Not crazy, just the result of a common confusion, which is, by the way, destroying the nation.
There is the economy, where people, mostly men, invent things, extract resources, build stuff, make stuff, sell the stuff they make to shoppers who need stuff, and so on. Craftsman tools are a paradigm of the operation of the economy. The economy is doing well when everybody has a job doing things that everybody else benefits from or finds useful. You may have noticed that the economy has been shit for fifty years or so.
Then there is the "economy". Unlike the economy, the "economy" involves moving papers around, devising new and ingenious ways to issue simulated money and profit thereby, devising novel ways to distribute useless things that cost people hard-earned money, stimulate degeneracy and perversion, and in general deconstruct almost everything that is of value to people. The "economy" is booming.
So, in the case of Sears, their cash position is improved by stopping doing the only remaining thing of value they do. Perhaps they will use the money to invest in a cable channel.
For that reason alone it will never make it into the MSM level of reporting.
Hopefully Trump's reign will change some of these things permanently.