Here's a story aired on CBS this morning that takes some of us down memory lane: the enormous Christmas catalog, those made-in-America (not so much anymore) Craftsman tools, Die Hard batteries, the nearly one-stop shopping experience (aside from groceries, gasoline, and Athearn blue box rolling stock).

But there are other interesting insights, like the initial interaction between Sears and railroads, how Sears was the Amazon of its time for many decades, and how the demise of Sears came not just from its inability to change with the times but from the sell off of its core brands and many of its properties by a billionaire investor.

[www.cbsnews.com]