The new merger between Sears and Kmart could result in a new major ecommerce portal. Kmart and Sears have become the third largest retailer and eWeek reports that the combined company has huge ecommerce and IT-integration plans. However, Frost & Sullivan IT research director Rufus Connell told eWeek merging the seperate IT components of the retailers will not come easy. Connell said, "Sears and Kmart will have to overcome huge challenges not to fall even farther behind Wal-Mart in terms of efficiencies.."
