I will re-use one of my favorite phrases: "Management has bungled Sears into irrelevance." The company has cut its national footprint in half in the last two years, and most in the retail and banking industries feel they will all be gone before long.
Sears is one of those places you were never really in love with, unless you were a carpenter or mechanic, but it was America.
It's sad to watch the death spiral.
