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Walmart, not Amazon, was the primary cause of Sears and Kmart's collapse
“And I thought like, oh, well, duh, Amazon killed them all. No, Walmart killed them. There's no way that Kmart or God forbid Sears at that point could compete against Walmart.”
Gilbert: Sears Roebuck sold flat-packed furniture before IKEA popularized it
“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.”