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Maybe not in my lifetime but they’ll be gone eventually, just needs to get momentum.

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Might take 100 years or so… Remember, the titans of retail used to be Sears, Woolworth’s, and Newberrys.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Newberry

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I’ll be honest: I’m no fan of big corps, but I’m kinda sad that I can’t still buy a build-it-yourself house kit from Sears.

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You could probably get it all from Home Depot, but you’d have to bundle the kit together yourself.

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Not Sears, but I just spent a fun few moments looking up “adu kit” “cabin kit” “house kit” “home kit” and “prefab home kit.”

There’s not room to build one inside my little condo, but lots of choices if you have a place to put one.

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East Indian trading company had a navy

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Interestingly it was nationalised.

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Friendly reminder that Eddie Lampert effectively drowned Sears Holdings (Sears & Kmart) in the bath tub. He single-handedly wiped out two major retailers, hundreds of smaller ones, and tens of thousands of jobs in one of the most successful corporate raids ever executed.

What a greedy shit bag.

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