Well, given what a great company Sears was at one time, and had the largest catalog (in terms of sales and possibly size too) in the world, they completely lost their minds and eliminated the catalog! What were they thinking? I forget whether that happened before or after Amazon was started. But good grief. How stupid can you be to drop the catalog just as the Internet was taking off?
Sure, and Sears is part of the reason my local appliance store went out of business in the 90s. This has all happened before...
NO, This hasn't happened before.
Amazon was founded in 1994. There might be no Amazon today had Sears management not dropped their catalog. They could have taken over the online retailer space before Amazon got off the ground. All they had to do (obvious to me at the time) was to digitize their catalog.
I totally agree. I live on the Northern Oregon coast and we are lacking some retail stores that are available in metro areas. I am an Amazon member and have been for several years. I use Amazon a lot. I love Wishbone Russian salad dressing, but no one around here has it I got three bottles off Amazon for $2.58 a bottle! Not bad.
The women in the Sears catalog were actually far more attractive than most supermodels in my opinion. I actually noticed that a lot of regular unknown female models seem to be way more attractive than many supermodels.
Amazon doesn't advertise it, but you can subscribe to just Prime Video without paying for the full Prime membership. It costs $9/mo, while full Prime costs $15/mo or $139/yr. So even if you keep Prime Video alone year-round, you're paying $108 versus $139. And if you're like a lot of folks, you can probably drop most streaming services for a few months during the year as you cycle other ones in.
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Changed it to that! Thanks for the tip!Amazon doesn't advertise it, but you can subscribe to just Prime Video without paying for the full Prime membership. It costs $9/mo, while full Prime costs $15/mo or $139/yr. So even if you keep Prime Video alone year-round, you're paying $108 versus $139. And if you're like a lot of folks, you can probably drop most streaming services for a few months during the year as you cycle other ones in.
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Sears is the reason why Sears is gone. They didn't change with the times. We had a Sears store that was built in 85 in our mall in town. They never updated it or did anything to improve their service. One checker in the back and one other at the front. So long lines if you tried to wait in them to pay out. They closed our Sears a few years back and the rest of the Mall is half empty and one by one stores are leaving. The latest one to close was Bed Bath and Beyond.
The Sears in my area was always great and innovative until Kmart bought them out. After Kmart bought Sears out, both Kmart AND Sears went downhill big time.
I have all those streaming services you mentioned and a few more, but of the ones you mentioned, the only streaming service that beats Prime Video is Paramount+. But now I'm glad that now I know I can just have Prime Video without the full Prime subscription, especially since I primarily shop on eBay.
Sears, like most businesses, closed down due to inept management. Good management will overcome the vast majority of problems.
And I will bet the CEOs of Sears still got paid millions for bad decisions! This is whats wrong with the greed that comes hand in hand with Capitalism!
Absolute....But CEOs making millions over the workers who are the backbone of a company has been getting worse for near 50 years now....Outsourcing, and Neoliberalism is and will be the death of everything....We went through this in the early 1900s! Why greed is good when it hurts most everyone but the only helps a few is wrong.
