Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote in news:Yf2dnYKXGdBRcvLFnZ2dnUU7-
:

While all of what you have said plays a factor, the problem started 25
years ago and it was not related to pricing, competition, or product
quality.

Actually, it was directly attributable to those things. Back
in the day, Sears was the best catalog store (so much so that
the others, like Wards, are barely remembered). When they moved
to direct retail, they weren't the best - in fact, they were
pretty much indistinquishable from J C Penney, Macys, Dillards,
or any of the other hundred similar stores that are no longer
around. Being just like the other stores means they're getting
the same result. To survive they would have somehow had to be
better than the others, and they weren't.

Of course, having the albatros of K-Mart hanging around their
neck hasn't helped.

John