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Business 23 min

Sears Built Amazon in 1981 and Walked Away

Fifteen years before Amazon sold a book, Sears was already there.

In 1981, Sears began building an electronic shopping platform with IBM that would reach 2 million American homes. It had the catalogue, the warehouses, the credit card, and the prototype. Then it sold everything to focus on opening more stores.

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