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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.
by 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 agoMore amazing is they tried things like protege that failed and gave up right before the internet took off.
- h2odragon 3y agoitym "Prodigy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)
- octokatt 3y agoN=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 agoYep. 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...