Sears, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sears comes up
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,