To: American Number 181269513
In their earlier days, Sears had THE preeminent mail order business. You could order just about ANYTHING through their catalog, and have it shipped to your house. If they had just had SOMEBODY with vision, they could have dominated the web niche that Amazon currently does.
23 posted on
09/16/2021 4:18:00 PM PDT by
PapaBear3625
(Everything that’s been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.)
To: PapaBear3625
You could order just about ANYTHING through their catalog, and have it shipped to your house.
You could order a house from their catalogs. Every piece of wood was numbered and you could assemble it yourself or hire someone to build it for you. There are still lots of Sears Homes still standing.
43 posted on
09/16/2021 4:23:47 PM PDT by
hanamizu
To: PapaBear3625
In their earlier days, Sears had THE preeminent mail order business. You could order just about ANYTHING through their catalog, and have it shipped to your house....You could even buy your house. And most are still standing. Apparently, the lumber pieces were so exact that the builders ended up with about one wheelbarrow of "waste."
To: PapaBear3625
They had a lot of catalog stores in rural areas. Order there, even layaway, and pick up.
We had one in a small Ark town even when there was a big Sears store 40 miles away.
69 posted on
09/16/2021 4:40:38 PM PDT by
Fledermaus
(I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
To: PapaBear3625
If they had just had SOMEBODY with vision, they could have dominated the web niche that Amazon currently does. That 1993 Sears catalog you posted is very telling. The spine of it had the 1-800 numbers to call but no URL.
The following year, 1994, Jeff Bezos would found Amazon.com and the rest is history.
Had there been a Sears.com in 1993, they could well have been where Amazon is today.
78 posted on
09/16/2021 4:48:02 PM PDT by
SamAdams76
(I am 296 days away from outliving Andrew Gold)
To: PapaBear3625
They did have people with vision. The Sears Wishbook project here in Denver was the first of its kind to go web-based. What killed it, and I am being dead serious, was the underqualified Affirmative Action executives they hired during that period in the 1990’s.
126 posted on
09/16/2021 6:16:03 PM PDT by
CodeToad
(Arm up! They Have!)
To: PapaBear3625
136 posted on
09/16/2021 7:04:14 PM PDT by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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