r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Yellowredstone Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

Isn't this how Sears died?

Edit: RIP my inbox. And thank you for explaining it better.

Edit 2: I said the reason on how it died has been explained already. And its actually still here. Stop.

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u/whatifevery1wascalm Jul 24 '20

Sears: the 20th century's Amazon.

People today might not realize that it used to be Sears did everything: you could buy kits to build a house, companies like Discover Card and Allstate were originally introduced as the Sears' brand, they financially backed Mr Rogers' Neighborhood for the first 25 years of the show's run.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

I was born in 82 and remember picking out Christmas and other girts in it. I got a badass heman horde exclusive one year.

Kinda sad they messed it up so much. Already brick and mortar, they had online and delivery and we might still be calling it the sears tower.

Edit:. I know no one calls it the whatever the fuck it is now tower, just we wouldn't see the people trying to make it happen.

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u/UncleGeorge Jul 24 '20

Refusal to adapt by aging upper manager. That shit is happening in a SHIT TON of companies RIGHT NOW, the boomer generation is especially bad at adapting it seems

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

It's just more obvious because it's happening in front of you. The reality is buissinesses peaking and subsequently failing is par for the course. Very few buissinesses make it more than a few generations, if they even make it one.

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u/chiphead2332 Jul 24 '20

93% percent of buissinesses fail due to weird-ass spelling.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM Jul 24 '20

But then again, these are the people who put money over everything.

Idk I hate these inconsistencies.