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0 pointsCSMastermind1mo ago0 comments

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

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ceejayoz1mo ago· 1 in thread

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

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

jorvi1mo ago

Same for McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing.

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