By all accounts, they should have been Amazon.

>>508886165 (OP)
greed and shareholder value.

>>508886165 (OP)
The company's entire wealth was in commercial real estate prior to 2008 crash
They would've been Amazon'd regardless eventually

>>508886165 (OP)
Amazon, china, boomers, generic corporate greed, walmart

>>508886165 (OP)
never utilized online sales

>>508886165 (OP)
jews were involved. Stinks to high heavens

>>508886165 (OP)
amazon beat them to the shekel

>>508886165 (OP)
Everyone still calls it the sears tower at least

>>508886165 (OP)
It would be cool to have these things back instead of the eternal spergtardation

>>508886165 (OP)
They hired a guy that had interest in other took companies to save Sears and he raided it like the faggot he was.

Boomers

>>508886165 (OP)
I miss Sears bros...

Jacking off to the Sears catalog.

>>508886165 (OP)
Kek, my dad made millions off Sears. Don't AMA, there is an NDA.

>>508886165 (OP)
When obama came in he demanded they hire all niggers, then gave jeets money to buy up the failong business due to niggers not working but stealing everything they ever wanted. Sears here turned into an indian rug shop. Then it went out of business entirely.

>>508886165 (OP)
They fumbled the transition to the digital age. Amazon established an online presence first.

>>508886165 (OP)
Eddie Lampert is a jew.
With jews you lose.

>>508886165 (OP)
boomers who decided to play it safe and not adapt to changing market because fuck you got mine
same with video rental stores
same with domestic car manufacturers until toyota/honda bitch slapped them
same with intel with amd leapfrogging them now with arm being the next jump and m$ trying to catch up

tl;dr
complacency

I still get my Sears Robucks Catalog in the mail because I'm fucking 90

>>508886165 (OP)
Greedy trust fund babies took over and didn't bother to re invest or shuffle things around in the company.

They had the world's largest catalog of stuff to sell and have access too yet they didn't seem to change anything about the way their business model was.
All they had to do was shift to online catalog, liquidate their real estate, and build like some central ikea type stores and a fuck ton of warehouses, basically Amazon, but a few brick and mortar for the old people to go to.

>>508886165 (OP)
The internet happened and they were slow to adapt. They anchored themselves to shopping malls, another failing industry, instead of reading the room and making the transition to online shopping.

Inertia killed Sears.

With Prodigy, Sears had a decade head start with online shopping but they were unable to a) think creatively, b) strategically partner with Tech, and c) innovate and iterate on their visionary product. Incentives and depth of transformation talent also wasn’t deep enough.

Other critical elements were being Walmarts supply chain and geopricing, the rise of discount stores as the middle class lifestyle became middle income lifestyle, and the death knell was being bought by a firm who’s sole purpose was to kill the underlying business to harvest the asset value.

RIP Sears Roebuck

At least its UK equivalent Argos is still around.

>>508886165 (OP)

I remember sears being one of the first companies to offer catalog ordering on CompuServe one of the first on line services. But corporations have a lifespan like animals they start out lean and adaptable and gradually get weighed down by layers of management and do nothing seat warmers until new competitors take all their business. Many such cases. someday this will happen to Amazon.

Hedge funds and market makers cellar boxed it to death

>>508887085

What chu talkin bout Willis ?

>>508886165 (OP)
There was a time when customers wanted to look at what they purchased before forking over money.
And people enjoyed being around other people, watching what others were buying.
I'm old. I'm still that way. Won't shop online.
Except books.
The hardware dept was the best. You saw tools you didn't even know what they did.
And bought them and figured it out.

>>508886165 (OP)
>they should have been Amazon.
Sell trash made by the bottom rung of China where if you're lucky enough to find something that works, you order it again and it's different?

>>508887085
Went to the top when it first opened. Elevator almost made me sick it was so fast.
Glad to be out of CHicago.

>>508886165 (OP)
every goyim company will be inherited by a jew and ran into the ground, just like their countries

>>508886165 (OP)
What is the purpose of this psychotic babble??

>>508886165 (OP)
its same as with churches
theyre all just fuctitious person placeholders

>>508890458
What you're doing is racism.

