Huston55
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I never bought anything off MW's catalogs, but remember that we still did a bit of shopping at MW in the early 80s. Then, we stopped, but I did not now why or how. There were many smaller department stores that went defunct over the years. How and why? There were some stores that I did not like such as Kmart, but many other stores I did not have an aversion, just not a compelling reason to go there.
About employers going defunct, I did not work for any that closed doors, but two of my former aerospace megacorps were taken over. Their proud heritage was buried and forgotten. I am still a bit sentimental about that.
In 1993, we were designing and building a launch pad for General Dynamics Space Systems, when they were bought by Martin Marietta. Less than a year later when we were just barely starting construction, in mid-1994, MM merged with Lockheed to form Lockheed-Martin. In the short 3yr+/- life of our project, we had three customers.
But, our direct customers were great, and the project was a success.