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Nicholas D. Kristof
Sheryl WuDunn
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors of
China Wakes
comes this insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise.
The recent economic crisis in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have happened to Asia. It destroyed the cronyism, protectionism, and government regulation that had been crippling Asian business for decades, and it left in its wake a vast region of resilient and determined millions poised to wrest economic, diplomatic and military power from the West.
Thunder from the East
is a riveting look at a complex region, a fascinating panoply of compelling characters, and a prophetic analysis from arguably the West's most informed and intelligent writers on Asia.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
; February 2001
402 pages; ISBN 9780375412691
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Chapter One
He must have been a raffishly handsome young man, with his bushy eyebrows, large coal-black eyes, high-cheekboned face, and thick mop of black hair dangling over his ears. He looked pale but improbably serene, showing no sign of the torture he had endured, and those eyes were still wide open and frozen in a final instant of surprise. He had a strong, projecting chin, but his head ended a few inches below that chin in a jagged eruption of blood, tissue, and bone. His head had been hacked off with a machete and was impaled on a bamboo stake, and he seemed to be staring at me.
I stared back. That abrupt transition from human flesh to bamboo stake wrenched my gut and paralyzed my legs. I was scared stiff. The mob that had killed him was in front of me now, the killers waving machetes and screaming
Allahu akbar,
God is great. There were about two dozen of them, mostly men in their twenties and thirties, all riding motorcycles slowly down the main street of the little farmtown of Turen, Indonesia.
It was a typical warm afternoon in what seemed a bucolic, prospering community. A tropical drizzle had created a shine on the beautifully paved blacktop road, but there were plenty of trees to shield people from the rain. Comfortable one- and two-story homes lined the road, their walls neatly whitewashed, their roofs made up of pleasant red tile. A few repair shops and small restaurants competed for business, and a billboard advertised "Sun Silk Shampoo" with an image of a young woman with thick, beautiful, black hair. A few bicycle rickshaws were waiting for rides and several pushcart vendors were selling fried rice and noodles. Townspeople were emerging by the side of the road to see what was causing the racket.
It seemed like any of Indonesia's tens of thousands of little villages, except that it had abruptly tumbled into savagery. Some motorcyclists were waving S-shaped machetes, two feet long and bloody, while others wielded sickles that were equally grisly. A few were clenching their fists in power salutes of victory, and they were all grinning happily, cheering and shouting, while the fast-forming crowd on the sidewalk waved back and roared its approval. In the middle of the cluster of motorcycles was a glossy black one, and its driver smiled proudly at the responsibility he had been given. Behind him on the same motorcycle was a long-haired younger man, perhaps twenty years old, his black shirt unbuttoned to the waist, his face gleaming with excitement. Black Shirt was standing up on the footrests, holding on to the driver's shoulder with his left hand, and with his right he was holding up the bamboo stake. Exultantly, he waved it all around, as if he were exhibiting a doll's head on a handle, so that everyone could admire it. Black Shirt was small and skinny, shining with his eagerness to please, and he looked less like a killer than like a proud high-school kid in the center of a homecoming parade.
I was standing under a tree to keep out of the drizzle, and the motorcyclists did not see me at first. But now the cries faded as the mob became aware of the presence of a foreigner. Black Shirt frowned, switched hands and thrust the severed head toward me, he too shouting
Allahu akbar.
The head was raised high, and my eyes locked on the bloody tissue, jagged and ragged, where the neck ended.
Instinctively, I transferred my notebook to my left hand and reached up with my right to feel my own neck. I massaged it absentmindedly with trembling fingers, appreciating its continuity and imagining a motorcyclist's machete arcing down on it and parting the skin.
. . .
I had come to Java not in search of a beheading but to understand the upheavals in rural Indonesia caused by the economic crisis in Asia. The crisis had begun in Thailand in July 1997 and then had devastated once-booming economies throughout the region, leaving Indonesia worst hit of all. I was staying in a town in East Java called Mojokerto, where I met Salamet, a twenty-seven-year-old rickshaw driver. Salamet was a gentle man with a round face, a drooping moustache, and a pleasing smile. Years of work as a rickshaw driver, rock-crusher, and gravel-hauler had left him as strong as an ox, and with roughly the same build. He was of only average height, but he had a barrel chest and a boxer's neck, and he might have looked intimidating if he hadn't spent so much time gently cradling his youngest daughter. He would sit back in his rickshaw, his bare feet dangling out over the footrest, rocking the girl on his knee and griping about the rising price of food.
