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Originally Posted by theducks
Look at what happened to Sears (Roebuck). 
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Sears HAD the product, Warehouses and distribution, including 'Pickup points'
They had their heads buried  and a death grip on the 'old ways'
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Amazon (and my ISP) offer what the user wants, and at a fair price. They don't play 'used car salesman' with their customers |
Amen brother.
I loved to browse through the Brick and Mortar book stores. You picked up a book, read the front, the back, looked at a few pages and you knew exactly if you wanted it. "
NEEDED it!!"
I loved to browse through the big Sears in the nearby town. I was a joy be be able to get exactly the single socket you needed to replace the missing one from your set. To see and feel that superb Craftsman "steel" was almost a religious feeling.
When I was a very little kid, if I was at my grandparents farm and it was raining or night so I couldn't go outside, I loved to browse that big Sears catalog.
Those were fine days with good memories, but the old mule granddaddy kept in the North "lot," though he had gotten a tractor which was up at the house, is no more.
My granddaddy is no more. Just a memory, a good memory, but no more.
We all have moved on. That is the way of it...