Is Sears down to its last 24 hours?

[t206]

Originally Posted by GotHereQuickAsICould

So Amazon using Whole Foods as a distribution center is an example of physical retail as opposed to online?

See my original quote...

Originally Posted by t206

Yup, and look for the trend now to be these companies buying up the real estate of these failing companies. Amazon is planning on building many more Whole Foods stores, not because there is a huge demand for the groceries, but because it gives Amazon a distribution and pick-up footprint so they can better compete with Target, Walmart, and other brick and mortar stores. I'm sure that if places like Sears fail, those existing stores will become appealing to other online-only, or majority online retail companies. The pendulum always swings back and forth, looks like in retail the pendulum is about to take a swing back.

[BeerGeek40]

Two words:

Dead

Money

[CaliforniaPlaya]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

One day they are dead and the next they are saved. Just get it over with.

So true, but at this point, I don't understand Lampert's reason for trying to save the company. Previously yes, trying to get as much $$$ out as he can. But now for $5.2 billion, what's in it for him or his investment company? If he is that concerned about saving the company, he is a decade or more late. Sears hasn't made money in many years and would probably need a series of miracles to be turned around. Even if his interest is only in the real estate, could he possibly ever see a return on that huge investment?