27% chance of becoming Sears

The Kmart near you has over a 1 in 4 chance of becoming a Sears Essentials or Sears Grand in the next 3 years. The closest Sears Grand being built near me is in the new shopping development in the North/Northeast suburbs of Pittsburgh.

I think that the possibility of shopping at a Kmart in 2010 is highly highly unlikely. Kinda sad, but I'm still on my Eddie Lampert theory of Kmart's jumping ship to the more robust Sears brand name, with a backup plan of pulling a silken pullstring on a golden parachute. In all honesty, the plan so far is a viable exit strategy from the tarnished Kmart image. I'm just too cynical these days to buy it still. If I were working for Kmart, I'd be hoping my store was on the conversion list sooner, rather than later.

I shall be in Washington DC next week for a conference, so don't look for too many postings. ('course if get bored enough I might be online....)

Tim Hortons is set to open on 26th Street in Erie on Saturday.... That's #2! Gotta go, I took an early lunch break today so that I could get some things done over everyone elses lunch.