Back in the early 80s I worked in the wholesale construction supply industry. My client got hired by Montgomery Ward to remodel one of their stores. I got to know the MG rep pretty well and he told me they were renovating every store in the country. It was only a few years later that they shut down.
This sounds like a retro idea, but Wards actually STARTED as a mail-order catalog company, and moved to retail stores later.
They were ahead of the game from the beginning. Maybe they should have stayed there.