Bloomberg’s Week in Pictures - Bloomberg

Bloomberg’s Week in Pictures - Bloomberg: Sears Holdings Corp. has seen a lot in its 125 years – the question now is whether it will live to see its 126th birthday. For much of the 20th century, value shopping in America was synonymous with Sears, which had its roots in mail-order. Each new edition of its catalog was like an update of the consumer bible -- essentially a pre-internet version of Amazon. Sears became the biggest U.S. retailer by revenue and was in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 75 years, starting in 1924. But the con