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Also see here: people looking for still standing Sears houses https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-you-live-in-a-mailorder-sears-kit-home-these-house-hunt

Also see here: people looking for still standing Sears houses https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-you-live-in-a-mailorder-sears-kit-home-these-house-hunters-will-find-you?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-pagehttp://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-you-live-in-a-mailorder-sears-kit-home-these-house-hunters-will-find-you https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-you-live-in-a-mailo... Sears house sites https://www.searshouseseeker.com/2015/11/blogs-about-sears-homes-and-other-kit.html?m=1 https://www.searshouseseeker.com/2015/11/blogs-about-sears-h... House database(s) http://www.sears-homes.com/2015/02/wheres-list.html?m=1 http://www.sears-homes.com/2015/02/wheres-list.html?m=1 http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/enthusiasts.jsp http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/enthusiasts.jsp

hackernewds 3y ago
Very impressive. We fail to appreciate today that Sears used to be the Amazon of their time
- tastyfreeze 3y ago
  Slower turn around but just as convenient. Sears dominated mail order for 100 years.
- h2odragon 3y ago
  The amazing thing is how hard Sears worked not to be the Sears of our time, leaving the field open for Amazon to eat their legacy.
  - bluGill 3y ago
    More amazing is they tried things like protege that failed and gave up right before the internet took off.
    - h2odragon 3y ago
      itym "Prodigy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)
    - octokatt 3y ago
      N=1; an MBA friend of mine worked for Sears on their website offering. He nearly ripped out his own hair, since instead of being a web commerce department they were "online catalog", and the culture matched. Instead of adapting to the medium, they tried to force the medium to their offering, suffered when web-first companies showed up, and then decided the internet was a fad.
  - jewayne 3y ago
    Yep. In the early 90s the Big Box store reigned unchallenged. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/26/business/sears-eliminating-its-catalogues-and-50000-jobs.html https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/26/business/sears-eliminatin...
js2 3y ago
I know we have some of these in Raleigh but didn't see it mentioned in a skim of the sites you linked: https://searshomes.org/index.php/2012/05/08/the-sears-homes-in-raleigh-a-big-event/ https://searshomes.org/index.php/2012/05/08/the-sears-homes-...

hackernewds 3y ago

Very impressive. We fail to appreciate today that Sears used to be the Amazon of their time

tastyfreeze 3y ago
Slower turn around but just as convenient. Sears dominated mail order for 100 years.
h2odragon 3y ago
The amazing thing is how hard Sears worked not to be the Sears of our time, leaving the field open for Amazon to eat their legacy.
- bluGill 3y ago
  More amazing is they tried things like protege that failed and gave up right before the internet took off.
  - h2odragon 3y ago
    itym "Prodigy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)
  - octokatt 3y ago
    N=1; an MBA friend of mine worked for Sears on their website offering. He nearly ripped out his own hair, since instead of being a web commerce department they were "online catalog", and the culture matched. Instead of adapting to the medium, they tried to force the medium to their offering, suffered when web-first companies showed up, and then decided the internet was a fad.
- jewayne 3y ago
  Yep. In the early 90s the Big Box store reigned unchallenged. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/26/business/sears-eliminating-its-catalogues-and-50000-jobs.html https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/26/business/sears-eliminatin...

js2 3y ago

I know we have some of these in Raleigh but didn't see it mentioned in a skim of the sites you linked: https://searshomes.org/index.php/2012/05/08/the-sears-homes-in-raleigh-a-big-event/ https://searshomes.org/index.php/2012/05/08/the-sears-homes-...