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Re:Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak? by Spooky23 on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:37PM (#12112627)
Worse, they figured harder problems out -- they had solved the delivery problem in suburban and rural areas for large items. there was a Sears franchise network where you could pick up stuff delivered by an 18 wheeler or rail rather than wait for parcel post or ups.
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Re:Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak? by Turing_Machine on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:24AM (#12113216)
Yep. Those were called "catalog stores", as I recall, and if you had your item sent to the catalog store shipping was free (or maybe reduced price -- it's been a long time, but there was definitely some kind of break on shipping costs).
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Re:Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak? by Spooky23 on Monday July 18, 2016 @08:57AM (#12114761)
I think they had a dock and you could get really big items too. IIRC, the farmer I worked for picked up a giant generator on a flatbed at one of these places.

Not sure if that was a Sears purchase or not though.

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