A year before moving to Chicago and hiring Roebuck, with whom he put together a mail-order catalog, Richard W. Sears founded a company in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1886 that sold what?

In 1886, at only 22, Richard Warren Sears founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company in Minneapolis. By 1887, with business flourishing, Sears moved to Chicago and soon produced a 50-page mail-order catalog with his partner Alvah Roebuck devoted entirely to watches, and was soon selling thousands of dollars worth of "fully guaranteed" watches each month.

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