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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (6732)	1/27/2006 3:28:39 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 15857

I haven't looked lately but for awhile it was a success because of real estate not the actual merchandise in the stores.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (6732)	1/27/2006 3:55:09 PM
From: Green Receipt	Respond to of 15857

It might be a success from a $ perspective, but if you're a customer, its dismal. Even since the merger I still get awful service with both stores. The advertised items are never in stock and trying to find an interested employee in resolving an issue is usually a dead end street. I think at kmart its worse in that situation. The employees I have run into just don't care about their jobs. Morale seems really low...

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (6732)	1/27/2006 5:04:43 PM
From: Sr K	Respond to of 15857

**OT - SHLD Why is there no SHLD board on SI? Because people make too much money in it and there's not a lot to discuss or evaluate. It's location, location, location, real estate, real estate, real estate, and cash flow, cash flow, cash flow. Buy under $117, or reevaluate if it holds above $125. There must be others who see the difference between a stock and an operating business. It's not a "silicon" stock. Or, people who know keep it to themselves. But Sears Holdings and Apple are the only large stocks I know of that were up over 200% in 2004 and 100% in 2005: Sears Holdings 2004 313% 2005 168% Apple Computer 2004 201% 2005 123% [past performance is no guarantee of future results] SHLD bought back $500 million of stock at a little over $118 starting in September or so last year, and announced another buyback of $500 million when it was trading about $115 that is not reflected in the 10-Q shares outstanding as of 10/29/05 which is what the data services use. There are about 157 million shares now. Lampert controls about 42%. After the quarter ended, Sears Canada sold its credit card business for $1.9 billion 11/15 to JPM, and declared a dividend of the $1.7 billion after-tax proceeds, and Sears Holdings used its after tax share to tender for the 46% of Sears Canada it didn't own. The stock seems bound by $125 and did so again today.