*I should have put down the caveat I had in mind on that ch 22 prediction. It was based on EL doing exactly what he said he intends to do with the new Sears stores...which was to scale them down in size and focus on appliances, tools, exercise equipment, mattresses and its home services business.
The Sears in my area is one of the stores that survived and it has always been a much smaller single story version of most Sears stores which is what EL plans to do with the other stores. Ours had no clothes.. just appliances, tools, exercise equipment, mattresses and an auto center. You can go in there any day of the week..park on the front row cause there are no other cars, walk in and you might see 3 other people in the whole store...thats it! Now if that store made the keeper list I'd hate to see the ones that didnt. Kenmore appliances in our store are 30% higher priced than top brands at Lowes or Home Depot. If you like Craftsman tools, and many guys do, you can get them at Lowes. Was the demise of Sears purposely done to set this whole take-over thing in motion?? One could argue yes it certainly looks that way. In summation if EL's only goal is to compete with Lowes and Home Depot and nothing more then I say this is headed to ch 22 in 8 years or less.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe.. and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~ Blaise Pascal
