[JRandomFreeper]

Maybe they could become a catalog sales house, that sells everything from .22 rifles to baby chicks (it is that time of year, and the Post Office still delivers) to hand tools and sewing machines, and reduce some overhead and concentrate on delivering quality products at low cost.

Nah... that would never make money.

/johnny

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Sears had a chance to do something like that, but it’s now called Amazon and eBay. There is still a way they could enter that market in a big sort of way.

Imagine if Sears would set up an online store in a deal with one of the big shippers like UPS, but designed to also integrate “sub-stores” by a bunch of other catalogs out there. There are hundreds of them, that still send out paper catalogs before the holiday season.

The idea being that all together, it would function like a virtual Wal-Mart. Not just the entire Sears and K-Mart inventory, but that of all the other catalogs, from Edmund Scientifics to the Cheese of the Month Club.

[bert]

Actually they operate one of the successful mail order on line catalog businesses....... Lands End.

When they bought it I anticipated they would ruin it but that did not happen. They have good products at a reasonable price and if you are careful, you can get overstocks at an excellent price