He’s baaaaaack!! Edward “Eddie” Lampert that is. Yes, once again the storied chief of Sears Holdings (SHLD) provided me, and therefore you, with yet another perspective on how or how not to run a retail business. Actually, when all is […]
[…] become “standard best practice.” And our leader, Robin Lewis got even more provocative, suggesting that Baker is following the Eddie Lampert’s Sears “playbook.” ” I will state my opinion right up front. I believe Richard Baker’s move to split the […]
[…] good friend and CEO of The Robin Report has already heaped on Sears and Eddie “the customer is always right” Lampert. While Robin gets caught up in all that strategic mumbo jumbo of his, and how “fast buck” Eddie is […]
[…] shop in its store in Westfield Hawthorne mall in Vernon Hills. While I would like to dig into CEO” Eddie” Lampert’s intentions, whether they be based on sound strategy or just a “Hail Mary” pass, or his pass to a […]
[…] was likely her default growth idea). I’m not trying to be coy about these moves. However, I have tracked Eddie Lampert’s financial engineering of Sears to its death over a period of about two decades. The past two decades at […]
[…] ‘N Gear uniform apparel shops and Whole Foods stores within their walls (I must check if this is a Mr. Lampert retail or “cash” strategy.) Through all this, the “Godfather strategy” begins to make sense. And, the potential synergies to […]
[…] been game-changing, but the learnings informed omnichannel strategies. Haven’t We Seen this Movie Before? In 2005, hedge fund prodigy Eddie Lampert inserted himself into retail by orchestrating the merger of K-Mart and Sears. Referred to as an “asset stripper,” he […]
[…] to fade into death. Many of them get propped up on life support along the way down. Eddie “fast buck” Lampert stuck Sears in an oxygen tank and managed it down for a quarter-century. The Gap started fading a couple […]
[…] to have to find magic somewhere else. We’ve Seen This Movie Need I refer, once again, to Eddie “fast buck” Lampert, the brilliant financier who managed the Kmart/Sears Titanic into the briny (while pocketing tons of cash); and Richard Baker, […]
[…] that magic act might be. However, whatever tricks they might come up with, they might be advised to call Eddie Lampert for some ideas (the infamous CEO who led the dismantling of Sears). Sorry, I digress. They will likely do […]
