I needed tools for my first field service job out of engineering school, so I went to Sears. They turned me down for a credit card! After I was established and making good money, they BEGGED me to take their credit card. I often returned their mail-in application with a big “NO WAY!” scrawled across it. I never did get a Sears credit card, even after 45 years from the day they turned me down.
damn, that’s messed up... i had no credit history at all aside from a car loan
i dropped the card a year later when i got my Visa cause it was smaller and hard to get out of my wallet and it was only good at Sears