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We need an American Samsung-like company. Kodak could have been it.

Then again, Sears could have made Amazon a pets-dot-com flash in the pan.

I will never understand it. The Sears catalog was an American staple for years. If they had gone online, they could have been what Amazon is today 20 years ago, and Amazon would have just been an online bookstore.

It was such an obvious thing to do and they didn't do it.

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