Archived WSJ: How Sears Lost the American Shopper

[HRZone]

How Sears lost the American shopper

 

[SugarSugar]

How Sears lost the American shopper

I think Sears and Kmart was going bankrupt no matter what, Eddie just extended it's life a bit. His main investment was not the store but the land.

 

[balthrop]

not the store but the land

it is always the land. McDonald's makes more money from the land their stores(owner/operator) sit on than they do the hamburger they sell

 

[NKG]

Letting Bob Villa go was why Sears went sinking.