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The Sears bankruptcy saga front and center | Retail Lifestyle Insight

The continuing saga of bad investments at Sears and JC Penney now contrasts more starkly with winning battles of GAP (US:GPS) and Macy’s(US:M) among others even as Apple and Amazon continue climbing into new rarified air every week. While Amazon

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Gap recovers, Esprit spirals towards Sale | Deal Insight – The Retail Lifestyle also rans

  Of course, in keeping with the series’ semantics and character, because both GAP and Esprit have been out of Retail Lifestyle Winner shortlists for a long time and may remain so, but luxury retail has already tried with private

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Posted in Amitonomics, China, Emerging Markets, India Infrastructure, Retail Lifestyle, US

The Retail Lifestyle also rans: Sears got is all covered, restructured!

Sears holdings jumped 20% yesterday with great belife in the Hedge fund manager that bought them over. Eddie Lampert’s 69% across mart, Sears and Roebuck, is stilll strapped on as the retailer finds ways to loosen up the cash stream.

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Bloomingdale, Saks gets a shopping visa | Shopper Insight

Bloomingdales, Saks and Macys scored on the fortunes of Chinese Luxury shoppers used to the crowds of Hongkong and Singapore or the relative luxury of Paris and Rome. The new year began with Barack Obama, giving a deadline to the

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The Retail Lifestyle also rans: The Sears bankruptcy cometh

Sears and K Mart owner Eddie Lampert has been swimming with the sharks since 2006 when it  stopped growing and year on year comparable sales were down 8.6% at its US stores in 2008. Talks of bankruptcy and restructuring did

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The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Black Friday gladdens retail shoppers

It’s still the weekedn and most stores that opened near midnight yesterday may continue offers at least today if they were not rid of all the stock put on the year’s biggest sale extravaganza again. Whil eGlobal retailers ponder recession

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