Sears closes its last department in Illinois, its home state

And it was just books, for that matter. Then CDs. My kids are adolescents now, but IIRC it wasn’t until around or after they were born that I might check Amazon for anything else.

(My other recollection is that, in the meantime, Amazon ran the online ordering for Target, Borders and, I think, Toys R Us.)

ETA:

In my office at work there’s a Montgomery Ward personal fridge, still working (but hasn’t been defrosted since before Covid).

Was it a Sears around there that had an indoor mural with the counties of Long Island? Didn’t go there often, but I do remember that.

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