>>508886165 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qws713t3HBY

/thread

>>508889280
>same with domestic car manufacturers until toyota/honda bitch slapped them

Every time I try to talk to people about this they give me the fluoride stare. It's "capitalism" when Ford and Chevy and other shit manufacturers try to charge 45,000 dollars for an entry level vehicle, but it's "unamerican" when toyota tries to offer an entry level vehicle for several thousand dollars. Maybe Big Auto manufacturers should get off their fucking asses and instead of spending money lobbying against their foreign competition, they should design cars and trucks people want and can afford. I guess I'm just a fucking idiot for observing this take place, because I've never had another living soul agree with me.

>>508886165 (OP)
Literally the recession.

>>508886165 (OP)
not jewish enough

Boston Consulting Group, Naked Shorting, Cellar Boxing. SEC is complicit. RICO charges for all brokers. End the Fed. Buy Silver. DRS GME. Cold Storage BTC. Study historic Gold:Silver ration. Research 15th century China paper currency collapse.

>>508890826
American manufacturers have to continue to bloat the cars to receive subsidies from the government. Its fucking stupid and turned 40% of automobiles into undriveable pieces of epic shit.

This here was the pinacle of American exceptionalism. The lunch counter.
Woolworths or Walgreens or Kresgees.
An whole meal for less than $1. Real ice cream milk shakes. Penny candy that was a penny a piece.
Real homemade pies, chili, hot dogs, hamburgers. Nothing better.
I wrote the CEO of Walgreens about 20 years ago and suggested they bring them back.
He thought I was precious.
Now, they're going out of business.

>>508886165 (OP)
blockbuster should have been netflix, yet here we are

They had a catalog that was famous and was basically offline Amazon. All they had to do was bring that catalog online and they would have won

>>508890989
Corporations would sooner run into the ground than actually sell shit to people that is actually desired.

A whole lot went to shit when Obama became President, huh

>>508886165 (OP)
I worked at Sears in the early 2000s selling computers and electronics. It was commission based. Would have been a cool job, but the manager was retarded and would literally accept any return for any reason. If things got returned, your commission would be deducted from your next check. So I ended up not making enough money to be worth my time.

>>508891119
I think there's been a concerted, behind the scenes effort to dehumanize people and separate them.
Only the elderly hang out in donut shops and talk all morning.
Everything was fine until the digital shit came along. People related to each other.
When I was younger (no longer) the produce section of the grocery store was a good place to meet chicks. Or the laundramat.

>>508888934
The worst part was jackin it uphill both ways

>>508886165 (OP)
The only thing keeping Sears from shutting down was borrowing against equity in their property holdings and the assjack that was in power over the company liquidated it all off for pennies on the dollar to his friends behind closed doors and rug-pulled the only thing keeping the company from insolvency then fucked off with billions of dollars to start more businesses he could do the same thing with and somehow never ended up in a prison rape tank like he should have been

>>508890989
I remember going to a mom and pop version of this 15 years ago the day after I lost my virginity and the cook high fived me and gave me breakfast for free

>>508890989
Write him an "I told you so" letter.

>>508891238
>If things got returned, your commission would be deducted from your next check

businesses will do shit like this and say shit like "No one wants to work any more"

>>508886165 (OP)
Fuck Sears. They humiliated me when I went for a job interview in my early 20s. I'm glad they're gone.

>>508891343
Private equity is killing everything now.
They're buying up hospitals, any business that has several locations. Like car washes even.
Just to strip them and walk off with the money.
All illegal, but that don't matter now.

>>508891314
Only poor people hang out at the Laundromat.

white people worked there it was a liability

>>508886165 (OP)
the fall of the middle class

>>508891314
I don't even think its the genesis of the internet, I think the powers that be just said "Yeah, that's a good enough justification for enshittification" and did 9/11. There is nowhere for young people to have for themselves, I agree completely, it's all just stupid craft beer breweries and God awful secondhand stores, American life is a plentiful nothingness.

>>508891481
I remember getting rejected by target they didn't think I was target material. They are gone and i make 150k a year

>>508891500
Private equity isn't a bad thing for people that don't have millions of dollars to exploit the market. The problem is allowing access to conglomerates, corporations, banks and large businesses access to the same system as regular people.
Bad thing is now if you get rid of the system the USD is fucked so we either continue as the entire worlds' hedge fund manager or go out Zimbabwe style and try to rebuild. That shit was absolutely done on purpose.

