On 5/21/2017 9:07 PM, J. Clarke wrote:


If Stanley decides not to do anything with the brand that
they just paid lots of money for, then it could die with Sears, which is a
bit different from being "shut down". Although if the objective is to
eliminate a competitor, it would have been a lot cheaper and more effective
to _not_ give that competitor a large cash infusion.


Probably, I thought it was money down the drain, but I'm not in the
business and was not part of the negotiations. Anything here is
speculation. Neither of us has facts.

This started out with me providing some facts.

Some facts. My guess is the post here did not have all the details of
the agreement.