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October 16, 2018

Sears: ‘The Amazon of its day' seeks Chap. 11

  • Sears opened in 1886, and grew to 4,000 stores at its peak in 2012, but one analyst says “they've been dead for a very long time."
    • By ALLEN G. BREED and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
    Associated Press

    Before there was Amazon — or, for that matter, Home Depot or Walmart or Kmart — there was Sears.

    From its beginnings as a mail-order watch business in Minneapolis 132 years ago, the company grew to become America's everything-under-one-roof store and the biggest retailer in the world.


     
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