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Posted on 11/15/22 at 4:08 pm to Darth_Vader
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They’d lose their mind trying to figure out what this was for.
i had a couple of jobs where i had to write the purchased item manually then run it through that to get the raised card numbers.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 4:13 pm to CAD703X
The slips probably looked just like this.
And if you were at the grocery store it probably had this at the checkout.
And if you were at the grocery store it probably had this at the checkout.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 4:15 pm to LegendInMyMind
I remember the “blue light specials” they’d do at Kmart. Anytime that cart would come out women would all but knock down anyone in their way to get to that blue light as fast as they could.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 4:17 pm to Darth_Vader
I remember getting a number at the deli counter as a kid. Never see anyone at the deli counter now except Whole Foods
Posted on 11/15/22 at 4:22 pm to Darth_Vader
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have to laugh at what some chodes downvote around here. Like
Wasn't me, but you had an egregious and unforgivable misspelling of the word "aisle" in your post
Posted on 11/15/22 at 4:24 pm to Mr Boyles
If you search "1960s porn" on youtube the first thing that pops up is a sexy home movie from that time.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 4:25 pm to 75503Tiger
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Musak playing on a loop. Kids getting a pop on the head for acting up. American made products were being sold. Clerks who didn’t have pink hair or weigh 350. Those were the days
I hate sounding like the get-off-my-lawn guy, but everything was truly better in the 80s and 90s.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 6:57 pm to SantaFe
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If they played it right they could have become Amazon.
I was just telling my in laws this because my kids were telling them what they wanted for Christmas by circling shite in the Amazon Christmas Catalog
Posted on 11/15/22 at 6:59 pm to Mr Boyles
I used to go to the Kmart deli for lunch
Posted on 11/15/22 at 7:00 pm to CAD703X
Mom shopped a lot at TG&Y and Gibson's. Lots of variety pre Walmart.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 7:14 pm to Mr Boyles
Not department stores but I miss Chess King and Merry Go Round.
The smell of peanuts and cashews at the candy counter.
The smell of peanuts and cashews at the candy counter.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 7:50 pm to Mr Boyles
I 'member
Posted on 11/15/22 at 8:06 pm to Mr Boyles
Posted on 11/15/22 at 8:42 pm to Mr Boyles
Seriously frick Amazon. Liquidate it to bring back these stores.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 9:57 pm to Darth_Vader
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They sorta were the Amazon of their time. Too bad they didn’t have the vision to realize the potential of the internet. Sears was still a behemoth when the internet started taking off. They were in a prime position. But they let their chance slip by.
I'm fascinated by business case studies like this with business giants not anticipating the future landscape.
Sears being passed by Amazon as the "everything" retailer
Blockbuster being passed by Netflix as the home video consumption source
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:24 am to sqerty
Things were much more aired back then. There weren't all of these airtight buildings or houses. People knew to air out spaces back then. And the cigarettes didn't have as many chemicals either.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:25 am to SantaFe
They did it first. Same thing just with Catalog's.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 4:42 am to Lsuhoohoo
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I'm fascinated by business case studies like this with business giants not anticipating the future landscape.
Sears being passed by Amazon as the "everything" retailer
Blockbuster being passed by Netflix as the home video consumption source
Same.
Fortune had a longform-ish article that came out several years ago when Sears finally went under about how they were Amazon before Amazon for all the aforementioned reason (physical footprint, infrastructure, distribution network, brand recognition, method for consumers ordering goods from home) and about how they get wrong so many times and ultimately and lost it in the internet age.
Sears’ seven decades of self-destruction
This post was edited on 11/16/22 at 4:44 am
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