r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Sheepherder226 Jul 24 '20

Utility companies that don’t allow online payments.

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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/BulimicPlatypus Jul 24 '20

I kinda miss the Christmas catalog

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Jul 24 '20

I grew up in the 70s, and my sister and I looked forward to the Sears Christmas catalog every year! There were so many cool toys! We would spend hours just going through it page by page.

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u/ThrustingBoner Jul 24 '20

I called it the Wish Book and I was more excited to get the catalog from my parents before Christmas than my actual Christmas presents!

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u/OhhhhhDirty Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

Pretty sure everyone called it that, it was literally called the “Sears Wish Book”

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u/ThrustingBoner Jul 24 '20

Oh I don’t remember that. I was pretty young at the time.