Opinion

Give all the facts on Sears situation

Posted May 12, 2017 1:00 am

I just finished reading the article in your paper this morning on Sears and Kmart written by Kim Bhasin and Lance Lambert. While I don't dispute the facts of Sears history and the struggles the company has been going through since merging with Kmart in 2005, I do take issue with the tone of the article.

I believe many of your readers will conclude after reading this piece that bankruptcy has been declared and there will no longer be any Sears stores, neither of which are in fact true. What bothers me is the extent to which an article written in the Business section pertaining to a company's health shifts the public's perception of that particular company - especially since in this case, a large portion of the article is written about the company in past tense. The difficulties of every business are absolutely newsworthy. Let's just be sure the information that's put out to the public is written as objectively as possible.

Sandra Pechan

Schaumburg

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