It could be that Sears leadership honestly tried to operate the company for the future, but just made a horrible mess of it. The evidence, though, suggests a more insidious path.
If your strategy is to harvest to death, you cannot let the public know about it. You must appear to operate the business for success, while extracting and disposing behind the scenes. Consumers, suppliers and shareowners aren’t going to be supportive if it’s obvious your plan is corporate euthanasia
I left the company in 2013 and I knew this was going to go down. It blows my mind it wasn’t obvious to everyone who had access to the sales flash. Meaning basically everyone.
This dog and pony show is over folks. Move along please. Nothing is left but bones.
A big "DUH" is in order here. This is what I have been saying for a long time yet id--ts still want to believe that the company wants to keep business going forever, which of course it isn't true. As it is stated here, they are just putting on a show for awhile to fool the people until they wish to pull the plug (which can happen at anytime and probably soon.)