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38. Fascinating! Sears Roebuck & Co. Changed How America Shopped

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Sun Dec 28, 2025, 11:03 AM

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in the early 20th Century. However, it was stuck in its ways and could not adapt to the digital marketplace at all.

It suffered the same fate that the local department stores suffered in another time, and became the victim of change, just as it was the winner 100 years earlier.

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I find it incredibly sad. hlthe2b Saturday #1

I loved the sears catalog UpInArms Saturday #2

one bathrm in house, yikes! msongs Saturday #11

Trust me you can survive 😄 zeusdogmom Saturday #23

We had 5 in the house with 1 bathroom, dad would be in there dem4decades Sunday #33

Most houses had only one bathroom until maybe the '60s. Ocelot II Sunday #34

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You Ain't Kidding! ProfessorGAC Sunday #41

I worked for Sears when I was moniss Saturday #4

When we were first married (dinosaurs still roamed the earth), Sears was where you went to get everything. Vinca Saturday #5

Same here. We bought appliances, tools and housewares there until the mid-80s. Ocelot II Sunday #35

Funny, I was thinking about this again and it occurred to me that when I was a teenager, I'm pretty sure Vinca Sunday #37

We bought a lot of Craftsman tools, which was Sears' store brand. Ocelot II Sunday #39

The acquisition by K Mart was not a very good idea MichMan Saturday #6

Was Kmart sandbagged with a goal in mind? bucolic_frolic Saturday #7

Lampert Lost A Few Hundred Million.... ProfessorGAC Sunday #42

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Some of us may remember using a outhouse with a Sears catalog Kaleva Saturday #8

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Sears should have been looking Greg_In_SF Saturday #10

Yep, they had everything in place to give them a leg up on it misanthrope Saturday #15

Yup. Sears should have been Amazon. Captain Stern Sunday #25

I just read yesterday that they co owned Prodigy back in the day along with IBM fujiyamasan Sunday #26

Wasn't it Sears that had the Ayn Rand-worshipping dickhead CEO Aristus Saturday #12

That's makes no business sense to me JI7 Saturday #14

Or to anyone else with a functioning brain. Aristus Saturday #19

Eddie Lampert fujiyamasan Sunday #27

Also asking how they can be a CEO anywhere after blowing it. The Madcap Sunday #31

Didn't they go out of business a few years ago ? JI7 Saturday #13

I sure thought so. News to me. B.See Saturday #16

Sears did themselves in. I recalled when I worked for JCPenney's, that Sears, the opposite anchor store in our local SWBTATTReg Saturday #18

The Sears Christmas Catelog was the boomers Google Norbert Saturday #20

Loved that. maveric Sunday #43

Sears holiday portraits were a tradition Danmel Saturday #21

I thought they already went out of business. Jacson6 Saturday #22

Sears went down not to one bad decision... Xolodno Saturday #24

A series of bad decisions made over the span of decades fujiyamasan Sunday #28

Sears catalogs were... BH liberal Sunday #29

I had no idea they still existed. GoCubsGo Sunday #30

Successful thriving public companies don't sell out to vulture capitalists MichMan Sunday #32

Don't forget the Trump connection.... LPBBEAR Sunday #36

Fascinating! Sears Roebuck & Co. Changed How America Shopped MineralMan Sunday #38

It's really sad and it didn't have to be this way. They were intentionally gutted and destroyed themaguffin Sunday #40