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Why This Dying Retailer Is Swimming Against the Tide

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November 24, 2012 | Comments (1)

Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD  ) has an enormous asset with its real-estate portfolio, but as the Fool's Austin Smith sees it, simply having those properties may not be enough to help right this ship. 

With more people moving out of suburban areas and into urban locations, Sears will be left trying to sell to a dwindling population base. And as we see other large retailers chase populations toward urban centers, which major big-box retailers would be interested in picking up Sears' properties? Macy's (NYSE: M  ) is one candidate, but it already has a presence in many malls as the other anchor besides Sears, and it isn't very expansion-focused right now. 

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  • Report this Comment On November 25, 2012, at 7:52 AM, autoinsider wrote:

    Don't "fool" yourself. No one is going to rule retail. It is going the way of the airlines. One or two surviving retailers cutting prices to the bone to maintain cash flow and sales but with smaller and smaller margins in the process. This is hardly a recipe for "getting rich" on who takes the top spot.

    Add in more online shopping, lower real wages, a changing demographic, especially the free spending, aging boomers not spending and the only tide you'll see on retailers is the one going out.

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