“Sears was the Amazon of its day.”That may have been true but when we worked with Sears as an IT vendor in the 1990s they were so sclerotic it wasn’t funny. We

“Sears was the Amazon of its day.”That may have been true but when we worked with Sears as an IT vendor in the 1990s they were so sclerotic it wasn’t funny. We started a project to move them from Type-1 token ring to Cat-5 100mbs Ethernet and they couldn’t pull the trigger for over four years. The insane level of bureaucracy in Hoffman Estates was mind-blowing.