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You once could order an entire house from Sears

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Long before Amazon Prime, you could literally order a 3-bedroom colonial house from a catalog. It arrived via train in 30,000 pieces with an instruction manual. Somehow, this monolithic company still managed to go utterly bankrupt.

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