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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Perspective giant: the United States the century-old Sears department store (top) Sears department store from the founding in 1886 has experienced more than 100 years of ups and downs. A century of vicissitudes, achievements of this world, the retail industry giants. Beginning in 2002, Sears will begin to evaluate the Chinese market, and tried to enter the mainland China. 1886: Origins 80 years in the 18th century the United States, only 38 states, the United States population of only 56 million, of which 65% live in rural areas. There are about more than a dozen cities with 20 million or more residents. The annual income of 10 billion dollars. It was in this situation, one day in 1886, a Chicago jewelry company shipped several gold-plated watch a small town in Minnesota jeweler, which became the Sears department store chain was born of this cause. Richard Sears is the North Redwood, Minnesota Minneapolis and St. Louis region, a railway station agent. As a station agent, Sears has a lot of free time, so that he trafficking in timber and coal to local residents in order to earn quick money. Later, when he received a batch of watches and clocks, near the family jeweler since that bankruptcy is no longer want, and Sears will be that they bought, and sold to other stations up and down along the agents, who received substantial profits, At the same time ordering more watches for resale. In this way, in 1886 in Minneapolis, Sears, RW Sears Watch Company started to operate. 1887: stationed in Chicago Over the next 1887, Sears transferred its operations to Chicago, and in the ‘Chicago Daily News’ publishes a classified ad: invites experienced and artisan watchmaking tools. A young man名叫罗巴克 Indiana responded to the ad. He told Sears he understood that clock, and brought its own sample as proof. Sears hired him. Two such young people in their early 20s, the joint up, and notorious. To 1893, the company name into Sears, Roebuck and Company