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Sears’s Death Dance Is Allowed to Drag On
It’s hard to see how Lampert’s last-ditch effort will change the inevitable outcome.
Past the point of heroic measures.
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Is there an expression for something even more last-minute than an eleventh-hour attempt? Because that’s where we are with Eddie Lampert’s efforts to save Sears Holdings Corp. from liquidation.
Lampert, the company’s chairman and major shareholder, will get yet another chance to keep alive the retailer he created when he orchestrated a merger of Sears, Roebuck & Co. with the Kmart chain more than a decade ago.