The neighborhood seemed as placid as the nearby river running through the town, but Salamet had been telling me that tensions were mounting. One day when he was eating a bowl of noodles, he told me between loud slurps that one bad sign was the rise of sorcery. "Sorcerers are taking advantage of the confusion these days," he warned. Slurp. "There didn't used to be much black magic around, but now it's beginning again." Slurp.
Salamet referred to a series of two hundred gruesome murders in East Java, mostly of Muslim leaders whose bodies were chopped into pieces that were left hanging in the trees. I believed that some army unit was behind the killings, trying to create political instability or even conditions for a coup d'?tat, but to Salamet and most people in Mojokerto the obvious suspects were sorcerers. Javanese have always believed in black magic and sorcery, and rumors were spreading that the killers wore black and could vanish into thin air. "Those killings -- that's the work of sorcerers," Salamet told me confidently. Slurp.
In nearby towns angry mobs began to kill suspected witches and sorcerers. And even in Mojokerto vigilante groups were organized to fight against the sorcerers, whom people called "ninja" after the Japanese warriors. Salamet joined one of these vigilante groups, and the men in it spent their days sharpening their knives and their nights roaming around looking for sorcerers to kill. They were good family men, and I went with some of them to a meeting at the local mosque where a charismatic man named Ahmed Banu was urging the crowd to butcher the sorcerers. Banu and the others greeted me warmly, made sure I was seated comfortably, and then got down to business.
"If we Muslims are being treated like animals, will we stand for it?" Banu asked, his voice rising to a crescendo.
"No!" his followers yelled back.
"If we catch the ninja, what should we do? Give them to the police or kill them?"
"Kill them!"
"So send this message to your families," Banu added grimly: "When we catch the attackers, we must kill them."
That night, I tossed and turned. Would these villagers, who had been so hospitable to me, actually attack people they suspected to be sorcerers? I wondered whether I had lent credibility to Banu by attending the meeting, increasing the chance that he and his friends would butcher strangers. Finally, I decided that it was all talk and fell into a comfortable slumber. But in the morning, my interpreter brought a local newspaper and I learned that at roughly the same time that Banu was holding his meeting, mobs a bit farther to the south had been tearing apart five men who lacked identification and were consequently suspected of being sorcerers. Two were burned alive and three were beheaded, their heads impaled on pikes and paraded through the nearby towns.
"Where did that happen?" I asked.
"In a little town called Turen," replied my interpreter, a local journalist. As I looked at the articles, I felt revulsion and fear, but in the mix there was also a large dose of curiosity. What kind of people could commit such grotesque acts? How could citizens behead their neighbors? The killings struck me as a modern version of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials. If there were any sorcery in Indonesia, I mused, it was the economic and social alchemy that left people running around in mobs carrying human heads on pikes. The despair and social disintegration that accompanied the crisis seemed to leave Indonesians particularly inclined to supernatural explanations, particularly vulnerable to manipulation by secret army units, and particularly likely to respond with mob violence to each new threat that appeared to disrupt their lives.
"Let's go," I suggested. "Let's try to find some of the people who did it and talk to them."
It was an odd drive. In journalism you occasionally find yourself careering the wrong way on a one-way street, heading in precisely the direction that you know quite confidently you should be fleeing from. I was tense with apprehension but also soothed by the vivid green countryside we were driving through. It seemed impossible to reconcile the macabre news accounts with a landscape that was tranquil and lovely that morning: paddies sprouting rich green rice plants, dark green forested hills in the distance, occasional coconut plantations with endless rows of palms.
This was the first time in ten years that I had been in this part of East Java, and the economic development over the intervening decade was dazzling. The previous time I had bounced over rutted gravel roads in creaky old buses filled with exhaust smoke. Once a bus had simply let me off on a remote hillside where the road had washed out, and I had been forced to spend the night in a peasant's house, cadging bananas for dinner. Now, just ten years later, I was hurtling along a road that was sleek, paved, and straight, and modern cars and trucks were gliding by clean restaurants and stores. I was traveling on a modern highway to meet mobs that paraded heads on pikes.
When Dante set forth into the Inferno, he was battered by the "sighs, lamentations, and loud wailings resounding through the starless air." I was encountering my own netherworld, with its own wails and laments and cries for help. Since the economic crisis had spread economic and social convulsions through the region, Asia and especially Indonesia had been transformed into something that in its bleakest hours resembled Dante's ninth ring of hell.
