Meanwhile, in an alternate universe...Sears saw the coming of the Internet, put revived their dormant catalog business and put it on the web gaining a first to market mover advantage over nascent on-line bookstore Amazon. Fast-forward to alternate 2019 and Sears is one of the largest internet companies on the planet after a painful early 2000s where they shed 70% of their brick and mortar retail presence in favor of a distribution center model to service their still growing on-line retail operations....
Sears Airlines, once just a rapid cargo mover for the company starting offering bottom rate global flights for passengers...which gives them another venue to push their catalog...in flight sales.
Sears Shows, ready to launch in Q3 2019 is expected to be the second largest on-line Television and Movie delivery network on the planet with many shows featuring Sears exclusive brands in them.
Sears Craftman brand, already the largest 3d Printer manufacturer, starts offering educational discounts to middle and high school students.
SearsNet, once a staple of 80s and early 90s era stores, revived like the catalog and rebranded from the Prodigy online service, starts to finally offer a new service called "Computers in a Cloud" where consumers can rent computers over the internet and run arbitrary programs on them. This is leveraging spare capacity in Sears' service oriented computing investments, often housed in old Sears warehouses and properties that were no longer useful as retail spaces, but could be reconfigured as compute hosting centers.
Highly anticipated, next year's unveiling of the Sears Car, built using Craftsman tools and easy to drive. It promises to combine the latest in electrical vehicle technology with the comfort of corinthian leather.