His problem, he used Sears stores in Malls that were dying and bought K-mart and gutted.. Getting rid of Craftsman tools and other things that made Sears, Sears.... Eddie did own a huge shares of AutoZone, I would have bough AutoZone to go with the Sears Brand Craftsman tools... And build from there... And closed the Sears stores in Malls and used the AutoZone stand alone stores as Sears... JMHO...
That "next Warren Buffet" label was given to Eddie by Jim Cramer... I did buy shares or Sears and made some money, but when it tanked, Jim Cramer kept pumping it up, any fool could see no traffic in Sears stores and K-Mart...
The reason why I follow Bill Ackman, he pissed me off with what he said on March 18 on CNBC, but when you saw the whole interview on CNBC, you can see he what he bought and what he said on CNBC... CNBC only played the small snippet of "Hell is coming" on March 18...
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