As we approached Turen, traffic thinned out and virtually disappeared. We stopped at a regional police station to ask if it was safe, and a senior officer -- a tall, stout man with a crisp uniform -- assured us pompously that the day had been calm so far. We asked if it might be possible to take a policeman in the car with us for safety's sake, and he frowned.
"No, I'm afraid not," he said. "All the police officers are staying inside the compound here."
He hesitated for a moment, deflated, and then said: "They think it's too dangerous to go out in the streets." . . .
As I nervously probed my neck for reassurance, what rocked me was a sense of utter sadness and confusion. This was Java, a gloriously cultured land that had been civilized before Britain and whose people are renowned for their kindness and restraint. This was a nation that the World Bank had hailed as a model for the developing world. But now the Asian economic crisis had contorted it into an example of Asia at its very worst. Suddenly, the
of Asia had become the
Two conclusions might seem obvious from these economic and social upheavals: First, the Asian economic crisis was a catastrophe of historic proportions. Second, the Pacific Century is over before it began. Asia may hobble back eventually, but when people start running around hacking off each other's heads, they are not on the brink of a middle-class or an industrial revolution.
Yet those are, we think, precisely the wrong conclusions. As Zhao Yi, a Chinese poet, wrote two hundred years ago: I>gai guan lun ting. It means roughly: "You cannot rightly judge a person until his coffin lid is sealed." And although during the crisis Asia was widely measured for its coffin -- and sometimes seemed to stretch out inside -- it is far too soon to seal the lid. On the contrary, instead of suggesting that the crisis was a catastrophe or that the Pacific Century is over, we will over the course of this book make two very different arguments.
the Asian economic crisis was the best thing that could have happened to Asia.
It entailed a terrible human cost, but it is also helping to destroy much of the cronyism, protectionism, and government regulation that had burdened Asian business. The crisis helped launch a political, social, and economic revolution that is still incomplete but that ultimately will reshape Asia as greatly as the fall of the Berlin Wall reshaped Europe.
This revolution is essential because for all the praise lavished on the Asian business culture, up close it never looked nearly so impressive. Sometimes it looked downright idiotic. I talked to Japanese bankers about their practice of spending thousands of dollars taking their Finance Ministry bank regulators out to $500-a-person expense-account dinners at
restaurants in Tokyo's Kabukicho red-light district. The attraction of these restaurants is not the
the thinly sliced beef that is dipped into a hot pot in front of the customer. Rather the appeal is the waitresses in short skirts and "no pan" (no panties). The restaurants keep water and sake high up, so that the waitresses have to stretch to reach them. One of these
restaurants, seeking to ensure that customers could appreciate its "special amenities," even put mirrors on the floors. "And if you pay a tip," one official confided, "then the girl will climb on the table and lift her skirt."
Imagine the intellectual level of the discussion at these dinners. Imagine the caliber of Japan's bank regulation.
The Asian economic crisis forced a greater reliance on markets, democracy, and the rule of law. One result is that Tokyo no longer has any
restaurants. The crisis also meant that Asian countries finally got first-class financial institutions -- often American ones -- to underwrite the industrial revolution and cultivate deep capital markets. Just as Britain's economic near-collapse in 1976 and subsequent bailout by the International Monetary Fund laid the groundwork for its renaissance over the next two decades, Asia's upheavals will gradually help clear out the dead wood and reinvigorate the region.
The second conclusion is broader: Partly because of this forced restructuring,
Asia is likely to wrench economic, diplomatic, and military power from the West over the coming decades.
The "center of the world," to the extent that there is one, has migrated repeatedly over the years. It was China for most of the first millennium b.c., then Rome during the Roman Empire, then China again for well over one thousand years, then Spain in the sixteenth century, then England, and finally America since the late nineteenth century. Now the center of the world may be slowly shifting again, and eventually it will settle in Asia.
The United States is incomparably ahead of Asia in information systems, business management, financial services, and entertainment industries, plus it has the advantage of operating in the international language. But the United States's share of the world's gross domestic product (GDP) peaked in the aftermath of World War II, at about 32 percent. Now America's share of global GDP has fallen to 25 percent, and it is continuing to fall despite the vigor of the American economy in recent years.