>>508891718
Target isn't gone

>>508891718
>I'm sorry, I just don't see a space for you on the Woolworth's team.
>tfw I own and rent 8 chairs in a barbershop and only cut hair once a week 30 years later
Feels good man.

>>508886165 (OP)
They canceled their catalog, which was what they were famous for, right on the cusp of the internet boom. I think it was in 1995. And then they just focused on shifting real estate back and forth to create revenue for shareholders. Sears was essentially destroyed on purpose by greedy corporate executives that had zero interest in keeping the business going. Sears practically created shopping catalogs and already had the warehouses and the shipping infrastructure to have become Amazon 10 years before Amazon existed. They threw that all away and Amazon filled the void. The fall of Sears was criminal and it should be taught in every MBA course as required reading.

>>508891718
There is an eastern european restaurant by me that I have gone to with my parents since I was born. It doubles as a clubhouse too. My mom said they are in danger of closing down and she says she doesn't understand why. I told her every time we go in there the average age is 50 years old. There are so many places out there that do nothing to attract anyone young. If you are under 40 you are treated as a second class citizen. We literally have to wait for boomers to die for stuff to be made for us

>>508891859
My bad I meant K Mart. I got them confused

>>508886165 (OP)
I still remember when they started selling chink made tools and everyone got mad and stopped shopping there. Times sure have changed but those chinkslop craftsman tools really were terrible.

>>508892086
meant for
>>508891645

>>508890527
what are you talking about, faggot? sears entire gimmick was catalog mail orders

>>508891645
I'm in my 60s, you can't imagine how different it was for us. Bicycling uptown, age 8 even, going to Kresgees for lunch. Kick the can all evening.
Another difference is all the moms were home. Neighborhood families all knew each other, kids played together, parents partied.
Our lives revolved around friends and family, not individual activities. That was for loners and psychos.

>>508886165 (OP)
They stopped selling those kit homes.

>>508892047
You could once order an entire house kit to be delivered, to build yourself.
https://www.vintag.es/2019/02/sears-catalog-homes.html#google_vignette

>>508892212
They also had the stores. The catalog got you to go there.
Same with Montgomery Wards. And JC Penneys.

>>508892217
>BACK IN MY DAY WE USED TO KICK THE CAN YOU KIDS DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON
die, boomer die

>>508892217
I've gone for a walk in my neighborhood every single day for five years and I'm still not on a first name basis with a single one of my neighbors. Everyone hides in their houses. You have no idea how lonely it is out here. I run bullshit errands in a feeble attempt to have some human interaction only to realize how foolish I am each time for wanting to make a human connection. I feel like I am just waiting to die and finally be relieved of this meaningless existence.

>>508892153
It's so weird how in the late 80's early 90's things were handled differently like I remember my mom taking me to sears to get a toy and you go into a empty room that looks like a big office and the person shows you the catalog and you point at the toy and they go in the back and get it. It wasn't like toys r us where you browse shelves it was more sterile but professional. The "cashiers" wore suits

>>508892478
People laugh at the notion of ordering a house from a big box store, but those houses are 10x nicer than anything people build today.

>>508892614
Same here. But I've made an effort to shop in the few stores in my neighborhood, get hair cuts, even shop at the nearby Hilal arabic store. I chat up everyone I run into. Lots of Mexicans here also, and black, and they're all friendlier than the whites.
There's a nice park I walk thru too.
I also rely on the city bus, don't have a car, can't afford one. So I meet a lot of people that way. Some weird, but mostly just folks.

>>508888934
This.
Christcucks think they'll get us with a porn ban but they underestimate a true coomer.

>>508892835
banning porn is the stupidest idea ever. You still have social media, instagram, google images so many ways to find a picture of an attractive woman to jack off to

>>508886165 (OP)
A lot of people forget but you can check on archive.org, their website was an egregiously bad piece of shit. Half the product detail page was white space, the listing pages had missing images all over, wrong things would get delivered. They overused blue everywhere even on nonclickable stuff. They though user research was a joke and only hired graphic designers, who surprise surprise, don’t actually know any proprietary info about how to make websites better. And they don’t measure performance or identify pain points or AB test.

