There was a Sears distribution center next to where I work. It was closed and demolished in the last few months. The place used to have nice signs and a well paved/Lit lot, 20 years ago. Before it closed, it looked almost like something from The Walking Dead.
When I was a kid in the 50s, living overseas, we depended on the huge Sears catalog. That’s how Sears began, reaching out long distances to customers. In it’s first years, they would sell all of the parts to build a house.