This is natural. Poor countries can enjoy "catch-up" growth rates of 5 to 10 percent per year, while mature nations seem unable to average much more than 3 percent. The upshot is that just about every forecast -- by the World Bank, by the Asian Development Bank, and by private economists -- shows that the East will gain considerably in its share of the global economy in the coming decades. The World Bank's forecasts show Asia's share of global GDP rising from 19 percent in 1950 to 33 percent in 1992, to 55 to 60 percent by 2025. In that year, Asia will still lag behind the West in technology, nuclear weaponry, and per capita incomes, but it will have approximately the same share of global income that the West had at its peak in the 1950s.
This shift of power to Asia is in large part a function of population: Just as the city-state of Venice could not compete with the nation of Spain, and England could not muster the power of a continental nation like America, so it will be difficult for the United States to hold its own indefinitely against the rise of countries in Asia. Sixty percent of the world's people live in Asia, and the proportion will probably reach two-thirds by the middle of this century. In contrast, 5 percent of the world's people live in North America, mostly in the United States.
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Highly unlikely, although I suppose in the very, very distant decimal places the probability is not exactly zero. SLRs are not like rangefinders - the light path coming through the lens goes right through the camera for all time except the instant that you're actually taking the picture. So even if you point the camera straight at the sun and just leave it there, it isn't likely to damage the camera. The light goes in the lens, up the mirror, through the focusing screen and around the pentaprism - and out the viewfinder. The focusing screen is glass, so damaging it would require heating it to the temperature necessary to melt glass - which is many hundreds of degrees - and which is not very likely under any non-synthetic conditions.
Back in the day, rangefinder cameras were more common, and they were more susceptible. They don't have the mirror/pentaprism subsystem, and the lens focuses the light right onto the shutter. On a metal shutter like most cameras have today, that's not much of a problem, but in the early days, shutter curtains were made of cloth. As you can guess, it did occasionally happen that people would leave a rangefinder sitting upright with no lens cap, and in the worst possible circumstances they might burn a pinhole into the curtain.
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Coffeeroastersdirect, Seattle Coffee Direct shipped coffee after i cancelled account. I returned two shipments.. was told refund was due in 30 days. called 6 times ...another 10 days refund. finally phone started ..leave message on 11/02/09 Internet
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Sears Canada
Formerly called
|Simpsons-Sears Limited (1952–1978)
|Public (11.7% of common stock owned by Sears Holdings)
|Traded as
|1951 (joint venture of Simpson's and Sears)
|290 Yonge Street (Toronto Eaton Centre) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Key people
|Brandon G. Stranzl, Executive Chairman; Carrie Kirkman, President & Chief Merchant[1]
|Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewellery, beauty products, appliances, housewares, tools, and electronics.
|$3.424 billion (2014)[2]
|-$122.4 million (2014)[2]
|Total equity
|$570.8 million (2014)[2]
Number of employees
|17,903 (2016)[3]
Sears Canada Inc. is a retailer, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, that operates in all provinces and territories of Canada with a network of 146 corporate stores (Sears, Sears Home, Sears Outlet/Fashion Outlet), 144 Hometown Dealer stores, 84 Sears Travel offices and a nationwide home maintenance, repair, and installation network. SLH Transport, a freight trucking company and wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Kingston, Ontario, provides the company with transportation and logistics services and comprises 620 trucks, 3,000 trailers, and 900 associates with terminals located throughout Canada. Sears also has a general merchandise catalogue with over 1,200 catalogue merchandise pickup locations.
Sears Canada was formed in 1952 as a joint venture of Simpson's and United States retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co., which now owns an 11.7% share.[4]
- 1 Corporate history
- 2 Sears Outlet, liquidation and fashion centres
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Corporate history[edit]
Sears Canada began its operations as Simpsons-Sears Limited, a catalogue and mid-market suburban retailer, as a joint-venture between the Robert Simpson Company (Simpson's), an existing Canadian department store retailer, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. of the United States. In 1952, General Robert E. Wood, the Chairman of U.S. retailer Sears, Roebuck and Company, sent a letter to Edgar G. Burton, President of the Robert Simpson Company of Toronto, proposing a partnership between their two companies in order to serve the Canadian market. The deal to create Simpsons-Sears Limited, a Canadian catalogue and department store chain separate from the Simpsons chain, was signed on September 18, 1952 and the terms were 50-50. Each company put up $20 million and had equal representation on the new company's Board of Directors. The new company was to have two main objectives. The first was to expand Simpsons' existing mail order business, which was sold to the new company. The second goal was to build a string of stores modelled on Sears, Roebuck's format right across the country.