So bad UX most definitely played a huge role. Their stores had other problems but their site should have kept them alive no matter how much they shrank. Even with a few stores a good site would keep the lights on. But they abandoned it instead. Their leadership also never adopted responsive design or social media advertising and thought it was dumb fads. So they never really built a full stoppable app. When they downsized they took the website offline altogether.

They are fucking stupid is the issue basically. Old ass boomers with no idea of what they were doing.

They dismissed the internet and it was right around the time that PE firms realized they could make billions by looting asset-heavy businesses. Macy’s is next, quality and standards have dropped off a cliff, no realistic strategy for the future, they've started liquidating real estate that they leveraged to get them through covid, investors are pressuring them to spin off bloomingdales and blue mercury which are the only two growing parts of the business.

>>508886165 (OP)
>lifetime free guarantee for all products no questions asked
>me and my 3 brothers buy sears workboots
>after a year, rip the sole with pliers
>bring them in and get brand new pair, free
>all 4 of us do this every year
>mfw we put sears out of business

>>508893122
>Old ass boomers
Proverbially true.
Study the history of car manufacturers in the US.
They ALL almost went out of busines around 1920. Ford kind of saved the day with his business plan. But it was a close call, because of the depression after the first world war.
The car almost didn't take off. So there's plenty of reason for later gens to think the news things now won't remain either.

>>508893431
>company offers a product they're willing to stand behind for life
>(((people))) take advantage of their integrity
>brag about it online like they're clever

It's no surprise the world has become so jewish

>>508886354
>The company's entire wealth was in commercial real estate prior to 2008 crash
this
they got fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked lol

Sears was always the best entrance at the mall in the city I lived in years ago because it was never busy. Walk in through sears and avoid the crowds of niggers and spics

God I want to live in the early 2000s again. Fuck this gay earth it's such a a hell hole now

Stupid, old shits ran the company into the ground by failing to keep up with the economy and innovations like the internet. The exact kind of morons who destroyed this company always rest on their laurels and boast of their experience, but their experience means fuck-all once the climate changes.

>>508893739
Death of anchor stores was the death of the mall.
Malls used to have skating rinks too. Ice or floor.
Now they're all abandoned.

>>508892047
>The fall of Sears was criminal
As was the rise of Amazon and many other big companies today. Bunch of CIA funded ops to control the markets and collect data on everyone

>>508893927
i don't feel bad for malls because as a teen I used to take a bus in front of the local mall to school and it ran once an hour so some times i had time to kill to chill in the mall and the mall cops always chased me out even though i was minding my own business and today the mall is nothing but niggers who fight each other and they are left alone

>>508894333
All that's left in them are the food vendors too.
Junk that only the blacks survive on.

>>508894333
Checked. I've been a mall cop for 50 years. You don't have to tell me brother. Kek.

>>508894438
Funny you say that these fights I mentioned always happen in front of Applebees

>>508894747
Not the Aunt pretzel store?

>>508894914
I don't understand how that and cinnabon are still a thing

>>508886165 (OP)
Did you ever go to Sears around this time period? They sold appliances, tools, and Random clearance items. Sears during this time was having an identity crisis.

>>508895048
It's the yeast and sugar.
Can you see the similarity between a cinnabon roll and their tummies?

>>508895048
I've probably eaten about 5 pretzels from auntie Anne's over the past 20 years, because I really just don't eat soft pretzels... But, they were some of the best soft pretzels I've had. The cinnamon sugar ones are really good.

>>508888787

I still have a bunch of vintage Craftsman tools I use. Lol. Fuck Amazon.

>>508895291
When my grandpa died he passed down to my dad all his tools since he was a blacksmith before he retired then my dad died and I got them. These tools have been going strong for like 80 years

>>508895291
>>508895407
dude thats the magic of american made. my mom recently cleaned and redecorated the house. i noticed some ornaments she hung on the wall that i remembered from decades ago when growing up. i grab one to look at, it falls on the ground and i expect it to break since it fell hard. well to my surprise, its still in one piece. immediately i suspect something. and turn it around to see where its made, sure enough its "Made in USA"

Be me:
>start tool collection
>need saw
>go to Sears
>ask clerk for a saw
>he says, which kind?
>huh
>I say, it has a serrated edge
>he takes me to a wall of saws.
>I see this one immediately.
>less that $10
>love my saw
The thing is, I wanted other kinds to, even though I didn't know what they were used for.
But you see something for real, hold it, you imagine what you could use it for.
Kids on screens never experience this.

