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wkat4242last Sunday at 10:08 AM3 repliesview on HN

What did they sell? A bit of everything?


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silisilitoday at 9:26 AM

Literally almost everything, up to and including entire houses. I've lived in two Sears houses, great quality stuff if not a bit small by modern tastes.

When I was a kid it was normal for parents to let their kids read the huge yearly Sears catalog to get ideas or pick gifts. By then they'd stopped selling items like firearms and houses but had pretty much everything else.

If they had the foresight, they should have become a better version of what Amazon is now.

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heavyset_gotoday at 1:08 PM

It was a mix of Walmart, except with higher quality brands and without groceries, and Kohl's, with some Lowe's and Best Buy mixed in.

glimshetoday at 9:27 AM

The original Sears was the Amazon of the 20th century.

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