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Most households across the country will have received their sears wishbooks in the mail by now. The iconic sears wish book was last available to consumers 2011, but this year it is making a return in a classic print edition, as well as in the form of a digital catalog online and via an app. The interactive digital wish book provides shopping convenience this holiday season letting members shop wherever. The new wish book is also slimmer, coming in at 120 pages.
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Its listed below and they state its compatibility with intellivision games. In 1993, sears discontinued publishing their big book catalogs in the united states and the wish book noticeably started to diminish in size. Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside. Joe, it mixed in some nonjoe product, and there was a noticeable lack of exclusives.
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