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I keep reading stories about Sears in how it compares to Amazon, but what I wonder and have never seen discussed is whether Sears was a local American phenomeno

I keep reading stories about Sears in how it compares to Amazon, but what I wonder and have never seen discussed is whether Sears was a local American phenomenon, or if there were other companies like it globally around the same time?

wpietri 8y ago
Good question! Turns out Wikipedia has some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_order