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This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined, as always, by Robert Brokamp,

personal finance expert here at The Motley Fool. Hey, Alison.

Hey, bro.

We have a special guest here today.

It's Gene Axius, and he's from AARP.

He's going to help us better understand the looming concerns of long-term care that are facing all of us.

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All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers.

So what's up, Allison?

Well, bro, to paraphrase King Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun.

And a fantastic example of this is Sears, in light of the recent news that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

And you've probably seen about a million articles about the death of Sears, thanks to Amazon. But today, I'm going to share with you a few

ways that Sears was the Amazon before Amazon. And I'm going to crib a large amount of this

from Dylan Thompson's article, Yes, Rick from the Atlantic, titled, The History of Sears predicts nearly everything Amazon is doing, and also another one on Investopedia called Who Killed Sears? The answer is all of us. So, let's get to it. Like Amazon, Sears began as a convenient way to shop from home and have stuff delivered to your door. As Dylan Thompson

writes, mail was an internet before the internet. And because of it, people were able to shop at home

through catalogs and have things delivered to them thanks to the rise of mail and trains and all

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