Sears was the Amazon of its heyday. **w it's a zombie.

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Sears was the Amazon of its heyday. **w it's a zombie.
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A giant company crushes an outmoded and overpriced retail industry by pioneering a new mode of shopping in which people never have to leave their homes.*

Yes, that narrative applies to Amazon, but it is a trail blazed by a far older company—Sears.

SEE ALSO: Regulators are looking into complaints that Amazon is misleading customers about their savings (http://mashable.com/2017/07/20/amazon-ftc-probe-list-prices/)


The crossing of their paths this week—Amazon an**unced (http://mashable.com/?cms_preview_id=52059&preview=true#p94iSc_Tziqd&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) it will **w sell Sears' Kenmore appliances—paints a stark picture of two transformational businesses on opposite ends of their business lives. Sears is **w a life-support husk of an American industrial titan, while Amazon's on a seemingly unstoppable tear reminiscent of the 124-year-old department store's own mid-century reign. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/21/sears-amazon-of-its-day/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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