[…] ‘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 […]
[…] my article and Q&A for how they intend to do so. Also in this issue, a revealing look at Eddie Lampert’s dubious strategy to transform Sears and Kmart for 21st Century survival; why Target and Amazon are locked in a […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] up maybe half of the stores. Getting first dibs by lowball financing is a tactic our old friend fast Eddie Lampert honed well at Kmart. Learn from the master. These guys will get their money out of this thing no […]
[…] your merchandise, which would promote your media, which would promote your merchandise. It’s not my fault that that putz Eddie Lampert came along and bought Kmart. He wouldn’t know the difference between a spatula and a spittoon. He thought he […]
[…] thing because it hadn’t made any money since the invention of the metric wrench. For a few minutes, Fast Eddie Lampert of Sears circled, threatening to buy Resto, seemingly to have it do for home what Lands End was supposed […]
[…] or Ms. Flattery Will Get You Nowhere, But Great Theater (and if I were writing about my favorite piñata, Eddie Lampert, I might have taken this person up on their suggestion). So what do you think of the departure of […]
[…] ago. While that Sears home repair unit is still in business – and still owned by real estate savant Eddie Lampert – without the gateway the physical stores provided, the business must be just a shadow of its former self. […]
[…] trading paper and looking at numbers all day. I think that’s when the likes of Bill Ackman, along with Eddie Lampert and many others, say to themselves, “if I’m smart enough to make all of this money, I can certainly […]
