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Apr 5, 2020
10:47:31pm

Blue Print All-American

The head of the catalogue division basically killed any attempt to move to the

Internet. He didn’t want to hurt catalogue sales.

It is one of the greatest industrial blunders of all time. Right along with IBM refusing to allow its patented typewriter keyboard to be used on computers so as to not hurt the sale of selectric II typewriter which were at the time the business standard worldwide.

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ABC4 is doing a story on the Sears Catalog. Who remembers them?

Malathion

4/5/20 10:18pm

Sears catalog? Never heard of it.

Ragnar Danneskjold

4/5/20 10:18pm

Are they not around anymore? I love the Christmas catalog.

4/5/20 10:20pm

I believe canceled in 1993.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:21pm

Really. I knew I hadn't seen one in a few years but didn't think it was that

4/5/20 10:23pm

Yep 1993. Looks like they laid off 50,000 people too.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:27pm

That was how I chose what I wanted for Christmas as a kid

newbie

4/5/20 10:20pm

Agreed. It had my wish list in it.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:22pm

I'm a hack

777

4/5/20 10:29pm

Wasn't it called like the dream book or something? My Christmas go to also.

dave

4/5/20 11:15pm

The Wish Book

4/5/20 11:20pm

Bingo!

dave

4/5/20 11:25pm

Ackchyually, that was Montgomery Ward's catalog.

LittleTex

4/6/20 3:11pm

Bless you! COVID 19?

BYU Grounds

4/6/20 3:13pm

Us too. Sadly, I never got what I wanted from the Sears catalog...

m0resn0w

4/6/20 9:25am

I do and I am not that old

byusage

4/5/20 10:21pm

TNT's mom took them away from him

TNT

4/5/20 10:22pm

That explains the love for pinball machines.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:23pm

Ogling the pinball machine models?

No touching

4/5/20 10:24pm

She must’ve had a lie detector machine

kcca

4/5/20 10:42pm

Fought over with siblings it to check out new toys in the back.

zephyr

4/5/20 10:22pm

Same. 6 boys in my family all fighting over the catalog to make our list.

O Gaucho

4/5/20 10:26pm

The Wonder Years

zephyr

4/5/20 10:30pm

Nobody wants to get it second, that's for dang sure.

shimmy

4/5/20 10:31pm

One year I found a Big Wheel circled in the catalog. That Christmas, that is

4/5/20 10:38pm

Oh man, that was Christmas shopping when I was a kid

TwinsRight

4/5/20 10:23pm

It was a big deal to pick up packages. We’d get drugstore candy too.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:25pm

What's funny is Sears should've been Amazon but they were stupid and didn't move to the internet.

byuluvr

4/5/20 10:24pm

Yep. They quit right when the internet was getting going.

gwalker

4/5/20 10:26pm

The head of the catalogue division basically killed any attempt to move to the

Blue Print

4/5/20 10:47pm

Do you have a source for that?

ChiefBeef

4/6/20 8:56am

My brothers and I beat each other up for it. We wanted to check out all the

WDaddy

4/5/20 10:27pm

Yeah, us too.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:35pm

That's how Christmas shopping was done. Kids circled their favorite things and

777

4/5/20 10:28pm

We are gradually forgetting Sears, not just the catalog

Heath Squashwell

4/5/20 10:29pm

Oh yeah. Who remembers Blue Stamps?

byujdmba

4/5/20 10:35pm

I remember green stamps

LaserCoug

4/6/20 6:36am

My dad was general counsel for Sears, I grew up on everything Sears. The name of

BYUFBDAD

4/5/20 10:36pm

At BYU I had a blue Sears card, which told anyone at Sears that I was a big deal

BYUFBDAD

4/5/20 10:39pm

I worked at Sears in college. Remember this well. Enjoy

hitechcpa

4/6/20 12:34am

As i recall, that particular photo was taken in Orem in a studio for Sears.

Pick-Six Coug

4/8/20 8:59pm

Sears was where my parents shopped, but we got the Spiegel catalog too and

Thrill

4/5/20 10:36pm

Ah yes, I remember well.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:57pm

I worked for the Sears telecatalog center in Provo when it opened.

StantonMac

4/5/20 10:37pm

Dad grew up in 1930s had Sears and Montgomery Wards so wouldn’t run out TP

Osteotome

4/5/20 10:51pm

Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs were

67Regent

4/6/20 12:06am

When I was 9 or 10 my best friend’s older brother got us to complete a series

adrock

4/6/20 12:34am

RE: ABC4 is doing a story on the Sears Catalog. Who remembers them?

Mister P

4/6/20 7:35am

The Christmas catalog was great! That's how our parents knew what to get for ..

BYU Grounds

4/6/20 12:33pm

The OGs had Victoria Secret.

messi

4/6/20 4:34pm

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