Sears, every mention
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every year anyone David Rosenthal 13Ben Gilbert 5Howard Marks 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sears comes up
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:57 David Rosenthal This is here in America going back to the Best Buy circular in the Sunday paper or the Target circular or the Sears circular.
- ▶ 47:55 David Rosenthal So, you might think, oh, Sears in the US.
- ▶ 47:58 David Rosenthal Obviously, that's a mail order business, and they have Sears stores.
- ▶ 48:02 David Rosenthal Like, the Sears stores, you buy the stuff at the stores, and you walk out.
- ▶ 1:00:09 Ben Gilbert There were many other companies that were doing flat-packed furniture before this, including the company we've talked about multiple times on this episode, Sears Roebuck, was flat-packing in their catalog distribution in America.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 1:24:58 Ben Gilbert I want to continue going back in time from Walmart and do Sears.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 23:56 Howard Marks Maybe Sears was in there.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 41:32 David Rosenthal So, you know, the discounters, Walmart, Kmart, you know, Sears, all that physical stuff, you're just gonna cut them all out
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 21:16 David Rosenthal So he interviews with two companies who come recruit on campus, JC Penney's and Sears, and he goes with the offer from JC Penney.
- ▶ 21:26 Ben Gilbert Which is interesting because Sears was the dominant retailer.
- ▶ 21:29 Ben Gilbert Everyone bought everything for their homes, including some homes from Sears.
- ▶ 21:36 David Rosenthal First house we lived in in Seattle was a Sears catalog home.
- ▶ 21:51 David Rosenthal He wanted to go learn retail, learn the craft from the best, in which case he would have gone to work for Sears.
- ▶ 33:51 David Rosenthal I don't know exactly how the department store model worked, like, you know, JCPenney's or Sears, where Sam had worked, but I think it was also not really what we're familiar with.
- ▶ 1:51:57 David Rosenthal Walmart passes Sears to become the largest retailer in America.
- ▶ 1:54:10 David Rosenthal And then in 2004, Kmart and Sears merge.
- ▶ 1:54:16 Ben Gilbert Wait, Kmart and Sears merged?
- ▶ 1:54:34 David Rosenthal There's no way that Kmart or God forbid Sears at that point could compete against Walmart.
- ▶ 2:57:56 David Rosenthal I mean, uh, Sears didn't do that.