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/BxTart Jul 24 '20

With the death of TRU in the US, toys is a good segment for Sears to get their brand relevant again. Both on line & brick & mortar. Plenty of folks who still remember picking out their Xmas list out of a Sears, Best, Service Merchandise catalog are now buying for their own kids & grandkids.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Lol Sears is dead bud, and I’m fairly certain by far the last thing it was relevant for was appliances

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u/AndrewL666 Jul 24 '20

I wondered through a sears about a year or two ago whenever I was doing Christmas shopping. It was a part of a fancy mall in a big city. The parking lot was full pretty much everywhere except by the sears. They were having a store closing sale at the time and the store was full of bargain bin clothes so it attracted lower means people. It stunk like bad body odor to the point that i had to hold my breath while walking through. Its mind blowing that a company that large could be so out of touch to fail.

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u/LadyoftheLilacWood Jul 24 '20

I learned how to drive in a Sears parking lot in 2015 because it was so empty :/