Attached is front page news in this morning's paper. I'm not providing a link to the full story because it's probably behind a pay wall and won't likely be picked up by an on-line news feed.
The last remaining Sears store in California is on the verge of closing. Nationally it is among only five operational Sears stores left. This has me wondering "what if" Jeff Bezos had thought about an Amazon brick and mortar presence sooner. I'm not saying Bezos could stand to expand his monopolistic empire any further, and I'm definitely not saying that Sears had the ability to envision the Amazon model and buy him out all of those years ago, but maybe an opportunity was missed to preserve what was once the world's largest retailer if a viable model could have been worked out.
The last remaining Sears store in California is on the verge of closing. Nationally it is among only five operational Sears stores left. This has me wondering "what if" Jeff Bezos had thought about an Amazon brick and mortar presence sooner. I'm not saying Bezos could stand to expand his monopolistic empire any further, and I'm definitely not saying that Sears had the ability to envision the Amazon model and buy him out all of those years ago, but maybe an opportunity was missed to preserve what was once the world's largest retailer if a viable model could have been worked out.
