NWI INGO General Post part 16

[Ballstater98]

65 S ramp is open.

 

[Snapdragon]

Sears was the Amazon of the 1930’s through 80’s ... and somehow the catalog giant refused to adapt to electronic shopping.

Not sure what you mean.

 

[2A_Tom]

Sears archives. started catalog in 1888.
Chronology of the Sears Catalog

Montgomery Ward was first in 1874.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/chi-chicagodays-firstcatalog-story-story.html

 

[Ballstater98]

When we were taking bids on windows at our old house, Sears was one of them. The bid was 3xs all the other bids and all he kept doing was trying to sell the Sears name.

 

[melensdad]

Not sure what you mean.

Amazon is being blamed for retail store closings because stores can't compete with Amazon.

Sears, an anchor at malls, and a stand alone destination retailer, was also blamed for retail store closings as 'main street' locally owned stores closed up around the nation.

 

[2A_Tom]

BREAKING; Archaeologist have found pages from the first edition Montgomery Ward Catalog from!1874

Digging on a homestead in Oregon scientists have uncovered pages from an original 1974 Montgomery ward catalog. They said the find was made while excavating under a small outbuilding with a crescent moon cut in the door.

 

[jedi]

Where will men go to use the ladies room?

why do non-nwi ingoer ask such a question in the now ingo thread?

Jedi had actually forgotten about that mess.
Jedi AVOIDS target even if they have an item cheaper then some place else.

 

[jedi]

Not sure what you mean.

Sears had everything in place to ship to folks home just like amazon now has back when it was a catalog paper based process. Yet they refused to put that catalog online into digital form so that the newer generation could buy their stuff just like the older generation bought via mail.

Had sears done that amazon would probably never had been born as sear would have crushed them when amazon was still very small.

But dear being a giant and arrogant, just like every other giant, fell off the top and when a giant falls they don't get back up.

Amazon in our kids lifetime will also go bye-bye as well as they will fail to see the next way to buy/deliver stuff and a smaller start up will kill them with it.

That new tech is a mix of 3d printing. One will buy the code to make a tire one time and print it and use it.

Advance even further and it will be instant transport think star trek how they beam stuff from one place to the next.

 

[melensdad]

Mark down this date.

I agree with the pink-man

 

[2A_Tom]

Actually it will be replicator tech, poop in one end and reconfigure the molecules for your Earl Grey, hot on the other end.
[video=youtube;R2IJdfxWtPM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2IJdfxWtPM[/video]
But those replicators can be pesky little things.
[video=youtube;Z45Tpp9DBq4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45Tpp9DBq4[/video]

 

[Ballstater98]

Mark down this date.

I agree with the pink-man

 

[repeter1977]

Jedi is right, companies that fail to change are swept away by change. No matter how good they once were, loyalty only goes so far.

 

[jedi]

It's not the loyalty part is the generational part.
Jedis grandpa loved to go to the physical stores to touch/feel/buy and chat with the sale person.

The current generation could care less about that.
They want to hit a button on phone and a day later presto its here for them.

The next generation will say that is way too slow. They need it now!

 

[melensdad]

The pink-man is correct again.

That is 2x in 1 day.


WTF is happening?

 

[jedi]

A broken clock is right twice a day.

 

[mmpsteve]

... touch/feel/buy and chat with the sale person./QUOTE]

My wife scolds me when I do this, especially if said sales person is young and purty.

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[chef larry]

... touch/feel/buy and chat with the sale person./QUOTE]

My wife scolds me when I do this, especially if said sales person is young and purty.

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[jedi]

... touch/feel/buy and chat with the sale person./QUOTE]

My wife scolds me when I do this, especially if said sales person is young and purty.

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[actaeon277]

I'm getting too old for 18 hour shifts.

 

[chef larry]

I'm getting too old for 18 hour shifts.

Need to build you own bed there. Look at all the travel time and gas money you could be saving for more guns and ammo.