For Funeral Directors that worry about competition from Costco, internet retailers, and maybe even Wal-Mart. Remember, it's all been done before. At the turn of the 19th century, budding retailers Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck breathed new life into a stagnant funeral industry by introducing mail order funeral products. Before this time, extravagant monuments, gravestones and similar goods were only afforded to the affluent and wealthy. But they had a plan. Since their … [Read more...] about The Softer Side of Sears