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Jack

On 1/11/2017 9:47 PM, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 10:17:14 AM UTC-6, Jack wrote:
Sears should be where Amazon is today, based on their long history of
catalog and mail order sales.
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Jack

Yes, hindsight is always 20/20. And it would be just as accurate to say Radio Shack should be exactly where Best Buy and Dell combined are today. In the 1970s and 1980s Radio Shack was the computer store. Everything electronic was at Radio Shack. Radio Shack was in every mall back then so they had presence everywhere in the country. All the new computer buyers of the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s should have bought from Radio Shack. But the Shack is now about gone. Why didn't the people at Radio Shack predict the prevalence of computers and online everything that came 30 years later? Probably the same reason Sears did not see everyone ordering everything in the mail (FedEx and UPS are a big part) fifty years later.

It's not hindsight, it is now. Sears could have easily shifted to
online sales at any time, but my guess is management had their
collective heads where the sun don't shine.

Amazon started from scratch, Sears had a long history of catalog sales.
They blew it big time by ignoring the CURRENT trends. How on earth could
a retail store with a history of catalog sales IGNORE Amazon? Brain
dead is what I think.

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Jack
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