Sears
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2025 by Shane Parrish · said 9 times in 9 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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- Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
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- Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
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Mar 11, 2025
Dec 16, 2025 negative
Marcus: Facing Product Labels is an Expensive Practice That Inflates Retail Prices
“Sears and True Value face their product, meaning they pay employees to go through the store and turn the labels out facing customers. It looks good, but it's tremendously expensive. We find it gets in the way of offering product at the lowest possible price.”