We have all the customers we could possibly want," Lampert told shareholders at the Sears annual meeting on Wednesday, speaking of the Shop Your Way program. His comments were confirmed by a Sears spokesman. In recent years, Sears has sold off many of its best stores, and hived off brands like Lands' End apparel and Craftsmen tools to raise money. And earlier this year, credit ratings agency Fitch said Sears would burn through $1.8 billion this year and even hinted at the possibility of bankruptcy. Sears Holdings itself in its annual report in March recognized "substantial doubt exists related to the Company's ability to continue as a going concern ." Yet Lampert slammed media reports about Sears' financial problems and headlines about potential bankruptcy, saying they were exacerbating the retailer's problems and making it harder to get vendors to work with it through its problems. "Every time people use the word bankruptcy, somebody who reads that doesn't get past that word.