[Vince Ferrer]

I am saddened by their decline too. More than any other company they invented modern retail. With a catalogue and mail order a person in a small town on the grear plains could buy the same things a person in New York could buy.

[yarddog]

We lived in rural Florida.

I particularly remember Mother ordering clothes etc. before school started. This was around 1951. When the package came we all could not wait to open it and see what everyone got.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Those Sears catalogs were a doozy. I remember the lingerie section, in the 70s.

[MarkL]

You're right... If you think about it, Sears sort of "invented" the Amazon.com model more than a century before the Internet!

Mark