"If I am a betting person, which I am, I would say at some point we would be public again."

-Edward Lampert, whose hedge fund ESL Investments acquired Sears Holdings out of bankruptcy for $5.2 billion earlier this month, in an interview this week with The Wall Street Journal, as reported by Chain Store Age. Lampert also told the newspaper his goal is to shrink the size of existing Sears stores and to open more smaller-format locations.