We all know that Eddie’s talk about saving 50000 jobs as his primary motive to take over Sears was just a very well directed PR move in these crucial times and nothing else. This article paints a good picture of how absurd these claims really were and that saying 50k jobs was never even an option. The author of this article did the math and came to a conclusion that, when non-store workers are counted out, Sears would have to employ 90 workers in every store on the level of a 450 store footprint. That is far from possible.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenshoulberg/2019/01/21/saving-sears-jobs-the-new-math-according-to-eddie-lampert/#6ffc57cda3e0