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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by joezydeco on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:08AM (#18229479)
Is the internet really the key? Sears had telephone ordering for catalog items for decades before the internet.

Here's a Sears project to produce the catalog on interactive laserdisc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptW0-87C6as

It's from 1981.

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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by colordrops on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:08AM (#18236498)
Yes the internet was the key. Everyone has been taking advantage of new technology to sell products since the dawn of commerce. What made Amazon great was an understanding of how the internet could be exploited.
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