Sears is closing a remodeled store less than 7 months after its reopening. What went wrong?
CHICAGO - Sears' return to Oakbrook Center in suburban Oakbrook, Ill., last fall was a rare spark of good news for a company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
Though the store was significantly smaller than the three-story space it had occupied since the mall opened in the early 1960s, customers at the grand reopening in October praised the brighter, more modern look. Some said they had questioned whether it would reopen at all as the store's remodeling stretched on
