What could of been.......
From USA Today
DETROIT — Homemaking guru Martha Stewart shared management and branding secrets during a conference here this week and expressed regret for not buying troubled retailer Kmart.
Speaking at the Fuel Detroit leadership and business conference Thursday, Stewart recounted her "fabulous evening" in Detroit on Wednesday, when she met with entrepreneurs at the Ponyride work space, dined at trendy Gold Cash Gold in Corktown — "the food was utterly superb" – and received a Shinola watch.
She considered making a visit to the former and now-vacant Kmart headquarters in Troy, a building she first saw during the 1980s when she signed her first corporate partnership with the retailer. Stewart said she once even mulled buying the company in the years before it moved to suburban Chicago, where it is now a part of Sears Holding Corp.
"Sadly, of course, they are no longer here," Stewart said. "We thought about buying it ... but I didn't buy it — I should have. And so that's one of the regrets, not buying Kmart."