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The Sears Horror Gets Worse

July 11, 2018 daniel Sears has Closed 500 stores in 15 months, Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Sears is Truly Doomed, Sears Liabilities Exceed its Total Assets, The Sears Horror Gets Worse

Highlights of the latest round of the Sears horror show include:

Year-to-Year revenues fell by nearly one third (-31.15%) in 2nd Quarter 2018.

Sears achieved an “operating income” of -$237 million on May 5, 2018.

That gave Sears a net income of -$424 million on the same day.

Sears actually achieved negative a “free cash flow” of $-1 billion on May 5, 2018.

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The Slow Death of General Electric

July 10, 2018 daniel GE shows why we should not Fear Big Tech, General Electric, General Electric (NYSE: GE), General Electric and the Death of the Old American Economy, General Electric pioneered Computers, General Electric’s Controversial Past, Historical Highlights of General Electric, Is GE Making Money?, Is General Electric Silicon Valley’s Future?, Stay away from General Electric, The Slow Death of General Electric, Will Amazon and Apple End up like GE?

General Electric’s problems stem from its roots in the Old American economy. That economy is slowly dying and taking companies like GE with it.

Investors will wonder if today’s tech titans like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are building bureaucratic empires that are doomed to failure. General Electric started on the cutting-edge of innovation and ended up as mess of red tape, bureaucracy and micromanagement.

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The Life and Death of Department Stores TJX vs JC Penney

July 6, 2018 daniel Can Instacart Save Penney’s or Jump Start TJX?, Is JC Penney Making Money?, JC Penney (NYSE: JCP), Penney’s is no Longer Competitive, The Instacart Opportunity, The TJX business model, TJX (NYSE: TJX), TJX vs JC Penney

Traditional department stores are dying before our eyes. Shares of JC Penney (NYSE: JCP), the quintessential middle-class retailer were trading

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CBS is dying while Netflix is Booming

June 20, 2018 daniel CBS (NYSE: CBS), CBS is dying while Netflix is Booming, Is CBS Making Money?, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), Netflix is Making a Little Money, Sorry Baby Boomers Broadcast TV is dead, The Big Bang Theory

The suspicion that nobody besides aging Baby Boomers is watching network TV is being provided correct. CBS also has serious problems because it had one only hit; The Amazing Race, and only one scripted show that experienced a ratings increase in the under 50 demographic Mom.

The ratings indicate that CBS is no longer capable of sustaining an audience. Investors will have to ask if CBS is sustainable or viable business. The ratings indicate it might not be.

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Can Macy’s escape the Department Store Death Spiral?

May 4, 2018May 10, 2018 daniel Bon-Ton, Can Macy’s escape the Department Store Death Spiral?, Is Macy’s Making Money?, Macy’s (NYSE: M), Macy’s has lost the Apparel Wars, Surprise Macy’s Revenues are growing, the Bon-Ton Stores Inc., the Department Store Death Spiral, The Future of Macy’s, The great department store die off, TJX (NYSE: TJX), Why is Macy’s Making Money?

Macy’s revenues actually grew for the first time in quite a while in 1st Quarter 2018, Stockrow data indicates.
The revenue growth rate was 1.77% which does little make up for losses, but it is far better than the -6.13% negative growth rate reported in 4th Quarter 2017. That means Macy’s delivered an effective revenue growth rate of 7.9%, which is very good.

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Is it the End of Sears?

May 2, 2018May 2, 2018 daniel 2018., Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), death of Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Do Empty Sears’ Stores have Any Value?, End of Sears, Evidence that Sears is Dead, Kroger (NYSE: KR), Lowe’s (NYSE: LOW), Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Sears stock was trading at $3.04 a share on May 2, Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE: SRG), Will Anybody Notice if Sears Dies

The saddest part of the sorry saga of Sears is that nobody but its employees might notice if the brand dies. The customers obviously abandoned Sears long ago, leaving nothing but debt and empty stores behind.

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Is Office Depot Making Money?

April 24, 2018 daniel . The smartest move for Office Depot, Aldi, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Is Office Depot Making Money?, Office Depot Inc. (NASDAQ: ODP), Office Depot is Making Some Money, Retail Apocalypse, Survival Strategies for Office Depot

Like Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), Office Depot is one of those brands that is no longer supposed to exist but somehow keeps hanging on. It seems to generate just enough money to cover expenses and little else.

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Poll Reveals Europe’s Christianity is Dying Fast

March 25, 2018March 25, 2018 daniel Christianity is Almost Gone in Europe, Christianity is dead in much of Europe, Europe’s Christianity is Dying Fast, Europe’s Young Adults and Religion, Stephen Bullivant, The least Christian country, Three-fourths of Swedes under 30 (75%) also identified themselves as nonreligious.

The least Christian country is the Czech Republic where 91% of persons aged 16 to 29 identified themselves as “nonreligious,” Europe’s Young Adults and Religion a study by Bullivant indicates. More than eight out of ten; 81% of the same age group in Estonia called themselves non-believers.

There were 12 European countries in which more than 60% of those under 30 identified as nonreligious.

“Christianity as a default, as a norm, is gone, and probably gone for good – or at least for the next 100 years,” Bullivant said.

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Is McDonald’s the New Sears?

December 19, 2017 daniel Eddie Lampert, Is Management Looting McDonald’s?, McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), McDonald’s is building a Mountain of Debt, McDonald’s is making far Less Money, McDonald’s is still making a lot of money, McDonald’s is Still Making Money, McDonald’s seems to be able to serve is the bottom-level of the market, McDonald’s stock, McDonald’s stock is grossly overpriced, McDonalds and Sears are Horrendous Stocks, Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD), The Revenue Keeps Going Down and Down, Why is McDonald’s still Making Money?, Why is McDonald’s Surviving

This makes Sears and McDonald’s the opposite of value investments, because you will lose money with them. Stay away from Sears and McDonalds they are great American brands doomed by greedy and perhaps incompetent management.

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Sears the Death Spiral Continues

December 14, 2017 daniel Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Home Depot (NYSE: HD), Is Sears out of Money?, Kenmore, Lowe’s (NYSE: LOW), Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Sears Incredible Losses, Sears is finished, Sears is finished but Kenmore might survive., Sears is now broke it had to borrow money from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Sears’ Incredibly Shrinking Revenue, The next likely scenario is that Sears will sell off Kenmore, There are strong indications that Sears has run out of money.

There are strong indicates that Sears has run out of money. The company is unable to make payments on a $400 million loan that was due on June 30, 2018.

The next likely scenario is that Sears will sell off Kenmore, possibly to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Home Depot (NYSE: HD), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), or Lowe’s (NYSE: LOW). Any of those companies would be smart to have Kenmore as an exclusive appliance brand. Sears is finished but Kenmore might survive.