A private equity firm fucked up running a 188-year-old department store chain, which had survived two world wars and the Great Depression.
So now low-paid retail workers are being told that they’ll lose their jobs just weeks before Christmas.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-11/david-jones-to-close-stores/107372854



Buy it with loans dump the loans into their books, sell off anything valuable, declare it bankrupt.