for this chain of stores with commercials directed by Sam Raimi??????
It would be nice to see the Bruce Campbell commercials, but I doubt that Sam Raimi has the time with Spiderman 3 coming down the tube.
Regards:
Warren S. Jones III
Is it just me or are Evil Dead references simply timeless.
Having not seen the Evil Dead movies (meant to, just haven't), S-Mart sounds like, well, Ass Mart.
Granted, people may be calling it that anyway...
Of all the many timeless "Evil Dead" comments, "Shop smart -- shop S-Mart!" will forever remain the MOST timeless. (Oxymoronic, I know. Stop playing the pedant!) That's what I had Bruce Campbell sign in my copy of "If Chins Could Kill" when I was lucky enough to meet him.
I work as a TV news promoter... when that story came up as part of the news of the day during our daily meeting, myself and one of the show producers riffed off each other, completely deadpan: "They should call it 'S-Mart.'" "Yeah-- 'Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.'"
We got big laughs, but I doubt anyone else in the meeting got the reference. It's disturbing how many people are having the same thought....
-tOjb