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"Genuine competition" is better handled as a collaborative effort with the benefit of all as the goal. Competition breeds protectionism. Competing governments, businesses, even toxic family members seek to win at the expense of others. Competition is hostility. Its end is ruthless efficency, not greatest benefit.

Sears was operating on the assumption that internal competition would cause the creme to rise to the top. It didn't. Departments fought for resources, cooked their books, bought the cheapest goods they could to sell and it caused one of the biggest and oldest retailers in the US to spectacularly implode. It exacerbated the already tenuous position department stores have been in since the advent of online shopping.