The really big irony in all of this is that, if I'm not mistaken, it was the old Sears Roebuck catalogs that used to say something like "it's folly to purchase

The really big irony in all of this is that, if I'm not mistaken, it was the old Sears Roebuck catalogs that used to say something like "it's folly to purchase items on credit". Then the next generation took advantage of consumer folly, making financing a core part of the business. And now debt is killing this originally-anti-debt company.