Originally Posted by
Keith99
It wasn't limited to those outside of urban areas. The sears near us actually has a catalog sales area. You could order throughthe catalog and then pick it up. I remember getting Wire to setup Blackberry trelleses that way. I know I got other things the same way. Significant savings. That would have been the 60s.
Standard for full-line department stores (Sears, Penny's, Montgomery Ward's, etc) until the 90s. I remember ordering tools from Sears by picking up the phone at a table about 1991. Phone connected directly to a catalog sales operator that knew what store I was in. Don't know if they still do that, or not.