Sears, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sears comes up
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 8:22 Mark Pincus Prodigy, this deal was to pay four hundred million for a third of Prodigy, which Sears and IBM owned, and I came back and I said, why don't we just buy this company AOL?
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 35:16 Shane Parrish Sears and True Value face their product, meaning they pay employees to go through the store and turn the labels out facing customers.
Mary Kay Ash: The Greatest Salesperson In History [Outliers]
- ▶ 25:19 Shane Parrish The entire inventory sat on a single steel shelving unit Mary Kay had purchased from Sears for nine dollars and 95 cents.
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 8:52 Shane Parrish When Sears started selling more face powder than soap, toothpaste, and shampoo combined, it wasn't just a sales record.
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 38:17 Shane Parrish It wouldn't be long after this, however, that Sears would suffer the same fate.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 31:58 Shane Parrish Like when Walmart started competing with Sears,
Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 1:14:06 George Stalk Jr. And Sears, which I never thought of as a woman's place to shop.
#112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
- ▶ 2:44 Adam Grant Sears?
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 1:13:49 Bill Ackman The problem is the capital cost to take an old line, old fashioned shopping mall with, you know, Sears and a JCPenney and a Macy's.