Identity crisis at Sears
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The debut of Sears Holding Corp. drew mixed reviews Wednesday as Wall Street cheered while retail experts scratched their heads. Kmart Holding Corp.
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Sears, Roebuck & Co. S.N, was sued  this week by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,  which said the largest U.S. department store chain illegally  fired a store manager because he was black.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Sears, Roebuck, contending that it illegally fired an automotive repair store manager because he was black.
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Sears, Roebuck, once the king of American retailers but lately struggling for shoppers, has finally attracted a big one - not for its tools and appliances, but for its real estate.
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Sears Canada fired its top executive Thursday over what it characterized as &#39;&#39;strategic differences&#39;&#39; and enlisted the chief financial officer of parent company Sears, Roebuck Co.
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Sears, Roebuck & Co. , was sued this week by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which said the largest U.S. department store chain illegally fired a store manager because he was black.
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Sears Holdings Corp. plans to reorganize into several companies in another bid to pull the ailing 121-year-old retailer out the doldrums, according to a report published Saturday.
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Two days after a pair of the country&#39;s oldest, largest retail companies announced they would join forces, managers at the Bay Area&#39;s Sears and Kmart outlets were guarded in their
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When resurgent discount retailer Kmart (Nasdaq: KMRT) branded a new CEO, it was rumored that chairman Edward Lampert might have designs on merging the company with Sears (NYSE
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Alan J. Lacy will not be the top man at Sears, Roebuck &amp; Company any longer if the announced merger with Kmart is completed. But he will receive a raise and could take out more than $20 million by cashing out his existing options on Sears stock.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Liane Hansen speaks with retail analyst Lois Huff about last week&#39;s announcement of warehouse giant K-Mart&#39;s intent to purchase the aging department store Sears.
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Yesterday&#39;s deal between Kmart Holding Corp. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. likely will mean more choices for consumers but fewer for area employees.
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The retailer's CEO steps down amid a shakeup in operations.
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Some employees who stand to lose their jobs when Kmart Holding Corp. sells off stores to Home Depot and Sears may get some help when new store owners take over, company spokesmen said Monday.
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Edward S. Lampert has a new strategy for Sears: less Edward S. Lampert, humbly admitting that  his  style and strategy for Sears and Kmart are not working.
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Sears Holdings is facing a class-action lawsuit after&#160;making the purchase history of its customers public&#160;on its Managemyhome.com Web site.The lawsuit seeks damages as well as an accounting by Sears to determine whether the Web site was misused by criminals. It was filed on Friday by New Jersey resident Christine Desantis, who is represented by KamberEdelson, a technology law firm. KamberEdelson is best known for its recent settlement with social networking site Facebook over its sending of unwanted text messages to recycled cell-phone numbers.&quot;It&#39;s a pretty simple case,&quot; said Jay Edelson, a partner with the Chicago-based law firm. &quot;Sears decided to put private information of its customers up on the Web site and make it publicly available. They did it without telling their customers that it was going to happen ... and they really did it for their own financial reasons.&quot;Manage My Home is a community portal where Sears shoppers can download product manuals, find product tips and get home renovation ideas. The Web site had a feature called &quot;Find your products&quot; that ostensibly was designed to help users look up past purchases.Last Thursday, researchers at security vendor CA pointed out that the feature could be used to look up the purchase history of any Sears customer, an apparent violation of the company&#39;s privacy policy.Manage My Home could easily have been misused by criminals, Edelson said. For example, a robber could gain access to a victim&#39;s home by posing as a Sears repair person, using the information available on the site. That could be incredibly scary, he said. &quot;They have a duty to keep that information away from the public.&quot;Sears disabled the &quot;Find your products&quot; feature&#160;on Friday, saying it would re-introduce the feature once the company figures out a way of ensuring that the information cannot be viewed by unauthorized third parties.However, the retailer was informed of the problem weeks before it took the feature off-line, Edelson said.In late December, CA researchers also criticized Sears for&#160;downloading invasive comScore Web tracking software&#160;onto the desktops of some members of its MySHCcommunity.com Web site without adequate disclosure.KamberEdelson is also investigating that matter, Edelson said.&#160;
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The march of information technology into the workplace has been greeted with a mix of awe and resistance. For all their promise of productivity gains, computers, business software, and telecommunications gear have disrupted processes at the core of a company's identity.