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1. Boris Emmet and John E. Jeuck, Catalogues and Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck and Company (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1950).
2. Ibid., 10.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., 11.
5. Ibid., 17.
6. Ibid., 20.
7. Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue and Buyers’ Guide 1895 (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008).
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., 1, 376.
10. Ibid., 2.
12. Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue and Buyers’ Guide, Foreword, p. 1.
13. Robin Lewis and Michael Dart, The New Rules of Retail (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014), 9.
14. Ibid., 16–17.
15. Sam Walton with John Huey, Sam Walton: Made in America (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), 29.
16. Ibid., 32–33.
17. Ibid., 63.
18. Ibid., 140–141, 276.
19. Ibid., 143.
20. Ibid., 116.
21. Ibid., 160.
22. Walmart 1995 Annual Report, http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/our-history.
23. EBay company website.
24. Business Week, May 31, 1999.
25. “Montgomery Ward to Close Its Doors,” New York Times, December 29, 2000; http://www.theforrester.com/2007/08/13/the-100-oldest-domains-on-the-internet/.