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    Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is one of the leading integrated retailer focused on flawlessly trying to connect the digital and physical shopping experiences for the customers - wherever, whenever and however the customers want to shop. Sears Holdings is home to Shop Your Way Brand, which is a social shopping platform offering customers and members and other businesses rewards for shopping at Sears and Kmart. The Sears Holding Corp. operates through its subsidiaries which includes Sears

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    will save of challenges and cost in the long run. Both companies possess strengths that helped The Sears Roebuck Co. And Kmart Holding Corp. Companies were an unsuccessful acquisition. The CEOs of Sears, Roebuck, and Kmart Holding, planned to merge into a fifty-five-billion-dollar retail company believing it would produce stronger brands, greater productiveness in operations and higher returns than either company could achieve alone. At the time of the merger, both companies were struggling.

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    at both Sears and Kmart, the two have decided to merge creating one entity named Sears Holdings. Kmart has agreed to buy Sears for $11 Billion. This puts Sears Holdings at the third largest retailer behind Wal-Mart and Home Depot. Although Wal-Mart is a direct competitor with Kmart, Sears Holdings goal is not to compete with Wal-Mart directly, but find areas that have been overlooked by other retailers, and take advantage of the expanded line of products the new company has to offer. Sears has had

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    Implementation According to Sears Holding, Sears is the leading integrated retailer. This retailor focuses on everything from digital to physical shopping experience. Sears is known for their Shop Your Way, which is a social shopping website that enables members to receive rewards for shopping at Sears and Kmart as well as other partners according to Sears Holding. The company generally operates through subsidiaries that include Sears, Roebuck and Co and Kmart. According to Forbes, Sears reportedly made over

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    business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” All companies wishing to succeed into the future must learn to evolve their operations and stay on top of their competition. Sears Holdings and Amazon are two American companies that know this philosophy well, both being on the move, continuing to transform their course of doing business in order to compete with the growing changes to the retail marketplace. They both understand

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    Audit Process Sears Roebuck and Company was established in 1893 by Richard W. Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) that has been publicly traded on NASDAQ since 1906. As the nation's largest provider of home services, the corporation employs 89,000 people in the United States and U.S. territories in approximately 547 full-line Sears stores. (Sears, 2017) As internal audit, it is our duty to provide independent, objective assurance

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    Introduction Sears Holding Company (SHLD) was once a very successful organization. Prior to the 1980’s, SHLD managed to generate revenue and compete among the top retailers in America (Kim, 2014). However, in more recent years, SHLD has become subject to scrutiny among industry’s critics. As of late, SHLD has made several attempts to revive their organization. These attempts involve SHLD implementing corporate, business and functional leveled strategies within their organization. Corporate Level

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    The company of my interest to research was Sears, Roebuck and CO. I wanted to know why and how this company made itself well known. Another reason why is because lately this company has been in the eyes of the media. Therefore stockholders and more due to the company’s struggle of finance and meeting its daily goals are worry to keep investing in the company. Sears, Roebuck and Co. hasn't outgrown the mall scene, but it's spending more time in other places. (Hoovers A D&B Company)Beyond about 785

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    Once a top retailer, Sears has entered a “death spiral”. In 2005, with realization of its depleting sales, Sears and Kmart merged to become Sears’ Holding, the “third-largest retailer in the country”. However, this plan did not go quite as planned. Instead of soaring sale, Sears’ sales have been plummeting. Rising competition during this time included “Target, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, etc.” Sears’ doesn’t have a fresh look like Target and Wal-Mart, and loses its ability to attract the customer’s attention

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    rated by the business which is consistently declining. The critical year after its incorporation, the pay of Sears Holdings dove 84% from $858 million (Daniels, 2011). Mr. Eddie Lampert holds the present CEO title of the organization.The operations result for the first quarter of 2011 was not much convincing for the company. The company incurred the losses over one hundred and fifty million US dollars for the quarter ended in April 2011. According to some of the analysts in the industry, the declining

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