Ho there. Know what we never get tired of? That retail-superhero crap that Best Buy did with Geek Squad and Dell tried doing with Nerd Buddy.
But that’s cool, because this is Sears, and you know they’re hurtin’ for imagination.
In defense of the Sears Blue Electronics Crew, we will say real-time price-checking is neat if it works the way it does in the ad, and we dig how research-intensive purchases, like a new TV, are made to look like a rest-easy impulse-buy process.
The slogan is equally brief: “Sears: Life. Well Spent.”
These are the parts we like. The parts we don’t: it’s derivative, as usual; the piece is too long; and we feel like they tossed in Brett Farve because a celebrity face will ensure at least some campaign love. Also, did they even do the price comparison before Farve OK’ed the buy?
Nice tie-in with the “waffle” joke though. High-five for that, Y&R/Chicago.
Aaaand, outtakes:
