Sears actually ran Amazon like online shopping thru Prodigy, so its not like they didnt try
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-19-fi-581-st...Iv seen one video of this service in action recorded by some local access TV morning show once, but cant find it anymore :( It was all text based, but apparently featured all products available thru paper catalogs.