Wall Street analysts and the media covering them have often bloviated about the lamentable end of retail, the death of department stores, the changing fickle habits of Millennials, the power of online retail, and the tragedy of an America left behind. Well, maybe the problem is simpler than all that.  Just a good photo spread of what these places look like tells quite a bit of the real story. Seriously, Millennial or not, would you want to shop in a dump like this Kmart?  Or this Sears? A photo blogger from The Street, Lindsay Rittenhouse, put a group of photos together, billing it as a Millennial's fresh-eye view, since she hadn't visited these places before she took the photos.  Her fresh eyes on the problem are a kick in the pants these places need. I, likely because I'm a millennial, had never been to a Sears Holdings Corp.-owned (SHLD) Kmart before. Until today. On Monday, July 3, I took a trip to a...(Read Full Post)