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To: Hojczyk

I grew up in a small, rural village. The Sears (and Eaton’s — Canadians know what I mean) catalogues were the closest I ever got to window-shopping in a mall. They offered a much wider range of products than we could get locally, at reasonable prices. My siblings and I would spend hours pouring over the Christmas “wish books”, circling the toys we wanted Santa to bring. In elementary school, we were even taught how to write a letter to Sears, to order some items we wanted.

Then the Internet happened, and these venerable old catalogue stores were among the last to get on board. I recall when Amazon was starting out — I kept wondering: “when’s Sears going to make its move?”; surely, they’ll use their century’s worth of experience to demolish that upstart. When it finally arrived late to the party, and still couldn’t compete with Amazon, I knew it was toast. It was just a matter of time.


68 posted on 12/04/2014 2:10:01 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Here we had Sears and Penneys catalogs. You could get a hernia picking up the twice a year big catalogs. They were that heavy.
71 posted on 12/04/2014 2:25:52 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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