"TURTLE" wrote in message
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Sears and RoeBuck started as a Fur Trader company and went into the pots
& wood
Stove business by mail order. Sears was a white fellow and RoeBuck was a
black fellow and never really got along with each otherbut the two put up
with each

Richard Sears worked for a railroad before branching out into watches.
Alvah Roebuck (not black) was a watchmaker who entered into a partnership
with Sears. They diversified and created mail-order sales as -- well, I
started to say "as we know it today" but actually "as we knew it when I was
a boy in the 1950s" would be more like it. Anyway, sorry to nitpick but
Sears (and Allstate) paid for my college education so I thought the least I
could do would be to cast a little light on their history. Not that it
matters to the basic post, dealing with today's Sears and their service
policies...
- Steve Richardson
St Louis MO