crippled by heavy debt from private equity ownership including toys r us, payless, the limited, gymboree took away the ability to invest to compete with market forces including e-commerce. amazon is part of the story but did you wa doesn't get all the blame for what retailers haven't done right. >> let's dig into the retail landscape and president trump's constant jabs at amazon and whether his argument that it is crushing mom and pops are valid or not mark cohen of sears canada joins us welcome back to "power lunch." >> thank you. >> what's funny is the same argument could have been made years ago when it comes to walmart and the impact of mom and pops here we are. amazon is threatening walmart. we are just looking for a scapegoat at this point? let's face it if the washington post endlessly praised trump and his administration as one of your peer networks does almost every day, he would be singing the praises of this archetype american success amazon similar to the american success that was walmart a few years ago. amazon started because jeff bezos had an interesting idea -- at least h