Good Ship Goodwill to the Rescue I thought I had finally ended my coverage of Captain Lampert driving the Sears Titanic to the bottom of the briney deep. Well, think again. On its way to oblivion, Sears just keeps on […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] me. To provide context, at that time I had enormous misgivings about what was beginning to transpire with piratical Eddy Lampert, a substantial Sears Roebuck shareholder (which owned 51 percent of Sears Canada). As a courtesy, I agreed to meet […]
Question: What do Eddie Lampert and Richard Baker have in common? Answer: They have, are currently, or soon will be destroying everything they have had control over. Lampert singlehandedly killed nearly $50 billion in retail volume at Sears Roebuck, Kmart […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] in the U.S. by 2020, the math says: 200 a year. I think I need to pass along Eddie “abracadabra” Lampert’s middle nickname, now better placed as Yanai “abracadabra on steroids” Tadashi. With 341 stores now in China, which is […]
[…] much closer to the retail world, did you hear how the Sears and Kmart merger worked out? Eddie “Fast Buck” Lampert set the pace for the real-estater as retailer charade. Hey, there’s a wild card in all of this: Amazon. […]
Disclaimer: This is not another opinion piece trashing Fast Eddie – aka Eddie Money, Edward Moneyhands, Edward S. Lampert. Unlike a whole lot of other people, I get what he’s doing at Sears Holdings, which is making a lot of […]
