{"id":196561,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/196561-twas-the-way","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/196561","headline":"Twas the Way","content":"Twas the way it was,\r\nback in the day, early \r\n1960's, working at my\r\nfirst, full time job, in a\r\nCorporate environment.\r\n\r\nHired as a Management\r\ntrainee, at Sears Roebuck,\r\nin Moses Lake, WA. A Sears\r\ncatalog operations.\r\nSears was a Corporation which\r\nhad three means of doing business.\r\n1) Direct mail\r\n2) Retail Stores,\r\n3) Catalog Sales Stores\r\n\r\nMy employment was in a \r\nCatalog Sales office, administered\r\nout of Seattle, where there was a\r\nCatalog Merchandise Distribution \r\nCenter, aka, CMDC. Sears had \r\nseveral of those across the United\r\nStates, from Chicago, Kansas City,\r\nPhiladelphia, Dallas, and Los Angeles.\r\nMore CMDC's would be added, in Florida,\r\nand other spots as the Catalog Business,\r\nwas a growing business. Ironic when Sears,\r\nwho dominated the Catalog order business,\r\nleaves the business, prior to Amazon.\r\n\r\n (to be continued)","content_plain":"Twas the way it was,\r\nback in the day, early \r\n1960's, working at my\r\nfirst, full time job, in a\r\nCorporate environment.\r\n\r\nHired as a Management\r\ntrainee, at Sears Roebuck,\r\nin Moses Lake, WA. A Sears\r\ncatalog operations.\r\nSears was a Corporation which\r\nhad three means of doing business.\r\n1) Direct mail\r\n2) Retail Stores,\r\n3) Catalog Sales Stores\r\n\r\nMy employment was in a \r\nCatalog Sales office, administered\r\nout of Seattle, where there was a\r\nCatalog Merchandise Distribution \r\nCenter, aka, CMDC. Sears had \r\nseveral of those across the United\r\nStates, from Chicago, Kansas City,\r\nPhiladelphia, Dallas, and Los Angeles.\r\nMore CMDC's would be added, in Florida,\r\nand other spots as the Catalog Business,\r\nwas a growing business. Ironic when Sears,\r\nwho dominated the Catalog order business,\r\nleaves the business, prior to Amazon.\r\n\r\n (to be continued)","published_at":"2024-06-01T07:20:06-07:00","updated_at":"2024-06-02T07:00:51-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with MFish on Kudos365. View their post published Jun/01/2024 on Life Stories - Memories. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"post","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","likes_count":16,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Life Stories - Memories","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1002-life-stories-memories"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/196561-twas-the-way","headline":"Twas the Way","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"datePublished":"2024-06-01T07:20:06-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":16}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Life Stories - Memories","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1002-life-stories-memories"}]}}