CEO’s Plan to Save Sears Would Hand His Hedge Fund $1B

Re:CEO’s Plan to Save Sears Would Hand His Hedge Fund $1B by fhbdukfrh on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:56PM (#18087009)

You're right; the sears catalog was the biggest, most efficient store on the analog internet and they absolutely killed the competition in supply chain and efficiency.

Toys r us it's another company that was well positioned to dominate but never took advantage of their competitive advantage

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Re:CEO’s Plan to Save Sears Would Hand His Hedge Fund $1B by kevin_b_er on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:04PM (#18087084)

Toys R US was doing well. It was carefully saddled with enough debt to make it impossible to survive.

The private equity bought it out, gutted it, then left the husk to die.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a rchive/2018/07/toys-r-us-bankruptcy-private-equity/561758/

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Re:CEO’s Plan to Save Sears Would Hand His Hedge Fund $1B by Laforet on Thursday September 27, 2018 @06:56PM (#18089608)

I'd argue that Toys R'us was more of a victim of changing times and overambition. Their performance since the buyout was at best mediocre thanks to both Amazon and a shrinking customer base.

If you are looking for an example of maliciously planned LBO, look up Dick Smith Electronics.

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