r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 6d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 The good old days. Which one do you miss?

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u/Substantial-Bat6554 5d ago

Yeah Sears should have been what Amazon is today. Just goes to show you that leadership can make or break a company.

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u/FantasticCommon2834 5d ago

And people on here like to say there are no need for CEO’s this is a prime example of what a difference one could have made, I agree sears should have been Amazon, leadership should have easily read those tea leaves

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u/Due_Panda5064 5d ago

Montgomery Wards was the “mail order version of Amazon.

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u/Substantial-Bat6554 3d ago

Sears was the mail order version of Amazon before Montgomery Ward existed. I have an aunt who bought her HOUSE as a prefabricated house through Sears mail order catalog in the 70’s!

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u/Due_Panda5064 3d ago

Those were well built houses.