The end of Sears Canada Inc. has put several other companies on the spot.
Liquidation sales at Sears remaining Canadian stores began last week, after an Ontario Superior Court judge gave the go-ahead earlier this month.
But the 65-year-old retailers passing leaves behind questions for companies it did business with and competed against. Those questions will linger as Sears Canada winds down its operations, putting about 12,000 people out of work.
Mark Cohen, former chairman and chief executive of Sears Canada and director of retail studies at Columbia Business School, said in an interview that retail is something of a zero sum game, and that the companies best positioned to benefit from the downfall will be ones already on…
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