"@Loki_Monster: well if the collection companies were only concerned about perusing legitimate debts you'd think they'd attempt to verify with their customer (Sears) when a supposed debtor (the woman of this story) tries to point out an error"
"I never did see how getting your stuff shipped from halfway across the world fits in with low overhead.
Maybe they could have sold sneakers for a quarter of what Nike did, but it sounds like they went for one-tenth.
They had a good idea, maybe they stretched it a bit too far.
I assume that accounted for having reserves for getting through a bad cycle, but maybe not enough.
I think they said online sales would be too much overhead for them but maybe it would have helped.
Some stores even seem to fulfill their online orders from their stores, don't they?"
"I followed the link to one of the Countrywide back stories about the CEO thinking that form letters asking for assistance were 'disgusting'.
Some commenters seemed to empathize with the CEO and liken a form-letter (as opposed to more 'original' ones?) to spam."
"@donkeyjote: there are already those ridiculous belts that contract muscles.
now there is an external way using magnetism on the brain to counteract migraines
if we are thinking 'future' i'm sure that other non-painful ways to manipulate the body will be found
and if anything, people of the future will want to look 'good' look at how much is invested on cosmetic surgery
i could see the future being full of vain people who have skewed their sense of beauty to some artificial looking cosmetic surgery aesthetic.
of course there are many possibilities"
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