>>508886165 (OP)
Boomer leadership couldn't into the interweb

I think the long game with Amazon is that once all the big box retailers other than Walmart are gone they will start becoming a brick and mortar business along with online but more of the competition needs to die before they can do that

>>508896132

Working in a corpo it's understandable that this happened. You don't really understand how myopic and convoluted corporate politics can become. People start putting 100% of their effort into maneuvering the politics of the business instead of running the actual business.

>>508895962
Did you finally find the saw you needed to dismember those bodies?

It's pretty crazy how sears was Amazon a century before Amazon with the sears catalog but completely and utterly failed at modernizing the concept

Just a dumb company
>have literally the biggest catalog sales business in the world
>supply chain, distribution, warehouses, etc top notch
>just have to switch from "catalog" to "internet" and will become the richest company in the world
>"nah, lets sell off the catalog business"

>>508896325
Yeah, messier than I anticipated.
The saws that cut metals, do they really?
Like pipes, or PVC?
Someone, a prepper, told me he had a roll-up saw. Probably just a few inches, used for smaller branches. Thought that would be good to have.

>>508896527
Those catalogs were hundreds of pages.
As kids, we couldn't wait to get them.
Lingerie, toys, you know.
Long ago, the pages were also used in lieu of toilet paper. Better than corncobs.

>>508886165 (OP)
Website was shit, literally out of touch retail corp.

>>508896544
>Yeah, messier than I anticipated.
It helps if your able to freeze the bodies first. Kek

>>508886165 (OP)

Not enough Indian (Aryan) brain power to maintain relevancy. Many such cases.

Timmies aren't fit for the modern world.

>>508887085
Did they change the name?

>>508886165 (OP)
>By all accounts, they should have been Amazon.
It's called a "business life cycle". Companies eventually get old, bloated, set in their ways and complacent and are overtaken by leaner, newer, more efficient and easily steered smaller ventures.
150 years ago these fuckers WERE the Amazon, they were America's "buy anything via mail order" brand. They certainly missed the boat and even WalMart is very late to the party.

>>508889280
>same with video rental stores
Blockbuster had a functional streaming service in limited rollout testing but the CEO killed it because he wanted customers going in stores and making high margin candy sales.

>>508896996
>high margin candy sales.
This is actually were movie theaters make their profit too. Concession stand, not ticket sales.

>>508897128
>>This is actually were movie theaters make their profit too. Concession stand, not ticket sales.
Okay that's nice, everyone knows that. But Blockbuster wasn't a fucking movie theater.

>>508897128

Same thing with fast food. $5.00 charged for $0.10 worth of carbonated water and corn syrup.

>>508897273
No one then would rent a movie without purchasing the entire move experience.
Thus, milk duds.

>>508886165 (OP)
They used to be Amazon, they started the Sears catalog which allowed people to order shit from Sears in Chicago and have it shipped out by railroad anywhere in the country. Where do you think "Craftsman" homes came from?

>>508886354
Not really the last CEO sears shafted the entire company out of its real estate holding worth billions while paying only a few hundred million dollar “bonds” to keep the company afloat while it was dying and he ended up personally owning all the real estate in bankruptcy. Classic scumbag private equity trick. That’s why they buy bonds in struggling companies and not stock shares. In bankruptcy court bond holders get the remaining assets of the company and share holders get shafted when their shares are worth $0

>>508897583
Interesting, I had never heard of that. So let’s say I believe GameStop will eventually lose its meme magic. I could buy bonds or is this option really only available to PE firms that get those kinds of deals?

>>508886165 (OP)
Amazon had the better name.

>>508897857

There's a hierarchy of bonds that they can issue, and the bonds they make available to people like you will be subordinated to the ones they make available for themselves or private equity. You have to know what exactly is happening you can't just "buy bonds."

