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Sears, Roebuck & Co


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January 2004: "Sears, Roebuck and Co. is a leading broadline retailer providing merchandise and related services. With revenues in 2002 of $41.4 billion, the company offers its wide range of home merchandise, apparel and automotive products and services through more than 2,700 Sears-branded and affiliated stores in the U.S. and Canada, including approximately 1,000 full-line stores and 1,600 specialty stores. Sears also offers a variety of merchandise and services through sears.com, landsend.com, and specialty catalogs. Sears is the only retailer where consumers can find each of the Kenmore, Craftsman, DieHard and Lands' End brands together -- among the most trusted and preferred brands in the U.S. The company is the largest provider of product repair services with more than 14 million services calls made annually." http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=63737&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=484787

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Sep 13, 2009 FTC forces Sears, Kmart out of the spyware business

QUOTE: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has busted a strange set of spyware purveyors—US retailing giants Sears and Kmart.

 Ars Technica
May 01, 2007 Wal-Mart's Union Stance Attacked: Retailer's Tactics Are Extreme, Human Rights Group Says

QUOTE: Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group based in New York, released a report yesterday detailing what it called excessively aggressive tactics by Wal-Mart Stores to stop union organization in its stores.

 Washington Post
Dec 26, 2006 Costs of a Crisis: Diabetics in the Workplace Confront a Tangle of Laws

QUOTE: diabetics contend that they are being blocked by their employers from the near-normal lives their doctors say are possible. But the companies say they are struggling, too, with confusion about whether diabetes is a legitimate disability and with concern about whether it is overly expensive, hazardous and disruptive to accommodate the illness.

 New York Times
Sep 22, 2004 3 DeLay Workers Indicted in Texas

QUOTE: Three top political aides to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) were indicted Tuesday on charges of illegally raising political funds from corporations in 2002, much of which was funneled into the Republican takeover of the Texas legislature.

 Washington Post
Mar 27, 2004 These Days, Consumers May as Well Keep Their Complaint To Themselves

QUOTE: ...[he singled out-Ed.] cell phone companies as bottom-of-the-barrel bad. But, he added, customer service has gone south in all kinds of industries.

Washington Post
Feb 01, 1987 A Question of Fairness

QUOTE: Clarence Thomas, a black, is Ronald Reagan's chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He walks a lonely road, not really agreeing with conservatives or liberals.

Atlantic Online, The (Atlantic Monthly)