The agreement also contained a provision that would prove to be a major bone of contention in the coming years. Under its terms, Simpsons-Sears could not open a retail store within 25 miles of Simpson's existing stores in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Regina and London. In return, Simpson's promised not to build any stores outside of those five cities. Simpsons-Sears mail order business, however, was free to operate anywhere in Canada and so was the new Simpsons-Sears Acceptance Company, the credit arm of the operation.
The business operations of Simpsons-Sears began when the first Simpsons-Sears Spring/Summer Catalogue rolled off the presses of Photo-Engravers and Electrotypers, Ltd. and were delivered to 300,000 Canadian homes in early 1953.
On Thursday, September 17, 1953, the first Simpsons-Sears retail store opened in Stratford, Ontario at 9:15 a.m. The second Simpsons-Sears store opened in Kamloops, British Columbia in December of that year.
In 1972, Simpsons and Simpsons-Sears agreed to end the 25-mile restriction and permit Simpsons and Simpsons-Sears stores anywhere. The following year, when Simpsons-Sears opened a store in the city of Mississauga, approximately 30 km (19 mi) west of Toronto, the company decided to use the Sears name alone in order to prevent confusion with Simpsons stores operating in Toronto.
In 1971, Simpsons-Sears opened its new head office building in downtown Toronto.
In 1973–1974, Simpsons-Sears opened its first stores in metropolitan areas already served by Simpson's (although in suburban areas well away from the downtown Simpson's stores), the first such being in Mississauga, Ontario. So, to avoid confusing customers, these new stores were opened under the "Sears" banner. All existing Simpsons-Sears stores were rebranded to the Sears banner as well. However, the name of the entity remained Simpsons-Sears.
In 1976, Simpsons-Sears inaugurated a Sears store at Galeries d'Anjou, its first location in a mall with a Simpsons store.
Hudson's Bay acquisition of Simpsons[edit]
The Hudson's Bay Company acquired Simpsons in 1978. Because of federal competition laws, the Hudson's Bay Company was required to divest itself of its interest in Simpsons-Sears, which had been held by Simpsons, and the chain was formally renamed Sears Canada Inc. in 1984. The Hudson's Bay Company eventually merged the remaining Simpsons stores into its Bay division in 1991, and the Simpsons name disappeared from Canada's retail landscape. As a result of this move, Sears Canada took over eight former Simpson's and Bay stores and finally gained a major foothold in Toronto.
Sears Whole Home and Sears.ca[edit]
In 1995, Sears Canada launched a chain of specialty stores called Sears Whole Home. These furniture stores located in power centres, and renamed them Sears Furniture and Appliances stores in 1999, to reflect the addition of major appliances. In 2003, the Furniture and Appliances stores were renamed to Sears Home stores. This change was intended to reflect their broader appeal for customers seeking a one stop experience for re-making their home decor. The stores' product line was expanded to include Home Installed Products and Services such as floor coverings, customer drapery, and other installed home related products in many locations.
In 1998, Sears Canada's website, www.sears.ca, became an active channel, allowing customers to order from a selection of over 500 products. By 2001, the website became Canada's most popular retail internet destination with over a million orders placed that year.
In 1999, Sears Canada acquired the assets and the trademark name of the bankrupt chain, The T. Eaton Company Limited. For the first time in its history, Sears Canada gained the leases to a number of prime downtown locations in Toronto (Eaton Centre), Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Calgary, all former Eaton's flagship stores. The Simpsons-Sears agreement had largely shut out Sears from the urban core, and that remained so even when the restriction was lifted, as The Bay and Eaton's long held a duopoly in the downtowns of major Canadian cities. Sears Canada had intended to obtain the former Eaton downtown Montreal store but lost out to the incumbent Les Ailes de la Mode.
