This century’s Sears & Roebuck is Amazon.com. Sears can’t compete with Amazon and Overstock for non-brick & mortar sales, and it can’t compete with Walmart for in-store sales. It had a good run, but it’s over.
With any decent management, this century's Amazon should have been Sears & Roebuck.
This is the company that invented direct marketing to the home. For them to completely miss the concept of internet marketing (until it was far too late) is a textbook example of poor business forecasting.