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N=1; an MBA friend of mine worked for Sears on their website offering. He nearly ripped out his own hair, since instead of being a web commerce department they were "online catalog", and the culture matched.

Instead of adapting to the medium, they tried to force the medium to their offering, suffered when web-first companies showed up, and then decided the internet was a fad.



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