Sears relaunched "Eatons" (rendered with the lowercase "e" logo) in November 2000 as a seven-store upscale mini-brand, with locations in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto (Eaton Centre and Yorkdale) and Ottawa, all of which had been flagship Eaton stores. At Yorkdale, this meant that Sears Canada managed two anchor stores (Eatons and Sears) in that mall for a short time. This operation was unsuccessful, however, and Sears converted the Eatons stores to the Sears brand in 2002. Many said that the Eatons stores were too upscale and/or too thinly scattered across the country for the mini-chain to have ever been profitable and worthwhile. The retail environment has changed with more of the population shopping at big box outlets and/or specialty stores squeezing out the middle market which is the base of the traditional department store.[5]
Management changes and outsourcing of Sears Card[edit]
On August 26, 2004, the contract of Sears Canada Chairman and CEO Mark A. Cohen was terminated and he was replaced by Brent Hollister. Cohen had been President of Softlines and Chief Marketing Officer of the U.S. parent Sears.
In 2005, Sears Card financial services was outsourced to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. with Sears receiving $3 billion CDN for the sale, while Sears Club points system was retained by the retailer. Sears also paid a special dividend upon the completion of the transaction. CEO Brent Hollister said that the move would allow Sears to refocus on its retail operations. Sears Canada announced it will end its credit-card partnership with JPMorgan Chase when the agreement expires in November 2015.[6]
Privatization attempt by parent[edit]
In January 2006, Sears Holdings Inc., the parent company and majority shareholder of Sears Canada Inc. made a bid to purchase the remaining shares to take the company private. Some members of the board opposed the move.
A ruling by the Ontario Securities Commission, made in August 2006, stalled progress the attempted privatization by its parent company, Sears Holdings Limited.[7] While the ruling did not dispel the future possibility of the privatization of Sears Canada, it posed a significant obstacle by ruling three major shareholding blocks ineligible to vote as the blocks were given extraordinary privileges by Sears Holdings Limited.[8]
On November 14, 2006 Sears Holdings' move to privatize Sears Canada at a bid of $17.97/share fell through by voting amongst the minority shareholder groups.[9]
On March 31, 2005, the majority ownership stake was transferred to Sears Holdings which then owned 73.1% of Sears Canada common shares, while Pershing Square Capital held 17.3%, and the remainder of the shares were publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.[10]
On September 26, 2007, Sears Canada announced the sale of its 222 Jarvis Street headquarters to the Government of Ontario. The company relocated its head office to surplus space at its flagship store in the Toronto Eaton Centre.
In 2010 same-store sales were down 4% compared to 6.8% in 2009.[2][11] In December 2011, after slow sales in the holiday season, it laid off 70 employees from its head office after losing nearly $47 million in the previous quarter.[12]
In June 2011 Calvin McDonald became CEO and president of Sears Canada Inc. after an 18-year career with Loblaws.
In 2012, Sears Canada sold three stores in Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa back to the landlord, Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd., for $170 million.[4] A second, smaller Sears location in Calgary was also closed.
In 2012, Sears, Roebuck distributed a large number of its Sears Canada shares to its own shareholders, reducing its holdings from 96% to about 51%. Sears Holdings Corporation's Chairman and CEO, Edward Lampert, has a 27% stake in Sears Canada.[4]
In May 2013, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in its extensive coverage of the hiring of temporary foreign workers in Canada and the unemployment issues faced by Canadians, reported that Sears had laid off information technology staff and outsourced operations previously.[13]
In June 2013, Sears announced that it had sold leases at the Yorkdale and Square One malls back to the landlord for $191 million. Sears was to close the locations by April 2014. Sears sold an option on another location at Scarborough Town Centre mall to give the landlord an offer to buy back its lease for $53 million.[14]
In September 2013, Calvin Macdonald was replaced as CEO by Douglas C. Campbell, Sears Canada's COO.[15]
On October 29, 2013, Sears Canada announced the closure of five stores including the flagship Toronto Eaton Centre (to be replaced by Nordstrom in 2016 [16]) location, Markville Shopping Centre (Markham, Ontario - 2015), Sherway Gardens (Toronto 2014), Masonville Place (London, Ontario - 2014) and Richmond Centre (Richmond, BC - 2015).[17] The closure resulted in 965 employees being laid off, with some offered positions elsewhere.[17] Sears Canada's head office remains at the Eaton Centre.[18]
On November 26, 2013, reports indicated Sears Canada would lay off 800 staff across the Canadian operations (including head office and service department areas[19]) as part of its plan to reduce costs.[20]
In late 2013, SHS Services Management Inc., a Markham-Ontario based contract partner, went into receivership, but Sears Canada promised to honour warranty through services offered by SHS on behalf of Sears Canada.[21]
On January 15, 2014, Sears Canada Inc. announced the layoffs of more than 1,600 employees. The company, which has sold back the leases of prime stores to landlords to raise cash and has outsourced some IT, apparel design and finance positions in a bid to trim its cost structure, let go 283 employees in its logistics organization, effective immediately.[22]
Campbell left Sears Canada in October 2014 and was replaced by Ronald Boire, who served until June 2015. Brandon Stranzl was appointed Executive Chairman in July 2015, continuing in his role as chairman of the board and also assuming the duties of the CEO. In November, 2015, he selected Carrie Kirkman as president and Chief Merchant to support him in his role.
