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Article #624278Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 18:58
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 18:58
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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes: > Took a walk through the local mall the other night. Sears gone, Macys > (2 big stores) gone, Hallmark's gone, Hot Topic is gone, American > Eagle's gone, all the restaurants are gone, what's left is local > businesses, cell phone kiosks, one of the jewelers, Target, and the > theater. > > It's not all Amazon's doing though. Private equity fund does a leveraged takeover of a retail chain. Dumps the debt onto the biz, flogs discernable assets, finds away to unload, leaving the chain with the debt, stripped of assets and with its internal structure and supply chain mangled. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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