i want to be a journalist but instead i sell washers at sears.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Sears, Roebuck and Company, colloquially known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892 and 1906. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the operation began as a mail ordering catalog company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The first location was in Evansville, Indiana. The company was bought by the management of the American big box chain Kmart in 2005, the Kmart management formed Sears Holdings upon completion of the merger. In terms of domestic revenue, Sears was the largest retailer in the United States until October 1989, when Walmart surpassed the record. As of 2017, Sears is the 23rd largest retailer in the United States overall. Sears had divisions in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, but were sold as well as several other subsidiaries within its brand. Richard Warren Sears came from a wealthy family, but lost it all in speculation. Sears then started working as a railroad station agent in North Redwood, Minnesota, as well as in Minneapolis. While in Redwood, a jeweler received an impressive shipment of watches which were unwanted.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Sears may be the 23rd largest retailer in the United States, but I think Amazon is going to buy them out."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sears is a done deal!  They closed so many stores already."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think department stoes in general are a done deal. You can buy all your appliance, toys, cosmetics and houseware online. I just imagine that Sears would be a good buy for Amazon as a more distributed micro-warehousing opportunity."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Exactly.  Toys R Us shut down for good this week too. So sad."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Amazon and Jeff Bezos have exposed the weakness of national stores compared to the efficience of e-commerce. I shed no tears and have no nostalgia for the dionsaurs."}, {"role": "user", "content": "But Toys R Us is a landmark of my childhood...  I loved going in the store and hoping mom was gonna let me pick a toy!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah... but don't get too nostalgic about anything else. Ever since Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, he has been the primary horsman of the apocalypse for old business."}, {"role": "user", "content": "He has done an amazing job I agree.  They just bought the future of medicine too.  With on-line doctors and mail-order prescriptions coming soon."}]