Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.
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Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.
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#3Meanwhile Sears is still thriving in Mexico under different ownership.
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#4What did they sell? A bit of everything?
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#5The Internet Archive has scans of Sears catalogs from when it was a major mail-order retailer. For example:
1911: https://archive.org/details/sears-roebuck-catalog-122-spring...
1922: https://archive.org/details/SearsRoebuckAndCoCatalog1922_201...
When I was young, they were especially known for their tools:
1974/1975: https://archive.org/details/SearsCraftsmanPowerAndHandTools1...
More here:
https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28sears+catalog%29...
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#6What did they sell? A bit of everything?
Literally almost everything, up to and including entire houses. I've lived in two Sears houses, great quality stuff if not a bit small by modern tastes.
When I was a kid it was normal for parents to let their kids read the huge yearly Sears catalog to get ideas or pick gifts. By then they'd stopped selling items like firearms and houses but had pretty much everything else.
If they had the foresight, they should have become a better version of what Amazon is now.
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#7Intentionally destroyed to get access to its real estate. I dunno how the CEO is not behind bars for what he did.
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#8What did they sell? A bit of everything?
The original Sears was the Amazon of the 20th century.
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#9Intentionally destroyed to get access to its real estate. I dunno how the CEO is not behind bars for what he did.
Our obligation is to personal profit at the expense of everything else.
This is empirically the default operational behavior. It should always be assumed as opposed to our current strategy of always being baffled and shocked that it happens.
We could be serious about this and restructure incentives away from naked kleptocracy to avoid it.
I mean we never will, but we could...
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#10At one point Sears owned an ISP, a bank, and a nationwide stock tracking and distribution system.
They were Amazon before Amazon, but just didn’t realize it.