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Remember how getting mail was a fun awesome thing but then we all switched to email and texting and now we pay for the fun awesome mail?

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Jul 22, 2022·edited Jul 22, 2022

I didn't know that Sears owned Prodigy. I got my first computer in 1994, and it came with it. I was in my late 20s and starting to have disposable income, but there was no way in hell I would have put my credit card info into that mysterious and often malevolent unknown. So I can understand why it may not have occurred to managers at Sears.

As to Wal-Mart, the story might end up more gripping over time as the logistical miracle case study makes room for the ruthlessness and exploitation morality tale.

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