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Sears putting more than a dozen stores on online auction block

April 12, 2018

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Sears’ store properties — purchased decades ago, when it was fashionable for retailers to own their own real estate to control costs and determine their own fate — have been sold off in large and small chunks in recent years.

In 2015, Sears spun off hundreds of properties into a REIT that is chaired and partly owned by Sears CEO Eddie Lampert. The past and present property sales are part of a larger strategy to cash in on some of the retailer’s most valuable assets to clot financial bleeding and, as Lampert and his team have pledged, return the company to profitability.

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