Posted
6:23 PM
by Gene
Our old friend
ST. WARREN, JR. -- you know, the guy who runs those dollar stores called Sears and Kmart into the ground and who still thinks he'll make a fortune on the real estate because the Big C crowd and
BizWeek scribblers told him so -- well, in a rare show of courage from the bizpress,
SLIME let JR. have it. So what did JR. do? He wrote
a rip-roaring letter back saying in so many words he has the right to run dollar stores any old way he pleases! (Link only to letters section.) Now if only we could find a few Gekko Kudlows to hum along....
P. S. We see
Bob, who wrote that reportorial infatuation for JR. (we could use stronger words), is still at
BizWeek, which seems strange given the ardor of his devotion. But it was "a Loeb Award finalist"! (for what?!?), meaning an awful lot more people than we thought share the blame for last year's financial-news meltdown, and some of them hand out too many awards. He's now doing "investigative stories involving consumer credit, the medical industry, high finance, and government spending." The money is safe.
Who
won?