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"Service Merchandise" in the Detroit area was like that too.
by mgkimsal 8y ago
"Service Merchandise" in the Detroit area was like that too.
- Infernal 8y agoI believe "Service Merchandise" was nationwide - they used to have a reasonably solid Christmas catalog up into the early 90's. Them and Sears and J.C. Penney's, I would spend hours leafing through them during the Christmas season - so many cool toys.
- djsumdog 8y agoBut at a Service Merchandise they had the showroom items in stock usually. You'd place an order and go to a line to pick it up, right? (My memory is a little shady. They were around when I was a kid and had gone under by the time I was a teenage).
- pwg 8y agoAt least for the Northern VA stores, they had the items in stock such that any 'wait' was only for the stock pickers on the warehouse floor (basement or 2nd, depending on the actual store) to find and deliver the items to the conveyor that took them up (down) to the "customer delivery counter" (my name, I don't remember anymore what Best called the counter where they handed your items over to you).