Word: roebuck
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Applied to the world of calculators, that's something of a curiosity. But applied to everyday retail, it's a revolution. The idea of fixed prices is only about 100 years old. Before then nearly everything was negotiable. The last great retail revolution was mail order, led by Sears, Roebuck in the 1890s, and it solidified the idea of fixed prices, since buyer and seller were often separated by hundreds of miles of rail track. In the Internet age even buyers and sellers separated by 10,000 miles of fiber-optic cable are closer than those prairie purchasers were...
...Porter Square was now looming, and Harvard drifted farther from my mind. The nearly Art-Deco opulence of the old Sears & Roebuck, building tempted me with the siren song of the Gap, but I resisted, the voice of my editor still echoing in my ears. "Further on, further in," I mused, "to Somerville!" And not just any Somerville--not the one of Inman Square and summertime living--but something a little seedier and a hell of a lot closer to Tufts...
...Illinois gave $240 million in economic incentives to Sears, Roebuck & Co. to keep its corporate headquarters and 5,400 workers in the state by moving from Chicago to suburban Hoffman Estates. That amounted to a subsidy of $44,000 for each...
With a concrete Sears Roebuck facade and windows filled by trendy Gap jeans, Cambridge's Porter Exchange building seems to have all the elements of mainstream America...
Unlike such capital-intensive alterations as installing ramps or lowering drinking fountains, accommodating the mentally ill in fact often requires little more than an attitude adjustment. The Sears, Roebuck 1996 Work Force report showed that the average cost to the company for such accommodation in 1993-95 was zero. Employees with a learning disability were permitted to work at a slower pace; those with mental illness were offered shorter shifts, lower-stress duties or flexible work hours. According to studies conducted by the Matrix Research Institute in Philadelphia, which specializes in mental-health disorders, the majority of accommodations cost less...