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Comment by CSMastermind

2 days ago

KMart famously aquired the much larger Sears (and then destroyed it)

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jorvi  2 days ago

Same for McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing.

ceejayoz  2 days ago

Well, that, and the CEO of Sears was an Ayn Rand fan who decided departments needed to fight each other over everything.

  • throwaway5752  2 hours ago

    As a matter of fact, ESL had bought Kmart and used it as a vehicle to acquire Sears. It was the same person.

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