Posted on 10/15/2018 4:31:14 AM PDT by DCBryan1
My old pump shotgun is nestled in my safe next to an original 1873 winchester(circa 1882) a Garand, a us property 1911, a Trapdoor Springfield, a 1899 US Krag and a whole bunch of other rifles, shotguns and pistols.
But when I want to break clay or bust pheasants I take out the Sears model 200.
You are spot on. Too many stories to relate, but one experience in general comes to mind. A number of years ago I had a Sears Auto shop replace a car battery for me. When I got home I found the battery was securely affixed to the battery box with... string.
I believe Craftsman was sold to Black and Decker or Stanley a while ago now, the haven’t been an exclusive of Sears for years now
Lampert should have stepped down right after the failure of the Sears-K-Mart merger. He has continually sold off Sears assets, to himself, leaving a highly leveraged shell. All while he NEVER had any true vision of how to reboot Sears into the current century. When he joined, Sears had the assets and the revenue to alter course and not be left in the dust by Amazon and Walmart. Lampert NEVER saw or knew how do to that.
CEO Eddie Lampert’s networth $1 Billion. Guess he got his and everyone else got the shaft.
His B.A. in economics from Yale certainly failed for Sears.
[The middle management also blocked every good idea from the bottom. ... My IT team lead had extremely good ideas.]
Sounds pretty much like my experience in a small Kansas town. Very similar.
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Amazon believes they.have reinvented the American consumer. They don’t know they’re just Sears redux. And they’re getting into bricks and mortar.
In my view in addition to the stories of mismanagement it was the $3 billion in pensions that could have been diverted to retail initiatives that did them in
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