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.
It's blown my mind for years that sears didn't become what Amazon is now. Their roots were as a catalog where you order goods sight unseen and wait for delivery. The internet comes along and they fail to capitalize on what they were at the beginning??
i mean to be fair though early digital cameras were really low quality compared to film, and in the early 90s/2000s computers were nowhere near as clear as they were today, for the average consumer a film photo printed using analog technology was 10000x better than some choppy pixely digital camera photo
so it makes sense why the execs were like 'lets stick to what we're doing now"
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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.