Sears was mostly valuable as a seller of large appliances.
That were well-made, even their own name brand which were Brand Name (like maytag), but sold under their own Sears name.
And the delivery guy set the appliance up and got it ready to use. And their repair men knew their stuff.
The quality had gone down considerably by the time Sears went out of business.
I don't know where people get washers and dryers and dishwashers now.

>>508897857
I mean what hard assets does GameStop have? They rent their locations and don’t own… I mean hypothetically you can buy bonds when they issue then after bankruptcy you get made whole on your bonds but what value would all their assets be of old video games and semi non collectible stuff?

Yeah the dude who did the sears real estate scheme turned it into seritage real estate holdings iirc, they even wanted to develop the old sears at a mall near where I live into a mixed use development. Dude made out like a bandit with all of sears real estate

idk how amazon got so big, that website is a clusterfuck, never find what you're looking for. I do all my buying online but don't use amazon because it doesn't work. Its all 'suggestions' that are irrelevant to what i was looking to buy.

>>508898606
I actually make online purchases from Walmart.
Cheaper than at the store and delivered with a few days.

>>508898133
This… Forgot to mention there’s classes of shares of bonds and unless you have serious money to throw around you won’t get the class of bonds that entitle you to get yours before anyone else is paid. Most companies issue those bonds to very deep pocketed entities, think of it like mortgages you have a primary mortgage on a house and then you have 2nd and some times 3rd mortgages and if the house is foreclosed on then primary mortgage holder gets paid 1st then 2nd and 3rd if there’s anything left

>>508886165 (OP)
They WERE Amazon before the Internet. They took too long to adapt to the digital age. Plus, it was taken over by a greedy jew who bled the company dry so he could have the real estate.

>>508886165 (OP)
boomers chasing short term profits over long term ones eventually caught up to them

>>508898410
Apparently Gamestop has a ton of cash compared to other companies and is using that as leverage.There's also rumor of them buying card rating companies so they can get into TCG trading business.

>>508898922
They still have Sears in Mexico because it's a separate company owned by someone who actually cares about the stores.

>>508886165 (OP)
There were numerous companies like this who simply refused to pivot. It started way before the dot com thing because Walmart surpassed KMart and Sears in 1990.

>>508898960
Didn’t they go long on bitcoin?

>>508888934
I've honestly become bored with looking at naked chicks online it's become so common. I'd honestly look ay picrel than look at pictures that look like they were taken at a gynecologist's office.

>>508890826
the big 3 didnt care until it ate into their profits then got daddy govt to import tax them. people just ate the tax and paid more because they weren't pieces and its been a spiral ever since
now 80% of "imports" are made here (or mexico) anyways and their quality has went down so its basically all the same shit being assembled by lazy niggers or mexicans with a few pearl clutching white boomers holding on

t. worked for GM for 9 months before quiting because the lazy niggerdom is unreal and they cant be fired because union niggers

>>508886165 (OP)
I went to one about 10 years ago looking for a toaster. The appliance section was really sad. Elderly salesman with a clip board, a few lights were burned out in the display area. Looks like Sears gave up a long time ago.

>>508886165 (OP)
>wrong
anon, these companies exist to fuck over the govermment and taxplayers
pure corruption

>>508895407

Fucking based. I have mostly random sockets, acetate screwdriver or two, extensions, wrenches. My Dad has a breaker bar and sockets. I don't have anymore ratchets unfortunately. I should have bought more when they were still usa made but my local Sears was ass and had shitty selection and even Whittier employees.

Source: got fired from Sears 25 years ago for being too based

>>508886165 (OP)
Back in the '90s I used to love going into Sears and Lechmere into the computer section and casually modifying the AUTOEXEC.BAT files on the display computers to ECHO Y | FORMAT C: then either just walking away, or hitting reset then walking away.
Good times.

>>508902820
shittier

WTF

t. phone poster, r3dditspacing

>>508902909
lmao. based.
fuck middlemen.

>>508902909

Elite hax0r.

>>508901870
>fuck over the govermment
I don't see where the problem is

>>508898996

Taking the jobs Americans don't want.

