File this under "You learn something every day".

Oct 16, 2018,04:40 AM
 

Sears, the former U.S. retail giant about to go bankrupt, started out as R.W. Sears Watch Company in 1886, selling watches. A rear later R.W. took on a partner, Alvah C. Roebuck, a watchmaker. Thus Sears and Roebuck came to be.

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Sears was an institution, like Harrods ...

 
 By: Marcus Hanke : October 16th, 2018-06:09
... and its demise is leaving a gap, just like that of Pan Am. Marcus

Too bad! [nt]

 
 By: amanico : October 16th, 2018-06:35