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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by edblarney on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:15PM (#13441691)
Sears was not killed by any tweaks or optimizations - it was a brand that was past it's time, culture changed, and it could not find a new way forward.
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by spc476 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:25PM (#13441723)
Sears was the Amazon of its day (around the early 1900s) where you could order almost anything via mail (including housed!). I guess the felt that products via the mail was so 19th century.
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by Cerium on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:21PM (#13441706)
I think it didn't adapt to the times. It was the Amazon of a past generation, with its own very high quality version of AmazonBasics. They didn't make the transition to a new reality though.
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