When your highly touted test store is closed after just 7 months, what does that say about the prospects for any future for Sears?
An “eddy” as defined by the dictionary is “a current at variance with the main current, a small whirlpool … of air, dust or fog.”At least when it comes to Eddie Lampert and the continuing maelstrom that is the sad, sad saga of Sears.
He is the new owner of some 425 Sears and Kmart stores, some of which are also being closed in a regimen that may or may not be part of a bankruptcy filing by the company he used to run, which is also called Sears, although some of the wording is slightly different.Now comes the latest example of air, dust and fog currents—otherwise known as smoke and mirrors.
At about one-third the size of the previously existing Sears store, the Oakbrook unit had an odd assortment of merchandise, albeit in an updated, more contemporary setting. But its positioning in the mall was awkward, and with just barely half a year for shoppers to get used to what it was offering , it closed.hand-picked which stores he wanted to keep, this one was not included, sealing its fate as a lame duck location.
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