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To: TomGuy

“...the local Sears...”
You used to be able to buy everything, and I mean everything throught Sears catalog sales. If they had kept it and transitioned to online, it would be bigger than Amazon ever dreamed of.


45 posted on 05/03/2015 4:35:03 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Sasparilla

“...the local Sears...”
You used to be able to buy everything, and I mean everything throught Sears catalog sales. If they had kept it and transitioned to online, it would be bigger than Amazon ever dreamed of.


Yep. They fumbled too many times.


53 posted on 05/03/2015 4:44:23 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Sasparilla
You used to be able to buy everything, and I mean everything through Sears catalog sales. If they had kept it and transitioned to online, it would be bigger than Amazon ever dreamed of.

Excellent observation. Time was, you could literally order a house from the Sears catalog. It was the pre-tech, paper precursor of Amazon before there was an Amazon.

How times change.

106 posted on 05/03/2015 7:05:20 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Sasparilla

“If they had kept it and transitioned to online, it would be bigger than Amazon ever dreamed of.”

That’s a really good question. When Sears didn’t respond to the opportunity Amazon expanded its internet book operation to other merchandise.


132 posted on 05/03/2015 8:47:41 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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