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...bought a Sears tool kit for my first car. One of the screwdrivers broke when I used it for a job it was not meant to do. I sheepishly returned the item and to my amazement was given a new one. Since then, I have spent thousands of dollars at Sears. If my wife reads this, I need a ¾-h.p. router. She knows where...
Last week's announcement read like the obituary of any failed company. Because of falling demand, lagging technology and tough competition, IGV, a business-machine and precision-tool manufacturer, was going bankrupt. The difference was that IGV is based in Budapest, and the liquidation was ordered by Hungary's Minister of Industry. It was perhaps the first admitted bankruptcy ever in the East bloc...
Many home-computer owners believed they had bought a tool to simplify their lives. Others discovered that programming could become an end in itself...
...card overnight could be a major tool for collecting deposits, selling certificates of deposit and maintaining checking accounts." Sears is also actively looking to buy more savings and loan associations to add to the one it owns in California. It was a bidder in 1983 for Chicago's First Federal Savings and Loan, which was finally bought by Citicorp...
...Sears catalog is not just a potent sales tool. It is America's family album. When the 1897 catalog was reprinted in 1968, 150,000 copies were sold at $15 each. "One can find evidence of our present vices and our present virtues in this splendid volume," wrote Journalist Richard Rovere. "This catalog is at once a product and a display of our culture, especially our mass culture." This summer 12 million copies of the fall-winter edition were sent free to customers who had ordered at least $30 worth of merchandise in the past six months. Another...