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> Imagine a retro styled hip Sears Catalog online. This sounds awful. > If the right leader had taken over Sears, who knows This my whole point. That yes if

> Imagine a retro styled hip Sears Catalog online. This sounds awful. > If the right leader had taken over Sears, who knows This my whole point. That yes if Sears gets the absolute best break imaginable (like Apple did), then yes they have a chance. The comment I was replying to said that all they did was not act which I think is wrong.

FrustratedMonky 2y ago
"This sounds awful." Who knows what will become cool again. Hipsters pick some odd things.
- paulcole 2y ago
  What you described is what a boomer thinks a hipster might pick as being cool again. That thought process is exactly what Sears was infected with and why they were 100% cooked.
  - defrost 2y ago
    While that's a sick burn of wannabe septuagenarian style influencers, they're coming back hard, like pagers . . .
    - FrustratedMonky 2y ago
      what paulcole is missing. is that because i'm older. I have seen many waves of hipsters come and go. yes. the old Sears Catalog is exactly the things that would be popular again. to be hip. but since it went through many decades. to be more specific. I am imagining something like 1920's-30's Dust Bowl era Sears Catalog. Kind of like how hipsters made Pabst Blue Ribbon, your 1950's dad, cool again. Check this out. An ASMR video no less, about 1920's Sears Catalog, tell me someone wouldn't have been able to make this hip. I was searching for examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzlYcU8hDTY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzlYcU8hDTY Generally, I am conflating 1920's-30's Style, with Sears Catalog that I think a lot of people associate with that era. And so Sears could have tied in the hipster nostalgia for that 20's-30's era with their catalog. Guess every generation has their own call-backs. Things that cycle back around to be hip. So what if in this fictional web site to compete with Amazon, you could choose different era's, and the entire site theme would change. So shop in the 80's again, shop in the 70's again.
      - paulcole 2y ago
        > what paulcole is missing. is that because i'm older. I have seen many waves of hipsters come and go. Congrats lol. > tell me someone wouldn't have been able to make this hip That is what I am telling you. > So what if in this fictional web site to compete with Amazon, you could choose different era's, and the entire site theme would change. So shop in the 80's again, shop in the 70's again. Again, sounds like what a boomer thinks young people would think is cool. My whole point is not that old things are never fashionable again in the present. It's that this phenomenon is not something that is easy to manufacture and that Sears was in no position to manufacture it. The idea that if Sears had simply decided to be online they would have Amazon's business is malarkey IMO. They could've made it happen but it would've taken lucky break after lucky break after lucky break.

FrustratedMonky 2y ago

"This sounds awful." Who knows what will become cool again. Hipsters pick some odd things.

paulcole 2y ago
What you described is what a boomer thinks a hipster might pick as being cool again. That thought process is exactly what Sears was infected with and why they were 100% cooked.
- defrost 2y ago
  While that's a sick burn of wannabe septuagenarian style influencers, they're coming back hard, like pagers . . .
  - FrustratedMonky 2y ago
    what paulcole is missing. is that because i'm older. I have seen many waves of hipsters come and go. yes. the old Sears Catalog is exactly the things that would be popular again. to be hip. but since it went through many decades. to be more specific. I am imagining something like 1920's-30's Dust Bowl era Sears Catalog. Kind of like how hipsters made Pabst Blue Ribbon, your 1950's dad, cool again. Check this out. An ASMR video no less, about 1920's Sears Catalog, tell me someone wouldn't have been able to make this hip. I was searching for examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzlYcU8hDTY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzlYcU8hDTY Generally, I am conflating 1920's-30's Style, with Sears Catalog that I think a lot of people associate with that era. And so Sears could have tied in the hipster nostalgia for that 20's-30's era with their catalog. Guess every generation has their own call-backs. Things that cycle back around to be hip. So what if in this fictional web site to compete with Amazon, you could choose different era's, and the entire site theme would change. So shop in the 80's again, shop in the 70's again.
    - paulcole 2y ago
      > what paulcole is missing. is that because i'm older. I have seen many waves of hipsters come and go. Congrats lol. > tell me someone wouldn't have been able to make this hip That is what I am telling you. > So what if in this fictional web site to compete with Amazon, you could choose different era's, and the entire site theme would change. So shop in the 80's again, shop in the 70's again. Again, sounds like what a boomer thinks young people would think is cool. My whole point is not that old things are never fashionable again in the present. It's that this phenomenon is not something that is easy to manufacture and that Sears was in no position to manufacture it. The idea that if Sears had simply decided to be online they would have Amazon's business is malarkey IMO. They could've made it happen but it would've taken lucky break after lucky break after lucky break.