In August 2016 Sears Canada announced a change of its corporate logo [23]
Cherokee Line[edit]
Sears acquired rights to sell Cherokee line clothing from Target Canada with association with Wayne Gretzky.[24]
Sears Outlet, liquidation and fashion centres[edit]
As of 2016 Sears Canada has five outlet locations:
- Markham - 1
- Halifax - 1
- London - 1
- Regina - 1
- Saskatoon - 1
Since 2013 several more outlets have closed:
- Brampton - 2 (1 liquidation and 1 outlet)
- Mississauga - 1 (liquidation centre at Dixie Outlet Mall)
- London - 1 (outlet)
- Surrey - 1 (outlet)
- Rexdale Outlet: closed May 25, 2016
See also[edit]
- ^ http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/11/03/sears-canada-names-jones-apparels-carrie-kirkman-to-new-chief-role.html
- ^ a b c d "2014 Sears Canada Annual Report" (PDF). Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ^ "Company Profile for Sears Canada Inc (TSE;SCC)". Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ^ a b c National Post', ', "Are Sears Canada's days numbered? Poor results could have U.S. retailers circling soon", 8 January 2013
- ^ A National Institution: The Eaton's Chronology The Globe and Mail. February 19, 2002 (table reprinted by Western Libraries)
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sears-canada-jpmorgan-terminate-credit-card-deal-1.2837466
- ^ "OSC stalls Sears buyout". CBC News. August 8, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2007.
- ^ McFarland, Janet; Strauss, Marina (September 8, 2006). "Sears Holdings smacked by OSC ruling". Globe and Mail Update. Retrieved January 6, 2006.
- ^ Shaw, Hollie (November 15, 2006). "Shareholders block privatization of Sears Canada". Financial Post. Retrieved January 6, 2007.
- ^ "Sears Canada pourrait-elle être bientôt vendue?". Canoe. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
- ^ Sears faces uncertain future in Canada: analyst | CTV News
- ^ Sears faces uncertain future in Canada: analyst | CTV News
- ^ "Canadian on EI shut out amid foreign worker influx - British Columbia - CBC News". Cbc.ca. May 20, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
- ^ Marina Strauss (June 14, 2013). "Struggling Sears divests key Canadian leases". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
- ^ "Sears Canada replaces CEO with chief operating officer - Business - CBC News". Cbc.ca. September 24, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
- ^ "Nordstrom coming to Toronto Eaton Centre - Toronto - CBC News". Cbc.ca. January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
- ^ a b "Sears Canada to close Eaton Centre store and 4 others in $400M lease sale". 680News. May 31, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
- ^ "Sears Canada to close Toronto Eaton Centre store, four others; will Nordstrom move in? | Toronto Star". Thestar.com. October 29, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
- ^ "Sears Canada to lay off almost 800 people | Toronto Star". Thestar.com. November 26, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
- ^ "Sears Canada to cut nearly 800 staff in repair parts and service". 680News. November 26, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
- ^ Canadian, The (December 14, 2013). "More trouble for Sears: 640 jobs lost as company ally goes into receivership - Yahoo Finance Canada". Ca.finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
- ^ "Sears Canada to cut 1,600 call centre, warehouse jobs", CBC.ca 16 January 2014
- ^ http://business.financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/sears-canada-announces-new-logo-that-seems-bad-but-is-maybe-good
- ^ http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/04/23/sears-canada-teams-up-with-wayne-gretzky-for-new-line-of-clothing-grabs-target-labels.html
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sears Canada.


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The squatters want a deal. You help them become self sufficient and they'll give you access to the vault."— Chosen One to President Tandi
Complete Deal with NCR is a quest in Fallout 2.
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If you work out the deal, you will receive a $6000 reward from the NCR, instead of just $500 for getting the computer parts free-of-charge.
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