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Written by Western Infidels on 2025-01-05 at 18:50

When I moved into this house, twelve years ago, I bought some Kenmore appliances. I thought, even at that time, that I'd never have problems getting parts or repairs for Sears-brand stuff.

Today, looking for parts, I wound up at sears.com. The Windows firewall actually shut down my browser's connection to sears.com, because something shady was going on there, I guess. I'm not going to pretend to understand the details.

I haven't seen that firewall popup in years. What kind of primordial digital crimes must be present to trigger that old-school alarm?

It's like a signpost for the final corruption of the Sears name. Ayn Rand killed Sears, and the firewall popup is it's headstone.

https://www.salon.com/2013/07/18/ayn_rand_killed_sears_partner/

And I can still get parts from Whirlpool. So I guess I was right, in the end, but for the wrong reasons.

[#]capitalism #brands #repair #parts #diy

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Written by controlc on 2025-01-05 at 18:56

@WesternInfidels In an alternate timeline Sears became Amazon because Sears already had 100+ years of logistics experience in catalogue delivery. All they had to do was pivot to the Internet.

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