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Richard Warren Sears (December 7, 1863 – September 28, 1914) was an American company manager, retail businessman and the co-founder of department store Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah Curtis Roebuck.
Richard Warren Sears (1863 – 1914) and his partner A. C. Roebuck founded the first large-scale mail-order business in the United States and one of the world's largest retail stores. The company's extensive catalog eventually became a fixture in U.S. homes and changed the way people shopped.
Richard Sears had a genius for marketing and exploited new technologies to reach customers nationwide via mail-order. At first he targeted rural areas, where people had few retail options and appreciated the convenience of being able to shop from their homes.
Jul 25, 2017 · The company was founded as a modest mail-order retailer of watches in the 1880s by Richard W. Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck. Julius Rosenwald, a Chicago clothing merchant who became a partner in the...
Richard W. Sears (born December 7, 1863, Stewartville, Minnesota, U.S.—died September 28, 1914, Waukesha, Wisconsin) was an American merchant who developed his mail-order jewelry business into the huge retail company Sears, Roebuck.
Richard Sears was born in rural Minnesota, and like so many of the titans of the late nineteenth century, started his career in telegraphy (the dot-com, Silicon Valley industry of its day). As part of his job, he moved into being a freight agent, handling products ordered by rural retailers from urban wholesalers or manufacturers and delivered ...
Richard Warren Sears was born on December 7, 1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota. Growing up, his family was well off due in part to his father, James Warren Sea...
