According to Reuters last week, HBC (and its governor, CEO and executive chairman, Richard Baker) is prepping to make a bid to acquire Kohl’s. Will they succeed? Probably. Should Kohl’s do all they can to repel such a deal? Absolutely! […]
What does Eddie \”fast buck\” Lampert have to do with this? Before I get to the significance of the title of this article and HBC\’s \”go private plan,\” I stated in an article way back in 2014 that Richard Baker
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It is finally happening: Sears is on the brink. I\’ve been predicting this from Eddie Lampert\’s Bezos-like \”day-one\” declaration that he was going to return Kmart and Sears, two iconic American brands, to their once storied greatness. By his own
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I find it hard to believe that “Fast Buck” Eddie actually believes that people in the retail industry and Wall Street actually believe that he is going to rescue the business of Sears. Yes Eddie, that pesky word “believe” is
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This article is not an attempt to match Edward Gibbon’s epic book, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, in quantity or quality, although its quantity might seem as intense. And it’s not another bashing of Eddie “the magician”
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Or does he? He’s fooled us before with his abracadabra – now you see it, now you don’t, flimflammery. And at Sears Holdings’ annual meeting last week, he once again waved his wand around and tried to convince all in
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I really thought I was done with beating on Eddie “Take the Money and Run” Lampert when I last wrote about his sinking ship, “Sears Titanic: SOS” on February 5, 2016. But no such luck. It’s worse than watching the
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What’s old is new again. It’s back to the future. Mobile phones are the new stores. These and many other metaphors reflect how the technology age is taking us back in time to century-old retail models. Living with technology on
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We know what. We know how. And we certainly know who. The only thing we don’t know is when. But sooner or later—and increasingly it’s sooner—Sears Holdings and its two operating retail divisions, Sears Roebuck and Kmart, will cease to
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Good Ship Goodwill to the Rescue I thought I had finally ended my coverage of Captain Lampert driving the Sears Titanic to the bottom of the briney deep. Well, think again. On its way to oblivion, Sears just keeps on
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