Now that Kissinger is dead I've heard(at Casey's) we are safe from that.
Filled up my pickup this morning in Marengo and learned something I didn't know.
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And...they were closer to a modern model, with their long running, successful catalog distribution, than probably any other retailer that I can think of and yet they failed to "move" themselves over to an online distribution model. Ugh, they should have had a huge advantage IMO. Oh well.
I agree,.. Hindsight is 20/20, but with just a little bit of insight and technology, Sears is Amazon...
Others have mentioned it...but Sears, my gawd, they killed themselves once the internet blew up.
I was a fairly faithful Sears shopper when it came to things like Kenmore and Craftsman. But around the time I began buying things over the internet (roughly 2001ish) - I remember Sears' website being the absolute worst web site to try to research something. It was slow, it was buggy, it never showed whether they had something in stock. I'd click on something, and it'd take minutes for the page to load (I wasn't on dial-up by then).
It drove me to other online providers.
Then when things began sliding downhill in-store. I'd go to buy something (usually tools) - and I'd get to the register, and see the actual register/terminal was the exact same model they were using in the 1980's - and as a result simply getting checked out was an ordeal.
I honestly don't remember a company making it more difficult to simply buy something from them as their final years was. They (and K-Mart) deserved to die the slow, agonizing death they suffered.
I was a fairly faithful Sears shopper when it came to things like Kenmore and Craftsman. But around the time I began buying things over the internet (roughly 2001ish) - I remember Sears' website being the absolute worst web site to try to research something. It was slow, it was buggy, it never showed whether they had something in stock. I'd click on something, and it'd take minutes for the page to load (I wasn't on dial-up by then).
It drove me to other online providers.
Then when things began sliding downhill in-store. I'd go to buy something (usually tools) - and I'd get to the register, and see the actual register/terminal was the exact same model they were using in the 1980's - and as a result simply getting checked out was an ordeal.
I honestly don't remember a company making it more difficult to simply buy something from them as their final years was. They (and K-Mart) deserved to die the slow, agonizing death they suffered.
Once the hedge fund manager, Eddie Lampert, got control his sole intent was to liquidate property because the real estate was very valuable at that time.
As previously mentioned, marketing the Craftsman brand was a big deal also.
Basically corporate greed.
