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Originally Posted by Buehler445
Come out here. It's all high schoolers, and they probably don't even know what most of the tools in there are. If they do, they're too busy playing grab ass to actually do any selling.
I will say the outfit here has a price match policy on the outdoor stuff. Probably on their appliances and other hardgoods too.
But looking at their store, they're done. I could look up their retail metrics, but they're done. The biggest player in the direct business for a ****ing century. Done.
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When I was a kid living in rural middle America, the big three were Sears, JC Penney, and Montgomery Wards. Apparently that business model doesn't work any more.
The thing that's somewhat ironic is that Sears and Wards were to some extent a primitive version of Amazon. They sent you a catalog, you called in your order, and then they had a warehouse-type place where you went to pick it up. That's pretty much exactly Amazon's model, but Amazon has the internet. One wonders why the classic catalog stores never got ahead of the curve.