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Post by sagebrush on Jun 4, 2020 23:30:32 GMT -8
As a kid and throughout my adult life there were go to places to shop. Decent products decent prices. Montgomery Wards, Meier and Frank, Sears, and now JCPenney with 154 closing including the one in Bend. Both retail and catalog mail order. They had their day and they did it very well. Just an end and it's sad.
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Post by seastape on Jun 8, 2020 11:17:05 GMT -8
As a kid and throughout my adult life there were go to places to shop. Decent products decent prices. Montgomery Wards, Meier and Frank, Sears, and now JCPenney with 154 closing including the one in Bend. Both retail and catalog mail order. They had their day and they did it very well. Just an end and it's sad. Agreed. It is sad to see all these places go down the tubes.
One place I will not be frequenting when the country is opened is Amazon. That place is the evil empire.
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Post by beaverdude on Jun 8, 2020 12:17:36 GMT -8
Agreed. It is sad to see all these places go down the tubes.
One place I will not be frequenting when the country is opened is Amazon. That place is the evil empire.
Sears and Wards already had the distribution piece down with their catalog sales divisions. They were asleep at the wheel when the internet showed up.... |
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Post by seastape on Jun 8, 2020 15:50:39 GMT -8
Agreed. It is sad to see all these places go down the tubes.
One place I will not be frequenting when the country is opened is Amazon. That place is the evil empire.
Sears and Wards already had the distribution piece down with their catalog sales divisions. They were asleep at the wheel when the internet showed up.... That makes all the sense in the world, dude. I suppose a lot of the catalog companies could've done a better job with internet sales. |
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Post by kersting13 on Jun 9, 2020 9:26:35 GMT -8
I don't remember the timing, but it seems Sears had de-emphasized the catalog business some time prior to the big e-commerce boom.
I at least remember Sears had discontinued sending the catalog out at some point.
Regardless, their timing was terrible - Amazon is literally just the re-imagining of the Sears catalog.
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Post by spudbeaver on Jun 9, 2020 10:20:48 GMT -8
I don't remember the timing, but it seems Sears had de-emphasized the catalog business some time prior to the big e-commerce boom. I at least remember Sears had discontinued sending the catalog out at some point. Regardless, their timing was terrible - Amazon is literally just the re-imagining of the Sears catalog. Sans Toughskins and Garanimals. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jun 9, 2020 13:14:54 GMT -8
I don't remember the timing, but it seems Sears had de-emphasized the catalog business some time prior to the big e-commerce boom. I at least remember Sears had discontinued sending the catalog out at some point. Regardless, their timing was terrible - Amazon is literally just the re-imagining of the Sears catalog. The last Sears Catalog was in 1993. Terrible timing. The economy had been in the dumpster ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 disrupting oil prices. Sears was hemorrhaging money. They held on until 1993 and then cut the catolog and a bunch of stores. This left them in a terrible position to take advantage of the huge boom that followed. (Basically, they held, when they should have sold and then sold, when they should have been buying.) Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe's, Target, and Walmart all successfully moved in to fill Sears' void, the four collectively being able to better do what Sears could do. It should be remembered that Sears is not really Sears anymore, because Kmart bought Sears in 2005. Kmart, in turn, is not really Kmart either, because it was bought out of bankruptcy for less than a billion by Edward Lampert in 2002. |
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