[Sasparilla]

You used to be able to buy anything, absolutely anything through the Sears catalog. That even included complete stone houses kits.
If they had kept it and taken advantage of it on the internet, it most likely would be dominant, and Amazon would still be just a river.

[GreenHornet]

You used to be able to buy anything, absolutely anything through the Sears catalog. That even included complete stone houses kits.

At one time, Sears even sold its own brand of automobile, the Sears Allstate. It was a rebadged Henry J supplied by Kaiser Motors in the early 1950s.

[MarkL]

You used to be able to buy anything, absolutely anything through the Sears catalog.

The other day on a TV show about "barn finds," one of the rarest motorcycles around today is an early 1920s Sears motorcycle that competed against HD & Indian. They were only made for 3 years, and only a handful are still in existence.

Mark

[jeffersondem]

“You used to be able to buy anything, absolutely anything through the Sears catalog.”

You could but bees, monkeys, and ponies. And not that long ago.