# The Kmart/Sears merger - thoughts?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kmart-sears-merger-thoughts/275326>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 17, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kmart-sears-merger-thoughts/275326 "2004-11-17T19:53:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kmart-sears-merger-thoughts/275326/41 "2004-11-19T05:35:54Z")

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> [@JRDelirious](#):
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> Actually, I see Craftsman as so potentially valuable for sale/spinoff on its own right that it survives the parent companies. Unless, of course, they do something in typical daft corporate “we just care about upping the stock price this quarter” fashion like selling the name to one company and the product line to another one.

I’m sure they’ll do the daft thing. I spent too many years working for a K-Mart subsidiary to believe otherwise.

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**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kmart-sears-merger-thoughts/275326/42 "2004-11-19T05:44:08Z")

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The last time I tried to buy clothes in a Super K, I went to the fitting rooms to find only a messy pile of clothes on the counter and the doors locked. I waited a minute and looked for anyone who looked like an employee, and then I just added to the pile. I went to the Target about 200 yards down the street.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kmart-sears-merger-thoughts/275326/43 "2004-11-19T23:03:36Z")

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It’s sad because I’ve watched Kmart grow from a respectable store to something that makes me WANT to go to Odd lots. Would hate to see Sears go the same route. I can remember when K-mart was clean and well stocked. Not much different from Walmart today.

Sears is one of the few places I can still go and buy something made in the US.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kmart-sears-merger-thoughts/275326/44 "2004-11-19T23:07:21Z")

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> [@Uncommon Sense](#):
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> Can someone tell me how a company that was only worth 2.5 billion can buy another company worth 11.8 billion?? And how so right after coming out of bankruptcy?  
> And just after Sears had bought some stores from K-Mart for 640 million this past summer?
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> Logically and economically how did these things happen…

You pretty much just summed the reason this thread exists.

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