Layaway Gone Away

Some customers of Kmart were notified after they fully paid for the items they had on layaway that these were no longer in stock and unavailable!

Since that time 'Consumerist.com' reports, Some Cancellations Were “Inadvertent”.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that assumes once someone puts an item on layaway the store would take the item off the shelf and store it somewhere in the back. Why in the world would any store take the chance of spoiling someone's Christmas and ruin their reputation by leaving it out in the store allowing it to be sold to someone else?

Although this may not fall under the legal heading of bait and switch it certainly must seem like it to someone this happened to.

One In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush
For the life of me I never could understand this layaway thing. It makes a lot more sense to charge something and take it home then pay the charge card payments over a longer period of time then layaways require. The only thing I can think of is either they are maxed out or have such lousy credit they can't get one. If that's the case no one should be buying things they can't pay for.

In my opinion it takes two to tango and one seems as guilty as the other.

(1) The store for making promises it doesn't intend to keep.
(2) The customer who is much like this guy...