Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Wed, 21 May 2025 06:18:16 -0500, chrisv wrote:

rbowman wrote:
 

Marion wrote:

>
It's up to your ingenuity to create that number line, but it MUST be
simple for it to work (e.g., L, XL & GXL car models or Bronze, Silver
or Gold insurance plans).

>
Montgomery Ward had that down to a tee. Many things in the catalog had
good, better, and best categories.

 
Too much choice!   8)
 
Sears did the same thing, as I recall.  The Sears catalog was awesome.

I grew up in Monkey Wards territory; Sears was a late comer.

https://www.riverviewcenter.com/

It was both a retail store and a distribution center. You could phone in
orders from the catalog and go down and pick them up in a couple of hours.
Take a number and wait for it to be called. It was a bit of a crap shoot
with the order pickers. I ordered a set of wheel weights and when the guy
came out with the box it was like the 20# garage edition. Days like that
you signed and kept your mouth shut.

In the spring they had chicks, ducklings, and so on. There usually was a
guy doing ShopSmith demos, and of course plenty of guns, fishing tackle,
and other fascinating stuff while my mother did her thing with women
stuff.

https://www.shopsmith.com/

Somehow Wards and Sears missed the boat. They could have been Amazon.