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Lampert wants a judge to force China-based One World to accept letters of credit from Sears Acceptance Corporation as payment for tools, the suit in Cook County Circuit Court on May 15 indicates. One World is balking at that, because those letters might not be worth the paper they are printed on.
One World and other vendors are Lampert's latest scapegoats for Sears' problems. He went out of this way to attack them at Sears' shareholders meeting and in a May 10, Chicago Tribune interview.
"If you're a vendor, and want to do business with us, then you have to treat us like a customer, you don't treat us like a pariah," Lampert told Tribune reporter Lauren Zumbach. "I'll take an even playing field, I'll take an uneven playing field, but what I won't do is basically not even let us on the playing field or let the game be fixed by people exploiting a certain amount of uncertainty."
That statement sounds like the ravings of a paranoid; Lampert is attacking the vendors for demanding payment for their merchandise. How I wonder would he act if somebody walked into Sears with no money and demanded to be given goods on credit? That is what Eddie is demanding from his vendors.