Sears closes its last department in Illinois, its home state

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You’d have to go back a lot further to understand what a service it provided: people all over the country could order things and they would be delivered by the USPS. We’re talking 100 years before Amazon. You could even get a HOUSE delivered to whatever address you gave. It still needed to be put together, but all the parts would be there.

Sure, now it’s a has-been, but once upon a time it was a marvel.

When the Sears Catalog Sold Everything from Houses to Hubcaps | HISTORY

Holy crap, a serial killer could have the grandest time back in 1902!