7 retailers that are shrinking fast

As far as I'm concerned Sears deserves the worst they can get - the company itself not the actual employees that do the real work. They treat their front line employees like garbage, don't pay them near enough to put up with the crap that's dished out to them and yet pay the "regional and district" managers much more money than they deserve for walking into a store what, once a month and think they know everything about actually WORKING in a store? And these "higher up" people don't have a clue as how to treat the people that actually do the work.  I can't believe the  people that run this company - Chairman Eddie Lampert? - actually lets this kind of treatment happen, maybe they are oblivious as to how their regional and district managers actually treat employees unless they were to be in a store and actually witness some of the harassment and belittling that goes on. Instead of selling all of his Sears real estate maybe Eddie should visit some of his real estate once in awhile and see what is actually going on instead of leaving it up to a bunch of flunkies they call regional and district managers.

Sears (and Roebuck) used to be a major player, I have all Craftsman tools and always shopped there - since the early 80's. They switched my sears card to a Gold card then to Citi Bank-at 24.99%. I got a separate offer from Citi for ZERO % for 12 months and then 12.99% thereafter, A call to sears customer service (thats what they called it) ended in them losing a 30+ year customer !  Too bad when they DO go under that the big whigs still walk away with a bonus- Thats whats wrong with America!!

You want to cry about overpaid CEO people, how about all the pro athletes and hollywood people??

Maybe I am just being afraid of change but, doesn't it seem like something good and fundemental is being lost by our nation, or our culture, when iconic stores like Sears close down? 

Most  CEO's of every company are drastically overpaid. They don't understand who is the back-bone of their respective companies. I use the U.S. Post Office as a prime example.

I agree completely with mistylite.  So many of us are working at low-paying, non-benefit jobs.  Management is inept.  People are being treated like little more than galley slaves, all in the name of the almightly corporate profit.  It's a sad state of affairs when decent folks with a strong work ethic are relegated to minimum wage drudgery.  Yet the corporate higher-ups, who are not marketing their companies successfully (probably too stupid to know how!), make millions a year.

What has happened to our country????

I avoid Kmart as much as possible. It's the Radio Shack of the 80's - I have to play 20 questions to pay $2.99 for a stick of deodorant.

Do you have a rewards card, what is your phone number, would you like to sign up for rewards plus, would you recommend shopping here survey (NO), do you want the warranty... then wait for a 3 ft register tape in 4 pieces to print...