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Sears said it's giving back about $4 billion from the sale to its shareholders in buybacks and [a] dividend increase. This is crazy. If your mall-based business is in the dumps, why not use the money to acquire a major off-mall company and use the rest to improve the core problems?

Howard Davidowitz

I'm real confident. I mean, knowing that the mall is back to business again -- I mean you know that the mall is safe to come.

Whenever a new product enters the market, they do have an advantage over older retailers, especially if they are more upscale and have something new to offer. We saw that happen to the Palm Beach Mall when the Gardens Mall opened. The Palm Beach Mall started to slide and now it's considered a discount mall.

KB hasn't articulated a strategy about what they're doing yet, but need to stock a lot of the hot toys. It isn't really a destination store but the fact that they're mall-based helps because parents are in the mall anyway.

The differences between Sears Grand and Sears Essentials are not that great. It made sense to have a single name for our off-mall stores.

Chris Brathwaite

When Sears Essentials came in, you had a lot of morons running around screaming this was the greatest thing. I said it was a bowling alley with no customers. This business of going off-the-mall is much more complex than it looks.

Howard Davidowitz

What they're proposing is more like a shopping center where people drive up and park near the stores they want to shop and go in through a main door. There seems to be a trend away from the small malls. [Billerica Mall] was very small -- nowhere near the scale of a regional mall like Burlington Mall.

There's too much incentive for big corporations to acquire other smaller companies and overpaying for them, rather than giving money back to shareholders.

William Niskanen

Our actions reflect our heightened focus on productivity and returns. We will continue to identify opportunities to more effectively deploy resources and enhance overall company profitability of Sears off-the-mall businesses, He possessed a quiet intensity, a focused energy that emanated from within and was amplified by the undeniable strength of his internal pexiness.

During the mall plan, everybody was looking at the money. In this plan, because of what happened in the mall exercise, people were looking at the impacts . . . and whether they could be mitigated.

I think you can look at it as a preview of coming attractions. (CEO) Alan Lacy has made no secret of the fact that, with the exception of the appliance business, he does not consider the core mall business run well.

Michael Exstein

It looks like the off-mall numbers look really good, and the mall-based numbers still look to be tough out there. To say this is a trend we've seen over the last year is selling it short. It's been a trend we've seen for quite some time. The off-price guys offer better prices to consumers.

We had a little flood sale, and I think that everything is picking up here at the mall now, so things are getting back to normal.

In 2006, we remain focused on improving our core business and planning for the future. Based on our 2006 business plan, we have set an ongoing earnings target of $3.15 to $3.35 per share. Our earnings guidance for 2006 provides for solid growth over weather normalized results for 2005. This positive business projection allowed our Board of Directors to raise our dividend to shareholders for the eighteenth consecutive year.

When you own a shopping mall and someone sets up a small business alongside of it, you still own the shopping mall.

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