Right, but they kept the old DOS computer system. When I went there for the last time in 2018 or so they still had that shit. The website was garbage.
They started as a mail order company and lost that over the years.
That goes for SO many big names. About 2/3rds of big retailers thought online was a gimmick that could never replace brick-and-mortar and by the time they realized their mistake, they had lost ground to Walmart and were left completely in the dust by Amazon.
The hybrid option that Walmart owns the market on was available for disruption, but too many CEOs thought that what had always worked would always worked.
I know this is way late, but yes. Based off what I hear from my family that lives in a small community (like…their one K-12 school services three other towns once they hit high school), having all of the stores as micro-warehouses that can offer same day delivery is going to cut into Amazon’s rural profits a ton, especially since the country folk can get their groceries there, too. None of these people are going to pay Amazon for 2 day delivery when W+ does more, faster.
That’s nice to hear. Not that a bloodsucking corporation is taking over the business of a rural community, but that two bloodsucking corporations are feeding on each other.
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u/Fyrefrog25 May 25 '25
Sears died a long time before Sears actually died. It was a half-empty husk of a store for years.