[mad_as_he$$]

You can think that if you want but the simple fact is that Sears has already sold almost all of the real estate that the company owns. In doing that they also closed the associated K-mart and Sears stores. their performance as a stock is in the poor range and last Christmas did not improve their cash situation.

[the invisib1e hand]

sears' liquidation began years ago. all of a sudden there's a top-ten companies that are going to disappear list?

I didn't say business would cease to do what business has always done -- buy and sell.