jim s.

Sears Holding's Lampert Continues Great Brand Lineup

Another thing I forgot to mention is Sears and Kmart's increasing irrelevancy in busimess press. I've noticed this several times; a story about the progress of retailers (of which there have been many recently) will list how things are going at WMT, TGT and then maybe KSS and some apparel retailers, etc., but rarely do they mention SHLD stores. For example, just looking at linked in stories from Yahoo! today, there's a bunch under the Summary pages for WMT, TGT, M, etc. Not a one for SHLD.

From my own perspective, Sears' assets are its tools (hand tools, not power tools which are by and large not premium quality), power equipment and appliances. In all those categories they have stiff competition from HD and Lowes, not to mention the smaller players like True Value. On the rest of their inventory, the big boxers are in a full court press.

Frankly, I don't see how they can keep it up.