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Walmart, not Amazon, was the primary cause of Sears and Kmart's collapse
“And I thought like, oh, well, duh, Amazon killed them all. No, Walmart killed them. There's no way that Kmart or God forbid Sears at that point could compete against Walmart.”
Walmart and Kmart carried around 50,000 SKUs during Price Club's launch
“So at the time, Walmarts and Kmarts had on the order of about 50,000 SKUs and even FedMart had Probably close to that many at the time.”
Kmart historically acquired Sports Authority, OfficeMax, Waldenbooks, and Borders
“So Kmart between the mid eighties and the early nineties acquired sports authority, office max builder square Walden books and borders.”