Kmart could come back stronger than ever, never underestimate the power of price in the discount world. It is Kmart's biggest advantage at the present. Bigger ebacks have happened. In 1962 Woolworth and S.S. Kresge were Goliaths and people would have laughed at Walmart becoming bigger than them. Walmart kept its head down and focused on the magic ingredient of the discount world: price. It kept going on for decades steadily building its position and now look at it. Kmart has every chance of one day regaining its crown of the discount world because when I look at the competition there is only one discounter who is tending to the magic discount ingredient of price and that's Kmart.
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OP, all I can say is God how pitiful. How desperate you must be.
@SHawnvK-kny The difference though is Walmart isn't a sleeping giant. Walmart has been growing and improving their stores Kmart/Sears biggest flaws were they were giants once upon a time and they did nothing to improve or innovate. They had tons of chances, but they just didn't invest in their own stores and tried to improve. Contrary they been doing dumb moves that are basically screwed themselfs. At this point their is to much debt and all Kmart/Sears can do is just buy time until Eddie closes its check book.
@kzr, Walmart is vulnerable in the same way that Kmart was in the 70s and 80s. Remember, Kmart was once the Goliath and Walmart beat bigger competitors on price so it can be done. Usually what happens is that the large number one chains start worrying more about margins and finding growth even when they have saturated the market as much as possible and as a result they aren't able to offer the same discounts as more nimble competitors who have more growth to get.
Much of retail pricing is dependent on volume i.e. the more you buy the better a price the vendor can give you. With Kmarts closing and sales dropping and customers abandoning the stores vendors cannot give a good a price as a Walmart. Simple retail economics. You sell more items at a lesser price or you sell a few items at higher prices.
Kmart was a Goliath, however, it is now a David. Soon it will be a David Jr. Considering its current Benjamin Button style trajectory, it will shortly cease to exist.