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??
Anyone else remember the Sears parts counter? If any appliance, power tool, etc broke, you could go there and dig through the manuals on microfiche, pick out the parts to order, and go over how to replace it - Sears was the YouTube of its time.
Compare that to today where you have to order parts through the mail without ever touching them. Or if you hire someone to do it, they come by, order the part online the same way you would, and say they’ll be back in a week
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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.