> Sears' big business was bricks-and-mortar retailing, not catalog retailing. Hardly - it was the logistics they had in place to power both of those. > The ca

> Sears' big business was bricks-and-mortar retailing, not catalog retailing. Hardly - it was the logistics they had in place to power both of those. > The catalog was shrinking and dying. So was brick-and-mortar. Just not quite as fast. Jumping ship from the Titanic to the Exxon Valdez is not a long term strategy.