Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is...
by Spooky23 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:09AM
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My family had a shared summer home in an area with almost no stores save for the Sears Catalog store, so I was someone exposed to it more than was typical in the 80s.
But they built a last mile infrastructure that was amazing for the time and didn’t exist until Amazon prime. They also had a small parts distribution capabilty for repairs.
To me it’s always been a interesting “what could have been”, but also an example of how much more efficient and effective a modern enterprise like Amazon is.
The company itself had a dumb bureaucratic culture. They didn’t take credit cards for years, etc. See: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/26/business/sears-eliminatin...
But they built a last mile infrastructure that was amazing for the time and didn’t exist until Amazon prime. They also had a small parts distribution capabilty for repairs.
To me it’s always been a interesting “what could have been”, but also an example of how much more efficient and effective a modern enterprise like Amazon is.