The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears
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Rating | : | 4.77 (632 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0140115250 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 640 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-01-15 |
Language | : | English |
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The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears book on paperback has been released on 2014-01-15. consist of 640 of pages and writen by Penguin Books are really nice book to read. Although it oficially circulated on paperback but you still download it on other format or just read it online from our website.
TOO BIG ,TOO ARROGANT TO FAIL- AND YET THE BIG STORE FOUND A WAY I review this book with cross agendas. If you worked for Sears and can recognize the times and the names, you would be very interested in the story told. Give it a five star rating. Otherwise I don't think this book would mean much to most people of recent generations. Give it a one star rating. For the management student, it is a must read.The author does a great job in d. Business history, humanized Mr. Katz relates an important historical passage, and does it well by liberally seasoning it with real people. There are winners and losers, and Katz allows them to "speak" to the reader along the way. Because we know what happened to Sears, (once America's unchallenged retail giant and a major force in the national economy, now delisted and floundering for new strategies). Overkill on Sears Mr. Chips The Prologue of this book is riveting. It provides a tantilizing glimpse into the inbred corporate culture at Sears and about what is to come in this bookonly the book is so dense and the story so ponderous that I couldn't finish it, or even get halfway through. Don't get me wrong, this is an excellent book, thoroughly researched and well-written. But the level of detail i
James W. From Library Journal Katz writes about the recent changes at Sears, Roebuck, the country's largest retailer. Recommended to public libraries. The merchandise division shrank, and underwent an internal shakeup. Oberly, Univ . of Wisconsin - Eau ClaireCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Faced with falling net income, under Telling Sears diversified beyond retail merchandising into retail financial and real estate services. Katz, who was given unlimited research access by Sears, devotes most of the book to the men who worked and fought at Sears headquarters in Chicago, but enlivens his reporting with notes from the checkout counter where he once worked. The chief protagonist is Edward Telling, chairman from 1977 through 1984