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Ed Pawlowski

On 11/18/2017 8:08 PM, wrote:

Isn't it ironic that competition from mail order is what killed them, as
they invented it.

No, Sears killed Sears. It's been a miserable place to shop for at
least thirty years.

Absolutely. First was their marketing strategy. Sales prices wee good
but the everyday price was higher than the other discount stores that
came along. Back around 1975 to 1990s or so there were probably a dozen
stores that came and went, many killed by Wal Mart.

Sears used to have a good catalog order and local pickup. One year we
got the Christmas catalog and ordered a bunch of stuff, many sale items.
I went to pick it up a couple of days later and they were out of
everything but one $4 item. That was about 40 years ago and the last
time I ordered from Sears.

Fast forward a few decades. Amazon has never been out of an item I
ordered, is usually one of the best prices. Couple of clicks and it is
in my mailbox 2 days later.