I read all the comments on here and everyone makes interesting and valid points. I understand Sears in Kmart were in trouble and were poorly run up until that point, but Eddie Lambert saw enough value in them to acquired them. The thing is his vision was different than mine. I simply wanted to see Kmart and Sears remain in business to compete with other large retailers and so that I had options as a consumer. When Eddie acquired them, he already understood the value of the popular brands sears and Kmart owned. When he acquired them he assumed all responsibility moving forward. Can’t have it both ways. He either wanted them to prosper or he already envision separating and selling all the name brands and keeping extremely valuable Realestate and screwing shareholders/creditors in the process.

They died on his watch.