Toys and girdles and socket wrenches: Sears was the Amazon of its day | Advertiser-Tribune 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. For generations of Americans, the brick-like Sears, Roebuck […]

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Toys and girdles and socket wrenches: Sears was the Amazon of its day

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