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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Eaton's comes up
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 1:09:54 Shane Parrish We saw a little bit of that in the Eaton's episode.
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:50 Shane Parrish What Amazon is to the internet age, what Walmart was to suburban America, Eaton's was to a rapidly industrializing Canada, the everything store of its era. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Shane Parrish While other stores divided their spaces into broad categories, Eaton's created detailed subcategories for better information and shopping. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:19 Shane Parrish Eaton's would ship you every single board and nail and window with instructions, and everything came with that revolutionary guarantee, goods satisfactory, or money refunded. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:12 Shane Parrish The Hudson's Bay Company, the only real competitor to Eaton's, owned the prime real estate there. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:34 Shane Parrish The company was so dominant in the nineteen-twenties and early thirties, the government criticized their profit margins. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:02 Shane Parrish Eaton's didn't die from one big mistake. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:11 Shane Parrish The end of Eaton's reads like a business school warning label. 10 times in the scene