I know that at this point it's easy to say that it would have been better if things were done another way. I don’t want to sound pretentious, much less sentimental, but this article just pointed out that there were many different paths in which Sears could have survived. Our leaders chose the only one that led to the demise of Sears.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sanfordstein/2019/01/02/sears-the-path-not-taken/#2bf3c4b46b6b
The biggest single mistake was when Kmart bought Sears. Sears survived this long by s---ing km’s cash flow.
should have NEVER EVER merged with Kmart..
Kmart had a webpage on Prodigy... but Sears was a co-creator/co-owner of Prodigy, with IBM!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)
What might have been...
"Poorly written article with no substance"
This statement written by a poster using the name "Eddie Lampert"....whose plan for transformation of Sears was poorly written... poorly executed...with no substance.
The winners of the Internet wars ended up being the ones owning the infrastructure. That would've just been another money loser for Sears.
I was a user of kmarts free prodigy internet portal back when it meant something and saved me money. If only they would have expanded on that back in the day.
Poorly written article with no substance.