>>508896996
Maybe he should have started a candy delivery business then you dumb fuck

sears was always a real estate company

>>508902909
If you were there, you know...

>>508886165 (OP)
The CEO literally stole all the major assets (commercial real estate) and got away with it.

>>508898606
Amazon got big because of unlimited funding.

>>508886165 (OP)
To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep


Simple as.

>1 post by this ID

>>508902909
based

>>508897583
>he ended up personally owning all the real estate in bankruptcy
Not all, Sears Arena (now NOW Arena) in Hoffman Estates defaulted on its bonds and ownership reverted to the village. It was right next to Sears Headquarters too.

They sold chink shit at a high price. The store was also boring. The greatest thing to ever come from Sears is the Christmas catalogs in the 70s and 80s

>>508886165 (OP)
What happened? Some idiot decided to give feral wildlife access to the malls. The rest is history.

>>508888787
>I miss Sears bros...
Same

>>508906273
Thought it was strange when Land's End opened shop inside the Sears.
It was good if you wanted to try something one before ordering direct from LE online.
You'd think they would have known what was coming.

>>508886165 (OP)
Sears was the shittiest of all department stores to be honest. Every time I went in there I felt my soul being crushed.

>>508892614

Any time I allow any human interaction I get some touch starved weirdo that wants to talk my ear off for 4 fucking hours never taking a break in speaking or allowing me to get a word in. So I just avoid people. Read the fucking room.

>>508907431
They didn't have a good toy section

>>508907524
I can tell when people are just making polite small talk because it's most of the time. I'm lonely, not retarded.

its impossible to ship something online for cheaper than a store

amazon had no sales tax for decades and no corporate tax

and it also took money from investments to fund itself on a loss

shipping something across the country will always cost more than bulk trucks to a retail location from the factory

its just logistics you deliver to one spot not many individual homes getting deliveries

you were scammed if you thought amazon was legitimately "beating" anyone

same thing with blockbuster

it turns out physical media actually is better than digital because you retain the rights and the ownership you can resell the game after youre done with it years later and retain some of the money you paid for the game

and it doesnt require downloads if the game is preloaded on the cartridge or disc

the "online ordering" of good or digital games is the same story just fake ideas about things that arent based in reality coming to fruition not because they are better but because the tv brainwashed you to want it that way "malls are dead surely" surely shipping something online is cheaper than a factory going straight to the one single location with bulk goods

>>508908156

The problem is I actually listen to people and give them a chance to speak and everyone just takes that football and desperately runs with it like they have never had anyone listen to them in their lives. It's like it has never occurred to them to give to others what they so desperately want for themselves.

>>508908790
Westerners have lost the art of conversation.
And most people have a personality disorder.
And most people are lonely.

>>508888934
i do this

>>508895962
Home depot and Walmart also sell saws

>>508908904

Yeah, they're lonely because they're desperate to be seen and heard by others but completely refuse to see and hear others.

>>508886165 (OP)
Their mail order business was dying fast in the 80's, losing a great deal of money every year and they didn't see any way for that business to recover, so they shut it down to stop the bleeding. The very next year the WWW was invented.
>why not just re-create it
Because it cost a lot of money to shut down their mail order business, which meant they didn't have the money to create it again at an even greater expense just a year later. Also a lot of the guys who knew how to make such a thing run well were now employed by Amazon.
Bad decision in hindsight, but at the time there was no crystal ball that could see the future, and tell them that this wierd thing used by the nerds in their state university CPSC department that consisted of FTP, IRC, Usenet, and Archie would suddenly be transformed into the substrate for the greatest mail order businesses the world had ever seen.

>>508909499
no u retard thats the wrong interpretation

sears was a retail

mail order of furniture will always cost a tremendous deal more money than hauling ur furniture directly to a retail location than individual homes especially furniture

so no, amazon did not win they have used their advantage of not paying taxes and stock market investments to fund their business at a loss

and their web hosting

just think of it logically can you really ship individual pencils or erasers from amazon for cheaper than walmart can get delivered thousands of erasers

no its impossible logistically amazon is a failed idea online shopping is supposed to be for scientific one off things or old used books

They got
Sears
Boeing
GE
US Steel
all for greed and Dumbing down american made stuff